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Optimizing WordPress Excerpts for Maximum Clickability

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As I’ve been paying more attention to blogging—not just the writing thereof, but the look and how the posts come across—one of the fields that I believe is little-used is the “excerpt&# field in one’s WordPress blog. This is WordPress’ built-in Excerpt field.). Now, here’s the thing. The grasshopper way.

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Optimizing WordPress Excerpts for Maximum Clickability [Redux]

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I originally published this post on April 21. As I’ve been paying more attention to blogging—not just the writing thereof, but the look and how the posts come across—one of the fields that I believe is little-used is the “excerpt&# field in one’s WordPress blog. This is WordPress’ built-in Excerpt field.).

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How I Set Up My WordPress Blog In 2 Hours

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It may look a little bare after other blogs you’re used to… especially if you’ve been publishing another blog for a while. Don’t agonize too much over starting your blog. It won’t be perfect when you start. You don’t have to get it just so right away. What’s important is that you start.

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How Distributed Content Can Help Control Social Messaging

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Perhaps you’re familiar with the term “distributed content” ( content that is published to third-party platforms rather than to an owned website). While this may have been an unthinkable strategy for a small-to-medium-sized business a few months ago, Facebook and Apple recently opened their platforms to all publishers.

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Why Livefyre Is The Best Blog Comment System Evah

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If you publish a blog, there are three things I want to tell you today. Then it turned out that the Livefyre plugin was causing some problems with the WordPress Editorial Calendar plugin which I also use and love. I strongly suggest you check it out, particularly if you publish a WordPress blog. Short version.

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Monday Roundup: Get Started With Blogging

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The WordPress Bloggers Bible. Founder and publisher of Waxing UnLyrical, Shonali Burke is President & CEO of Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc. It might help you break through your own writer’s blog. ” Will 2016 be the year you get started with blogging? Please share in the comments below. . Based in the Washington, D.C.,

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Is it Shortsighted Not to Host Your Own Blog?

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Some of these come with built-in networks; that’s one of the reason LinkedIn Publishing has taken off the way it has. Second, if you want to maintain ownership of your content, then the safest thing to do is to publish that content on a platform you own. Facebook, LinkedIn, Quora, Medium … the list goes on.

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