I’m not an AI kind of guy. But there’s been a lot of the-sky-is-falling hullabaloo about AI (Artificial Intelligence) and whether it’ll put all of us bloggers out of a job, like how the sewing machine slaughtered the tailoring industry. So I went to find out. I shelved my
Not to poke fun at Ron Stefanski at One Hour Professor, but headlines like this are just bogus: How to Write Blog Posts Fast in 2022 (4000+ Words Under 60 Minutes) (onehourprofessor.com) It’s actually a decent article on how to transcribe your dictation for faster blog post writing. But for
I despise obviousness. And guys, it’s everywhere. You can’t get away from it. If you thought COVID was bad … (No? Too soon? Ok …) Obviousness: The act of stating something everyone already knows. Syn.: you don’t say, open-and-shut, self-evident, apparent, thanks Captain Obvious, no sh*t Sherlock! When I read
“Dear God,” you’re saying right now, “Did this guy actually write an entire blog post just on how to write a bullet point list? What … a … nerd!” Yes, I did. And I’m not sorry. For all the writing that bloggers do, most of them are surprisingly bad at
The FTC requires that bloggers (as marketers) make a prominent statement that disclaims their relationship to companies that pay them to sell or promote their products. Blah blah blah. You can gift-wrap your affiliate disclaimer in several ways: Fine Print: Shrink that disclaimer to 9-pt font, make it light gray,
I remember atlases, my friends. I remember MapQuest. I remember printing off seven sheets of 8×11 turn-by-turn instructions for a cross-country road trip, highlighting my route on a pixelated map, and praying to Sweet Baby Jesus that I didn’t take a wrong turn. Today, I am wholly, unabashedly dependent on
We can’t clone humans yet, but could outsourcing content come a close second? Your fingers can only type so fast; your brain can only grind away so long. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could hire someone else to think, type, and edit the same as you? At least, that’s
When was the last time you read a blog post all the way to the end? I’m talking every word, every headline, every semi-colon. … Have you ever done that? What makes you think your Reader will? Roughly 60 percent of Americans never go past the headline when “reading the
On May 22, 2015, Rand Fishkin, founder of Moz, published a video titled, “Why Good Content Needs to Die.” In that video, Rand argued that the publishing web had fundamentally changed. That merely regurgitating content wasn’t enough to win the SERP war anymore. That the minimum viable strategy for ranking
I’ve worried way too much about how many blog posts I should have. I lay awake at night wondering, puzzling and pondering: What’s the magical number to escape the Google sandbox? How many articles until Mediavine accepts me? What’s the minimum number of posts a blog should launch with? At