I was a teenager when I first read the words “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” I was hooked. George Orwell’s 1984 has remained one of my favourite books ever since. In this, the first part of a series on how to write blog posts that people […]

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This week the Blogcentric podcast hits 100 episodes. I listened back to the seven episodes that helped it grow and recorded my reactions. What episodes did I choose? Listen below 1. First Episode: Improve Your Blog – Bite The Bullet, Have A Clearout Would I cringe when I listened back to episode 1? There’s been something […]

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Writing catchy blog titles is an art. If you can master it you’ll find more people clicking through to read the post you spent hours crafting. Many abandon the title until the last minute, many don’t give it a thought but I can almost guarantee if you write better more catchy blog titles you’ll get […]

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It wasn’t that I wanted to win awards although it’s nice to get them. It’s that I wanted more from my blog. Last week I won an award, actually 2 awards in Blog Awards Ireland, one gold and one bronze. That totals three for my blog this year. Today I want to tell you the […]

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Do you edit your blog posts or do you just publish and wish for the best? I’ve done both and I know it’s the ones I edit that I’m the proudest of. In this post, we’re going to look at six blog editing tools that take the pain out of editing On blog editing I’m […]

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