Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Weekly Roundup: The Gerald Durrell Edition February 6th, 2011 Tweet I don’t know if you’ve read My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell ; almost everyone I’ve asked in the States hasn’t.

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 23, 2011

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, making money online, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. Before we jump into the goodies from the week, I wanted to take a moment to let everyone know this is the last Fetching Friday post for 2011. Happy Holidays.

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Kikolani

JANUARY 20, 2011

What’s the perfect width for your online content ? How to increase the likelihood that people will want to stay on your site to read your content. 32 SEO tactics to avoid in 2011 – hiding things on your page, keyword stuffing, linking schemes, and other things you should stay away from in your SEO strategy.

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Kikolani

JULY 8, 2011

Free WordPress themes – the 2011 edition of the best free WordPress themes. The huge, untapped potential of Q&A content for SEO – how to really use question and answer sites for your search optimization strategy. Social Media / Social Networking. Graphic Design / Web Design.

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Kikolani

JUNE 27, 2011

The solution to this would be having an RSS feed with only your content in it from each of the sources you write for. <description>Blog posts and articles by Kristi Hines on social media, blogging, search optimization, and online marketing.</description> Creating a Custom RSS Feed. <comments>[link]. <pubDate>Tue,

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

The Non-Designer’s Guide to WordPress Blog Design – This post covers design and some of the technical aspects of making your theme and WordPress look how you want it to and do what you want it to do. Social Media / Social Networking. Personal Development / Productivity. Search Engines / SEO.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

50 Great Free WordPress Themes From 2011 – 50 great WordPress themes that were released in 2011 for free. Learn what it means in relation to your content, traffic sources, and demographics as well as how to improve it. Social Media / Social Networking. Business / Career.

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Kikolani

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

26 ways to enhance your blog content – give your blog even more sticky power with these great content tips. 6 resources for small businesses a great list of social networks, answers, bookmarking, and other sites that are essential for a small business. Social Media / Social Networking.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

WordPress Themes & Plugins. StudioPress – Need new WordPress themes? This is perfect if you have lots of WordPress sites or if you are a WordPress consultant. Premise is the complete digital sales and marketing system for WordPress. Blogging / Content. for the Pro Plus Package. General Shopping.

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Kikolani

MARCH 28, 2011

I took a quick peak in Analytics and noticed that the average time on site between January 1 – March 26, 2010 when I had Adsense was the same as January 1 – March 26, 2011, but the bounce rate is a good bit lower now than it was then. Thesis – If you use a premium WordPress theme for your blog, you should promote it!

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Firebelly

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Fun idea and I had a few laughs, but (see update at the end of post) Toyota really should have included the YouTube URL at the end of the ads!

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Kikolani

JANUARY 13, 2012

How to Find Out Who is Stealing Your Content & What to Do About It – Some potential link building benefits to content scrapers, how to find out what sites are scraping your content, and what you can do if you to have them take it down. Social Media / Social Networking. Blogging / Writing.

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Kikolani

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The Most Effective Piece of Content – 24 content strategy and marketing experts reveal common mistakes that people make in their content and marketing efforts. 44 New Portfolio WordPress Themes Collection – You may want to check out this 44 Premium Portfolio WordPress Themes.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 20, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Top 10 Reasons The New York Times is Really Putting up a Paywall by Adam Sherk on January 20, 2010 Today The New York Times made it official that they will be introducing a metered model starting in 2011. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 30, 2011

I analyzed my Top 6 blog posts for 2011 by total page views, and am re-running them this week as a “greatest hits” compilation. Everyone’s all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. (Happy Holidays! This is #1. – Jay).

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Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

Gaining traction: LinkedIn, YouTube, and WordPress (and more) arrive (2003-2005) In 2003, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facemash, described as Harvard University’s answer to Hot or Not. Soon after, the term micro-blogging became widely used to describe both Twitter and Tumblr, noting the exchange of ‘small’ amounts of content.

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The Social Media Hat

JULY 13, 2016

Since moving into our home in 2011, our basement has never been anything more than a convenient storage unit. I wrote an earlier article about Spring Cleaning Your Social Media and one of the topics I touched on was making sure that you review all of your "evergreen" content and make sure that it's still share-worthy.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 3, 2011

Everyone’s all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 3, 2011

Everyone’s all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Mark as read Approve comment Davina, I follow the advice of Denise Graveline from dont get caught communications with much of my social networking. She likens it to a cocktail party or going to a business networking event. I figure if Id talk about it at a cocktail party or networking event, then I can talk about it here.

