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If you’re an author or writer, you use search engines for research, but do you know about the site: search operator? It’s a quick and easy way to search sites to find your articles, mentions of your book or name, internal linking opportunities for your blog, plus many more uses. Another benefit is that it…

Can you start a blog anonymously and keep your identity a secret? Yes, you can, and it’s relatively easy to do. Perhaps you want to protect your privacy or avoid potential conflicts with your professional life. For authors who write under a pseudonym, blogging under your pen name is often a good idea. Whatever your reasons,…

When you are preparing to self-publish a new book, one important element to include is a disclaimer in your front matter. You’ve probably got a lot of other things on your mind as you get ready to publish. However, a disclaimer is a vital precaution that will offer you some degree of legal protection. You…

Zine is a diminutive of the word magazine, so it means a very small magazine. Ezines now refer to online and electronic versions that are often between six and twelve pages. In the past, small publications such as this were sometimes called pamphlets or leaflets. The history of zines dates back to the 18th century, when…

When you are researching or hunting for information online, the published date of a webpage helps you verify that the information is current. Dates may not be important if you are researching historical facts. But if you are searching for the latest trends in technology, science or medicine, articles from 2005 may not be the…

Deciding on a process to manage your writing drafts is a key element for all writing projects, from articles and essays to poetry and book manuscripts. A first draft is rarely, if ever, the final product. For most writers, the final draft often results from many earlier revisions and edited versions. However, new writers sometimes…

Hardly a day goes by without news about artificial intelligence (AI). Whether you like it or loathe it, the one certainly is that it’s here to stay. But the big question for writers is, how can you use AI to write? The quick and simple answer is that you can’t let AI write for you…

Some of your articles or blog posts might be old, but they are a goldmine of opportunity to help you improve your site and attract new readers. For sure, each new article you write and publish has potential value. However, it can take time for search engines to index your latest content, and it takes…

You don’t need to install another plugin to export all your WordPress URLs to a spreadsheet. Unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t have a simple in-built export tool for URLs. However, If you want to gather up all your page and post URLs for perhaps a site audit, here’s a quick and easy way to do it. All…

It’s usually very easy to delete a book from Kindle on an iPad or iPhone. You simply click on a book cover and select Permanently Delete. But occasionally, you might find that you can’t delete a book from your Kindle app because this option is missing. When you check your ebooks on your Amazon account,…