Driving traffic to your blog when you are first starting out can be really difficult. There's multiple reasons for this from not ranking well on Google because you're a relatively new site to over-saturation due to the sheer amount of blogs and websites. I've...
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So, the time has come to write you first couple of posts. Even though, you are probably super eager to start promoting your site, I would recommend waiting until you have written 10-15 posts. The reason being when you start generating an audience, you'll want them to see...
Regardless of what content you will be providing for your readers, you will want to make sure it is visually appealing by embedding images, videos, podcasts, social media or links from any other sites into your posts. By inserting visually appealing content into your posts, it will increase the time...
You include a contents list at the beginning of your post (or page) and it informs the reader, in a concise format, what the post entails. They can click on a point in the contents list and they will fast forward to that segment of your post. When someone visits...
Last week on my 'how to start your own blog' series, I covered setting up memberships on your Ghost.org site to turn anonymous readers into subscribers. This is a necessity to start to build a following for your site. However, you need to give an incentive to...
Whether you are looking to build a following or selling a product through your Ghost.org site/blog, you will want to turn anonymous readers into subscribers so they are engaged in your brand and can stay informed about your site. The best way to do this is by setting...
Whether you're a one-man/woman team or a ten-man/woman team, you're going to want to add staff profiles to your Ghost.org site so you can start posting content. By adding staff users and editing staff profiles allows you to give certain access privileges to...
By following my 'how-to' series, you will now be getting very close to having a fully functioning site. How exciting! It's time to add an 'about' page allowing you to inject more of your personality into your site and tell your readers exactly why...