The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Write and publish what you want, get paid every day for your books, and control your customer data and relationships. With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. And the rest is history.

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The Hoth

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Many people overlook the value of optimizing existing blog posts. It’s because you have the added benefit of 20/20 hindsight. In many cases, websites have hundreds of existing blog posts in limbo – some of which have the potential to really shine with a few tweaks. . Tips for making old blog posts stand out.

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Express Writers

MAY 29, 2024

There is definitely some Matrix-like inception going on in today’s blog. Do Ultimate Editing and Tracking for Your Ultimate Guide All of these are coming in our blog topic today, complete with a visual infographic on the topic. The year was 2011. Also, the same tools can be useful in guides just as they are in blogs.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 3, 2023

In fact, this has been known since Google’s announcement in 2011 , and their reiteration of this as a ranking factor in 2020. We’ll also share relevant data we’ve collected on refreshing content from our very own blog, as well as 14 benefits you may receive as a result of updating your old content. Let’s get started. Just consider SEO.

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Smart Blogger

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As a bonus, we’ve added 5 sites that will grow your content writing skills and separate you from the pack. Most jobs relate to blogging , and you’ll notice that only a handful of jobs appear each day. If you see yourself as more of a blogging professional, then check out the BloggingPro job board. BloggingPro.

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Content Hacker

OCTOBER 25, 2022

When I started what was to be my content marketing journey in 2011, I had NO idea what kind of explosive growth was in store. Several years back, HubSpot published a report that finally answered a burning question: “How much should you blog?”. This is from a Hubspot study in 2015 of over 13,000 blogs. Incredible, right?!

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 5, 2023

2011: Facebook is slapped with charges from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for failing to keep its privacy promises, including allowing apps to access almost all of a user’s data, and sharing users’ info with advertisers. WT.Social WT.Social calls itself “the non-toxic social network,” due to it’s ad-free format. It’s also ad-free.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When Snapchat was founded in 2011, it was primarily used by younger audiences to share everyday images about their lives. Essentially, an influencer (or brand) agrees to post a message to their audience with a link or ad for another brand. Just adding your brand name to a filter isn’t going to get much use! Use Story Ads.

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Contently

MARCH 14, 2023

How Featured Snippets Help Readers and Your Rankings When you come across a word or phrase that needs some explanation, that’s an excellent opportunity to land your blog post in Google’s featured snippets section. Instead, you can offer to post guest blogs on relevant sites, or you can ask partners or influencers to link to you.

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Income Diary

APRIL 29, 2024

I will now cover all of this in the following article: How to Write Epic Blog Posts That Rank High On Google You too can write blog posts that rank well… Through 1000 posts, we have learned a lot about writing great online content – particularly content that ranks well with search engines. What Makes a Blog Post Epic?

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Bramework

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Helps Build Brand Awareness and Loyalty By consistently publishing helpful content , brands can organically reach and engage more potential customers. 450+ Most POWERFUL Words To Influence Buyers and Readers in 2024 Is More Cost-Effective Compared to paid ads , content marketing represents an affordable way to reach a large audience.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

From the headlines this week, “Sci-fi publisher Clarkesworld halts pitches amid deluge of AI-generated stories.” [ The Guardian ] and “Hundreds of AI-written books flood Amazon.” [ The Independent ]. The most famous books, blogs, films, music, etc, get pirated the moment they emerge, or even before release if leaked.

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Buffer

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The ones I’ve seen used most often to track content performance are: Page views This is usually the biggest traffic number — the number of times a landing page or blog post on your site has been viewed. It’s important to note that this tracks multiple visits from the same person.

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Content Hacker

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Working on the barebones of early product marketing for the blog. In 2011, I was 19. blogging as the key to all my traffic, officially began. blogging as the key to all my traffic, officially began. And I started blogging. It was only when I found Content at Scale that all of these big dreams became possible.

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Why is editing a memoir so challenging and what should you keep in mind around publishing and marketing choices? But despite all my published work, I still had a desire to write travel, and so in 2019, I started BooksAndTravel.page , with articles and photos about travel and books, as well as a bi-monthly podcast. Edit later.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 4, 2022

From the Panda update in 2011 to ongoing core updates in 2021, the search engine constantly introduces changes to ensure the most helpful content appears at the top of the page. Google is constantly updating its algorithm to ensure users get the best search results. Don’t worry; it’s not as complicated as it sounds.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 6, 2023

But because they're shorter books, I've still been publishing as much. And I'm sure you could become like Kris and Dean ( WMG Publishing ) doing their monthly Kickstarter, like the way I am releasing on Amazon, like, oh, it's no big deal, it's just another series. This is before paid ads, this is before all of this stuff, right?

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Fat Joe

AUGUST 23, 2023

Creating Quality Content For Your Website According to an Orbit Media survey , the average time spent writing a blog post is now 4 hours and 10 minutes: And that doesn’t take into account keyword research, search engine optimization, and content promotion. Social media ads and content syndication can help you reach a larger audience.

