WordPress remains the most popular platform for building websites. There are great alternatives available online, but I truly believe that when it comes to creating content, nothing beats WordPress and its revolutionary post type system. The introduction of the block editor has also improved the experience of creating content with …
Content is meant to educate, inspire and solve problems, but only a handful of visitors tend to consume at least a few hundred words of what your write most times. Writing successful content implies more than providing figures and data. What can you do to make visitors stay on your …
Plagiarism is a major problem for online websites, bloggers, journalists, educators, and much more. This has led to an increase in the number of online plagiarism checking tools, such as PlagiarismCheck.org, which is the service I would like to review today. When I first went to University in 1996, the …
Like most blogs, I have a Facebook page that shares the articles I publish on this blog and the videos I publish to YouTube. Despite the fact that Facebook is a powerful way to connect to an audience, I devote next to no time or energy to the platform. Firstly, …
Who is your audience? Who are you writing for? These seem like simple questions, don’t they? If you had asked me these questions in the past, I would have told you that I write articles for my subscribers. I would have told you that I write articles for my regular …
There is a mistake that all website owners and content owners make at one point of their career. They make the mistake of publishing content on too wide a variety of topics. To help find an audience, it is better to stay focused on one or two topics that are …
Those of you who read this blog regularly will know that I do not publish blog posts here as much as I used to. In the past I published as many as five or six articles per week, but nowadays it is not uncommon for me to go a few …
“Content Marketing” is a buzz word that has been doing the rounds over the last year or so. Call me cynical, but it is just a fancy word for blogging to me. It refers to using blogs to help promote a brand, product, or service. It also refers to using …
Very little content on the internet is evergreen. This is particularly true for bloggers as a lot of the content we write becomes dated very quickly. Many of the internet’s highest traffic websites are blogs, news websites, and online magazines. These websites are updated with dozens of new articles every …
Content Delivery Networks are a global network of servers stored in data centres around the world. Their purpose is to help serve content to users at improved speeds. The term is commonly abbreviated to CDN. CDNs are designed to compliment your hosting setup, not replace them. Many hosting companies offer …