Two days ago I wrote about the power of longer-form content on a blog, and gave a few examples of some posts that I’ve published this year that have been between 4000-7500 words that have done really well. Today I’d like to talk about an experiment that I’ve been doing in the last...

Last week I was involved in a number of conversations with readers about blog post length and whether it was better to write long posts or short ones. My short answer to the question was to write ‘useful’ posts, and to use as many words as were necessary to do so. Having said that, I have...

Earlier this week Facebook published a FYI update about more updates that they’ve been making (and are about to make) to what will show in users news feeds (thanks to Jen at FBAdslab for the tipoff). The information is particularly relevant to those of us with Facebook pages who are sharing links...

Subscribe to this Podcast in iTunes Which Name Do You Like The Best? In this week’s episode of the Walter and Yaro podcast show, we begin by asking you to choose which name we should select for our show from the following finalists – Entrepreneur Cafe Entrepreneur Digest Entrepreneur Insights The...

This is a guest contribution from karen gunton is a blogger, teacher, and visual marketing specialist. Bloggers hear a lot of advice about content marketing, email marketing, and social media marketing, but you may have noticed something new pop into the online landscape lately – visual marketing. So...

This is a guest blog contribution from Matt Ganzak, founder of EliteGurus.com and BuildNetworkPlus.com. Content marketing and SEO is getting more difficult. Each day, there are thousands of new domains purchased and thousands of new websites going online. Most new bloggers and content writers will get...

This is a guest contribution by Felipe Kurpiel, an internet marketer I came across this topic by accident. One day I was monitoring my analytics data I noticed a big drop on my traffic stats and I didn’t understand why. Actually, I had a hint because I was starting to interlink my posts. That gave...

A few days ago we published a post on ProBlogger titled ‘Forget about Marketing: Concentrate on Blogging‘, which led to some interesting discussion on Twitter and in the comments. I love the points author Nicholas Whitmore made in the post but I wanted to give a few thoughts, based on my...

Recently I had opportunity to sit with a small group of Pre-Bloggers – people about to start their first blogs. One of the question I was asked was for advice on how much content to have written before launching a new blog. My answer came in two parts: The Ideal Scenario What I actually have done The...

Tweet Many years ago I coined the phrase “Pillar Article” or sometimes called, “Pillar Content“, to describe how to create great blog content. To my surprise, it really caught on in the blogging about blogging community and many thousands of bloggers use it to describe...