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How To Boost Your Site Traffic Through Social Media
Around The Blogosphere, Blogger, Blogging, Internet News, Making Money, Personal, Productivity, Promote your blog, Social Media, Social Networking, Video Blogging, WordPress, Writing Improving website visitors by means of social networking is getting extremely popular nowadays. It is noticed that a great portion of the website traffic that sites are having are because of individuals visiting the social media websites. Several large companies are going to web 2. 0 marketing not just due to the reputation that social networking are having but also with the ease that people can socialize with them as well. This pattern also ...
Continue readingGetting The Most Out of Your Content
Writing If you’re like most bloggers or marketers you probably use a lot of content each month, either by writing it yourself or hiring a writer. Are you getting as many miles out of your content as you can? Here are a few tips to maximize your exposure and your content. Share it! More than likely you have your blog set up to tweet your new posts, but do you go back periodically and tweet it again? You don’t have to stop at sharing it once, ...
Continue reading5 Lesser-Known Sources for Free, Legal Content
Blogging The desire for free content is an understandable one. Sometimes bloggers don’t want to or don’t have the time to hammer out a post or need images to go along with one already written. Though most bloggers are aware of Creative Commons Licenses and know they can search for CC images on Flickr. Others are well aware of the StockXchng as a good free stock photo library as well as sites like Articlesbase for free posts for your site. But ...
Continue readingSEO Keywords and Phrases
Search Engine Optimisation Today, as a guest blogger for Kevin, I would like to touch on Search engine keywords and phrases. As a freelance writer and ghostwriter, I write an average of sixty to eighty SEO (Search Engine Optimization) articles and/or blogs each week, sometimes more, depending on which companies have hired me and for what purpose. Often, the articles are to promote the company that hired me through SEO keywords and phrases, which are then placed in article ...
Continue readingGet Free News Images from PicApp
Blogging Last week I discussed Photo Dropper, a powerful WordPress plugin that lets you search Creative Commons-licensed images on Flickr and embed them directly into your posts, complete with correct attribution. But while Photo Dropper is great for a general image search where the photo doesn’t have to be timely, blogs covering news, celebrity gossip, etc. will be hard pressed to find anything of use in Flickr. Flickr tends to favor creative and ...
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 readingBloggers Commitment to Content
Blogging Put a dozen successful bloggers in a room, and in short order the debates will begin over the thorny issues of the blogosphere. Are partial feeds evil? How should comments be moderated (if at all)? Do tags matter? And so on. In fact, you’ll find that there are few things that experienced bloggers universally agree on. One of the rare items that would be largely undisputed among this group is that authors should be committed to providing ...
Continue readingBlog Orientation: Make Your Blog New-Reader Friendly
Blogging Is your blog new-reader friendly? If you’re promoting your blog, you’ll attract a constant stream of new readers. You need to make these newcomers comfortable. Welcome your newbies. Get them up to speed on the subject of your blog, and help them to become regular readers. Here are five ways to help your newbies: 1. Add orientation posts to your About page Your About page is your primary tool to orient newcomers. In addition to ...
Continue readingFour Ways to Creatively Promote your Blog by Writing Articles: get Links, get Known
Promote your blog “Article marketing” is a way of promoting your blog by writing articles for popular article directories. Writing a series of articles for others gives you links to your blog. It also helps you to become known in your niche, so that your blog gains credibility. While article marketing is not as effective as it once was, it’s still a viable marketing tool. And if you think creatively, you can use article marketing to powerful ...
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Are You Doing Any of these Self-Defeating Actions in your Blogging?
Blogging Sometimes we do things because we want to achieve a particular objective, only we come to find out later that what we were doing had the opposite effect from what we wanted. We didn’t know until it was too late. And sometimes, we even know that what we’re doing isn’t good, but we justify it to ourselves by saying we’ll get what we want… Except that we don’t. We hurt ourselves, our visitors, our reputations, ...
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