It's not work if you enjoy it!
After my last blog post, writing about how hard it is to consistently blog, I thought I’d go and prove that by not blogging for four months. Which is decidedly un-John Chow of me. And decidedly unlike those folks who go off and somehow manage something new each and every day to review on their blog – and do it […]
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When it comes to blogging, it seems as easy a way to make money as breathing or walking. In that it’s natural. Expressing your opinions that is. So what could be easier than that? Except… how many opinions do you have? Because, let me tell you, when you exhaust that five or six topics that you know really well, have […]
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If you’ve got a website and you’re underway in your marketing journey, then you’ll probably have read the plethora of contradictory SEO articles and advice-givers out there issuing all sorts of dire warning re a slow loading site. The worst warnings coming from the purveyors of web services who want to help you – all for a three or four […]
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There, I’ve went and said what I’ve thought for some time: John Chow’s blog is dreary. It’s the early afternoon re-run of some Australian soap; the cookery show; the call-in gardening advice program; the show that makes you reach for the remote when it comes on. Because it’s boring. Not that Chow will give a damn what I think, and […]
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I use both WordPress and Wix for blogging and websites and sacrilege though it may be to some, when it comes to recommending one over the other, it’d depend more on the person than the ultimate intended use if they’re set on doing it for themselves. Wix Wix has this rep as being ‘easy’ because it’s very much a WYSIWYG […]
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Or how to self publish your book Speaking as a self-published author, I feel qualified to wax lyrical on how to go about getting your work up for sale on Amazon and CreateSpace, but I can’t tell you how to become a bestselling author or how to make real money off it… yet. Thus the subtitle of this post, and why […]
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There’s been claims that SEO is dead for several years, and just as many claiming it’s alive and well, just in a different form. Yeah, like in the form of a vampire or zombie: the ‘undead.’ It’s still with us, but it’s as hard to grasp as a ghost these days. The only people claiming they can still nail that […]
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Teaching an old dog new tricks(!) I’ve been using SiteOrigin Page Builder for WordPress a lot of late. It follows on from my Timothy Marc review. I’ve still been mulling over his Thirty Day Challenge, and part of that was creating a website/landing pages. Tim recommended Unbounce and Clickfunnels. I’m familiar with them both but only took a short subscription with […]
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I’ve written on using keywords to drive traffic to your blog, and I certainly use the strategies advised by the tens of thousands of articles you can find on the subject, all parroting the same things that the handful of big, authority sites do. And in many cases they’re repeating Google press releases and updates, rather than citing any independent scientific […]
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What the optimal blog post word count should be in order to make the most of SEO is something of a thorny problem. Probably best that can be said is what it shouldn’t be: under three hundred words. Actually, some sources say two hundred and fifty words, but let’s play safe and err on the high side. And erring on […]
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