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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

The story need not be long or highly personal story – it could simply be sharing how you did something in your business (you’ll see me do this below when I talk about how on dPS we added a Flickr Group to dPS as an intermediate step on the way to starting a forum, now a Facebook Group ). I use personal language.

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

The story need not be long or highly personal story – it could simply be sharing how you did something in your business (you’ll see me do this below when I talk about how on dPS we added a Flickr Group to dPS as an intermediate step on the way to starting a forum, now a Facebook Group ). I use personal language.

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Best Social Media Monitoring Tools

Bill Hartzer

Facebook and Twitter are some of the main outlets for social media, but there are numerous types of social media like blogs, wikis, forums, chat rooms, etc. You can also measure and track engagement while determining which conversations in chat rooms, forums, etc. This information can be used to improve products and increase profits.

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Search Engine Optimization: Search Engine Ranking Problem Solved for a Reader

Bill Hartzer

Well, James, I did take a quick look at the Google support forum thread and quickly figured out that there were several people who took issue with the site in general (like talking about the content) rather than looking and analyzing the issue at hand: which why the site is not ranking as well as it did in the past.

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

The story need not be long or highly personal story – it could simply be sharing how you did something in your business (you’ll see me do this below when I talk about how on dPS we added a Flickr Group to dPS as an intermediate step on the way to starting a forum). A forum comes with its own advantages and challenges.

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Be Here Now Marketing: How United Airlines Can Take Advantage of.

Bare Feet Studios

I spent $50 of my own money to buy drinks for people in line, some of whom waited even longer than two and a half hours. I took it on myself to go buy 20 bottles of cold water and soda to hand out – you would have thought I was Mother Teresa! We would have to overnight there. The airlines don’t have it.

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PB139: Challenge: Create Content That Answers a FAQ

ProBlogger

Check other blogs and forums. Particularly in the early days of ProBlogger, 2004, 2005, a lot of people just didn’t know what a blog was. It’s amazing how many questions get asked in those forums and it’s very easy for you to take those questions and write the answer. If they’re local to you, buy them a coffee.

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