From the monthly archives:

August 2010

Blog Comic for Monday Morning

source: Shoeboxblog.com

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10 Tips for Combating Blogger – or Back to School – Anxiety

Reduce Anxiety

by Karen Daniels It’s back to school time in California and good school deals are to be found everywhere. But believe me, as a mom with kids going back to school it’s really not that much of a good deal. There’s the schedule, no more endless summer days and who cares who wears what, or [...]

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Three Quick Steps for Awesome Zen Writing

Zen Writing

by Karen Daniels We all struggle with limited time – not enough hours to get everything done we want to get done. So any method that can help us creatively produce in the quickest amount of time without compromising on quality is a good thing. The three steps listed here will help you spend less [...]

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Those Pesky Meta Keywords

Confusion about Meta Keywords

by Karen Daniels Meta keywords may be something you don’t need to worry about at all. They used to be much more important than they are now. In September 2009 Matt Cutts of Google announced that Google is no longer taking meta keywords into account at all. Here’s a video: In October 2009, Yahoo announced [...]

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Blog Tag Basics

Zen Copy Tag Cloud

by Karen Daniels Last week I wrote a post on blog categories and received enough questions offline about the difference between categories and tags that I thought I’d do a quick mini-post on tags. (Look for an upcoming more complete post). If you think of categories as the table of contents for your blog, then [...]

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7 Top Tips for Creating Blog Categories

by Karen Daniels Blog categories as your site’s filing system. You have different “drawers” and you need to come up with a label for each drawer. Creating effective blog categories isn’t rocket science – but it does require some thought and planning. If you’re like a lot of bloggers, you might be making some basic [...]

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Catapult Your Writing with these 6 Questions

Live Consciously

by Karen Daniels How much time do you spend every day looking but not really seeing? Or hearing but not truly listening? We tend to do a great deal of our living in a totally unconscious fashion because we get into routines that put us on auto pilot. When we live, or write, with the [...]

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Warning: Don’t Use These Title Templates Unless You Want to Succeed

Taste of Success

“The Art of Content Seduction” part 2 You can find “The Art of Content Seduction, Part 1” here Seth Godin recently wrote about “The Art of Seduction” on his blog – I’m going to assume he got the idea from me. Seth says, “It’s a lot easier to seduce someone whose worldview and attitude makes [...]

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