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Can Twitter’s Ditch of Suggested Users Hurt Bloggers?
Blogging Twitter CEO Biz Stone has recently announced that the company will definitely be getting rid of the Suggested Users List, which may have a long term effect on bloggers that use Twitter to gain traction or network on the microblogging site. The Suggested Users List is a feature on the site that provides basic recommendations to new users. The “SUL” has been a topic of heated discussion because of its ability to influence new ...
Continue readingTips for Writing a Search Engine-Friendly Introductory Paragraph
Blogging Your introductory paragraph is the second thing people read in your article, after the title. This intro paragraph, combined with the title, sets the tone of your article and contains the information that will pull readers in or scare them away. Your intro paragraph does so by including descriptive words and phrases that highlight the main points of your article and get the attention of search engines for SEO purposes. It is important to keep ...
Continue readingWriting Blog Titles for News Aggregators and Search Engines
Blogging Your title and introduction paragraph are two of the most important aspects of your article. These are the major opportunities you have to lure the readers, as well as the search engines. Use this to your advantage in order to make the most out of your articles and gain the attention you desire. When it comes to blogs, your content is likely to be shared on various media websites and aggregation services. Those that frequent these other sites ...
Continue readingCan the New Google Friend Connect Help Your Blog?
Blogging Google Friend Connect has emerged with a handful of new features today, making it easier for site publishers to gather data on their visitors and relate back to site visitors once they’ve left the site. Additionally, the updated Google Friend Connect will provide more ways in which site visitors can connect with each other, as long as they’re registered and participating Google users. As a blogger, the added ability to connect with your site ...
Continue readingYour Content, Their Content, and Using Both to Promote Your Blog
Blogging Relating your blog back to current events is something that will help your blog gain traction, for a few different reasons. I covered some of these reasons in earlier posts on BloggingTips, but they all were regarding the selection of a topic prior to writing an article. What about after writing an article? Oftentimes an article you have written coincidentally pertains to something you see in the news. For instance, an article you have written ...
Continue readingBlog Promotion: Twitter vs. Facebook
Blogging Twitter lists have introduced the promise of a new option for promoting your blog on Twitter. But what about Facebook lists? Facebook and Twitter have been the two major contenders for promoting one’s brand across the social web, so how do the two stack up against each other when it comes to the promotion of your blog? Ease of Use One consideration towards choosing which social media outlet is best for you is how easily you can use each ...
Continue readingUsing Twitter Lists to Promote Your Blog
Blogging Twitter released a beta version of a new feature called lists this month, introducing a highly anticipated feature for many Twitter users. The lists are easier ways in which to organize Twitter content and users, presenting bloggers with some new and unique ways in which they can use Twitter to promote their online publication. Twitter, already a heavily populated marketing channel for bloggers and large brands alike, has been slow to add too ...
Continue readingHow Twitter Can Improve Your Blog, Before You Blog.
Blogging Earlier this week I wrote about the importance of choosing a good motif for your blog. Today, I would like to follow up by discussing a few pointers on selecting that motif for your blog. It is important to have a good motif for your blog because it goes hand in hand with the branding of your online publication. Such an integrated aspect of your blog has an impact on your audience’s ability to recognize your content and more readily become ...
Continue readingHot Topic: The Calling Card for Your Blog
Blogging Choosing a motif for your blog may be one of the most important things you do prior to its launch. If you take the time to really think through the concept of your blog before you get started, a lot of things will be able to better take shape around your blog once you have taken the dive. I find the selection of a blog motif to be particularly important as it sets the stage for everything you do with your blog later on down the line. Your blog ...
Continue readingStop Using Adjectives.
Writing Adjectives are great little words. They are necessary tools for describing the object of your sentence. Yet some writers can get carried away with their use of adjectives. It is an easy trap to fall into, as adjectives seem o convey your message more than anything else. However, your sentence structure, conciseness and ability to be descriptive in a very directed manner will do more for your message than a string of adjectives. I have already ...
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