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Fat Joe

JULY 21, 2023

It can include creating blog posts, web copy, press releases , and other content assets. Here’s why: Expand Production Capacity Back in 2011, the average blog post was around 300-500 words. And the average blog post has been getting longer and more in-depth ever since. It can be a game-changer for your agency.

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BKA Content

JANUARY 30, 2023

In fact, it designed each of its algorithm updates to help achieve this outcome, beginning with the Panda in 2011 and ending with BERT in 2019. Effectively, BERT accomplishes the following : It ensures that website owners publish specific and in-depth content. Not only is the ROI for SEO substantial but it’s also long-lived.

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Content Hacker

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I’ve been in content since 2011. I don’t run away in fear; I embrace it, and see what happens when I task it with writing a topic I’ve already had written for my blog. Blog posts are open-source, free information that more fully suits the purpose of “pillar content.” Ebooks are lead magnets.

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BKA Content

MARCH 13, 2023

The Furrow, which John Deere first published in 1895 , was a magazine committed to providing advice and information to farmers who were looking to improve their businesses and increase the profitability of their lands. However, in what many believe to be Jell-O’s last great push, it began publishing ads in The Ladies Home Journal.

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Content Hacker

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

It’s all in today’s blog on how to hire a content writer. So You Hired a Writer for Your Blog & Website — Next Steps & Tips. Added flexibility: Working directly with a writing contractor can give you more flexibility when business tasks need to change or rearrange quickly. But how do you find an AMAZING writer?

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 27, 2023

With its detailed reports on how to improve your writing and integration with Scrivener, ProWritingAid will help you improve your book before you send it to an editor, agent or publisher. You can now get all of these on my Bundle page on CreativePennBooks.com in ebook and paperback, and I'm adding audio bundles as well.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In this wide-ranging interview on the Prickly Pens Podcast, Joanna Penn talks about changing careers from IT to becoming an independent author, the early days of self-publishing and how things have changed, inspiration for fiction, generosity as the basis for a business, and how the future might look for writers. Show Notes. Welcome, Joanna.

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In this wide-ranging interview on the Prickly Pens Podcast, Joanna Penn talks about changing careers from IT to becoming an independent author, the early days of self-publishing and how things have changed, inspiration for fiction, generosity as the basis for a business, and how the future might look for writers. Show Notes. Welcome, Joanna.

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 30, 2023

How can you reinvigorate your writing process, breathe life into your backlist, and prepare your author business for the rollercoaster that is publishing? This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. Tracy Cooper-Posey gives her tips.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 20, 2023

Joseph Nassise talks about his writing process, how he diversifies his business across different publishers, different products, and different technologies, as well as how he is embracing new options for his books. So first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. So welcome to the show, Joe.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

After stepping aside as Google CEO in August 2001 in favour of Eric Schmidt, he re-assumed the role in April 2011. The company controls China’s biggest mobile instant messaging service and its subsidiaries provide media, entertainment, the internet and mobile phone value-added services. Page is the 12th richest person in the world.

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Smart Blogger

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In a 2011 study published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , experts found that our brains process “tangible” (i.e. And in a study published for Brain and Language in 2012, psychologists found that a certain part of our brain is “activated” when we read sensory words. sensory) words faster than other words.

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Buffer

JULY 27, 2017

We started the Buffer Social blog in January 2011 and since then it has been a key component in the success of the company. We have published more than 1,000 posts—and we’re honored to receive more than 1.5 Before thinking of blog post ideas, it’s helpful to understand what your readers want from you.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Today on the blog we have a case study from one of our readers. Or rather one of our podcast listeners, as it was a tip in a particular podcast that spurred on today’s guest author to make some significant changes to her blog over the course of a year. My blog used to make me feel sad and discouraged. This made me feel awful.

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Men With Pens

JULY 1, 2012

It’s inevitable that when you’ve been blogging for a while, eventually your subscriber numbers are going to hit a slump. The underrated solution: publish your own digital flipbook. Digital flipbooks have a pretty significant list of pros: They allow live hyperlinks (email addresses, ads, etc.) Translation? and images.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Other things you might want to quit: social media platforms, blogging, an author name, a book series, writing a book that's taking forever, marketing a book that isn't selling, a business model, a day job, being a full-time author, a city or even a country. Getting over sunk cost fallacy. Why Orna quit a whole series of non-fiction books.

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I also mention the free webinar on AI Ads for Authors with Mark Dawson and James Blatch. Tips for working with your cover designer and incorporating AI Damon has some great articles on AI images in book covers here , and he also mentions James at GoOnWrite who has an article for self-published authors around AI and images here.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

After all, the advice made sense: Have a blogging schedule, and stick to it. Write blog posts and publish them according to this rigid schedule and provide readers with a steady stream of constant blog posts. We were all new to this blogging thing. I know, because that’s what happened to my blog. Dependable.

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. Then I began publishing chapters of it on a blog back in, I think, about 2011. Early in 2012, after I got my first Kindle and read about self-publishing in the writers magazines that I used to buy, I decided to take the plunge.

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