Ruby's Tips for Newbies: How Keywords Can Boost the Success of Your Posts

Keywords and search ranking. Have you ever wondered how it all works? SEO is a really complex subject, but even the newest of newbies can start to use keywords with the right guidance. I was asked by one of my fellow editors at BlogBourne if I could write a post about keywording. What I came up with is a very gentle primer on keywords for people who have up till now been a little overwhelmed by the very idea of tackling SEO.

If you have been nervous about using keywords until now, this is your chance to learn step by step! Start with the absolute basics in this post, and later we'll revisit the subject to bump things up a notch. As we go along, we can all learn more about SEO together. Join me!

Keywords are an important part of writing for the internet.
Keywords help your posts get indexed by search engines
and found by readers.
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Ruby's Tips for Newbies: How Keywords Can Boost the Success of Your Posts

Rissa Fights Leukemia - Writers Helping Writers

A colleague of mine was diagnosed this week with Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, otherwise known as ALL. My friends - my writing family, really - at the Yahoo! Content Network have mobilized to help raise funds for Rissa Watkins' medical bills and living expenses. Rissa has not been able to work while doctors were trying to sort out what was wrong, and now she's been diagnosed she faces a period of difficult treatments and astronomical bills that her insurance will only partially cover.

Using Twitter to Promote Your Writing

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Search engine optimization is emphasized on many writing sites. A lot of writers will say they get the majority of their page views from Google searches, among others. But social media does contribute to page views as well. Many writing sites offer promotion tips that make use of sites like Facebook and Twitter, Digg, Technorati or others. It is not uncommon for sites to also offer tools that will automatically post links to these sites for a writer, or that encourage readers to "share" on one of a number of sites.

Despite the encouragement, not all writers are yet comfortable with social networking sites. Privacy is one concern that is frequently cited, but it may also be that the writer feels a little put off by a new and unfamiliar technology. Some of us perhaps feel we must become attached to our mobile devices at the thumbs in order to become part of the Twitterverse. Or maybe the question, "What are you doing right now?" just seems a little too invasive...

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