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Frank J Casella

9 Years Ago

Why The Web Still Matters For Writing


Since it seems most of us are doing the social media thing, and it seems we need to target mobile devices, here are some interesting stats from the founder of Wordpress:

Why the Web Still Matters for Writing : http://ma.tt/2014/04/the-web-matters/



This article in the thread I shared yesterday states your blog has better SEO than social media.

http://pixels.com/showmessages.php?messageid=1833232

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Abbie Shores

9 Years Ago

I am in the process of working on http://1stangel.co.uk

Although I have a mobile theme for it so it automatically changes when mobiles go on it, it seems I have more work to do

However all SEO is important and it is easy to get fixated on the one thing lol

 

Frank J Casella

9 Years Ago

I know what you mean, Abbie. I've been trying to use my FAA blog more, but then when I read this I have to think how I'm going to link back and forth. The digital world is such a learning curve ... UGH !!

 

Abbie Shores

9 Years Ago

LOL it sure is

 

Suzanne Powers

9 Years Ago

Frank I think you and Abbie should be marketing/web consultants with your know how! I'm struggling with a 1000 words on my blog today trying to get it out and I'm not sure 1000 is going to work for me on a regular basis. I really want the SEO but I have changed my direction, writing more creatively and need to do a fair amount of research to know what I am talking about. I'm not sure people always want to read a 1000 word blog, sometimes I don't. Tell me it will be OK and people will find me anyway?!! :)

Are any of you writing this amount of words on your blogs? I've looked at many FAA blogs and I didn't see anyone with a lot of content.

 

Frank J Casella

9 Years Ago

Suzanne - I've found the same thing with the FAA blogs. People don't see the power they have.

The message you write is more important than the number of words. For example, I have another blog for a Catholic Apostolate I co-founded. I write 1000 words once per month for the weekly post, the other weeks of the month I either write a short paragraph and let the picture speak, or I reblog an article from the blog archive. Hope this helps.

With regard to the FAA blogs, what I've been doing with mine is writing short paragraphs for each. Then when I use the FAA email campaign I share the first sentence from each and the link to that blog post. Seems to be working well in the past few months I've done it ... then I don't have to think what I'll write for my email newsletter.

Haller back if I can be of further assistance. I'm sure Abbie has more feedback because she it a real blog guru.

>.... and thanks for your encouragement, Suzanne. It means a lot to me.

 

Suzanne Powers

9 Years Ago

Thank you Frank for getting back! I've needed some feedback. The more you work at something the more you know. You and Abbie have diligently been working and learning the social media for some time, you know more than you think!

So you feel you get good ranking without reaching the 10000 word watermark everytime? Some is better than not at all! Once a week seems to be my limit on getting a quality blog out. You read my mind I have wondered what one writes in e-mail letters and how that is done, thanks!

You feel two blog platforms on your photography is better than one and duplication of sorts is OK?

 

Frank J Casella

9 Years Ago



Yes, Suzanne, I do my writing on my FAA blogs and my pictures on my other blogs that get the true SEO.

I use titles and tags on those blogs for tha ranking .... and do searches at the library to make sure its not my browser lying to me.

Check them out for reference if you like:

http://FrankJCasella.wordpress.com http://FrankJCasella.tumblr.com

 

Abbie Shores

9 Years Ago

Suzanne

A good blog post is 400 words or more

 

Frank J Casella

9 Years Ago

I didn't know that, Abbie, good to know if and when I do WRITE blog posts on my WP or Tumblr. For now it's just pictures and titles.

 

Abbie Shores

9 Years Ago

Stick around kid, you will learn all you never wanted to know on this site LOL

 

Frank J Casella

9 Years Ago

Abby - that is one of the 'benefits' that makes the premium fee priceless.

Suzanne - If it be of some help, here is a WordPress article about bringing traffic to your site:

https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/niche-blogger-traffic/


While reading this click the follow button at the top ( if you're logged in to WP ) and then you'll get these articles in your Reader.

 

Abbie Shores

9 Years Ago

One HUGE way to get traffic back to your own blog is to write guest posts on other sites. Something I am getting into

If anyone wishes to do this on my site please let me know

All posts should be informative, over 400 words and contain an image of up to 500 pixels

 

Suzanne Powers

9 Years Ago

Frank,

You have done a good job with the visuals of your sites, like the beautiful blush color, the black and white site is very good looking one, both are simple which is what I like. I'm not completely happy with the kind of black background style I have but have just started and can change. Good to be reminded of the basics, I was wondering how many tags, Wordpress puts limits, I used to be on the site, Blogger allows connections to website and is free. I find Blogger to be more straightforward and glitch free.

Abbie,

Have you heard of the 1000 word SEO as new requirements by Google as of several months ago? I got over the 400 mark yesterday it will have to do for now. I am using larger images and pixels are probably a lot more than 500, although the load time is fast I don't have any advertising at this point. I have taken a new tack and just started writing creative mood pieces that can be historical, slices of life, my own magazine kind of idea using my photography as images and filling in with other images as needed. I want to create a mood to "romance" the the product and convince the viewer they need my images.

I use the extra large Blogger size image, I feel it is necessary to "stun" if I may use that description about my own images, if they are good images it is impressive. My priority is visuals first, I'm selling art, information is number two for me. I'm not going to worry about them being stolen, it happens and is a fact of life, I'm only interested in the buyers. If you would like to make any comments this is my "new" take: http://arteffecting.blogspot.com/2014/04/luxury-edwardian-view.html



 

Frank J Casella

9 Years Ago

UPDATE -- SEO Quick Tips: Four Ways to Improve Your Results Today

http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2014/05/02/seo-quick-tips/

 

Roy Erickson

9 Years Ago

I've had an account at wordpress for a couple of years - my log in and password still work - but I've never done anything with it. I looked around and left - still haven't a clue what I was trying to do there.

 

Suzanne Powers

9 Years Ago

Thanks Frank for "how it works" for blogging, I need to hear about blogging since I am now a blogger.

 

Frank J Casella

9 Years Ago

Roy -- You know that you can still use the FAA blog and get SEO? I've searched the sellers here on FAA who don't use a WordPress or Tumblr, but do use their FAA blog, and their blog posts come up on the first page of search, especially on Google.

Suzanne -- You're welcome !!

 

Suzanne Powers

9 Years Ago

Interesting about the first page search on Google. If I remember the blog is somewhat limited in that you can only post one image? If that is true it is a fact that readers need at least 200 words and images are needed for organic growth. I would think FAA bloggers are on the first page search because of FAA positioning themselves and they also would have to be attracting a lot of visitors through consistent posting?

I really like that I can post as many images as I like sort like my own magazine. I feel FAA is too limited for what I want to do and I wonder if the bloggers are really getting views? It sounds good but does it work for the bloggers in sales?

 

Frank J Casella

9 Years Ago

Suzanne - - Yes the FAA blog is limited; only one picture, no tagging, only FAA members can comment and not on AW, etc. The SEO is definitely from FAA ranking, however, I believe the article link that I shared a couple posts ago says you no longer need 200 words -- at least on WordPress - all you need is keywords in your title or tags.

I'm using my FAA blog to write articles that I post to my FAA email campaign marketing. It's hard to tell how many hits I'm getting because you have to go through the pages of FAA blogs to fine yours and check the stats.

In any event, I recently wrote about my findings with the FAA blogs at this link: http://fineartamerica.com/blogs/what-makes-this-the-frank-j-casella-fine-art-blog.html

 

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