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How to Quickly Create Killer Blog Posts [Podcast S08E11] 5 Ways to Find More Time to Blog : Social Media Examiner. Google AMP: What Bloggers Need to Know : Social Media Examiner. Have you heard of Google AMP?

Google AMP: What Bloggers Need to Know : Social Media Examiner

Want to know how it will impact your blog? To discover more about Google AMP and the future of blogging, I interview Leslie Samuel. 12 Key Tactics The Pros Use to Become a Serious Blogger. Media kits for new bloggers who don't have a huge readership....yet! - Damzel In This Dress. 6 Tips for Writing Headlines That Drive Traffic : Social Media Examiner. Are your headlines performing as well as you’d like?

6 Tips for Writing Headlines That Drive Traffic : Social Media Examiner

Do you want to write more effective headlines? Using a few simple techniques, you can craft headlines that capture attention and convince people to click through to your content. In this article you’ll discover six tips for writing effective headlines that drive traffic. Discover 6 tips for writing headlines that drive traffic. #1: Begin With Numbers Headlines containing numbers typically perform better than other types of headlines. How to Write a Blog Post. It’s high time to reveal the biggest secret of blogging: Many bloggers (not all!)

How to Write a Blog Post

Can’t write!!! No, they can be good writers, but it does not mean they are good writers of blog posts. This is crazy, but blog content has its own laws and rules to follow for generating traffic and attracting thousands of new visitors who might turn into subscribers or … wait for it! … customers! Blogging Tools: Apps to Better Manage Your Blog Social Media Examiner.

Do you have a blog?

Blogging Tools: Apps to Better Manage Your Blog Social Media Examiner

Want to improve the content development, publishing and promotion processes? To discover how to streamline your blogging with the best tools, I interview Ian Cleary. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is an on-demand talk radio show from Social Media Examiner. It’s designed to help busy marketers and business owners discover what works with social media marketing. In this episode I interview Ian Cleary, the social tools guy. Ian will explore marketing tools for bloggers. You’ll discover tools for your editorial calendar, search engine optimization, social media, email marketing and more. Listen as Ian Cleary shares tools and apps marketers need to manage their blogs. Are You Using These 3 Great Blogging Tools? Blogging is more than just writing – it’s about marketing and lead generation.

Are You Using These 3 Great Blogging Tools?

With that in mind, just because you’ve thought of a great blogging topic to get you going, this doesn’t mean that your finished version will be generating all the clicks, interest and traffic to your site that you know your great writing deserves. Indeed, when it comes to blogging, writing is only half the battle. In fact, writing the perfect headline is perhaps even more important than structuring the perfect blog in terms of click generation. This stands to reason, of course – users don’t click on the whole blog, they click on the headline.

The British Library Puts Over 1,000,000 Images in the Public Domain: A Deeper Dive Into the Collection. Every year for the past decade or so, we‘ve seen new, dire pronouncements of the death of print, along with new, upbeat rejoinders.

The British Library Puts Over 1,000,000 Images in the Public Domain: A Deeper Dive Into the Collection

This year is no different, though the prognosis has seemed especially positive of late in robust appraisals of the situation from entities as divergent as The Onion’s A.V. Club and financial giant Deloitte. I, for one, find this encouraging. And yet, even if all printed media were in decline, it would still be the case that the history of the modern world will mostly be told in the history of print. And ironically, it is online media that has most enabled the means to make that history available to everyone, in digital archives that won’t age or burn down.

One such archive, the British Library’s Flickr Commons project, contains over one million images from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Here, we have a striking illustration from an 1841 edition of The Cottager’s Sabbath, a poem… with … vignettes… by H. Is Link Building Still Relevant? How to Write a Perfect Blog. The blogging field is highly competitive.

How to Write a Perfect Blog

WordPress.com Multilingual Blogs. If you are bilingual or multilingual and want to publish your free hosted WordPress.com in two or more languages but do not want to rely on machine translation that can be done.

WordPress.com Multilingual Blogs

You can have two or more blogs in different languages and interlink them via custom menus. There’s also a workaround for publishing posts in two or more languages in the same blog. Backgrounder There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.COM blogs and we bloggers cannot install individual plugins such as Google translation widgets or any others for security reasons. Those found on the internet are for WordPress.ORG installs which run on different software. We do not have bilingual or multilingual theme changers at WordPress.com.

When looking for a translation widget last year I uncovered the fact that although the Google translation widgets could not be used there was a workaround. How to Start a Business Blog: Seven Essentials for Success Social Media Examiner. Are you interested in starting a blog for your business?

