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20 Bloggers to Watch in 2012

ProBlogger

” I love Maria’s work because talented curators are needed in this cluttered blogosphere. I think we will learn a lot from her experiments in digital publishing, especially during the latter part of 2012. She has such a natural talent, yet is still a bit of an unknown in the blogosphere. Colin Wright. Jenny Blake.

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Blogosphere Trends + Using Infographics

ProBlogger

This Labor Day infographic is a great example of color done right. Check for Creative Commons License information (see the CC logo at the bottom of this infographic on the 2012 GOP candidates ) or other licensing information and if an embed code featuring a link back to the source is provided, as it is here, be sure to use it.

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5 Essential Qualities of Growing Your Blog Quickly in a Crowded Niche

Kikolani

This is a guest post by Marcus Sheridan , recently named one of the Top 10 Social Media Bloggers of 2012 by Social Media Examiner. A perfect example of this is Amy Porterfield , who, in less than one year, has become known as one of the premier experts on using Facebook for marketing and business. We all want our blogs to grow.

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Blogging in Brief: Goal-Setting … and Reaching!

ProBlogger

And the blogosphere is a great place to get inspiration for setting and meeting those goals… Image courtesy Moyan_Brenn, licensed under Creative Commons. I’ve found these ones, in particular, have provided great food for thought: The Art of Nonconformity: 2012 Annual Review: Looking Forward , an inspiring personal review.

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Busting Facebook’s Most Widespread Myth

Convince & Convert

Actually, Facebook itself started this rumor in February of 2012 at the Facebook Marketing Conference in New York. In the two examples below, we found differences between these two metrics that range from a few percent to more than 80%: . Above is an example of a page with 500,000 extremely active fans. of fans (oops!),

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

Check out the top 20 posts on ProBlogger in 2012 and notice that over 50% of the most read posts that year had personal words in their titles. These ‘discussion’ posts can be gold (for example recently to wrap up a week of content on the topic of Pinterest we finished the series with a discussion post on the topic.

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7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog

ProBlogger

Check out the top 20 posts on ProBlogger in 2012 and notice that over 50% of the most read posts that year had personal words in their titles. These ‘discussion’ posts can be gold (for example recently to wrap up a week of content on the topic of Pinterest we finished the series with a discussion post on the topic.