Blogging

6 Easy Ways to Make Your Blog SEO-Friendly

February 22, 2011

While scrolling through my RSS feed, I often notice that bloggers who write about books or writing tend to miss opportunities to take advantage of SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. I’m guessing that’s because a lot of us don’t understand it, probably because we’re focused on writing. While I don’t believe in writing for SEO, […]

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Relating to readers = blogging that makes a difference

November 22, 2010

Remember when, nearly two months ago, I posted this photo? The view from my run at Hambidge, a writer’s colony in Georgia? A few weeks later, a reader sent me this note via e-mail: “I loved that photo that you sent from North Georgia of a scene from a morning run. That meant a lot […]

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Add personality to your blog with social media icons

November 4, 2010

Looking for ways to make your blog unique? One of the easiest — and most fun — is adding cool social media buttons. When I built this blog, I spent way too much time picking out buttons. I wanted them to be simple enough to be recognized, but interesting enough to show my personality. You […]

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A sure-fire way to get more traffic to your blog

November 2, 2010

Looking for ways to increase traffic to your blog? If there’s one thing I’ve learned from blogging during the last few years, it’s this: The number of hits I get on my site corresponds directly with how often I post. When I post a lot, I get a lot of hits. When I slack off […]

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From WordPress.COM to WordPress.ORG, using Thesis

October 25, 2010

More than a month after moving my blog to this self-hosted site, I’m finally writing about my transition from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. Several readers have asked me whether it was difficult, presumably because they’re considering making the same transition. The answer: no. It wasn’t difficult. But it did take a lot of time, particularly to […]

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Blogging as accountability

September 20, 2010

Here’s one of the great benefits of blogging: It holds you accountable. If you blog about your goal of finishing a rough draft by next month, that goal is no longer bouncing around your head — it’s bouncing around the blogosphere. If you tell your readers you’re going to move to a new city, they […]

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Gah! I hope you’re not subscribed twice!

September 9, 2010

Hey lovely readers, Yesterday I managed to figure out how to redirect my WordPress.com blog to alexisgrant.com. That means traffic from Google that was going to alexisgrant.wordpress.com will now redirect here. Excellent. The not-so-excellent part is that I think it also redirected my RSS feed subscribers (which I couldn’t figure out how to do initially). […]

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Don’t forget to subscribe!

August 31, 2010

The tricky part about moving to alexisgrant.com is convincing y’all to follow me here. If you subscribed by RSS to my old blog, you’ve got to re-subscribe here. Stinks, I know. If you subscribed to my old blog via e-mail, you’re all set. No need to re-subscribe because I changed the settings for you.* And […]

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The Traveling Writer moves to alexisgrant.com

August 30, 2010

Thanks for following me to my new cyber-home! Because I know you’re dying to hear what I sound like, I’ve got my first-ever video to welcome you to alexisgrant.com. I’ll also include highlights below in case you’d prefer to read instead. And yeah, it wouldn’t be my first blog video if my eyes weren’t closed. […]

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Need help with your blog? What are you waiting for?

August 18, 2010

I am LOVING blog coaching. Loving it! Here’s how this developed: I enjoyed helping friends who were new to blogging — showing them how to set up a blog, brainstorming what to write about and figuring out how to build a readership. And now I’m including that service as part of Socialexis! It’s so great […]

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