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man in red jacket riding bicycle on white water wave — JetPack is a popular plugin for WordPress bloggers. This is probably because JetPack offered easy sharing, in-depth stats, and a host of other useful features. Mostly the automatic and easy sharing though. I say, offered, because things have changed. Now, users on a free plan are capped at 30 shares […]

It may be time to give up on JetPack

3rd January 2023 in Blogs and blogging by Matthew Brown

Here is everything you need to know about online (blog) marketing. For books or anything else. Get ready – if you blink you might miss it. Provide something valuable that people want or need Do it regularly That’s it. Now you know how to make a blog that gets customers […]

Everything you need to know about online marketing in 30 ...

13th May 2021 in Blogs and blogging / Publicity tagged leadership / marketing / sell more books / selling by Matthew Brown

Monkey at a typewriter — In this blog post, I will show you how to snap out a pretty decent blog post in almost no time at all. Even if you are having an uninspired day. We all have off-days. Days when we feel supremely uninspired. If you are running a blog, you cannot let […]

How to quickly write a pretty decent blog post

12th March 2021 in Blogs and blogging tagged headlines / how to / ideas / posts / Writing by Matthew Brown

10 blogging tips for authors — Getting started with blogging can seem intimidating. There seems to be so much to learn. The secret is to just get started and you will pick up everything else as you go. Here are ten tips for authors new to blogging that should get you off to a flying start. […]

10 Beginner Blogging Tips for Authors

3rd March 2021 in Blogs and blogging tagged beginner / lists / tips by Matthew Brown

If you decided to go platform building alone and run your own WordPress blog, here are ten plugins that may be very useful to you. All the plugins listed are available to Author Buzz bloggers. 1. Redirection Redirection is a great little plugin for taking care of permalink changes and […]

7 WordPress plugin recommendations for authors

16th December 2020 in Blogs and blogging tagged blogging / plugins / WordPress by Matthew Brown

Did you know that you can promote your author blog on this site? There are actually two ways to do so. The quick promotion and the full promotion. Both are free. The quick promotion is to nip over to the directory and create a listing. You can make listings for […]

Promote your author blog here

28th November 2020 in Blogs and blogging tagged blog posts / bloggers / blogging ecosystem / feeds / headlines by Matthew Brown

links — Links are a vital part of a growing blog. They provide not only additional information and resources to delight your readers with but help anchor you in the blog ecosystem. In this post we will take a look at: What are links? How to add links to you WordPress post […]

WordPress Basics: Links

5th September 2020 in Blogs and blogging tagged blogging ecosystem / links / permalinks / SEO / URL / WordPress by Matthew Brown

One of the things that Author Buzz offers is a free WordPress blog. Which is all well and good if you know how to use WordPress. What do you do if you find figuring it all out far too stressful? You read this guide, of course. What is WordPress? Something […]

A beginner’s WordPress primer

4th September 2020 in Blogs and blogging tagged admin / beginner / blog posts / guide / pingbacks / posts / primer / themes / WordPress by Matthew Brown

blog — A recent question in the forums was “what are the rules for blog SEO?” In this post, I am going to give you the five most important things you should be doing to maximise your blog SEO. 1. Use Yoast Yeast SEO is a plugin that we provide for all […]

5 SEO tips for Author Buzz bloggers

12th July 2020 in Blogs and blogging tagged blogging / links / SEO / URL by Matthew Brown

detective — I have a fiction Patreon site where I post a story every month. My plan for 2020 was to post 12 monthly light-hearted detective stories, all about the same detective, which should stand-alone but had recurring characters and ongoing plotlines. This is how far I’d got at the start of […]

Writing A Hen Night Mystery During The Current Emergency

13th May 2020 in Blogs and blogging tagged COVID-19 / Detective Stories / For The Duration Of The Emergency / Writing by Neil Willcox

Two blogs have been started on this network that are both about as different as it is possible for two sites to be. Yet, despite this, they both use the same theme, the same network (obviously), and share similar contributors. What sets these two blogs apart is the intention and […]

Two blogs that could not be more different

1st October 2019 in Blogs and blogging / Site News tagged blogs / content / standing out by Matthew Brown

Comments: Author Buzz UK — The often-repeated fear is that comment control – the removing comments that you don’t want on your blog – is somehow the same as censorship. This is not only untrue but potentially damaging to your platform. What is freedom of speech anyway? If your blog has ever been visited by […]

Comment control is not the same as censorship

11th September 2019 in Blogs and blogging tagged censorship / comments / community / freedom of speech by Matthew Brown