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Encryption systems, such as SSL, create a secure connection between the website’s server and the visitor’s browser. This protects data from prying eyes and ensures authenticity and credibility. Without encryption, data traveling over the web is vulnerable to hijacking. With this in mind, website owners must encrypt all sensitive data.
Continue ReadingSetting up a blog for your business is an essential step to build an audience and for your customers to connect with your brand. It is also an effective method to market your products and services. In this guest post, by Joe Peters, you will learn the 6 steps it takes to run a successful blog for your startup.
Companies with blogs get 67% more leads per month than those without them. That means a business will have more opportunities to convert prospect buyers and earn more money than its competitors.
Continue ReadingIf you ever considered creating your own product review blog and weren’t sure where to start, how to approach brands, and how to actually find products to review, in this guest post, by Hannah Read, you will learn everything you need to know to start your own product review blog today.
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There are so many different types of blog out there, with loads of niches and different ways to earn money from your writing skills. One type of blog that has really been growing in popularity of late is the product blog, where bloggers will review a variety of different products on their site and inform their readers which products they recommend (or not).
Continue ReadingIf you’re a blogger who is also a fiction writer, you decided to join NaNoWriMo this year, and you often wait till the last minute to get things done, then this is the post to read to help you prepare for NaNoWriMo, even if you’re just one week away.
November is coming and, for writers, you may say this is kind of “our season.” November is NaNoWriMo which is National Novel Writing Month. If you’re not familiar with it, this is a competition that is held online every year where all participant writers dedicate their time to writing everyday, starting November 1st to reach the goal of 50, 000 words by November 30th.
And while it has the word “Novel” in it—because that was the idea of the challenge when they started it, creating a novel in 30 days—you don’t necessarily have to write a novel.
It could be a collection of short stories, a non-fiction book of any type, or anything else; the point of this competition is that you develop the habit of writing everyday and, hopefully, also end up with a finished first draft of your project of choice by the end of the month.
Continue ReadingIf you are still trying to build an email list or if you find yourself often running out of ideas for emails to send your list, you will find 10 different email types in this post that will help you find more material for your emails.
Having an email list, whether you are a blogger, a business owner, or a content creator of any type, is crucial to you because it is the only sustainable way through which you can reach your audience and/or customers.
Before starting this blog, I did a little bit of research to see what were the most important points to pay attention to as a newbie blogger. And one of the most common pieces of advice that old-time bloggers had was that they wished they had started building their email lists earlier.
Continue ReadingWhat is Domain Authority and what is Page Authority? And how can they affect your website? Learn all about them in this post and how you can enhance your rankings and increase your site’s authority.
When I started learning about SEO and how to improve my page’s ability to rank on search engine pages, I did read a little about domain authority; however, at the time when I was still clueless about everything, it was hard to take on another term and try to understand how it affects my site.
Now that I am more familiar with SEO, I decided to go back to that topic and learn some more.
Continue ReadingIn this post I explore, in detail, 10 different methods that can help you reach a wider audience and attract more visitors to your blog. You will know what they are and how exactly you can use them to achieve your target. All of the methods here are free and things you can start doing today!
I chose to write on this topic for this week because I recently asked fellow bloggers about the most challenging parts of blogging that they feel they needed help with, and getting blog visitors was the one that most are still trying to figure out.
Since the idea of starting a website or a blog is to share your words and your creativity with the world, then most certainly part of your focus would be on how to get more people to reach it.
Continue ReadingIf you don’t know how to use Pinterest to promote your blog, what Pinterest’s SEO means, or how to choose the right keywords, then this post is for you.
First I just want to say that after reading all that has been said of Pinterest and how to use it (and there is a seriously overwhelming number of articles out there!), I found that the amount of this information cannot fit in one single post. Unless, of course, my plan was to write a 10k words long post, which it wasn’t, to be honest.
So, in this post, I go over some of the basics for those who just don’t know where to start with Pinterest. And I discuss a few major points, like Pinterest’s SEO and how to choose the right keywords, plus some tips that should help you get off the ground and create some changes towards better traffic.
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