Happy Friday everyone!

Welcome to another weekly round-up post from our ever-growing community of bloggers, writers, vloggers, podcasters, and other fellow content creators. Each and every week we hand-pick five top posts from a pool of the highest voted user-submitted/created posts in the community and include them in this weekly listicle blog post, along with the newsletter for all of our blog subscribers.

Here are this week’s (Feb 17 – Feb 23, 2018) most valuable posts from the /t/BES content creators community:

1. What All of My Failed Blogs Have Taught Me
“I started my first blog when I was 13 years old (Xanga anyone?). “Blogging” wasn’t a really a thing, but it was fun to connect with people on the internet. In the 13 years since then, I started five blogs. I also abandoned…”

2. The Google Ranking Factor You Can Influence in an Afternoon
“What does Google consider “quality content”? And how do you capitalize on a seemingly subjective characteristic to improve your standing in search? We’ve been trying to figure this out since the Hummingbird algorithm…”

3. Anger at Google Image Search ‘Peace Deal’
“In 2017, Getty Images complained to the European Commission, accusing Google of anti-competitive practices. Google said it had removed some features from image search, including the “view image” button…”

4. Small b blogging
“There’s an idea that starting a blog is harder than it used to be. That there used to be a way to write a few words, slap it online and wait for the traffic to roll in. I call BS. It’s not that it’s not true exactly – but that kind of thinking…”

5. 7 Ironclad Reasons to Start a Podcast
“Look, I get it… You hate the sound of your own voice. You’re unfamiliar with the tech. And you feel much more comfortable typing than you do talking into a mic. So you may feel hesitant to start your own podcast. Maybe you…”

That’s all folks! You can view all the rest of the community’s top submissions (11 more) here.

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