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How to repurpose blog content for social media with Dan and Sami at a tropical tiki content stand, serving a blog post and smaller plates for Instagram posts, Pinterest pins, short videos, email tips, and Facebook posts.
  • Blogging Fundamentals
  • Dan Swords
  • July 11, 2026

How to Repurpose Blog Content for Social Media as a Silver Creator

You spent hours writing, editing, and polishing your new blog post. You hit publish and sent it out into the world, but your job isn’t done yet; now you need a simple way to repurpose blog content for social media…

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Dan and Sami digging in a garden for blog post ideas, with Dan holding a gem card labeled Problem I Solved and Sami finding one labeled Series Idea
  • Blogging Fundamentals
  • Dan Swords
  • July 4, 2026

Simple Blog Post Ideas When You Feel Stuck

Sometimes the hardest part of blogging is not writing the post. It is deciding what the post should be about. That’s why you need simple blog post ideas you can use when you feel stuck. Every blogger has been there,…

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Dan & Sami showing how to create a content calendar with a four-week blog planning layout built in the sand on a tropical beach.
  • Blogging Strategy & Growth
  • Dan Swords
  • June 27, 2026

How to Create a Content Calendar: 4 Easy Steps

Staring at a blank screen and wondering what you’re going to write about this week’s post is frustrating. I’ve been there, done that. That is why learning how to create a content calendar can make blogging easier, especially when you…

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Dan and Sami at a desk with a laptop, phone, microphone, tripod, notebook, and design tools under the title Content Creation Tools for Beginners.
  • Content Creation Over 50
  • Dan Swords
  • June 20, 2026

Content Creation After 50: The Tools You Actually Need

If you are a senior or retiree looking to get into content creation after 50, the sheer number of tool options can feel completely overwhelming. Cameras. Microphones. Editing apps. Oh, My!Website platforms. Design software. Social media schedulers. Keyword tools. Lighting…

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Dan and Sami sit at a desk with blog plans, story sketches, and creative notes while working on a new website direction using AI as a creative tool.
  • Building the Dream
  • Dan Swords
  • June 13, 2026

Why I’m Changing My Website Direction and Using AI as a Creative Tool

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…

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Dan and Sami stand beside a whiteboard showing how blog content can be turned into Pinterest pins that drive Pinterest traffic back to a website.
  • Building the Dream
  • Dan Swords
  • June 10, 2026

Why I’m Choosing to Focus More on Pinterest Traffic

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…

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Dan opens large double doors labeled danswords.com while Sami runs ahead, with Pinterest and Backlinks signs showing ways to drive more traffic to the website.
  • Blogging Strategy & Growth
  • Dan Swords
  • June 6, 2026

How I’m Planning to Drive More Traffic to My Website

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…

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Dan walks with Sami through a colorful landscape of H1, H2, and H3 heading tags, showing how headings structure a blog post.
  • Blogging Fundamentals
  • Dan Swords
  • May 30, 2026

H1 H2 H3 Tags: The Simple Way to Structure a Blog Post

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…

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Illustration of Sami wearing a paint-stained smock while sculpting Dan in The Thinker pose for a post about featured images.
  • Building the Dream
  • Dan Swords
  • May 27, 2026

The Thinker, the Puggle, and the Evolution of My Featured Images

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.…

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