Top 6 Habits of Professional Writers and Bloggers

After being a professional writer for some time, you start to develop certain productive habits. These habits make the difference between writing deliberately and dabbling in a hobby.

When you make a conscious decision to start taking your craft seriously, you'll experience an incredible difference. You will not only become a better and more prolific writer, but you'll start actually finishing projects, which is probably one of the biggest challenges writers face.

How to Use Google+ Communities to Drive More Traffic to Your Blog

Guest Post - Our host is Matt Carter. Matt uses his experience as an Internet Marketer to show us How to Use Google+ Communities to Drive More Traffic to Your Blog. See How to Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

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If you write for a blog regularly, chances are you’ve spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to send your posts out so they’re read by lots of different people.

You’ve probably spent a lot of time using social media as a means to spread your content out, but if you’re focusing solely on Facebook and Twitter, you might be forgetting an important place to find more blog readers: Google+.

The Purpose of Comments on Blogs (and How to Use them)

Comments play a big role in blogging. If everybody, I mean bloggers and readers, used the comment section optimally, its functionality would provide us all a wealth of value.

An optimal blog post would consist of a high quality article by the blogger followed by a discussion that goes deeper into the topic. We could also say that the original blog post should be a good discussion starter, as the post will never cover a topic to the whole. It always leaves room for interesting comments.

The Truth about 'Sharing is Caring' in Blogging

More and more blogs use this Social Widget with the 'Sharing is Caring' gadget as a call-to-action to get their posts shared. But when do you share content? What do you share, and why?

Do you share a post just because you see some sexy buttons with the text 'Sharing is Caring'? Bloggers try hard to get their posts shared. I must admit that it may even increase the chance of getting a share.

5 Ridiculous Blogging Advices You *Must* Ignore

Guest Post - Our host is Amy Brown, Amy uses her personal experience to list 5 Ridiculous Blogging Advices You *Must* Ignore. See How to Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

The blogging realm is full of 'gurus': some are bonafide experts, others are simply overrated, and then, there is the third kind - the downright wannabes!

How (and Why) to No-Index Archive Pages in Blogger

When I checked how many webpages from SpiceUpYourBlog.com were indexed in Google, I was a bit surprised.

We have 741 Blog Posts published so far and I noticed that 2150 webpages were indexed in Google - see screenshot below.

Tip: To see how many of your webpages are indexed in Google, simply type "site:www.yourdomain.com" in Google.