Monday, October 24, 2011

Blogging Turns Social Networking into Business Networking

While millions of people are doing business every day on social networking sites, some business owners are reluctant to spend much time there because they don't think it's a valid business activity. By Denise Wakeman

BlogWorld LA: Optimize & Socialize For Better Business Blogging

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Optimize and Socialize for Better Business Blogging by Lee Odden

The Picasso Guide to Becoming a Social Media Legend

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During his career he was loved, hated, admired, dissed, fought over … but never ignored. His name? Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y … Picasso. By Copyblogger

How to Write a Blog Post Like a Troublemaker with a Heart of Gold

In a world overflowing with bloggers, there’s the type of troublemaker you love and the type of troublemaker you hate. By ProBlogger

Make Your Blog the Event of the Year (and have People Clamor to Attend)

Great ideas to promote your blog. By ProBlogger

My 3-Step System for Finding Guest Post Opportunities

Tired of haphazardly, randomly struggling to find guest blogging opportunities? Or finding yourself stressed to the max because you’re unable to locate your next guest-post goal for the month? You’re not alone. Most bloggers don’t know where or how to search properly, and if they’re trying to search at all, generally end up with dead-end leads. By ProBlogger

How to Use Blogging as a Job Search Tool

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Blogging is not just writing your personal notebook these days: it’s a truly open platform where people share their ideas, passion, goals, and thoughts on subjects they care about. Gone are the days when people would consider blogs “a personal affair.” The scene has long since changed. By ProBlogger

Friday, September 30, 2011

The Secret to Getting More Traffic to Your Blog

Every new blogger today is on the lookout for new ways to get traffic to their blogs but very few of them actually get results from the tips they read from other blogs. By Blogging Tips

5 Places to Generate Enough Content Ideas

The reality of blogging is that to be able to build a successful blog you need content, and you need a lot of it.


It doesn’t matter what format your content takes, you need to work on ensuring you have an endless source of content ideas to help you run your blog and market it outside your field. By Blogging Tips

Distinguish Yourself Among Bloggers

 
There’s no way to get around it: if you’re looking to become a pro blogger, you’ve got some pretty tough competition. Even bloggers who write on supposedly “niche” subjects face opposition from similarly themed blogs. By Blogging Tips

Is it Really all about Your Content?

When it comes to “content being king” you need to know that the phrase “content is king” isn’t as conclusive as it seems. In fact, that statement can be very confusing and deceitful that it has made a lot of new bloggers quit because they can’t just get their “great content” to work for them. By Blogging Tips

Is Quality Content the Key to Blogging Success?

Or is valuable content more important than the quality? If you don’t feel like your writing skills are up to par you can implement video into your content planning. By Blogging Tips

Blogging Tips That Can Help You Become Successful

For many people, blogging represents a steady source of income. However, this activity can easily bring along not only a nice monthly income but also a great reputation. By Blogging Tips

The Importance Of Scheduling Your Blog Posts

 The Importance Of Scheduling Your Blog Posts
One of the most important responsibilities of running a popular blog is scheduling posts. This is particularly true for blogs in which the blog owner doesn’t write every day themselves. That is, they just need to organize the articles written by staff and guest posters. By Blogging Tips

5 Ways to Improve Your Writing and Become a Better Blogger

When it comes to being a better blogger and building a successful blog it is important for you to realize that your communications skills matter a lot. Working on improving your writing as a blogger can result in great rewards for you since writing is one of the major modes of communication for bloggers. By Blogging Tips

You Can’t Wow Them Until You Whoa Them; Writing Headlines

Do you suck at writing headlines? Does it seem like you can’t get your blog posts read? Maybe it’s your headline. You want the headline to stop them from skim reading so you can wow them with your content. By Blogging Tips

Key Concepts in Blog Marketing Strategy


Blog marketing has emerged as a great way to promote online businesses. While new concepts on blog marketing are evolving every day, there are few strategies that have been time tested and proven worthy. By Blogging Tips

The One Element Your Entire Blog Marketing Campaign is Subject To

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If you’re a new blogger, you’ve probably read a lot of articles online, and you read them all with hopes of achieving great results soon. After a few days, or weeks, of marketing your blog without getting results you come up with the conclusion that the tactic you used doesn’t work.

