If you're looking for advanced training on SEO, this isn't the place. However, if you're like me and publish new content consistently, but only know enough about keywords to be dangerous, then this post is for you. Here are my 7 keys to keyword success. The seven-point checklist below is part of what I do [...]

If you're business isn't blogging, or not posting new blogs, here are a couple of reasons why your company should blog. Granted, it's not as easy as it was ten years ago to make an impact with your blog. There was much less competition back then. However, that doesn't mean you can't make an impact. [...]

I have a group of friends who meet to brainstorm (now virtually) monthly. Several make their living writing, and nearly everyone in the group writes. One of the writers has written scores of posts about... beans. I've written 40 blogs about sunglasses, and another has written about the insurance industry for several years. How do [...]

You own or manage a small business that depends on internet lead generation. You know content is king, and quality content increases your rank authority in search – therefore, more lead potential. So, you began a company blog last year and wrote three posts. Then you just didn't have time to continue writing. You don’t [...]

How to develop the discipline to write isn't the same for all. However there are some basics that fit most writers. Writing is a very personal and developing the discipline to write—even more so. What may work for some may not work for others. However, I've found one common activity shared by disciplined writers. They [...]

During the quarantine, I have time on my hands, you? One of the ways I fill my time is writing. I write books, web copy, and stories. However, what I write the most are blogs. I've posted more than 2,000, and I've made every one of these eleven blogging mistakes and more. How do you [...]

Robot writers, allegorical algorithms, and automated content generators sound like subtitles in a science fiction movie, but they’re not. Because they’re real, and they’re here. So, be ready to meet your new staff writer ... AI. As far back as six years ago in the last six months of 2014, AP released more than 3,000 [...]

Content is king. Hail the king! Long live the king! Except … is content really king? Yes, content curation is an effective strategy to bring prospects to the top of the lead generation funnel. Without content, sites end up languishing on page three of a Google search. Therefore, content is a critical need, right? Not [...]

A few years ago a gunman perched atop an eight-story Indianapolis parking garage fired shots at nearby buildings; although he had committed a murder and eventually took his own life, no pedestrians were injured, in part because the news exploded on Twitter, warning everyone off the streets. Because fear and concern motivated people to share information. [...]

My wife was struggling writing a presentation she was to give in five days. She told me she was blocked because she didn’t know what to write. She had spent more than an hour staring at a blank screen. Not only were the words not coming, she was paralyzed. So, has this ever happened to [...]