How to understand Pinterest SEO to increase traffic to your website

Pinterest can be an amazing source of traffic for your content and products, but it’s pretty different from other social media platforms. And it’s actually not really a social media platform: Pinterest is a visual search engine.

So if you want to make sure you’re best using this amazing platform for your business, you need to focus on SEO strategies. Here are the foundational steps of Pinterest SEO to help you get started.

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The anti-ick guide to building your brand as a writer

What I really, really want this year is admittedly huge and will have the longest-lasting impact on my writing life: I want to define my writing brand and orient my work toward that end.

Before you ick out over the word "brand" when it's applied to a creative craft, let me share how I'm defining this: I want to figure out who I am as a writer, what my voice sounds like, the type of stories I want to tell, the messages I want to impart. Phew, that's a big one. But I think it's time.

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The lowdown on self-publishing from 3 writers who've been there

Self-publishing is a way to gain readers for writers either immobilized by the traditional publishing process or thwarted by the constant rejection. There are benefits to self-publishing that go beyond cash money, though, and I picked the brains of three self-published authors to learn the ins and outs. Meet and learn from them here!

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