Blogging
When You Stop Blogging
Regular blogging is the best thing you can do for your website’s traffic and rankings. Search engines like fresh content, and so do human visitors. Every new post is a new opportunity to rank for a new keyword, a new landing page, and to increase value for your website. Regular blogging Here’s an example of…
Do Blog Comments Matter?
Blogging is great for business, and comments are often a part of blogs. Does it follow that blog comments are great for business? Many prominent blogs have removed the commenting option, post comments only after monitoring, or require registration through a service like Disqus before allowing comments. Other bloggers reach out and request comments, trade…
Traffic Loss
Over the past six months, we’ve lost 3% of our traffic at this website every month. This is depressing, of course. How did it happen? Life. We were super busy taking care of our paying clients and we were working on our new redesign (we hope you like it). We figured we would get the…
Copyright and AI Content
We’ve watched the growth of artificial intelligence tools that generate web content with interest. Our focus has been on whether it works or not — is it a good way to save money on web content, for example? There’s another issue, though: copyright and AI content. Check out our experiences with these tools: Autogenerated Content…
Trying out Bertha AI
For Tool Tryout Tuesday, we tried out Bertha.ai, a new content generating plugin for WordPress. We paid for the tool and have been testing it for about a month now. Bertha claims to be able to write full websites and blog posts. We’ve tested its ability to write blog posts. The content of your website…
Is “Blog” Declining in Search Popularity?
In the podcast shared below, WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy talks about a question she gets all the time: “What are we going to do about the fact that the term ‘blog’ is declining in search popularity?” It is, by the way. Or it has. Interest in that word peaked about a decade…