Running out of letters,originally uploaded by mike912mueller.I can make this simple.  Crystal clear simple.Write your own words.Don’t cut and paste.If you want to cite an article you may take a snippet,“put it in quotations” and then...
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If you are anything like my wife (a writer) or her mother (a retired publisher) I’m sure you have blogging issues. Blogging breaks rules.  It breaks all sorts of proper english rules.Get used to it. What was right in your high school...
Topics: Beginning Blogging, Better Blogging

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Blogging creates LINKs.  It does so naturally and it does so with human intention.Linking is the second most important part of SEO.  I’ll discuss the linking that blogging creates naturally in a later post.  Today we’re talking.
Topics: Beginning Blogging, Better Blogging, SEO

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With any blog, the single most important item is adding real and fresh content on a regular basis. This is also why most blogs fail after thirty days.  The blogger runs out of things to write about.  The truth is their imagination runs out of...
Topics: Beginning Blogging, Better Blogging, SEO

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This is probably the most confusing item for the new blogger.  What are they?Do they matter?Let’s answer the WHAT first.  They are all basically the same thing.  Depending on the particular blog platform they might be called one...
Topics: Beginning Blogging, Better Blogging, SEO

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