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05/29/2020

How To Win At Full-Time Virtual Working

Many of us are used to working in a virtual environment in one way or another, but taking it from part time to full time can be a surprisingly big shift. We likely already have the skills and the equipment, but creating routine and maintaining motivation are totally different challenges.

This post looks at how to boss your virtual/remote working by reviewing or implementing processes and tips to boost motivation and productivity. And if you’re a Lyrical Host customer, there are downloads that work well with this post in the Resource Library.

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05/18/2020

How To Stop Content Theft (& What To Do If It Happens)

When you publish your own content on your website, it’s automatically protected by copyright law. This means it’s never okay to use images or text from other websites without written permission, even if it’s been published on social media or displays in Google Images. You may embed content where the creator has allowed it, for example embedding someone else’s YouTube video or Instagram image on your website using the embed code provided by the social network (which includes credit and links).

Unfortunately, there are always people out there who will take advantage of your words, images, and other content to use on their own website or to drive traffic to it. In this post, we look at some ways you can make it harder for thieves to steal your content, and what you can do about it if it does happen.

05/06/2020

How To Write Great ALT Text Descriptions (For Accessibility & SEO)

This post looks at what types of things you should write in your image ALT descriptions, and how to balance the needs of both search engine optimization and accessibility for the best of both worlds!

04/27/2020

What To Learn First (Or Next) As A Blogger

Imagine if you tried to learn how to crawl, walk, run, ski, drive, cycle, and surf all at the same time. Or if when you started learning to read as a small child, the first book you were given was a Shakespeare play and you were told to write a dissertation and give a talk on your work at a conference by the end of the month.

It would be impossible right? You’d end up frustrated, confused, and overwhelmed.

But this is what a lot of bloggers try to do. It’s normal to be excited about blogging, but trying to learn everything straight away is just going to pull you in a bunch of different directions. Without delving deep enough into anything specific, or sticking at one thing long enough to make a difference, you’ll be spinning plates without getting anywhere. Not only does it set you up for getting frustrated with yourself and your results, it’s the fastest path to burnout.

Which Yoast Green Lights You Actually Need (& Why)

04/17/2020

Which Yoast Green Lights You Actually Need (And Why)

One of the plugins we suggest in 7 Free Must-Have WordPress Plugins is Yoast SEO. Yoast has a ton of great features to help you get your search engine optimization on track. It also makes it much easier to manage and add things that normally require messing around with code, like preventing pages being indexed by Google.

Yoast also has some features that rate you based on a series of traffic lights, with green being good, orange being okay, and red being room for improvement.

04/09/2020

Bunnybot Returns! Hunt The Eggs For Your Chance To Win

EDIT: This contest is now closed! Thanks to everyone who took part 😀

Find any of the Easter eggs hidden around our website and submit them to Bunnybot for your chance to win an awesome prize!

From April 9 until April 15, you have the chance to win your choice of $20 PayPal cash or $25 in Lyrical Host account credit simply by finding the Easter eggs hidden around our website!