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Why Every Business Should Blog. How to Grow Your Blog to 100,000 Visits a Month Within 1.5 Years. Facebook Updates Follow Button: This Week in Social Media. Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news.

Facebook Updates Follow Button: This Week in Social Media

To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Redesigns Follow Button and Like Box: “Similar to the Like and Share buttons, the Follow button and the Like Box plugin will also be updated with” Facebook’s new design. The newly designed Follow button and Like Box. Vine Releases in More Languages: “Now, it’s even easier for people around the world to watch and share posts that make us laugh, teach us something new or help us find out what’s happening in the world.” Vine is “also beginning to explore ways to surface Vine videos that are popular in a particular country Twitter Improves Age-Screening Experience: Twitter is rolling out “an improvement to the age-screening experience on Twitter.com, iOS and Android devices.” “Alcohol brands can safely grow their of-age network of Twitter followers in a way that’s simpler than before.” inShare212.

10 Sure-Fire Headline Formulas That Work. How to Ensure Your Future Blog Posts Are Popular. » Blogger LinkUp. Guest blogging: Looking for guest bloggers or guest post? Join MyBlogGuest! How I used Guest Blogging For My Startup. Only a few weeks back we hit a major milestone and celebrated 6 months since the launch of our startup.

How I used Guest Blogging For My Startup

As a team of two we reflected a bit on what contributed to our success for sign-ups. Guestposting amongst other things emerged as one of the biggest drivers. I believe guestposting is especially helpful if you have very little connections to leverage at the start. In short, if you need to build traffic nearly from scratch. Where can I start guestposting?

There are two places I have leveraged heavily at the beginning. It is a portal bringing together bloggers looking for guestposts and others wanting to write them. How To Blog Effectively And Write Posts Fast. And we continue featuring our glorious verified authors on the official blog to show the world how awesome they are!

How To Blog Effectively And Write Posts Fast

Reminder: we support Google Authorship for guest blogging and thus help blog owners find real established authors for their sites. Enjoy! Let’s face it, you can’t just sit down at your computer and decide to write a post. 3 Unique Ways to Use Pinterest for Business. Does your business have a clear Pinterest strategy?

3 Unique Ways to Use Pinterest for Business

Have you been struggling to figure out how Pinterest could help market your business? Pinterest represents a massive opportunity for both consumer-focused and business-to-business companies. 5 Steps to Ensure Your WordPress Blog Is Secure. Is your WordPress blog safe from malicious people?

5 Steps to Ensure Your WordPress Blog Is Secure

Would you like to make your WordPress blog more secure? Most often, people don’t think about security measures until it’s too late. But there are some simple steps you can take to keep your blog safe. Why Secure Your WordPress Blog? A blog that has been hacked can suffer from loss of content, stolen data and expensive downtime. The Most Important Question for Your Business. 5 Goals Every Blogger Should Set Up in Google Analytics. How to Speed Up Your WordPress Site. Is your blog slow?

How to Speed Up Your WordPress Site

Do you want to improve the experience for readers? In this world of instant gratification, speed of content delivery really can impact your business. Keep reading to discover ways to increase the speed of your website. Why Website Speed Is Important. Putting An End To The Biggest Lie On The Internet. It’s long been said that “I agree to the terms of service” is the biggest lie on the internet.

Putting An End To The Biggest Lie On The Internet

And even if you do read them, many TOS are so ridden with legalese that you practically need to be a lawyer to understand them. Also, as I wrote in a gloomy post last weekend, users have no choice but either agree to the terms offered by a web app or simply not use the service at all. But a new project called TOS;DR wants to change that.

7 WordPress Plugins to Grow Your Email Subscribers. Are you looking for more email subscribers?

7 WordPress Plugins to Grow Your Email Subscribers

The best way to gain email subscribers is to deliver great content via your blog. Here are seven great WordPress plugins to grow your email subscribers and let you focus on delivering great content. #1: Pippity Customized Popups. OptinSkin. Photo Pin : Free Photos for Bloggers via Creative Commons.

Ntent Strategy Generator Tool - V2 Update. > Please give me the tool now!

ntent Strategy Generator Tool - V2 Update

Way back in September we released the first version of our content strategy tool, and due to popular demand and awesome feedback I’m excited to be releasing an even hotter version of the tool! This blog post takes a quick look at some of the cool new features in this latest update. Since the launch of the first version of the tool, there have been numerous updates across a number of websites forcing the xpath to return a null value, or to change the value returned. The first part of this update restores values for any empty fields, and reformats a number of elements of the tool for a cleaner, more digestible appearance. More Insight from Google Insights. 22 Top Blogging Tools Loved by the Pros. Do you blog?

22 Top Blogging Tools Loved by the Pros

Looking for exciting new tools to simplify the blogging experience? If so, keep reading. We decided to get the scoop on today’s hottest blogging tools. We asked 22 pros to share their favorite new finds. Here they are… #1: InboxQ Mitt Ray @MittRay A great blogging tool I discovered a few months ago is InboxQ. InboxQ lets you create campaigns with different keywords. You can work on these questions and come up with better blog topics in your area of specialty. When people type in questions with these keywords, I get an update. Use InboxQ to find the questions people are asking on Twitter. Mitt Ray, founder of Social Marketing Writing, author.