NerdSpan Style Guide: Tags

| December 26, 2012

Tags affect your SEO. Search engines these days don’t rely on tags as much as many people think they do, but they do still matter. Capitalize words correctly. Only use tags that are logically related to your post. Don’t use irrelevant tags – e.g., don’t include a “Justin Bieber” tag unless you talked about Justin Bieber. Help readers who would really be interested in your material discover it.

NerdSpan Style Guide: Bios

| December 10, 2012

Your bio should probably be three or four sentences long, but not a whole essay that your readers will get tired of seeing every time they read one of your articles. Sentences! Don’t just list bits and pieces of information, at least not until the end of your bio. Write it in third person. Overuse of first person is too blog-like. End the bio with contact info [...]

NerdSpan Style Guide: Images

| December 1, 2012

Every article needs at least one image. A square image makes the best thumbnail, although a cinematic image tends to look better at the top of the article. Credit the source. Resize images. Do not copy and paste. Do not violate copyright. Promotional images are great. A screen capture is fine for illustrative purpose if it comes from a legal copy of the material.