One of the most disheartening things that can happen to entrepreneurs and content creators goes a little like this:

You pour your heart and soul into something, really working hard to make it into the best possible thing it can be.

You release it into the world, excited for people to find it. You just know that they’ll love it.

Except nobody ever does. Instead, everyone flocks to a competitor, to someone who clearly didn’t invest in much time and effort as you did.

Why is that?

It hurts to say it, but a good product with great marketing, will always be out a great product that isn’t marketed well.

The product is important, but in today’s busy world, the marketing is even more important.

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When choosing a niche or simply measuring your business progress, it’s easy to focus on your total audience size.

We all want to have as big of an audience as possible. We see websites with hundreds of thousands or even millions of visitors and think,

“Why couldn’t that be me? What am I doing wrong? My content is a lot better then theirs, and look how successful they are!”

This is a dangerous way to think, and can set you up for the wrong targets.

The reality is, it is possible to make 10x the income with an audience a fraction of the size, and it’s dependent on several different factors.

Let’s look over some of these now, and prove that audience size – for the most part, doesn’t matter when it comes to online business success.

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When running a WordPress blog, it’s a good idea to show excepts instead of full posts on your home page, category pages, and archive pages.

The benefits are numerous – not only does it make it easier for visitors to find the content they’re looking for, but it decreases page loading times, prevents duplicate content issues with Google, and improves your website’s overall SEO.

But how is this actually done?

If your blog is currently showing the full content of each article, don’t worry – showing post excerpts is quite easy, and should only take a few steps.

Let’s look into how to show post excerpts on your important WordPress pages.

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