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How Will Social Media Further Your Goals For 2015?

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Lorna Sixsmith — 4 Comments ↓

Have you started planning your goals for 2015 and wondering how you’re going to achieve them? You know the expression ‘fail to prepare, prepare to fail’? Without planning, you can feel a bit like you are stuck amongst the cogs…

How To Improve Your Blog – Navigation

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Lorna Sixsmith — 5 Comments ↓

Bloggers sometimes tend to overlook the navigation of their blog when it comes to assessing how easy it is for your visitors to find their way around your blog but it’s hugely important. We’ve all been in situations where we…

Why (and how) Writers Should Blog

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Lorna Sixsmith — 2 Comments ↓

The easiest part of blogging for writers should be the actual writing shouldn’t it? Yet it can be difficult for authors to work out what to write and whether to write in the same style as their ‘normal writing’ or…

The Importance Of Using The Keyword Planner Tool

Posted on April 12, 2014 by Lorna Sixsmith — 6 Comments ↓

It’s the turn of ‘K’ in the #AtoZChallenge and today I am showing you how to use the keyword planner tool, demonstrating why it is so important to use it on a regular basis. Using the right keywords in your…

Tagged with: finding keywords, keyword planner tool
Posted in Blogging for Success, Blogs, How to Blog, Technical Tips!, Tips

6 Reasons Why Writers Should Blog

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Lorna Sixsmith — 6 Comments ↓

Believe it or not, blogging has so many advantages for writing far beyond honing your writing skills. I always had the wish to write a book at the back of my mind. However, the book that I have self published…

12 Tips for a More Successful Business Blog

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Lorna Sixsmith — 6 Comments ↓

What makes a business blog successful? We all know that a successful business blog can deliver on increased traffic to a website, it can achieve significant shares on social media networks and it should increase leads and sales but what…

How To Write Your ‘About Us’ Page

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Lorna Sixsmith — 6 Comments ↓

Your ‘About Us’ page can be your most popular page on your website or blog. However, if it doesn’t impress, you may have lost a potential new customer. How do you impress and yet not bore people by listing…

The New Google Keyword Planner – how to use it for your own social media

Posted on September 9, 2013 by Lorna Sixsmith — 10 Comments ↓

Part of the success of social media relies on using words that people are using when searching on search engines. While I would never recommend cramming relevant keywords into a blog post or a facebook update, it is important that…

Blog Tip Tuesday: How To Write Great Blog Titles

Posted on May 28, 2013 by Lorna Sixsmith — 1 Comment ↓

How To Blog Better: How To Write Great Blog Titles

This ‘how to blog better’ post will show you how to use the google keyword research tool to help you write blog titles and blog posts that attract traffic. If you need a reminder or an explanation for using this…

Tagged with: blog tips, how to blog, how to blog better, how to write great blog titles
Posted in Blog Tip Tuesday, How to Blog

Blog Tip Tuesday: How To Add Plugins (Yoast)

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Lorna Sixsmith — 1 Comment ↓

How to install and use plugins with tips for using Wordpress SEO by Yoast

There’s two blogging tips in one blog post here really – one is how to add plugins to your wordpress.org blog and the other is why you should use Yoast as your SEO plugin. I’m not going to blind you…