Sometimes I wish I could fix all the annoying things I find on blogs. Has that notion ever filled your head? How do people think they can get blog traffic when they can’t write a cohesive paragraph?
It’s been said there is more than one way to skin a cat. That is true of getting blog traffic. It has also been said that if you work smarter you don’t have to work as harder. This is also true of getting to be a pro-blogger. One of the most basic ways you can work to get more readers is to write better with less errors. By the way, I am not talking about spell-check. What good is a spike of traffic if your writing is dull, or worse, incorrect? Sometimes I take a break from the “making money online,” and “here’s what I did today” posts to try and help the world out. This series is like that.
In the next several days I will be highlighting writing “shalls,” ie; you shall not repeat the word than in a sentence. And I will present the “shoulds,” ie; you should noy use the same word too much in a post … use synonyms. My hope for this series is that it will review the basic errors of grammar and spread some “tricks” I have learned as a Master of Arts in English composition and rhetoric and a teacher since 1997. Oh yeah, I have three blogs I am fairly proud of as well. I will be drawing heavily on Strunk and White’s classic work: The Elements of Style. If you can’t wait to read my series, go ahead and preview it yourself online here. Bloggers are writers right? Okay, if that’s true this is a good series for bloggers.
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