New Website - Slowly Making Progress
Well, I'm slowly making some progress on my website. I'd like to share how I've been going about creating my posts.
My niche is jazz, and jazz improvisation, a topic about which I am very passionate. In these early stages I'm focusing on the beginning students of jazz, hoping that I can provide some inspiration and useful tips they can use to get them started. But eventually jazz has to become a "personal" thing. I can show a particular approach, but in the end, every student of jazz has to find his or her own pathway.
I've amassed a long list of possible keywords on which to focus, so now it's just a matter of writing the posts. What I do find difficult within the niche I've chosen, is creating image examples of the musical ideas I want to convey. This is very time consuming, because to fully explain the points I want to make in the various posts, I have to create images of notes on a musical staff, and in a lot of cases it requires a great many of them to explain my point.
So it's really a multi-step process. First I use Microsoft Word to write the content. I use Word because it's very good a catching spelling errors and correcting them, a real time saver! Next I create the images and insert them into the Word document. I also include the name of the image file below the image (which I later replace with the actual image in Wordpress).
When I've pretty much finalized the post, I copy it into a plain text editor to remove any MS Word formatting before inserting into an empty post in Wordpress. Of course the text editor removes the images, so I then have to insert each image (in place of the file name), enter an <Alt> tag, resize, and center it.
Next, in addition to the images of musical notation, I find a couple of related images and insert them in an appropriate place in the post.
Finally, I do the on-page SEO:
* Check that the keyword is in post title
* Keyword in the URL
* Keyword in 1st or 2nd paragraph
* Keyword (or a variation) in an <h2> or <h3 tag
* Keyword in the page title (using All-In-One SEO - I LOVE this plugin!)
* Meta description that includes the keyword, but is written mainly to entice the web surfer to click on the title in the SERPs.
* Outbound link to Wikipedia or other authority site
* Internal link within the text to another blog post
A lot of work, so I don't crank these posts out very quickly. But when one is completed, I find it very satisfying.
Thanks for reading :-)
Recent Comments
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Congratulations, Jim, on the progress of your website ... whether slow or fast does not matter, as long as it is of good quality. Thanks too for sharing your experiences on how you give 'birth' to your post. Insightful.
However, we are not allowed to put in the link to our website URL in our blog, except our own profile page. You can read it all here, a post by Kyle: Spam is a NO NO! It is just FYI only.
But ... I cannot resist having a peek at it ... Wow! Great.
All the best to you, Jim and happy blogging.
Thank you kichang. I wasn't aware that was not allowed. I have removed the link.