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Thoughts, creativity, and writing should flow freely and without tension. As I was writing an article a few months ago I noticed the strain in my stomach, neck, and jaw. I was straining to get the thoughts out. As if tensing my muscles would actually help me focus or even create something helpful to my readers.
My writing was strained because I was uptight through the process. The tension was creating pain and I knew that I needed to fix the way I wrote my blogs. I ignored it in the past because I thought it was normal, sprinting through my thoughts until I began to stumble, hoping that after the first push of energy was over I would have something concrete to work with. And even when I ended up with a minor headache it was okay because I accomplished the work I set out to do. This cycle couldn’t continue and I needed a system.
1. Outline, Outline, Outline
Writing was usually a chase for me. I would chase after the perfect sentences. A lot of times I would only have a flicker of a thought and begin writing – no planning, just bulldozing ahead, hoping it would all come out into something readable. Now I write a small outline to make sure I know where I’m going with the topic. The outline has reduced my tension because I can see the larger picture. When I get stuck, I check my outline and find myself getting back on track with minimal stress.
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Two interesting things that caught my attention around the blogosphere lately. The first one is a really extensive
SEO guide for WordPress by Joost de Valk. Joost is a professional SEO, although you might also know him for the many WP plugins that he coded already. Anyway on this guide he cover several steps to make sure that your WordPress is getting as much search traffic as it should. Here are the sub-topics:
- Basic Technical Optimization
- Template Optimization
- Advanced Technical Optimization
- Altering your blog’s structure for high rankings
- Conversion optimization
- Comment optimization
- Off site blog SEO
The second one is a site called MyBlogValue, that created an interesting quiz with 19 questions to let you discover the value of your blog. After answering the questions here is what I got:
1,809,030
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I have always fancied my chances with tools and widgets which make blogging fun and easy. Bloggers who post regularly on professional blogs wish to concentrate more on the content for its freshness and readability, apart from being informative ofcourse. Based on my personal experience, we tend to spend more time in finding great images, links, tags, etc to support our post and make it more appealing. Had it not been great if your browser could understand what you are blogging about and suggested you pictures, articles, links and tags to make your posts more vibrant?
Be glad! With the advent of this smart firefox-IE-wordpress addon, such an assistance is at your disposal. Think of some valuable suggestions in context with your article you’re writing on the blog’s editor. It would save you a lot of time that is generally spent looking out for related content over the internet.
Look out:
To see how Zemanta works with Wordpress, check out this cool
screencast.
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Jump-Starting Freelancing Productivity: 9 Reasons Why and 5 Reasons How Working Smarter Works
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WPGuru is a new site that is dedicated to the in's and out's of making a killer Blog using WordPress.
A YUI based Color Picker that supports the ability to display itself either inline on the page, or as a floating widget.
Social aggregator and content library with a MacBook Air contest...
Campaign Monitor have halved the price of their email design and spam testing tool. Check your HTML emails in more than 20 email clients and run it through spam filters before you send it.
Applying The Principles Of Kaizen And Bootstrapping To Build Your Freelance Skills
Choosing a domain name may seem straight forward, but there are several important factors that should be considered - and not all of them are obvious.
