The Blog Post Checklist

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Getting ready to publish your next blog topic? Follow our checklist to make sure you're not missing anything! Relevant Title Fewer than 55 Characters Arguably, one of the most important elements of a blog post is the title. When search engines index a webpage, they normally include the title as the main heading. Therefore, bloggers should create unique, relevant titles for each new post. It's also important to note that Google only displays the first 55 characters of a webpage's title, so keep your titles under this amount to ensure a high level of visibility. Include Images Why should y...
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Checklist for Launching a WordPress Blog

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Thinking about launching a blog using WordPress? While this content management system (CMS) can be used to create all types of websites, it's particularly effective at developing blogs. WordPress supports multiple authors, visitor comments, tags/categories, and you can schedule postings, all of which are helpful tools when blogging. Define Your Niche The very step in launching a WordPress is to define your blog. In other words, what do you want your blog to be about? Going broad with a generalized topic rarely works, simply because there's too much competition for broad keywords. A smarter a...
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What You’ll Need To Start a Blog

Content Management System Although you can technically build a blog using nothing more than Notepad or your preferred word processor, a far easier and more efficient solution is to use a content management system (CMS). As the name suggests, a content management system is designed to manage your blog's content. You upload the core CMS files to your server and perform the installation, at which point you can log into your admin portal to publish new content or edit existing content. Powering over 82 million blogs and websites, WordPress is the most popular CMS. Its free to download and us...
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