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Promoting Content with Google+
promoting with Google+
Many bloggers stop the promotion of their content at Facebook and Twitter. Google+, however, has broadcasting components that can make the promotion of content easier and can create more interactive reader experience.[read more]
Scheduling Your Blog: How Often and Best Times to Publish
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Once you’ve discovered the best times to blog, being consistent with your publishing schedule also increases SEO value and encourages readers to come back regularly for more.[read more]
Blogging Ideas for 2013: 5 Ways to Build Your Topic Pipeline
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If you’re like me and you’ve set blogging goals for yourself in 2013 (or you’ve had blogging goals set for you — welcome to the team, new OpenView hires!), it’s important to set aside a little time into developing your game plan for actually achieving those goals.[read more]
3 Key Google Analytics for a Successful Blog in 2013
Supercharge your blog's performance in 2013 by using specific analytics that measure your business goals. Here are three that will help you get your blog more productive in the new year.[read more]
VIDEO: 5 Ways to Efficiently Create Content that Doesn't Suck
Marie Forleo, a marketing and lifestyle expert whose weekly newsletter and videos have over 90,000 subscribers in 188 countries, recently created a video with some great tips on how to write faster, and after the video we’ve pinpointed the most pertinent guidelines for small business owners.[read more]
Search Engine Optimisation is an investment not a cost.
A very basic and practical list of facts and best practices related to SEO.[read more]
A Blogger's Checklist
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Want some more traction on your blog? Here are 6 components every blog post should have:1. It's written for people.Yes, SEO and key-wording are incredibly important, but if no one wants to read it then what's the use of Google finding it? Avoid tactics like keyword stuffing. Not only are search engines recognizing some of these "black...[read more]
20 Reasons Why Your Blog Sucks
My title for this blog is to serve one purpose. To show that most of the people who share this blog have never read it. It’s not your fault. Most blogs are boring, they provide very little in the way knowledge, or thought leadership. However, our community of Social Media professionals share these blogs based on title, and not merit. Again, I blame the blogger … not the viewer.[read more]
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“I use hootsuite which allows you the option to "auto schedule" with their peak time algorhytm or you can schedule the time manually. Works great. Hootsuits has so many great options from organizing twitter streams by lists, keywords, user names as well as scheduling, attaching files, shortening links, etc... ”
“As a follow-up, the examples in this article are used with permission from the recently published book Social Business Intelligence: Redicing Risk, Building Brands and Driving Growth with Social Media (© 2013, 191 pgs., hardback, Ascendigm Press). You can read an extended excerpt from the book here.-kg”