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Unless you absolutely have to start your goals or resolutions on January 1st (which most of us don’t) why not choose a different starting point? Why not make yours January 15th or a completely different month to give yourself a bit more time for ideas to form? This way you are more likely to stick to them. Anyway, “according to statistics, … Continue reading
In yesterday’s post, I promised to share with you the concept of making money from your blog or website once you have built up enough great content. Brian Clark (founder of Copyblogger) explains in his report 10 Rock Solid Elements of Effective Online Marketing (which I downloaded from Authority Rules.com) that the next logical step … Continue reading
How does Google know that your site is important? Google knows because people link to your great content. These links are important, as without them, you may as well be invisible on the internet. Google indexes and ranks these links according to how much authority your site has. Authority seems to be a topic that … Continue reading
Sic is an adverb first seen in English in the mid 19th century, translating to ‘intentionally so written’ according to Wikipedia. It comes from the Latin adverb sīc meaning ‘thus’, ‘as such’ or ‘in such a manner’ and is pronounced as sick, although Wikipedia suggests that “its Latin ancestor is pronounced more like the English word seek“. The word sic usually … Continue reading
I didn’t realise how magical the art of folding paper was until I opened the book that I bought my daughters for Christmas – it’s called Origami for Children by Mari and Roshin Ono. The book contains 35 projects and a pack of very pretty paper for making the objects. We made a box this … Continue reading
Before writing this today, I checked the Google AdWords tool to see what the competition and frequency was for the word yuletide. Did you know that almost as many people search for yule tide or yule-tide (33,100 global monthly searches) as they do the combined word yuletide (40,500 glogal monthly searches). The word jul had an even bigger monthly search … Continue reading
It’s Christmas Day and I want to spend time with my family, but staying true to my writing challenge, I will still provide a blog for you today – but it will be a short one. I thought I would find out a little bit about the term Bah Humbug. This is the character Ebenezer Scrooge’s famous … Continue reading
I came across an excellent tip today from Copyblogger.com in their article The Art of Wrting Great Twitter Headlines. They advise you to think of your headline as a promise to the reader – what it is you are going to deliver to them and how you are going to ensure it fulfils their needs. When … Continue reading
If you read yesterday’s post Have you converted your WordPress blog to your own domain?, you will know that I was considering making some changes to my WordPress domain name. Everytime I logged into WordPress, I was seeing the message ‘Be the master of your own domain….’ and I’ve been tempted for a while now. All … Continue reading
If someone asked you to keep schtum, it would mean that they didn’t want you to say anything as it might get you into trouble. According to Phrases.org.uk schtum possibly comes from the German word stumm meaning silent. Oxforddictionaries.com state that the German word stumm is of Yiddish origin (1950s). They also explain that schtum (or shtum) can be an adjective … Continue reading
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