How to Start a Business Blog: Seven Essentials for Success Social Media Examiner

Want to know how to set it up to get the best results? There are lots of design and functionality options to consider when setting up your business blog. However, only a few make a vital difference in your blog’s success. In this article you’ll discover the seven critical elements you need for your business blog. Discover seven essentials for starting a business blog. #1: Choose the Best Blog Layout. Advanced Marketing Institute - Headline Analyzer. Enter Your Headline Text Paste your headline in the text area below.

Advanced Marketing Institute - Headline Analyzer

The analysis engine will automatically cut your submission at 20 words, so we encourage you to do a word count before submitting! This will ensure the most accurate analysis. What is the Headline Analyzer? This free tool will analyze your headline to determine the Emotional Marketing Value (EMV) score. Your headline will be analyzed and scored based on the total number of EMV words it has in relation to the total number of words it contains.

How Content Promotion Works: 11 Strategies to Try. Did you know: Some bloggers recommend you spend as much time promoting your content as you do writing it. (Derek Halpern of Social Triggers has an 80/20 split: 80 percent promotion, 20 percent writing.) Wow, this is an area I fall well short on. I’m so impressed by those who hustle to get their content out there and in front of as many people as possible who can gain value from it. Over the past few months, I’ve learned a lot from content promotion experts and am starting (slowly) to work some of these practices into sharing the blog posts I write here at Buffer. I’d love to pass along a few of the strategies I’ve tried already and the ones I’m excited to experiment with. Content Promotion Strategies for Blogs Big and Small 1. 35+ Research Tools to Take Your Content Ideas Further.

Sometimes when you get a good content idea, you can feel it. You just know that it’s fully formed, ready to be executed, and sure to be a hit. Other times, the idea isn’t quite so clear. Maybe it’s only a partial idea, or you’re not quite sure what actually creating it would look like. Anyone who’s dipped their toes in the content marketing pool knows that creating content can be incredibly taxing of our creativity. Worth it, but time consuming. Luckily, there are plenty of strategies and tools for getting new ideas, fleshing out existing ideas and evolving good ideas into awesome ones.

In this post, we’ll walk through tons of different tools and strategies (35+!) Bloggers: Here's How to Overcome Writer’s Block! - 6 Mojo-Boosting Tips. GETTING STARTED is always the hardest part of writing. Once you’re in the flow, the sentences come pretty quickly. It’s kinda like a stalled car. 12 Step Blog Post Optimization Checklist. Want your blog to be found and read? It’s all in the way you optimize and market your blog posts.

This infographic gives you a 12 step checklist to getting your blog posts found by potential customers and influencers. Here are a few ways to market your blog that not everyone knows about and even less take advantage of on a regular basis. Comment on other blogs – Commenting on blogs, whose subject matter is within your area of expertise is a great way to build strong backlinks and develop relationships. Search social media sites like Twitter and reddit for your blog post topic. Post your article in social media groups and online forums. More Blog Traffic: 6 Comment and Expensive Mistakes. Knowing what do to with blogging is important. But what about knowing what not to do? 10 Rules For Writing With Style From A Master of Prose. Before everyone became obsessed with buzzfeed style writing rules there was Friedrich Nietzsche and a simple, yet powerful list of rules for writing with style he wrote over 115 years ago.

In a series of letters from August 1882 the famous philosopher laid out 10 rules of writing for his friend and former lover Lou Andreas-Salomé. 8 Ways to Improve Social Shares for Your Blog. How to Promote Your Blog Post to Get 1000 Shares. Blogging Basics: How to Write Blog Posts People Love to Read. Blogging Fundamentals for Business: An Online Business-Building Workshop. How to Brainstorm an Epic Blog Post in 4 Simple Steps.

It’s 5:02 a.m. on Friday as I am writing this. Advanced Blogging: How to Go Big With Your Blog. Blogging Fundamentals for Business: An Online Business-Building Workshop. Blogging Fundamentals for Business: An Online Business-Building Workshop. How to Simplify Google Analytics Reports. When you look at all your Google Analytics data, does it make your head hurt? Google Analytics is very useful but it includes an awful lot of information. Whenever you talk to anyone about Analytics, they always feel they should be doing more in this area. Of course, Google engineers keep on adding functionality so, although it gets more useful, it can also get more complex with regular, new functionality that you need to figure out.

But sometimes less is more! What I mean is that focussing on a couple of good pieces of information can be more valuable than having a sore head looking at lots of data all the time. Head Hurting Syndrome (HHS) is a well known condition and it is particularly noticeable when someone is trying to figure out pages and pages of Analytics So, instead of contracting this condition, you may instead want to think of ways of reducing the stress and anxiety and aim for an easier life. How to Start a WordPress Blog. How to Get Read: 8 Ways to Take your Blog From Existence to Greatness. 5 Lovely Reasons You Should ALREADY Be Guest Blogging.