What is the Ideal Blog Post Length?
How can you determine the ideal blog post length? Let me break that down for you. The Ideal Blog Post Length There has been plenty of research done on this topic, and here's what the big guns are saying: Medium found that 7-minute long posts (aka 1,600 words) had the...
How to Measure Your Blog’s Success
One of the hardest parts about blogging is understanding whether it's having a positive impact on your business. If you've ever thought, "How do I know whether my blog is actually working?", this article on how to measure blog success is for you. How to Measure Blog...
7 WordPress Plugins You Need to Create Amazing Content
Let's face it: It takes a lot of hard work to design a great website. We spend hours making everything perfect. The design, the content, the copy... ...but, sometimes, the templates we use just don't have all the features we need. That's where plugins come in....
How to promote your blog and get more traffic
Behind the scenes at BlogWorks (and a surprise) I have a confession to make. We’ve been quiet about BlogWorks. Too quiet. You see, two years ago I had this idea I could take what I’d learned about blog promotion and getting more blog traffic and give it to other...
How to Get 80% More People to Read Your Blog
Yes, you heard that right - you can increase the number of your visitors who actually read your content by 80%! Xerox found that colored visuals increase people's willingness to read a piece of content by 80%. Here's the secret to taking advantage of that fact: Insert...
4 Steps to Never Miss Another Blog Post
Have you ever been to a blog, only to find they haven’t added a post for months, or randomly update it in batches? Will you ever subscribe to a blog like that? I won’t - and most other people won’t, either. In fact, Joe Pulizzi (@JoePulizzi), the founder of Content...