How to Write Great Blog Content. How I tripled my new email subscribers with a single website tweak – Social media marketing for small non-profits. Bits 'n' Piece: Vancouver blog authors offer advice. BlogLog authors, from left: Brandie Kajino and Noland Hoshino, both of Vancouver, and Mary Rarick of Portland. As you click through the valley of the Internet, fear not the humble blog. Three local authors say they have a solution to help new bloggers safely find their way into the multimedia world. Brandie Kajino and Noland Hoshino of Vancouver and Mary Rarick of Portland have just finished a new passport-sized handbook called “Blog Log.” The book, which retails for $5.95 from and is published by Scout Books in Portland, provides tips on how to pick a title, how to structure a post and how to measure readership and other statistics when starting up your own blog. “It’s for people, especially in business, who get told by their boss, ‘Hey, we’re going to have a blogger, and oh, by the way, it’s you,’” Kajino said with a laugh.
“We say it’s an offline tool for an online problem,” Kajino said. VSAA grad gains competition experience. How to Drastically Improve Your WordPress Blog’s Comments. In general, bloggers focus on traffic for their blogs; after all, numbers of visits and page views are easy to quantify and are useful if you are looking for advertisers. However, the most successful bloggers will say that collating these figures is not what’s important; rather, creating a community around a blog is the essential part.
The first step to creating this community is to attract high-quality comments. To help you do this, we’ve laid out some key factors to keep in mind. If you have others in mind, please suggest them in the comments below… Engaging Readers Through Content This is the most important step. Ask Open Questions People love to give their opinion and share their knowledge on specific topics. Write Controversial Articles This is a sure way to get comments, but be delicate.
Managing Comments Keep comments under control, and be cautious of spam. Reply to Comments Visitors who make the effort to leave a comment appreciate recognition. Promote Active Commenters. What “Say Yes to the Dress” has Taught Me about Blogging. Like a lot of girls out there, I’ve been planning my wedding with gusto since I was about three years old. Let’s not talk about the fact that I’m currently single – I still love browsing wedding dress sites, ring shopping, and dreaming about my big day. I’m not even in a hurry to get married. I swear! Anyways, as you can imagine, I’ve been loving the TLC show Say Yes to the Dress since it premiered. For those of you who have never seen the show, basically, it follows the story of a few different brides every episode as they shop for wedding dresses at a huge bridal salon in New York. There’s a few basic lessons that the show teaches dress hunters about finding that perfect dress, and I’ve found that some of these lessons can be applied to blogging as well.
Lesson #1: Look for the dress shape that’s right for your body type. On the show, brides come in with literally every body type, and few leave without finding a dress that looks fabulous on their shape. Building Your Online Community. A few days ago, I recorded a podcast with Srinivas Rao for BlogCastFM (yet to be published). One of the questions he asked me is what new bloggers can do to find and attract readers and build community.
I used Drew Odom as an example. Drew recently wrote a blog post where he used some Spin Sucks content. I received the backlink and went over there to comment. What I liked about Drew’s email is he thanked me for commenting and asked me if the way he used some of our content was appropriate. When I began blogging, I did the same. Mark Schaefer took it to a different level. While I no longer email thank you notes after people comment, I spend A LOT of time commenting to people both on Twitter and in the comments here. It works. It’s hard work and not for the faint of heart. Building Your Online Community originally appeared on Spin Sucks on April 5, 2011. Connect: Authored by: Gini Dietrich See complete profile. Blog » Blog Archive » The FREPT Model for Blogger Outreach.
Blogger Outreach can seem very complicated, simply because there are so many damn bloggers out there. It’s an unfamiliar space for many businesses today. So let’s break the process down a bit. Introducing… Step 1: Find The first step in blogger outreach is to find the bloggers you might want to reach. All of the bloggers that you find now may not be the ones you ultimately pitch, but rather a starting point for whom you might want to reach out to later. Where can you find bloggers? Blog DatabasesTwitter DirectoriesTwitter ChatsBlogrolls Step 2: Research This is the most important step in your entire campaign. It’s important to learn everything you can about the blogger for two reasons: It helps to identify the right bloggers for your campaign—the bloggers who will actually appreciate your story.You can make your pitch as personalized as possible.
Step 3: Engage How much you should actually engage with a blogger depends on the blogger. Many bloggers aren’t so professionally minded. Step 4: Pitch. It’s Not About You: Four Tips To Make Your Blog More Reader-Centric. 7 Ways To Get More Traffic To Your Site. Our host today is Alex. If you're interested in getting in front of the readers of Site Sketch 101, check out our guest posting invitation here. Whether you’re running a website for fun or trying to earn money on the internet by blogging, you no doubt want more traffic – I mean, who wouldn’t like their site to be more popular right?
So this post is about exactly that. My own personal cheat sheet for when I want to boost my traffic, build my authority or just generally get my message infront of new readers. 1 – Guest Posting: Like what I’m doing now! I don’t really guest post for SEO reasons, there are better ways to do that. 2 – Commenting: Ok, so again, you get some nice links (although they are often nofollow anyway); but the best reason to comment is branding. It’s all very well building an authoritative website, or blog, but you can only rank in Google if you have some keywords to rank for. 4 – Press Releases: You know what these are don’t you?
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