Have you ever thought about the possibility of the tactic working, but just one element missing? By Blogging Tips

Simple Tips to Avoid Information Overload

If you’re a new blogger you may be a bit confused by all of the information out there telling you how to set up, run and monetize your blog. You need to learn list building, traffic generation, SEO, email marketing, and a host of other things you should be doing. By Blogging Tips

Internet Broadcasting is the Next Big Wave

Also known as podcasting, internet broadcasting is much bigger than the term “podcasting”. Certainly, many of the blogs are adding their very own show. By Blogussion

Taking Your Blog Mobile: A Basic Guide

Has your blog gone mobile yet? I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but ever since smartphones were introduced, mobile web browsing has exploded. More and more people are visiting your site on their phones, and you may not be prepared to satisfy them with a great experience. By Blogussion

3 Simple Ways to Make Money Blogging Without Selling Out


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Over the past several years, blogging has become a new source for generating money online. Early on it was a major focus on creating web sites and e-commerce platforms. By Blogussion

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Enhance your Blogging Experience with Select Bowser Add-ons and

Bloggers know that running a blog is not a simple task: it takes a lot of time and effort to ensure that your blog is constantly updated with valuable and unique content and that it’s aesthetically pleasing—aesthetics play a huge role in attracting a strong audience; and as many bloggers may already know, without a strong audience it’s very difficult to earn revenue from your blog(s). By Technotip

New dynamic view from Blogger

Built with the latest in web technology (AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3), Dynamic Views is a unique browsing experience that will inspire your readers to explore your blog in new ways. The interactive layouts make it easier for readers to enjoy and discover your posts, loading 40 percent faster than traditional templates and bringing older entries to the surface so they seem fresh again. By Rick Klau

Your Lesson Today is on Blog Tags

Your Lesson Today is on Blog Tags

Some great suggestions on how and when to place tags on your blog posts. By BlogBloke

5 Ways To Monetize Your Blog Without Banner Ads

The reason is simple, banners don’t necessarily portray credibility. With all the unscrupulous acts online, one has to be very careful and ensure your hard earned cash isn’t diverted. By Marko Saric

7 Essential Tips for Creating Effective Video Blogs

So how do you create popular video blogs? This article outlines the seven most essential tips for creating effective video blogs for any niche. By Marko Saric

How to Choose What to Blog About

It’s probably the first question every blogger has to ask themselves. It comes before writing the first post, choosing the theme or even selecting your blogging platform: What is my blog going to be about? By BloggingPro

Why You Should Backup Your Blog

It would be nice if all bloggers had to worry about was coming up with the next great post.  But in a world of constant security threats, even WordPress blogs need to up backed up once in a while. By Performancing

Blog Checklist - 13 Things to Review Before You Hit Publish

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Do you ever hit the "publish" button for your new post then cringe because you see a mistake or missing word, or realize your forgot to add an image? By Denise Wakeman

Content Marketing Optimization: 8 Content Ideas for Business Blogs

Tips for business blogs. By Toprank

A Practical Strategy to Increase the Value of Your Blog

If valuations are based on earnings, it is obvious that earnings must increase if the value of your web property is to increase. Many online entrepreneurs take their time growing their web property organically, often on their own due to funding restrictions. By Problogger

7 Ways Interviews Can Skyrocket Blog Growth

Interviewing experts in your field is a gold mine waiting to be cashed in on, and it offers many benefits to the blogger. By Problogger

Principles of Effective Blog Design

The content of your blog is always more important than the design, but you need to woo people with your design first. You draw them in with design, and keep with content. By Problogger

Sunday, September 04, 2011

17 Tips to Get More Exposure for Your Blog Posts

The most significant challenge that bloggers face is attracting visitors. For new bloggers nothing can be more frustrating than trying to figure out how to get people to see the content that you’ve spent time preparing. By Vandelay Design

9 Reasons for Freelance Designers to Blog

For freelance designers blogging can serve many different purposes depending on where you are in your business and what direction you want to go. By Vandelay Design

Exposing Common Myths About Blogging

There is no shortage of content available on the topic of blogging, but many who are interested in the subject still have misconceptions about making money through a blog.  By Vandelay Design

Monday, August 08, 2011

Why You Should Add A Podcast To Your Blog

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While podcasting is much bigger than it was a few years ago, it’s still not as big as a could be. Many bloggers have yet to get into the art of podcasting. By Blogsessive

Optimizing your Blog for Google Panda

What is Panda all about? By Blogsessive

Best 3 Advanced Chrome Extensions To Manage a WordPress Blog

When it comes to choosing a web browser, Internet Explorer and Firefox tend to be two of the most popular. However, Google Chrome is now making its mark in the browser sector. Many people are enjoying the easy to navigate and simple Chrome features, though one problem has cropped up for bloggers. By Blogsessive

