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120 Marketing Tactics for Blogging Success. Blogging success can seem like a distant dream when you start out. You aren’t quite sure what to blog about. The choice of technology can be overwhelming. Then learning to use the features and functions of your blogging software is a maze of confusion and confronting choices. What plugins do I choose? How do I optimise for search engines?

What are widgets and how do I use them? Then you start and draft your first post. Then more doubt sets in. How do I write those awesome headlines that will draw attention? Then the killer doubt. Why would anyone want to hear what “I” have to say? So you push past the fears and you hit the publish button. Six months into your blogging journey more nagging fears arise.

But world domination is felt to be more a fantasy than reality. Persistence is key This is maybe what you don’t want to hear. It is a matter of keeping the faith in yourself. Press on. My secret sauce recipe So what’s worked for me? Read as much as you can offline and online. A trait to be treasured. How to Write a Killer “How To” Article That Gets Attention. 9 Hard-Hitting Content Strategies for Small Business Blogging. The geo-seo-sem-experts Daily. Types of Social Media Content to Boost SEO. I’ve written often about the benefits of going viral in both content and marketing strategies. Increasingly, however, social media content (a.k.a. viral content) does more than increase brand recognition and site traffic: it can also boost your SEO signals. As search engines pay more and more attention to social signals, going viral is rapidly becoming one of the best ways to build links, attract attention, and establish authority and legitimacy in your field.

How Social & SEO Are Linked Let’s start with the obvious: social media builds links. If one site is getting thousands of social shares, it sends three clear messages about your site to search engines: Your site is activeYour site is currentYour site is invested in the needs of your audience Search engines boil down to one basic concept: helping users find what they’re looking for. Viral content is like the mass endorsement of the public; a giant thumbs-up formed from thousands of hands. Viral Content = Valuable Content 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) Advice on Charging for Writing Blog Posts — Get Paid to Write Online.