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Blog Guidebook: How To Make Headers For Your Blogger Blog - Using PicMonkey. Here's an example of a simple banners created with PicMonkey: Step 1 Go to www.picmonkey.com.

Blog Guidebook: How To Make Headers For Your Blogger Blog - Using PicMonkey

It looks like this as of March 2014. You can use the Design feature instead of the collage feature now...but the tutorial is still similar, just skip down to Step 5. Old Look: Click on Make a Collage first. Step 2 In the Collage feature, go to the second box down, called Layouts, and click Ducks in a Row. Choose the three squares in a row (or whatever you like). Step 3 Click the X in the upper right hand corner of your workbox (shown in Step 5) and that will send you to the start of PicMonkey again. Step 4 This is where I resized the image. A Simplified Blogger's Guide To SEO. We understand that not everyone who blogs can easily wrap their head around SEO.

A Simplified Blogger's Guide To SEO

In fact, we tried to help you out by suggestion a few SEO guides to begin with. We even went as far as to inform you of the deadliest SEO mistakes. However, this infograph by DigitalHawkins is probably the simplest way to explain SEO to the utmost beginner. Bear in mind that it isn’t the whole story. Best to fully understand SEO before implementing any. via Infographicals. 10 Essential First Steps When Starting A Wordpress Blog. Having created quite a few blogs, I’d like to think that I have a good system down for those essential first steps, and I hope it can be of use to you too.

10 Essential First Steps When Starting A Wordpress Blog

By following these you’ll get a good head start in the world of blogging and hopefully an influx of traffic to give you the motivation to carry on. If you’ve already started, think of this as a checklist as I’m sure there’s a few you haven’t done yet. 1. Good Quality Content Is Always The Best Tactic I can’t tell you how sick I am of hearing people announce their blog when it has less than 5 posts on it and/or consists of nothing more than YouTube videos and re-posted pictures with a one-sentence commentary.

Make sure you have, at the very least, 10 quality posts, but aim for around 30 ideally. Keep your articles focused, grammatically correct and spell checked. Content Quality: The Essential Checklist. View the article’s original source Author: Heidi Cohen 2014 is the year of content quality.

Content Quality: The Essential Checklist

Don’t take my word for it. Over a quarter of the marketing experts we surveyed noted that content quality was an important trend this year. Face it–you’ve got less than 10 seconds to capture your visitor’s attention according to Nielsen Norman Group, the usability experts. The 3 key reasons for creating quality content in 2014 are: To support search optimization post-hummingbird, panda, penguin and whatever animal Google chooses to use in 2014.To stand out in a sea of other messages from companies, media entities and social connections.To provide the basis for increased resources in the form of budget and personnel. The essential content quality checklist To help you create content that stands out and moves your target market to select and share it, here are 17 attributes of content quality.

Is customer-centric. How do you define content quality and why? Happy Marketing,Heidi Cohen Related Articles. A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Social Media Strategy. If you remember just one thing about social media this year, let it be this: you can’t just “wing it” anymore.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Social Media Strategy

When so much of your business is now influenced, even dependent, on your social media success, having a plan is essential. With this in mind, HootSuite University has created a simple, step-by-step Guide to Creating a Social Media Strategy. Download Now This 5-step guide will allow individuals and businesses to get the most out of their social media efforts by helping them identify, plan and execute their social media goals. Social Media: The Free Beginner's Guide from Moz.

Chapter 1 Introduction What is social media? "Social media" is a way for people to communicate and interact online. While it has been around since the dawn of the World Wide Web, in the last 10 years or so we've seen a surge in both the number and popularity of social media sites. It's called social media because users engage with (and around) it in a social context, which can include conversations, commentary, and other user-generated annotations and engagement interactions. Publishing content has become exponentially simpler over the last several years, which has helped skyrocket the use of social media. For businesses, the shift in web consumerism and accompanying rise in social media brings both opportunity and responsibility. Is social media just a fad?

Over the last several years, there has been an explosion of growth in popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, and many others. Looking for sources? Relationships Feedback Integration.