Use a Blog to Build Your Brand

Brand building is the only route to business success in the present global market scenario. Sales alone cannot make a business successful since they do not increase until the brand becomes a forceful tool that will launch the business into the big league. By Blogsessive

How to Choose a Blog Topic

Choosing a blog topic is the most important factor in having a successful, well-read blog post that attracts comments and attention. Here is how to choose a topic for your blog post. By Blogsessive

9 Plugins To Help You Optimize WordPress Performance

Time is more precious now than ever before and most people definitely have less of it (than ever before); so you want to be sure that your blog is optimized for maximum performance.

The best way to do this is through the use of plugins. By Blogging Tips

Sunday, August 07, 2011

7 Time Management Tips for Bloggers

Let’s face it, blogging takes a lot of effort. This is especially true for those of you who hold down a full time job, coach your son’s little league team, and are involved with your church on the weekends. Can blogging ultimately give you the freedom that you deserve? Absolutely Yes! By Blogging Your Passion

10 Best iPad Apps for Bloggers

Here's a listing of 10 apps for bloggers. By Blogging Your Passion

How To Add Adsense Ads to Your WordPress Blog

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Tips on adding Add Sense to Wordpress blogs. By Blogging Your Passion

How to Manage Multiple WordPress Blogs in One Dashboard

If you are like most bloggers these days, you have several interests and passions. Although when just starting out, it is recommended that you stick with one blog and put all your effort into getting it off the ground. By Blogging Your Passion

Productivity Tips for Bloggers

If you haven’t already figured it out, blogging can take a lot of work. Bloggers taking shortcuts for the sake of managing their time better. This is a bad strategy. You should never sacrifice quality for quantity. Blogging Your Passion

7 Habits of Successful Bloggers

The truth is there are more than 7 work tasks that you can get involved in when blogging. Unfortunately, many tasks do not contribute to your blog in any substantial way. Being able to drown out the noise and focus on the most important tasks is a great achievement in the life of any blogger. By Blogging Your Passion

How Do Bloggers Make Money?

Whenever someone is first introduced to the world of blogging, invariably the first question is “How do bloggers make money?” By Blogging Your Passion

Keyword strategy too

How best to determine keywords for your blog. By Blogging Your Passion

20 Different Blog Post Ideas

Ever sit down to write for your blog and you become hypnotized by the blinking cursor? Do you need some blog post ideas? Sometimes we just need some fresh ideas to get us started. By Blogging Your Passion

6 Steps to Creating a Simple Blog Business Plan

Some good tips on creating a business plan for your blog. By Blogging Your Passion

A Blog Traffic Strategy: Quality vs Quantity

When it comes to blogging, there are different mentalities around both the quantity of traffic and the quality of traffic. At different stages in a website’s development, we tend to focus on one or the other, but when we start a new blog, we primarily want to get traffic to it. By Problogger

Friday, August 05, 2011

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WordPress is the most popular blogging platform. It powers more than 50 million blogs including the majority of the greatest blogs online. Installing WordPress is a great start to a great blog. By How To Make My Blog

Want to post to Blogger from Google+?

Tip on how to post to Blogger with your Google+ account. By Rick Klau

Using Opinion Polls


Allowing people to contribute to your blog is a great way for you to establish that you are serious about what they think. There are a lot of different ways that you can allow people to contribute to your blog, and one of the best ways would be by using opinion polls. By BloggingPro

Ho to be a more productive blogger

At its core blogging is about sharing ideas and personal opinions. While bloggers may have ideas bouncing all over the place, a crucial choking point is trying to convey those ideas from our mind to paper. By DailyBlogTips

SEO 101: Beginner's guide

For many bloggers, SEO seems to be one of the hardest obstacles bloggers run into. By SEO 101

How Blogging Helped Me Keep My Sanity

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Life is not a walk in the park. There will always be times when we encounter problems and trials. By The Blog Herald

5 Legal Guides Every Blogger Should Read

With a slew of potential legal issues including copyright, defamation, trademark, privacy and much more, there are many ways a well-meaning blogger can find themselves being sued. By The Blog Herald

Thursday, August 04, 2011

14 blogs that even celebrities love to read!

