Development

When first launching a website or blog, most bloggers understand the importance of publishing high quality content. When competing against thousands of well-established websites, the blogger knows that the only way to get noticed is to publish exceptional content. You’ll also find that plenty of bloggers launch their blog because of a number of golden post ideas—they come up with three or four ground-breaking ideas, and launch their blog on the strength of them. Like a rock band releasing a killer first album, a blogger’s early work is often some of their best. Unfortunately, though, the early content rarely generates […]

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Yet on the Internet, some people take this type of compliment way too far. Copied content runs rampant online. Getting someone else’s work onto your site is as easy as pressing Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V. Why bother writing your own article when somebody has already done it and better? However, these are really the extreme cases. Copyright infringement and blatant content scraping like that are in the realm of spammers, black-hat SEOs, and other dubious individuals that people like you and me want nothing to do with. Yet, even as honest, hard-working bloggers or […]

WordPress is an amazing blogging tool. The platform makes creating and maintaining content-centered websites very comfortable and easy. However, the work doesn’t end there. Running a blog is a lot more work than many people think. Putting together amazingly helpful and shareable content alone is a tall order. Getting it into the hands of an audience is even harder. As a consequence, in order to ease the load on the shoulders of bloggers and content marketers, here is a list of essential tools that will make your life a little easier. Tools for content idea generation Content is the meat […]

Images. Blogs. The two were meant for each other. Just look at all the benefits images give to blogs: increased engagement (images break up text quite nicely) concept connotation (a picture speaks a thousand words) search engine optimization (when you fill in the alt tag) With all those benefits in mind, it’s hard not to just pick up any image you see fit off Google Image Search. But we both know what could happen when you do that. . .copyright infringement. That’s how these guys at Web Copy Plus ended up paying $4000 in damages for unlawfully using a $10 photo. However, this […]