Content

If you only knew this before.

So much time you’ve put into finding good guest blogging opportunities.

And, after some of your pitches were successful, even more time went into crafting your first guest posts.

But now it’s weeks ago that your posts got published and still no considerable echo.

No jump in subscribers, no rise of traffic and no positive changes in Google’s favor for your blog.

Is guest posting all the wrong strategy to help your website gain traction?

No.

But sometimes the blogs you choose for guest blogging don’t pass the test.

What test?

The test you should put all guest posting sites under before pitching them.

[Read more…] about How to Pick the Best Guest Blogging Opportunities (And Skip the Doomed Ones)

Will the rapid growth of online content ever end?

Hardly likely in the near future.

2016 has marked a new all-time high.

2017 will most probably top that again.

But, while the amount of each day’s written blog posts has passed the 2 million mark, engagement is declining.

People get used to having a plethora of information at their fingertips. They respond with indifference to our attempts to catch their attention.

I don’t blame them. They are suffering from the same paralysis so many of us digital marketers are afflicted with too: information overload.

[Read more…] about Content Recap: What to Learn from 50 Blog’s Top Posts

You are in the process of creating a new blog post and have just finished the Hercules job of crafting a catchy headline.

But you don’t dare at all to celebrate that. Somewhere deep inside you know the worst is still to come:

The creation of the content behind your awesome headline!

If that content is not good enough to make enough people comment and share it, all your work will count for nothing.

No engagement means no traffic means no profits. Uggh.

Feel the pressure of content creation? Believe it.

Engagement is not only what your blog needs to grow. It’s also what you need to keep going.

No one can bear to write for an echoless ghost town over weeks or even months without breaking down in motivation, belief, and consistency sooner or later.

That’s why I want to crack the code of shareworthy content with you today. [Read more…] about Why Your Posts Don’t Go Viral and How to Fix That

I’ve been running from writing headlines for a long time. Such an annoying task. And the more I learned about it, the more puzzled I became about how to write blog post titles that deliver readers. Headline hacks and formulas all over me, stuck by confusion!

Can you relate to that? Then this post is for you.

In the following, I want to share with you how I decluttered the headline mess and found a strain-free strategy (and attitude!) to craft catchy titles that work day in day out.

[Read more…] about 8 Easy Ways to Make People Click and Not Skip Your Headlines