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Celebrity blogging is one type of blogging that attracts lots and lots of attention if done right. Perez Hilton has been one of the biggest success stories not just in “celebrity blogging” but overall blogging industry. By Blog Design Studio

How To Clone A Blog (And Why)


Why is cloning a better, more automated way to go? By David Risley

Blogging Pitfalls: It’s Time to Kill the Popup (Again)

Popups: A single word that drives both fear and anger into the hearts of nearly all web surfers. By BloggingPro

Interact with Your Blog Audience Using Webinars


There is a growing trend in the blogging space, and that’s the movement towards webinars. The best way to describe a webinar is to think of a conference, but everyone is online and can watch the person’s computer screen that is holding the event. By Blogging Tips

Google+ Raises the Bar for Bloggers

Not to imply that every blog you write isn’t chocked full of relevant, well-written content, tailored for just the right audience, I’m sure it is, but understanding the real implications of Google+ should have you thinking twice before you hit any publish buttons. By Faye Armand

How Public Relations Can Avoid Failing at SEO

Our Online Marketing agency at TopRank has been providing practitioners in the Public Relations industry information and insight on Search Engine Optimization for nearly 10 years. By Online Marketing Blog

Bloggers, There’s More To Focusing Than You Think

Focus is a hot topic. Those who do it are always talking about how great it is. Focus helps us be productive, isolate problems, and change aspects of our lives. By DailyBlogTips

Sunday, July 31, 2011

5 DO’S and DON’T’S of On-page Optimization

On-page optimization forms an integral part of SEO. It can be visualized as a foundation of search engine optimization. By Bloggingpro

15 Awesome WordPress Home Pages

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WordPress, which was just released in version 3.2, has always been at the forefront of creative design and we continue to see many great WordPress designs. By Bloggingpro

Blogging Pitfalls: What You Need in Your Site’s Footer

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When it comes to blog design, most put the lion’s share of their effort on the area that “above the fold” or what appears on the screen before the user has done any scrolling. By Bloggingpro

11 WordPress Plugins For Travel Bloggers

Here are 11 awesome plugins that the travel blogger can use for their own blog. By Bloggingpro

How to Improve Your Blog’s Traffic

Everyone knows that it takes a lot of time and effort to create a good blog but there’s a big difference between having a good blog and having a great blog. By Bloggingpro

Blogging Pitfalls: Why You Can’t Hop From Platform to Platform

Bloggers love to argue about what is the best blogging platform. The simple truth is that every blogging platform is perfectly fine to run your blog. By Bloggingpro

15 Ways to Drive More Traffic to Your Blog

You hear a plethora of SEO’s and Internet Marketers claim that content is king. This is true to an extent, but the fact is a lot of people are more than capable of writing great content, but is great content alone enough? By Bloggingpro

PressWork, A Free HTML5 Drag & Drop Framework for WordPress

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When somebody uses the tagline PressWork is not only a framework… we’re setting the standards for premium themes too! on the paid WordPress themes section of their website, eyeballs are caught and we here at BloggingPro like to have a closer look at things. By Bloggingpro

How to Choose the Rights Business Model for Your Blog

If you work on your blog long enough and hard enough, at some point you’re probably going to want to earn at least some revenue from it. After all, though most bloggers get started out of fun or love, revenue is not only a powerful motivator but it also frees a blogger up to invest more time and energy into their site. By Bloggingpro

Blogging Pitfalls: How to Deal with Press Agents

If you build a blog with any reasonable size or status, you’re going to draw the attention of companies and their their public relations managers. By Bloggingpro

Try These 5 Analytics Tools For Your Blog

As a blog owner it’s very important to know who your visitors are, what they like, what they don’t like and what they’re looking for. It’s even more important to have what they’re looking for on your site so that you can keep them there as long as possible. By Bloggingpro

Why I’m Very Glad I Didn’t Spend Money on Advertising my Blog

When I first started blogging I knew the importance of traffic to the success of a blog. I knew it is traffic that results in sales, I knew it is traffic that converts into subscribers and I knew that the less traffic you have the slimmer your chances of success as a blogger. By Onibalusi Bamidele

Bring Your Blog to Life with a New WordPress Theme

As bloggers, we always want our blogs to look the best they can. While a custom designed blog theme is nearly always the best way to go, not all of us have the necessary funds to hire a design team to create our blogs. The next best option is to find a quality wordpress theme that fits your blog style. By Bloggingtips

Lazyscope – Your Twitter Stream Turned into an RSS Feed

Subscribe to any blog with Lazyscope.

