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6 Reasons why KDP is Better than Payhip for Authors

Are you struggling in deciding between KDP and Payhip for your book selling? The short answer for you is KDP. This article will tell you why KDP is more appropriate for a writer, ebook writers, than Payhip. Well, another reader may be asking "what is your position to say so?" No problem. I have experiences in using both for a long period so I have a good position to inform you about this. Defining KDP and Payhip KDP KDP, as you may have known, stands for Kindle Direct Publishing. It is the Amazon e-book self-publishing platform that was launched in November 2007. It helps independent publishers to publish and sell their e-books and paperbacks to the world. KDP does not publish and selll all submitted books, by the way. The submissions will be reviewed for at least 24-72 hours before they are decided whether to publish or not. All books published and sold with KDP are charged from $0.09 to $200.00, depends on the length, size, and type of the book. To put it ano...

How to Write a Good Article for a Blog

How to write a good article for a blog - What is a good article? What makes a good article? These were some questions that many beginner bloggers asked and therefore we are going to address some writing approaches to help you write a good article for your blog. How to Write a Good Article for your Blog Every article has at least two aspects that the author must pay attention to, the form aspect and the content aspect. The form aspects of an article include vocabulary, grammatical structure, and organization of ideas. Meanwhile, the content aspect of an article includes ideas with a certain depth and breadth. If these two aspects of the article can be guaranteed by the author, then the article can be called a good article. What is a good article to write about? In 2021, to write a good article, you not only need to have good writing skills. You also need the ability to choose what topics you should write about. Of course, if you have a blog, you must ch...

How to Get Google Index your Site

How to have Google index your site - Google Index , as cited in Google Help Center , is similar to an index in a library. The Google index lists all of the webpage that Google knows about. In other words, Google index is about introducing your new blog or site to Google so that your blog can be found, crawled, and indexed by Google. Without being indexed by Google, your blog will not be shown in the Google Search Engine Result Page (SERP). I had Google index my sites including this blog. In order to check whether my blog is indexed by Google, I usually type site:https://writingnblogging.blogspot.com in the Google search box. This is a tips for you if you want to apply Google index checker. You will see a list of search result if your blog has been indexed by Google. So, how can you have Google index your site? It is very easy. As we have discussed in the other post How to Prepare your Blog in Blogger the Right Way , to have Google index your site or blog you...

Three Top Article Types You should Write on your Blog

Three top article types you should write on your blog - Sometimes, writing and blogging are synonymous. Whether you are blogging about technology or healthcare, you must dedicate your time to write and hone your writing skill. However, many bloggers, especially beginner bloggers, found it difficult to decide what topic they should write for their blogs. Therefore, in today's article, we present to you three top article types that you should write on your blog . It is impractical to describe a comprehensive list of blog categories and relevant topics to write according to each category. As we don't know what your blog niche is, we are not trying to play a guessing game. What we are trying to show you is that almost all blog niche shares some topics. For example, a how-to article is a relevant topic to almost all blog niches. Three Top Article Types You should Write on Your Blog Descriptive Article One of your blogging purpose...

Four Basic Exercises to Improve Writing Skill

This article discusses four basic writing exercises to improve your writing skill because question like "how can I improve my writing skill?" is important to be answered, especially for bloggers. Why is it important? Some people spent time in front of their notebooks and knew nothing to write. It's not that they didn't know how to write but had no idea of what to write about. This can even happen to professional writers. When I was in my master's program, I saw my professor sat in front of his laptop and the keyboard didn't sound. He had written many books and articles and knowing that confused me of what I was seeing. He told me that even a professional public speaker would sit in silence if there is nothing in his mind to say. It happens to writers as well. There are two difficulties that people often deal with in their writing. The first difficulty deals with the lack of idea and the second difficulty relates to the lack of skill. Prof...

How to Make Blog using Blogger the Correctly

How to make blog on blogger the right way - Creating a blog using Blogger is very easy and all you need is an active Gmail account. That is what people said and there is a truth in the sentence. Yes, it is easy if you just want to do basic blogging like create a blog to write your stories, but if you have higher purposes that you want to achieve through blogging like introducing and promoting your platform or brand, making your ideas reachable to people in every corner of the world, keeping your visitors returning to your blog, and avoiding your blog from stopping in the middle of your blogging journey, only having an active Gmail account is not enough. There is a huge difference between basic blogging like taking an empty book to write your story and building a company that people and you can take benefits from. Creating a blog should be seen as building a company. A basic blogging tips that we can say, well-structured plan execution is required. This article is writte...

Introduction to Writing

Writing is one of the four language skills required by human beings to use language as a mean of communication in various levels. Whether you are a passionate writer or student, understanding writing is important although in the writing practice you may not need to recall what it is. Writing as a Language Skill Language has four main skills, namely listening, speaking, reading, and writing. These four skills are further divided into two sub-skills that cover (1) productive-receptive skill and (2) natural-non-natural skill. Productive skills are skills required to produce language (sentence, utterance, paragraph, and so on) and this includes speaking and writing. Receptive skills are skills required to receive language and this includes listening and writing. Natural skills are skills that are natural to human and this includes speaking and listening. Non-natural skills are skills that are not natural to human so that human must deliberately practice to ma...