This website started as a teaching tool for blogging and social media, but I’m changing direction and using AI as a creative tool to help me create the stories, images, comics, and projects I actually enjoy making. In the early…
For a long time, when I thought about search traffic, I mostly thought about Google. That makes sense. Google is still the big one. If you run a website, you want Google to understand your content, index your posts, and…
If I want to drive more traffic to my website, I can’t just keep publishing posts and hope people magically show up. That is the part I’m working on now. For a while, I thought if I kept writing great…
H1 H2 H3 tags may sound technical, but they are really just the structure of your blog post. Think of them as the signs that guide your reader through the page. When you use headings the right way, your post…
I was just trying to make better featured images, but accidently ended up creating a visual brand for danswords.com. At first, I used stock photos. They were high-quality images, and they worked fine for what I needed at the time.…
Featured images do more than decorate a blog post. They create the first impression, set the tone, and give readers a reason to stop scrolling. When I started building danswords.com, I thought featured images were just something I needed to…
Starting a blog after 50 has taught me more than I expected. I started this blogging journey 13+ years ago. And today, I’m still working to prefect my craft. And honestly, I think that’s pretty cool. So welcome to another…
Starting a blog after 50 can feel intimidating at first. It’s easy to look at social media and think the internet belongs to the younger creators who grew up with YouTube, Instagram, and smartphones in their hands. But that’s not…
It’s late in the evening on Saturday. I have a bunch of stuff to do. If I skip this, no one will notice. But I will. There will be a hole in my posts. There are so many things on…