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As an active blogger, I’m always looking at various stats to help me understand how well I’m doing. I’m not particularly fond of the idea of blogging for years without knowing whether things are going in the right direction. I’d rather know as I go whether my posts are having an impact and whether things are travelling in the right direction.Luckily, one of the best things about being a blogger is that pretty much every stat you want to look at is available online and not stuck in outdated offline software programs. And better still, most of the tools are free!
Last year, Google announced an initiative to give authors on the Web greater ownership over their content and more visibility in search. Google Authorship, as its known, has changed consistently since launch, as the company experiments with the best ways to authenticate authors and give them proper attribution.
Ever wonder why some people’s faces are showing up in search results? How do they do that?
They do it by linking and then adding the Google Authorship markup to one of the links. This is called a “rich snippet.”
The Future of Blogging: I Had to Tell You This
There are two things in this world I will never stop loving: food and schemas (sorry, husband). I’ve been a self-proclaimed pseudo-foodie for quite some time now, involving myself with the local food blogging and Yelping community to their chagrin as much as possible. Through those relationships, I’ve realized the knowledge I take for granted, including ways to market and promote a food blog. Yes, the most important part of maintaining any blog is providing high quality, high value content, but good content can’t expose itself.
Blogs are sometimes overlooked as a significant source of online buzz in comparison to social networking sites, yet consumer interest in blogs keeps growing. By the end of 2011, NM Incite, a Nielsen/McKinsey company, tracked over 181 million blogs around the world, up from 36 million only five years earlier in 2006.
I am creeping up on 1,000 blog posts — I’ve probably blogged “a bible!” So I’ve been reflecting on what I would have done differently if I had to start all over. Here are some mistakes I’ve made, and sadly, in some cases, continue to make …
That image you found on the Internet looks so good. You want to post it to Twitter, placard it across your blog, and 'Shop it into the sickest rock show flyer anyone has ever seen. But wait. Are you certain you have the rights to use it — even if a website states that you can?
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When I consult with clients, I frequently hear, "What do we write about? How do we come up with new content ideas?"
Social media, thy bane is content—even if Shakespeare may not have said it exactly that way. For many businesses, trying to embrace social media by producing a regular stream of content causes all kinds of pain.
Blogging is one of the most effective forms of social media marketing, particularly for business-to-business (or B2B) companies—but businesses must move beyond mere content production challenges in order to be successful.
Audio platform SoundCloud has been around since 2007 but it is only this year that it has really taken off as a space for the spoken word as well as music.Here are 10 ways it can be used by broadcast and digital journalists:
How to attract readers to your blog and make them stay
Why you have a broken blog and how to fix it
Doch woher bekommt man kostenlose, lizenzfreie Fotos und Bilder die man auf der eigenen Homepage verwenden kann? Wer das Risiko abgemahnt zu werden sucht kann sie sich aus der Google Bildersuche nehmen. Einfacher und ganz legal geht es mit diesen 117 Seiten mit Stock-Fotos.
Since Facebook overhauled its comments system earlier this year, news sites have been able to install a plugin to enable anyone logged into a Facebook account or with a Yahoo ID to comment.
Since launching my blog in Mid-may 2011, I have guest posted on a number of A-list blogs in the blogging and online marketing niches (including ProBlogger, MarketingProfs, and Daily Blog Tips). In doing so, I have learned some important lessons in getting guest posts accepted on big blogs.But rather than boring you with the usual advice (pick the right blog, research the blog, pitch quality content etc.) I will attack a specific aspect of guest posting—preparing the pitch. If you want to learn about other aspects of guest posting check out Ali Luke’s post, How to Get Your Guest Posts Accepted Every Time.