Blog Shop Talk

Conventional Wisdom’s Answer to Is Social Media Worth the Effort Is social media worth the effort? I see that many of you follow the same advice I followed: I posted links to each of my new posts on the major social media platforms, including Blusky, Facebook, Mastodon/sakurajima.moe, Pinterest, and Twitter. Given the ruckus over many […]

Why Listen to Me about the Steps to SEO? Look at that title! Sounds all authoritative and stuff. Sounds like I’m trying to be an expert or something! With all the real experts like Neil Patel in the world, why would you want to listen to my advice? Why would you want to use my […]

A Feature for Bloggers and Readers My Blog Shop Talk series looks at our craft — how we write and promote our posts. In this case, it’s all about promoting your sites. As an anime blogger, I think it’s important to support the community whenever I can. One of the ways I do that is […]

Recovering from a Hacked WordPress Site Have you ever had to recover from a WordPress hack? I’ve worked with a lot of people who have. It’s terrifying if a malicious actor damages your site. Your site represents hours and hours of your work. It represents your relationship to your members. You’re going to be anxious […]

Automating Blog Tasks – Bring All Your Skills to the Table Every week, I publish my top five favorite posts from other bloggers. It’s a feature I call Other Posts to Crow About. My goal is to draw attention to posts my readers might like, but from blogs other than mine. I wrote a post […]

Connecting Readers to Series They’d Like At the risk of stating the obvious, Crow’s World of Anime publishes a lot of reviews. Each season, I follow several new shows one older series. At the end of the season, I publish an episode guide for each series reviewed.  That’s all well and good. But how do […]

Gutenberg, Not a Word Processor What real editors should we use with Gutenberg? In my previous post in this series, “Gutenberg Doesn’t Suck as an Editor – Because It’s Not An Editor!,” I made what I think is a straight-forward observation: Gutenberg has caused so much heart-burn among creative writers precisely because it’s not designed […]