Sep 17, 2013

Bloggers were less focused on ROI and analytics and more focused on the human readers who were going to see their posts. They wanted to know how to bring in more readers and how to build a solid blogging community, using social media. Most also wanted to be more comfortable with the technical side of social media and integrating it with their blog, and were capable of following directions when given to them, even on technical issues.

Aug 9, 2013

Getting RSS subscribers, twitter followers, and email subscribers is absolutely key to building a successful blog. This is true in every niche and business blogs as well. Here are 4 plugins that will help boost your subscriber counts. 1. Comment Redirect Comment Redirect is a plugin by Joost de Valk. It’s functionality is simple and it does exactly what...

Jun 20, 2013

I am a huge advocate of content re-packaging, that is turning your content or research into different kinds of media for the sake of reaching to more content marketing channels (for example, Youtube, Pinterest, Flickr, Slideshare, etc just to name the few). One content research may take me the whole day or even a week but that doesn’t mean I’ll only...

Jun 17, 2013

Guest posts are getting old. Make no mistake, we wouldn’t be writing a guest post right now if we didn’t think it had tremendous value, and we ourselves have written a guide for advanced guest blogging strategy at SEOmoz. But relying too extensively on guest posts is a sign of stagnation and a lack of creativity. Maybe it’s time to try something different....

Jun 14, 2013

You have written a brilliant blog post. You know it is high quality because of the effort you put into it, the links you provides, the sources, the wit and information. It is absolutely perfect, and you hit the publish button with a feeling of accomplishment, pride and excitement. You just can’t wait for the world to see your post, and for the comments and...

Nov 26, 2012

A great way to increase your blog viewership and also boost your search engine ranking is to begin guest blogging on other websites and blogs. When a good writer submits a high quality post to a popular blog, it’s a win-win situation. However, since guest blogging is one of the only ways to guarantee backlinks, the guest blogging community (like many other...

Sep 17, 2012

Let’s face it, the Internet is much more crowded today than it was a few years ago, and it looks like that trend is going to continue. The only barrier of entry for setting up a website to publish content on is having fingers to type with, but the Microsoft Kinect and Apple’s increasingly smart input devices promise to take care of that in a few years. If...

Sep 4, 2012

If you’re not on Tumblr or at least enjoy browsing it from time to time, then you’re missing out on some great laughs. On March 26, Tumblr hit a huge milestone: 20 billion posts and a good majority of those are hilariously entertaining. Just heed this early warning: once you get started, you might lose yourself for a few hours. It’s hopelessly...