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Myrland Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2010

As I often do, in order to share content with others, I take notes by “LiveTweeting,&# or posting notes live via my Twitter stream in messages that are approximately 120 characters long. 3) &# In 2011, we have to look at how to diversity you as a brand.&# WordPress Admin 2) &# Twitter is fleeting.”

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

They will come back if you can effectively convince them… but you have to have good content. What is good content on Facebook? We don’t know exactly how Facebook judges content, but we know they look at three scores using their EdgeRank indicator: Affinity: This is a measure of how much a user’s fans like his page.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 16, 2012

With Google’s most recent Panda algorithm updates, attributes like content freshness and social signals (strengths of blogs, not corporate websites) will gain increased importance in search ranking. Promote new content most effectively? Optimize blog content for search? Write great blog post headlines?

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 21, 2010

Also, I can appreciate the financial challenges of original content media. From a content perspective, the biggest challenge is living so far from Washington, DC, where much of the open gov & Gov 2.0 Even though we’re not a social network, I get lot of feedback on the sense of community it brings to the open gov, Gov 2.0

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ProBlogger

MARCH 31, 2011

As of March 2011, Compendium’s pricing ranges from $3,500 to upwards of $50,000 a year, based on the needs of the client. In my business, we write content for a number of blogs, but our favorite platform to write on is Compendium and here’s why. The more content you create, the deeper and richer your search results become.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 15, 2012

In February of 2011, Google released the Panda update that took rankings away from websites with low-quality content and sites with more advertising than content. Later, social networks like Digg, Last.fm, and others were affected as well. Not sure if your favorite website, link source, or network was hit by Panda?

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Marketers have questions, this post has answers: 87 vital social media and online marketing statistics covering everything from how executives and large companies are using social media for marketing, customer service and recruiting to fresh stats on the leading social media platforms to search, email, content and mobile marketing trends.

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ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2012

In November of 2011 David Hsieh, VP of Marketing at Cisco famously stuck his neck out by proclaiming that 90% of internet traffic will be viewing video in three years’ time. <iframe If the “interview” went well, chances are that Darren would be happy to tweet and share that content for you. Marketing your video.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

What worked in 2011 may or may not be as effective in 2012. If someone asks me what blogging platform to use, I am always going to say self-hosted WordPress. I employ the following plugins and tactics to combat spam and make comment moderation manageable on the WordPress platform. Drastically. How long should my blog posts be?

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

According to Small Business Trends and HubSpot , the percentage of businesses with blogs has increased from less than half in 2009 to nearly two out of three in 2011. What’s more, blogs are a central component of web presence optimization , and the core of a productive social media strategy. Assigning multiple writers (i.e.,

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Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The report is quite detailed and as you consider your marketing strategies for 2011 (provided you haven’t already done so), the report is full of tidbits that can help you make decisions. Let’s look at some key points that may effect your marketing choices in 2011.

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Firebelly

JULY 29, 2011

The buttons alone are not bad – they make life easier for your readers and encourage them to share your content. But if you’re including 50 different ways to share your content, you’re simply turning off the reader. Since you can’t include every social networking website in your sharing, what should you be including?

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 31, 2010

11 awesome self-improvement ideas for 2011 – great ways to better yourself in the new year. Evaluating your personal branding success in 2010 and 10 things to try in 2011 – a great way to figure out where you are and make plans on where you need to be. Social Media / Social Networking. WordPress 3.0.3

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Your Escape From 9 to 5

JULY 8, 2022

The tale doesn’t stop there because the blog hit a tipping point in 2011 when Arianna Huffington sold her “super blog” to AOL for $315 million. One attraction to me when I started my blog was the power of the social web to reach a global audience with my ideas and content without leaving my desk. Social media and smart phones.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Her blog, But You’re a Girl , covers a ton of topics including blogging, business, events, technlogy, Google, WordPress, and more. Alexa is a social media, web, and ecommerce content curator who strives to cut through the noise while having fun. Follow her @adriarichards on Twitter. Alexa Samuels. Alice Bradley.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. Blogging / Content. He quit his job at the end of 2011 and shares all of his successes and failures at his blog, Leaving Work Behind. The Resources Mashup.

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Kikolani

MARCH 31, 2011

The 2011 trend report – the color for this spring is white. 8 strategic blog homepages that draw readers deeper – learn some great design and content placement tips from these high traffic blogs that will get visitors to stay on your site. 6 non-content must haves for business blogs – also applicable to any blog.

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