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If you want to improve your writing, and who doesn’t, you can find lots of great advice online on how to be a better writer. Almost everything I read on the topic is true. Yes, improving your grammar knowledge, developing your writing voice, and honing your writing skills are all vital. But here’s a big…
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How many book sales do you need to reach number one on Amazon? If you want to hit the bestseller lists for the major popular genres in the Kindle Store, you will need somewhere between 2,000 and 6,000 book sales per day. However, Amazon has more than one bestseller list—there are hundreds if you know…
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If you own a website, you’ll know that outreach campaigns for articles and backlinks are becoming so frequent that they compete with comment spam as a nuisance. Every day, I delete bundles of emails offering me free articles, asking for backlinks, or offering to pay me to publish an article with dofollow links. Back in…
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When it comes to reading ebooks, what devices do people use? A dedicated e-reader, smartphone, tablet, or computer? When the Kindle arrived in 2007, it quickly became the most popular e-reading device. The first iPad, along with iBooks, was released in 2010, and it looked like it might compete with Kindle. However, the low-resolution screen…
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Is it wreaked havoc or wrought havoc? At first glance, I thought both were correct, but that wrought sounded much better. Like you, perhaps, I thought wrought was the simple past verb for wreak, as with bring and brought or teach and taught. But after hitting the dictionaries, I discovered I was wrong as there…
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Does social media book promotion still work? In short, no, because of three problems. 1. There is a lack of user intent. 2. You have to pay to get attention. 3. Few people use social media to buy books. Why is social media book promotion failing? Ten or even five years ago, social media was…
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Adsense and Core Web Vitals can work happily together despite what you might read. Yes, at first, I struggled with site speed and slow loading for pages with Adsense, especially on mobile. But with a few tweaks and learning how Google calculates Core Web Vitals (CWV), my sites are now getting all green signals on…
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The words person, people or persons, and peoples are all correct but have different meanings in specific contexts. Person means an individual. We use it when focusing on a specific individual or addressing one person. In most situations, people is the accepted plural form of person. However, persons is correct when referring to a specific…
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You want to publish a PDF article online but don’t have a website or blog. Most of all, you don’t want to pay to publish your article. Well, there is a quick and easy way you can do it. Learning how to publish a PDF on the web is very easy. Then, you can share your…
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There’s no doubt that the hyphen is disappearing slowly from written English. It’s far more common today to use email rather than e-mail. Perhaps this one word, along with technology, started the hyphen’s demise. However, it’s not all over yet for the humble little dash. It still has many uses, but most of all, it…
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