Dan's Words

Featured Writer Friday is a weekly series that showcases a new blogger each week. They share with their blogging story, what went right for their blog and what did not. It's a great place to learn some new blogging tips or find some great tools to use for blogging. This week's featured writer is Cimarron Ranch. They are an off grid homestead adventure! Check them out on this weeks Featured Writer Friday !!

Backlinks Everyone is looking to get on Goggle's Page one. So todays blogging tip will be about backlinks and how to build them.   How to Build Backlinks There are several way to build backlinks to your site. Guest posts are a great way to get quality backlinks and to begin developing partnerships. When you publish an article on someone else’s website, you gain new eyes to your writing and website which leads to more exposure. Infographics , everyone loves a cool looking infographic. We LIKE them and SHARE them with others all of the time. Why not add your own custom infographic into the fold for other to like and repost too? Internal links , do you have a relevant post that you can link to in your new blog post? Great. Add a link to old post in your new post and keep the link juice flowing. Contact important people in your niche, the world is full of people willing to help. Sometimes all you have to do is ask. Get interviewed , do you kn...

Today, I'd like to share with you three of my favorite blogging tips. Blogging Tip #1 Add keywords into your URL. If your blogging platform uses something like (yourwebsite.com)/04/27/2018/. Change it to (yourwebsite.com)/blogging-tips. Using a ULR with the keywords is more SEO friendly, not to mention that your reader will have an easier time remembering your URL. Blogging Tip #2 Image names. Don't use an image name like, DZOZN2.jpg. Add one of your keywords in the image name. Again, this make the image more SEO friendly. Blogging Tip #3 Be yourself. Don't try to write in a voice that is not yours. Your readers will find out. When you write, don't write for the Google bots. Write in your own voice. Don't stuff your post with keywords. Add a couple keywords and maybe a long tail keyword into your blog post. But make sure that your post is readable and easily understood. Otherwise your reader will move on. Just be yourself when you write. Be su...

Blogging It seems like everyone is doing it. There are blogs about beauty. Blogs about fitness. Blogs about travel. Lifestyle blogs, food blogs, pet blogs, there are even blogs about blogs!! If you've been thinking about blogging and have wondered how to start a blog, then I suggest you keep coming back. I'll drop you some helpful blogging tips in every post!! There are two ways to have a blog. You can get one of the free sites such as Blogger.com and Wordpress.com. Or you can purchase your own domain and start your blog there. Much like I have done at danswords.com . The choice is yours. Since I'm not doing this to just "test the waters," I decided to jump all in and start blogging. I bought my own domain, loaded WordPress, and haven't looked back. That was five years ago. I enjoy writing and helping other bloggers get unstuck. On my main website , I blog two to three time a week. Sunday is my regular blog posting day. Sunday's post covers one to...