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Guest Blogging: How You Should Be Doing It in 2024

Buzzstream

I get email requests from guest bloggers who want to write on the BuzzStream blog daily. As you can see, when you start to explore the waters of guest blogging for backlinks, things get very muddy quickly. To succeed with guest blogging in 2024, you need to think of yourself as a content creator instead of a link builder.

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Blogging is dead: just 36% of internet users write blogs

Stuart Bruce

Blogging is dead, long live blogging. An interesting statistic from the GWI Brand report reveals that 36% of internet users aged 16-64 said that they wrote on a personal blog within the last month. Most are blogging about popular culture with films (43%) the favourite topic, followed by music and science/technology (40% each).

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The Aesthetics of Text: Writing Readable Blog Posts

Sword and the Script

This why a good content marketer can take a dense white paper, identify the most interesting parts , re-write it for the web, and then watch it get more traction than the first time around. Over the years, I’ve learned the following three basic guidelines help keep readers engaged. 1) Write short sentences.

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5 Smart PR & Marketing Trends for 2024

The Proactive Report

The trick to getting good content from an AI service is to learn how to write excellent prompts. Give it an identity to write from, a tone of voice to use, and enough context about the topic so that you get a great response back. Always edit and put your own voice on a piece that’s created by AI. Never use it straight from AI.

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How Long Should a Blog Post be in 2019? [And Other Key Blogging Statistics You Should Know]

Sword and the Script

Writers that report success with blogging share the following characteristics: They are more likely to write longer or more in-depth content; They tend to spend six or more hours writing a post; They are 2.5 1) How long should a blog post be? Today the average blog post is 1151 words. hours to write.”.

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5 Brand Elements to Evaluate When Refreshing Your Corporate Image

Cision

 3.    Institute Brand Guidelines to Navigate your Communications  . Developing brand guidelines will ensure consistency across all marketing channels. Editorial Guidelines: Establish writing standards to ensure consistency across content. Voice/Tone of Messaging: should it be formal? Informative? business cards.

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150+ Guest Posting Sites That Will Actually Build Traffic (Analysis)

Buzzstream

Matt Cutts’ infamous blog post advised “sticking a fork in it” because guest posting for links was done. We looked for sites with clear signals that they accepted guest posts, such as post titles and URLs with the words “contribute” or “write for us.” So, you’ll also need to judge the quality of the writing itself.