Tag: SEO & Traffic
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Scale Your Traffic With a Scalable Blogging Approach
Here’s a question that nobody in the history of the internet has answered honestly: “Do you get all the traffic you’d like?” The answer is always no. The person with 300 monthly visitors wants 3,000. The person with 30,000 wants 300,000. The person with 3 million wants the NYT homepage. Traffic hunger is the one…
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Proven Guidelines for Contributed Posts That Actually Get Published
The first guest post I ever submitted was rejected. Not gently. Not with feedback. Just silence, the kind that stretches from days into weeks until you realize silence is the answer. Five years later, the same publication asked me to write for them. That gap between rejection and invitation wasn’t luck. It was the most…
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Getting Your Writing Noticed by the Right Audience
If you want to get discovered as a writer, there’s an elephant in the room. Its name is SEO, and if you’re anything like I was, your immediate reaction is somewhere between a yawn and a groan. I wasn’t into it either. For a long time, SEO looked to me like sketchy tricks designed to…
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Seven Strategies to Attract an Audience When You’re Completely Unknown
The early days are a quiet kind of magic. Nobody’s watching. Nobody’s expecting anything. You can say the wrong thing, publish the imperfect draft, experiment with a voice that doesn’t quite work, and the stakes are beautifully, almost painfully low. It’s the one phase of building an audience where you’re truly free. Naturally, we all…
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Building a Content Marketing Plan From Scratch
I was on a call with a sharp marketing director who’d just been told to “create a content strategy.” She’d read the blog posts. She’d attended the webinars. She knew she needed one. And then she sat down at her desk, opened a blank document, and realized she had absolutely no idea what a content…