Archive | May, 2010

How to make your next blog post a winner

11 May

Here are some tips to think about before you hit publish on your next blog post: 1. Write an SEO-friendly headline. Tell me the “who” and the “what” in the headline, so readers and search engines know exactly what you are writing about. 2. Include at least two links that help readers find more valuable [...]

5 tips for writing better online headlines

7 May

I’ve worked with some amazing headline-writers in my career – newspaper copy editors who were almost poets when it came to writing the perfect turn of phrase to fit the space given. Unfortunately those witty headlines that catch our attention in print (where they are packaged with a photo and a subhead) don’t always work [...]

Blackbird Pie puts tweets in your blog posts

5 May

I noticed Twitter’s new Blackbird Pie feature today for the first time. Have you ever come across a great tweet and wanted to share it with your blog readers? I have. And until today I had to take a screengrab of said tweet to post to my blog. Not anymore. Twitters Blackbird Pie allows me [...]