Lazyscope is a desktop tool works kind of like a feed reader for your Twitter account. Along with reading tweets though, you can also use it to keep up with your favorite RSS feeds. It lets you import your Google Reader feeds and subscribe to other blogs as well.
By Bloggingtips

10 Ways to Pimp Your Blog

If you’ve been blogging for a little while now, you might be looking at how you can take the next step. To that end, this post offers 10 ways to “pimp” your blog, both in the sense of “tricking out” your blog to make it more attractive and more useful, and in the sense of pushing your blog to earn more readers, subscribers, and (hopefully) fans.
By Dustin Wax

Not all Your Blog Posts Will go Viral

As bloggers, the key to our success lies in our creativity and this creativity is hampered when it isn’t our sole focus. When you’re obsessed only with writing viral blog posts as a blogger you will find it difficult to focus on what really matters, which is delivering value to your audience. By DailyBlogTips

How to Be a More Productive Blogger

At its core blogging is about sharing ideas and personal opinions. While bloggers may have ideas bouncing all over the place, a crucial choking point is trying to convey those ideas from our mind to paper. By DailyBlogTips

6 Reasons Blogging is a Good First Business

The dream of becoming self-employed is the fuel that takes so many bloggers from the first few months of scraping for followers to the successful later years of making a comfortable income. But what is it about blogging in particular that makes it such a great option for first-time entrepreneurs? By DailyBlogTips

The Steven Spielberg Method: How to Write More Blog Posts In Less Time

In a recent interview, Steven Spielberg, the famous Hollywood film director of hit films, Jaws, E.T. and The Color Purple, admitted to a strange habit. He said he liked to seek out distractions while working on a film. By DailyBlogTips

How to Choose a Blogging Platform [comparison chart]

You need to choose based on your own criteria. By Denise Wakeman
  • How technically savvy are you?
  • Are you a do-it-yourselfer?
  • How much customization do you want?
  • Will someone be designing and building it for you?
  • What's the purpose, goals and outcomes you want from your blog?

Is Curation The Future Of Blogging?

Traditional blogging is hard work. From creating content on a regular schedule and social networking and link building, to doing things like product fulfillment and replying to comments, blogging the traditional way is not an easy job. By Jack Humphrey

7 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog from LinkedIn

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If the audience for your blog are primarily business people, then there's a good bet they spend a lot of time on LinkedIn, the business to business networking site. By Denise Wakeman

Can Google+ Help You with Your Business Blogging?

Is Google+ the answer for your business blogging? By Denise Wakeman

YouTube Super Secrets

A "vlog" or video blog, is a powerful alternative to the traditional text based blog. And if you do video you've got to know how to harness the power of YouTube, the second largest search engine on the web. By Denise Wakeman

Why Bad Writing is Essential to Good Blogging

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So here’s the downside of the accessibility of blogging: It makes the already-terrible writers much, much louder. By Copyblogger

5 Reasons Why All Freelance Writers Should Learn To Write a Sales Letter

Whether you want someone to buy your product, join your email list, retweet or +1 your post, you’re doing one thing — leading your audience down a path at the end of which lies the action they’ll take. By Copyblogger

Creating Great Content for Today’s Social Web



Welcome to an increasingly social landscape on the Web. Social media started this shift from information to conversation, and now with the search engines increasingly using social signals to determine what to show searchers it’s a trend that, as a publisher, you have to get on top of to write and promote great content. By Problogger

How to Build Trust by Association

If you haven’t got a degree and you want to run a successful website, there is nothing stopping you! By Problogger

The 23 Blogger Breeds—Which Are You?

The blogosphere is populous and it keeps growing. With millions of bloggers out there, there are a certain number of very identifiable qualities that are seen. This blogger aims to cover as many of those qualities, or “breeds,” as possible. By Problogger

Understanding Blogging Arbitrage

If you are a blog owner and spend a lot of time writing articles for your own blog, there is a more suitable question to ask: “How much is my time worth as a blogger?” By Problogger

How to Silence Readers From Commenting on Your Blog

You open your Google Analytics to check your blog’s stats. And you feel a bit relieved to learn that you do have a number of pageviews. At least somebody saw your recent post. But how come your visitors left without leaving any comment on your blog? Not a single one! By Problogger

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Top 10 female expert bloggers to follow on twitter

Are you a female entrepreneur? Or are you a female trying to set up a business?

If you are either of the two, then this list is for you. By Genuine SEO