Not a Professional Writer ? An Amateur Writers Guide to Sounding Like an Expert + MORE

Facebook’s automated systems and unfortunate choice of words might be directly effecting the perceptions of racism for some users. A new study has found that the social network is finding unexpected ways to spread racist messages.
While we often think of Facebook and racism as something that happens among bigoted commenters, the truth is the network’s user logs reveal a more prevalent problem…

Long form content journalism and in-depth storytelling online are making a comeback.

Guest Post – Our host is Gina Smith, the majority of bloggers are new to writing content but as Gina explains in this post that does not mean they can not write like the pros.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

The thought of writing a Blog intimidates a lot of people. Why? Most often, people think they have to be a professional writer to sound articulate and knowledgeable…

“If you write it, they will come,” right?
You’ll pour your heart into writing the very best content that you can. And in the middle of the night, the traffic fairies will bestow upon you a massive audience that knows, loves, and trusts you, and you will live happily ever after.
As the man says, How’s that working out for you?
In the real world, those blasted traffic fairies are inept and lazy, and magical content dust is hard to come by…

When it comes to building a successful web site or blog there are many ways to track how well you are doing. Some people will focus on traffic, revenue or even Google PageRank, but many people also like to look at the Alexa ranking. Alexa is the service that tracks all of the web sites on the internet and assigns them a ranking based on various factors such as traffic, incoming links, social sharing and many other stats you might be looking at as site owners…