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Getting to Know a User’s Intent For Better SEO | Digital Marketing
Identifying the intentions behind a user’s search intent can be incredibly difficult. Deciphering these, however, can have a huge impact on your search engine optimisation efforts and even increase the quality of your keyword research.
By Pending ....7 years ago in Journal
Setting Goals as a Creative Writer
The very existence of the word creative lends itself to flippant motivation and capricious inspiration. Like a library book, it lends itself out freely. It’s easy not to have a specific goal when you’re writing. It’s easy to go in, pen down a few lines, and not really have a plan for how you’re going to proceed or how you’re going to establish yourself as an author. But then inspiration disappears, motivation goes by way of the dodo, and then you’ve got
By Leigh Victoria Phan, MS, MFA7 years ago in Journal
5 Tips to Find and Transition to Your Dream Career
It's a terrible experience to show up every day to a job that you hate. It's discouraging to know that you have to spend at least forty hours each week for a job that feels pointless. Since your full-time job takes up a significant amount of your lifetime, it's so important to do something you love. It's important because you don't want to spend your life enduring a major component of your livelihood. However, it's not a great idea to jump without a definitive plan. Chances are you've stayed at your dead-end job because you need to earn money. This is an important and valid reason; however, it's not a good enough reason to spend your entire career in one bad job. In order to find fulfillment in your work and do what you love, you'll have to make some moves first. Consider these five tips to get started.
By Paisley Hansen7 years ago in Journal
Writing Villains
A hero in the story can only be glorified if he battles a convincing and strong villain. Villains usually are the archetype of fiction that embody the fear, evils, loss, anger and darkness of the society. Another sinister feature of the villain is that he carries a kind of mysterious aura around him. Two very common sentiments towards these characters are fear and hate, which could well be transferred from the fictional world into the mind of the reader outside in the real world.
By Aarushi Shetty7 years ago in Journal
My Anxiety
Before I really break down everything, I just wanted to say. I never really understood why or how someone who is cheated on would stay or get back together with the person who cheated. I always said, they must have something wrong with them if they are willing to accept that person doing that and forgiving them.
By Shaun mader7 years ago in Journal
Working as a Waitress
As a teenager in high school, this is probably one of the best jobs you could work part-time. Personally, I only worked the weekend and always made around $250 to $300 (of course it varies by area, restaurant popularity, etc.). My experience working as a waitress for a year was a roller coaster. At the beginning everything was amazing, I worked at a Thai restaurant, and of course it took me a while to learn the food, training was about two weeks long, but I had to be there every day for eight hours (I started over summer break). And after training you never stop learning: How to serve, what to look for, customer service, and how to handle specific situations and customers. When I started off I was shy, but I knew I had a job to do, so it is very important to always be loud and clear when taking orders. How this restaurant functioned is that all the waiters get half the tips on every table, so all the waiters don't just concentrate on one section, they do what has to be done. Communication is a big part, letting your fellow coworkers know what tables were attended to, what they got, and what needs to be done helps ensure a great job is done, increase productivity, and most of all it helps the customers have the best dining experience; for example, letting your other fellow waiters know about tables you checked helps ensure they don't check them again in such a short time frame, thus preventing the customers from being annoyed (this is referring to how the specific restaurant I worked in functioned). Working as a waitress, in my opinion, is one of the best jobs that provide quality customer service experience—take it as if everyone that walks in through that door is literally your boss, they are paying you.
By Andrea Hernandez7 years ago in Journal
A Month of Literary Insanity
National Novel Writing Month is not for the faint of hand, but it's an incredible writing challenge. Writing a novel in thirty days is insanity. It’s pure literary madness. However, it teaches you to explore your limits and no matter what anyone says, it’s a solid way to get your first draft down.
By Leigh Victoria Phan, MS, MFA7 years ago in Journal
Failure Doesn't Mean Getting a City Job
Amazing three months working at/with WWE came to a crashing halt on October 30, 2018. I was discharged over a three-day span of “inaccuracies” of logging the WWE programming. I worked on WWE Network version 2.0 that should be out in a six month time frame. It was tough, and I thought about the events that unfolded and moved on. It was for the best. Dwelling on the past doesn’t help the amount of leaps to propel into future.
By Marie Shadows7 years ago in Journal
