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Optimizing WordPress Excerpts for Maximum Clickability

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This is part of the Blogging for Grasshoppers series. As I’ve been paying more attention to blogging—not just the writing thereof, but the look and how the posts come across—one of the fields that I believe is little-used is the “excerpt&# field in one’s WordPress blog. But let’s back up a bit.

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Optimizing WordPress Excerpts for Maximum Clickability [Redux]

Waxing UnLyrical

This is part of the Blogging for Grasshoppers series. [I This was a post I'd been meaning to write for a long time, because I believe it can really help your blog, so I put a lot of effort into it. Which didn't mean that the blog went down, but Livefyre, the super-duper comment system I've been using, did. Paying attention.

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Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial?

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Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial? A few weeks ago, they asked a question about paying for blog posts. In 2010, blogs and bloggers are truly influencers. Let me unpack this a bit.

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How To Get Your Blog Project Approved

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Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali How To Get Your Blog Project Approved January 13th, 2011 Tweet Guest post by Shanan Sorochynski Okay, you’ve had nearly half a month to sink into 2011. I manage the University of Regina’s blog.

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Four Free Digital Marketing Tools for Non-Profits

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Google Grants for Google AdWords Google offers $10,000 per month free advertising to qualified 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations serving the arts, education, health, science, technology, and volunteering. I know its probably obvious because you blog here at WUL, Erica, but I am always amazed at how great your posts are. Shall We Tweet?

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Get PR Measurement Off The Island

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I didn’t think I’d get back into the blogging saddle for a few days yet, but I couldn’t help it when I read this excellent post from Nick Lucido on the problem with PR measurement. Sure, it’s a lot easier to teach advertising value equivalencies and say that’s how to measure public relations efforts. Wanna Subscribe?

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How Google Instant Might Impact Your Small Non-Profit

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Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising costs might increase. My First Guest Blog for @Shonali on Digital Marketing for Nonprofits! Shannon Pauls Very Official Blog Spin Sucks TopRank Online Marketing Blog Writing Boots - David Murray Love WUL? Oh, one other thing: my blog = my sandbox. Wanna Subscribe? Shall We Tweet?

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