by Erik Dietrich | May 11, 2018 | Blogging Advice
I’ve been a blogger now for more than seven years. And I have to say, it took me an embarrassingly long time to understand the true nature of the blog post title. My hope today is that you may learn from my folly. There Are Actually (At Least) Three Flavors of...
by Erik Dietrich | May 4, 2018 | Blogging Advice
SEO, SEO for techies, techies SEO, SEO in technical blogs, SEO in technical blogs not marketing, techie, techies, SEO… Oh, hi! I didn’t see you there. I was just stuffing this post with keywords in the first paragraph in order to trick Google into ranking...
by Erik Dietrich | Apr 26, 2018 | Blogging Advice
Hit Subscribe is a content agency, and a growing one at that. Don’t worry. This isn’t going to be a post about how great we think we are, which I’ve advised you not to write in the past. Our growth matters in this context because it’s made...
by Erik Dietrich | Apr 18, 2018 | Blogging Advice
Because I have some reach in the tech community and blogging is my thing, I find that people reach out to me somewhat regularly. This outreach takes all forms, but of particular interest today is people hoping that I’ll share some post they wrote. Almost...
by Amanda Muledy | Apr 10, 2018 | Blogging Advice
Maybe you’ve never heard of blank page syndrome. I mean, it’s a term I made up, so chances are pretty good it’s new to you. But you know what it is, I promise. It’s the feeling of opening up a WordPress draft or a new Word document (or pulling...
by Erik Dietrich | Apr 4, 2018 | Blogging Advice
Here at Hit Subscribe, our mission involves helping techies and tech companies. We’re techies, our customers are tech companies, and their customers are techies. This means that everyone involved has a strong appreciation for data and empirical concerns. And...
by Erik Dietrich | Mar 21, 2018 | Blogging Advice
Sometimes it feels as though cold email is the bane of my existence. This is weird on some deep level. While I do own multiple businesses, making me a frequent target, it’s not as though I spend a ton of time dealing with it. It’s just… well,...
by Erik Dietrich | Mar 14, 2018 | Blogging Advice
I’ve covered the subject of WordPress before on this blog. In a post about how to integrate Google Analytics, I made the case that you should use WordPress instead of static site generators or any other means of providing content. When you have a commercial...
by Amanda Muledy | Mar 7, 2018 | Blogging Advice
There are a lot of things that about writing you can’t automate. But there’s also a few that you can. So far, no cool robot is going to help you form the structure of your argument. And while you can get the internet to generate your metal band’s...
by Erik Dietrich | Mar 1, 2018 | Blogging Advice
Today’s post is about writing tips, to be sure. If it weren’t, I’d have just treated you to some pretty disingenuous clickbait. But I want to be clear that these are writing tips for blogs that have a mission. Why make that distinction? Well,...
