How to Find Blog Post Ideas
Brainstorming is the least productive way to do this. The questions already exist — in your inbox, in forums, in the…
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How to Write a Blog Post
The most common mistake is the warm-up: three paragraphs before the reader learns anything. Here is the order that works instead.
How to Make a Blog Website
Most people do this backwards, spending three weeks on a theme before writing anything. Here is the order that actually gets you…
How Blogs Actually Make Money
Written from a site that has earned nothing so far, which is the position most blogs are actually in when they read articles…
How to Get Traffic to a New Blog
Most advice here comes from people selling a course. This uses measured figures from a three-month-old site, including what did…
How to Choose a Blogging Platform
The platform matters less than people think. Includes this site’s real first-month numbers: 90,700 impressions and 26 clicks.
Excel Formula Errors Explained
Each error code narrows the problem for you. What causes each one, the fix, and why burying them all under IFERROR hides the…
How to Remove Duplicates in Excel
A thirty-second job that regularly goes wrong, because the tool does exactly what you tell it — and the column selection is the…
VLOOKUP vs XLOOKUP in Excel
The approximate-match default is the most expensive mistake in spreadsheets, because it returns a plausible wrong number rather…