How to Write Interesting Content for a “Boring” Topic + MORE

GIFs are an easy way to give your blog a trendy and fun touch that your readers will love. They make for interesting content.

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Killer Secrets to Increasing the Speed of Your BlogYou think once you’ve detected that your site’s load speed is low your job is done and you can just pass it over to your tech guys? Think again. A pro SEO should also know the basics of HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript in order to ensure that his tech department does not hurt anything while fixing other tech related SEO issues…

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5 Headline Formats That Are Sure to Attract ReadersGuest Post – Our host is Debbie Allen, here Debbie has some great suggestions on choosing headlines for your blog posts.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

The goal of every blogger is for their blog posts to be read by hundreds or thousands of readers. But in most cases, that only happens in a dream world…

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If you’re lamenting how “boring” the niche you’re writing in is, take heart … I’m here to tell that you can make it interesting to the right audience.
The secret to making so-called boring source material work is almost shocking in its simplicity.
It’s not necessarily about conducting market research, writing style, creating expensive infographics, or the having the right connections…

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A couple of years ago I wrote a series of posts here on ProBlogger that looked at ‘Misconceptions New Bloggers have’. We covered:

Blogging Takes Super Human Effort vs Blogging is Easy
You MUST post Every Day!
You Have to Write About Making Money Blogging to make Money Blogging

Today I’d like to add another misconception – that you have to be technical to be a successful blogger!
I wonder how many potentially great bloggers have been put off starting a blog because they perceived blogging to be a technical task?
My Story
I think back to my own first forays into building a web presence – way back before I started my first blog – and remember having that feeling myself…

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Google+ Photos Now Searchable

– blogherald.com

Google+ Photos Now SearchableGoogle+ users can now search for photos using the social networks search bar.
Users simply type in a search term and then choose “photos” from the drop down menu to begin their photo search.
At this time the search filter does not allow for multiple filters to be applied, a fact that will likely change with the next Google+ update…

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