If you have being blogging regularly then you will have an archive of articles that are no longer on the front page of your WordPress blog. The WordPress.com Top Posts Widget displays your most popular posts as of the last 48 hours. The Top Rated Widget displays which of your pages, posts, and/or comments have the highest ratings. But the posts you may want to call reader attention to may not be among them. What to do if they aren’t? Continue reading
Google announced, starting today, we’re updating our Top Search Queries feature to make it better match expectations about search engine rankings. “The new definition will take the average of the top ranking of your site for all searchers, as opposed to all URLs listed and average that. In the past, they would take all the positions of your rankings and average them together, now they are taking only the top positions.” — Google Changes Definition Of Average Search Ranking Position. Continue reading
I have been eagerly watching the theme announcements while awaiting the introduction of the new default WordPress Twenty Twelve theme. Twenty Twelve, will be a part of the next major WordPress release, version 3.4. Primary development of 3.4 will likely begin around the 3rd week of January. Continue reading
We’ve been wracking our brains trying to think about how to make search even more transparent. The good news is that we make roughly 500 improvements in a given year, so there’s always more to share. With this blog series, we’ll be highlighting many of the subtler algorithmic and visible feature changes we make. These are changes that aren’t necessarily big enough to warrant entire blog posts on their own.
via Search quality highlights: new monthly series on algorithm changes – Inside Search.
It’s true that the best blogs are frequently updated. Publishing fresh content frequently helps a blogger to retain the readers/subscribers they have and to attract new readers/subscribers too.
It’s also true that publishing short “meaty” posts frequently and long posts occasionally is a successful blogging strategy.
According to Technorati’s index, a minority of bloggers are posting daily, or even weekly. When looking at average posts per month and per day by Technorati Authority, bloggers in the Top 100 generate 36 times more content than the average blogger. We also see a higher use of tags as part of their arsenal of strategies to bring audiences to their content, with 92% of the Top 100 bloggers using tags. – State of the Blogosphere 2011: Part 3
Readers today have little time and patience. When it comes to reading long, poorly constructed posts that wander all around the point without making it – forget it!
All writing is focused on clarity. If you can say what you aim to say in a few sentences, do so. If you need more sentences, write them. Regardless of post length, keep in mind these two points.
I’m eager to hear reader feedback on this post and would like to know what tips you have on the subject of becoming a more effective blogger.
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Top 5 Informative Writing Tips for Bloggers
Better Blogging: Powerful, Persuasive Writing
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Better Blogging: Post Length
