5 SEO Tips for Your Next Blog Post
You have created a quality blog post you want everyone to read and are now starting to think about how to make it SEO-friendly. You are already on the right track! The goal of SEO is to get your content to show up on the first page of search results. The better your content and…
Read More4 Tips to Write a Great Blog Post
It would be wonderful if we could sit down and create an entire blog post at full speed, the words flowing as fast as we can type them. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work that way. Creating a great blog post is within your ability though, and here we’ll look at a few tips to help…
Read MoreThe Difference Between Copy & Content
Content and copy are two different types of writing, though some people believe them to be the same. Both types of writing have different objectives, styles, and require different skills to write. Let’s take a look at what each one is. Content Writing Content is about informing the reader. It gives information in a factual…
Read MoreThe Pros and Cons of Guest Blogging
For many years, guest blogging has been an essential tool for many websites. Now, however, some changes by Google are making this tactic less effective, and in some cases, they will even penalize your site. So what are the advantages of using this strategy? And do they out-weigh the negatives? How Guest Blogging Works First,…
Read MoreImprove Your Google My Business Listing Rank
If you are the owner of a local business – or someone marketing on their behalf – then it is almost essential that you have a listing on Google My Business. These listings appear at the top of Google’s search results, making them a prime location when trying to get new customers. Your listing will…
Read MoreAre Women Better Writers Than Men?
While I’m about to go off on a long, seemingly pointless tangent, please bear with it and keep reading, as I promise, hand to heart, that what I am about to say, as flowery and unnecessarily descriptive as it may be, will make sense… eventually. As a young female writer who has dreamed of being…
Read MoreBiography of Gary Snyder
As one of the most famous American poets, Gary Snyder has been linked to the Beat Movement, the Black Mountain Poets and the San Francisco Renaissance. As a lover of nature and Zen Buddhism, Snyder focuses his works around those themes, and dedicates much of his life to environmental activism. Gary Sherman Snyder was born…
Read MoreBiography of Lew Welch
As it happens for many writers and artists, Lew Welch was often marked by uncertainty and conflicted with his role in society. He lacked the ability to meet goals he had set for himself and usually changed them anyway. He was prone to mental breakdowns from the time he was a baby and suffered with…
Read MoreThe Death of Joan Vollmer Adams Burroughs
Due to trouble with the law, mainly for drug possession and distribution, William S. Burroughs, his wife Joan and their children moved many times, ending up in Mexico City. One night Bill and Joan attended a party and, while drunk, it is argued that they decided to play a game of William Tell. While accounts…
Read MoreThe Truth Behind David Kammerer’s Murder
It was because of Lucien Carr that Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs met and became friends. It was also because of Carr that Kerouac and Burroughs became material witnesses in a bizarre murder case. In 1944, Allen Ginsberg met Lucien Carr at Columbia University. Carr was friends with Edie Parker, Jack Kerouac’s…
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