25 Great Blogger Widgets
Many people think that Blogger lacks in all of the extra goodies you can add to other platforms like WordPress, but it simply isn't true. By using widgets you can customize your blog as much as you like by just adding little snippets of code to the sidebars. Allow users to talk to you via IM, see what your most popular posts are, or even read news from sites such as Mashable.
450+ Best Social Media Resources
Nobody should be hiding from social media marketing anymore. There has been plenty of time to test the waters and see how you can apply it to your business. Social media has created a platform for instant communication and targeted web traffic that nobody should be avoiding. Here is a collection of social media resources that are sure to help you make your way through all the conversations online. Mashable | 90 Essential Social Media Resources
26 Content Marketing Tools to Use in 2013
Content marketing is so hot right now. No, really, it is. According to Content Marketing Institute’s recent B2B Content Marketing report, 9 out of 10 B2B marketers are using content marketing, and 45% plan to increase their spending on content marketing over the next 12 months.
Good Content Trumps SEO Says Matt Cutts
Matt Cutts from Google has been asked if Google would favor sites that are built following SEO Best Practice techniques, and, that there must be many technically poor sites that actually have fantastic content which shouldn’t be penalised. His answer: Just because somebody dots every i and crosses every t and gets all their HTML structure right, doesn’t mean that it’s good content. Even if you do brain-dead stupid things and shoot yourself in the foot, but have good content, we still want to return it…
50 Great Widgets For Your Blog
Widgets are a handy, easy and simple way to add some flare to your blog. Whether you'd like to display the number of currently online visitors to your site or simply the weather report for Los Angeles, you can do it with widgets. We've assembled a list of 50 useful or simply cool widgets for your pleasure. And remember, the first rule of widgetizing your blog is - don't overdo it! MyBlogLog's Recent Readers - this widget can easily be called a hit amongst blog owners; its popularity even managed to convince Yahoo into buying MyBlogLog. The widget lets you see the avatars of recent visitors to your blog, provided they're also members of MyBlogLog.
20 Free Keyword Research Tools – Comprehensive Insight
Before you write any good article or optimize website, you have to know how and why you have to select right keywords. SEO is very easy to overuse and do even worse, if you for example start to do keyword stuffing or repeating the same words over and over again without good thought. For regular content like blogs, people always like to argue about what you need to put in the first place – SEO or your readers. I am thinking you must do both – using simple but consistent and smart SEO and try to write as compelling article as possible to your readers.
The New SEO Professional: Master of Both Left and Right Brain
Compared to its ultimate impact, the beginnings of an earthquake are actually quite small. Likewise, in terms of scope, the Penguin algorithm update was relatively miniscule, affecting only 3.1% of queries. Its impact on the industry, however, was far greater, as the de-emphasis of thin content in the SERPs drove SEO professionals to place a renewed emphasis on creating — and marketing — quality content. In its aftermath, the industry has struggled somewhat to define what an SEO has become. Is he/she now a content-creating machine?
20+ Useful Blogger Widgets and Hacks
Blogger is a great free blog platform that is improving every day. New useful hacks and widgets are being created on a regular basis. Here is a list of some of the very best blogger widgets and blogger hacks that will improve the usability of your blog. Blog Widgets Facebook Widgets Connect your blog or website with your Facebook Account using these powerful widgets.
Google SEO resources for beginners
Webmaster Level: Beginner Want to eat healthier and exercise more in 2010? That's tough! Want to learn about search engine optimization (SEO) so you can disregard the rumors and know what's important? That's easy!
Why Ranking Reports Are Now More Important Than Ever
I once told Arienne that “rank checking” was my heroin. Of course, heroin is a dangerous drug that has potentially lethal consequences. However, checking the rank of your web site for a target term can be very addicting while being counterproductive to your overall marketing health.
