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583 Sensory Words to Take Your Writing from Bland to Brilliant

Smart Blogger

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. Sometimes we strike a note of empathy or (like this blog post) focus on searcher intent. sensory) words faster than other words. Sometimes our openings hook you with a question.

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2014 Reboot: Get Ready for the New Year With a Blog Overhaul

ProBlogger

This post “9 Steps To Take When You Loathe Your Own Blog” first appeared in May 2012. You’ve got an editorial calendar, you’ve scheduled blog posts weeks in advance. Change how and where you write. So much so, I made great progress on a blog post in the matter of minutes.

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Blogging the Festive Season: The Digital Publisher [Case Study]

ProBlogger

As part of our Blogging the Festive Season series, we asked a few questions about how she’s squaring up for her first festive season on the blog. You started Keep the Tail Wagging on January 1, 2012, so this will be your first festive season on the blog. Content, building traffic, and affiliate marketing.

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Stand Out in the Popular Pet Blogging Niche

ProBlogger

” I’m not one to run away from a challenge; I’d been blogging since 2009 and planned to put everything I’d learned into practice on my new site. Keep the Tail Wagging launched January 1, 2012. Sometimes it’s the person, their writing style, or their short and sweet posts that makes a blog sing.

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Link-building Tips and Tools for Bloggers in a Post-Panda and Penguin World

ProBlogger

Link building post-Panda and Penguin. Before we get started, I just thought I would mention a few Google algorithm changes that you should know about when thinking about link building in 2012. always linking to your homepage (as a blog, you should have lots of links built to your blog posts too).

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252: What Thomas Edison Can Teach YOU about Profitable Blogging

ProBlogger

This course is an updated version of our incredibly best-selling ebook, the best selling ebook I’ve ever launched, 31 Days To Build A Better Blog, which I launched I think it was back in 2008. We did an update in 2012, and now 2018, we’re doing a complete overhaul of it and presenting it as a course. All these things take time.

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Writing Tips: Outlining/Plotting Vs Discovery Writing/Pantsing

The Creative Penn

As he said in a Wall Street Journal interview in 2012, “The finished outline runs about 150 pages, single spaced, though with very wide right margins, so I can jot references to the research material relevant to the plot.”. I’m a Jack Reacher fan and the storylines are linear and work well for this kind of writing style.

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