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Tagging = Social Bookmarking Success
Promote your blog Tagging used to refer just to the tags that you placed in your web site’s HTML to indicate certain types of formatting or commands. Tagging today often refers to something entirely different. When you hear the terms “tagged” or “tagging” in conversation today, it could very well refer to a phenomenon called social bookmarking. Social bookmarking is a way for Internet users to store, share, classify, and search Internet bookmarks. There ...
Continue readingTen Simple Tips for Successful Blogging
Blogging Most successful bloggers can offer some tips for successful blogging. Some people develop methods based on experience. Others simply offer what they’ve been told—like post often, link often, and be yourself. What follows are my ten tips for achieving a popular and successful blog within your industry, whatever it may be. Be Real Knowing yourself and your audience are extremely important aspects of successful blogging. Too many bloggers start ...
Continue readingWriting Great PPC Ads
Promote your blog What separates a good ad from a bad ad? – essentially an ad that makes money for the advertiser vs. one that takes money and drags you down and eventually puts you out of business. Below you will find the tips and core requirements for writing a great pay-per-click ad. Creating an ad and creating a great ad are not the same thing, though. Anyone can create an ad. And in some instances, that ad will work just fine for whatever purpose it ...
Continue readingBoosting your blog with better content
Blogging As you think about ways to generate buzz around your blog, you can also improve the quality of your blog by focusing on your posting techniques. These tips may give you some good promotion ideas: Post about current or controversial issues. This idea seems like a nobrainer, but it’s an easy one to forget. Pay attention to the news, and watch for events and issues that are of interest to your readers. When you find one, create a post or series ...
Continue readingBlogging To Close Sales
Blogging Most of the bloggers i know who are experiencing success promoting products or services don’t embrace the “hard sell” approach. Many of these people would chafe at the notion of actively trying to manipulate visitors, and would rather just focus on creating quality content that gets noticed. Whilst i agree posts are great for driving traffic and credibility, sales will certainly be enhanced if you have a strategy for dealing ...
Continue readingDefining The Conversation
Blogging While fostering conversation is one compelling reason to begin a blog, it should be recognized that bloggers have the ability to define the discussion and steer the dialogat least on their own sites. Beyond that, it can be argued that they have a responsibility to their readers to make sure contributions by others add value and insight to the online conversation. Not everyone agrees with the idea of moderation and filtering of comments. Some ...
Continue readingSEO, SMO – Whats The Difference?
Promote your blog In short, everything. Social-media optimization is not at all like search-engine optimization, though it should be part of your overall optimization strategy. Instead of adding keywords in the right places, tweaking your meta tags, and digging up the right balance of links, you’re doing something different — creating relationships, generating content, and tagging the Web. Don’t sell it short. The value of social media has already been ...
Continue readingHow Does Content Affect SEO?
Writing The catch with web content is that is must be fresh and original to be most effective. If it’s not, the content can do more harm than good. Content is the one element that can keep customers coming back to your site time and again. When customers return often, your site ranking improves, because the traffic registers the site with search crawlers as a valid and in-demand site. When your content stinks, though, your site is headed in the ...
Continue readingBeyond Stickiness: Nine Magnetic Ways to Keep ‘em Coming Back for More Pt.2
Promote your blog As we discussed yesterday, you have three seconds to hook visitors on your website. Snap, snap, snap – and they are gone. Without further adu, lets jump right into the following methods of increasing stickiness on your website. Make Your E Mail Communications Valuable but Not Too Valuable As the barrage of e-mail communications (e-zines, tip of the week, etc.) escalates it is absolutely critical that you differentiate your ...
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Blogging As you set up your first blog, you’ll need to decide how you’ll want to manage the comments that come in. As most experienced bloggers have learned, an open “anything goes” policy has some significant drawbacks. One of the main reasons you’ll want to monitor and filter comments is to combat comment spam, which has become a significant problem for bloggers. Comment spammers use automated Web “robots” that ...
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