ProBlogger

JUNE 15, 2011

One of the requests that I’ve received a fair bit lately from readers here at ProBlogger is for me to write a little more on the team I’ve put together to help me run and grow my blogs. Blogging: from hobby to job. The goal of being a full time blogger grew. Blogging: from job to business.

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Kikolani

AUGUST 22, 2012

Setting up Google Alerts and Social Mention is an easy way to track to the conversation both on the web and throughout the social community. You should work on establishing which comments you will respond to on Facebook, Twitter, and other channels but be consistent with equal treatment of all posters. Establish a Response Strategy.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 12, 2011

Welcome to the 2011 list of bloggers to watch. It was where thousands of the world’s best bloggers met to network and learn. I recommend that bloggers of any niche attend conferences such as this to check out the rising stars. Blog | Twitter. Blog | Twitter. Jaime Tardy. Matt Kimberley.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 12, 2013

This unsettled blog owners who were already uncertain about accepting contributions from strangers. Blog owners remained unconvinced. Blog owners, take heart: not everyone is just after an easy link. SEO industry veterans declared “and from this day forth, all link building is spam, especially through guest posts!”

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 7, 2013

As anyone who has ever started a blog knows, it can be hard work. In the 24-hour machine that is the blogosphere and accompanying social media, there is the potential for our blog/life balance to be so far off kilter it’s all but disappeared from view. And the best way to deal with blogger burnout is to stop it before it begins.

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Jeff Esposito

MARCH 30, 2011

Yesterday, Tac Anderson wrote a post about an issue I know too well: bloggers’ neglect. As I’ve been going through the list of people I follow on Twitter looking to see who has blogs that I should be following I couldn’t help but notice a trend: people were neglecting their blogs. I am a reluctant blogger.

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ProBlogger

JULY 11, 2011

This guest post is by Jenny Dean of Business Blog Writers. You might have read my article about a business blogging platform called Compendium. In addition to my blog writing business, I also have a Ragdoll cat blog and all images of Compendium’s Web to Post form come from that. How does Web to Post work?

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ProBlogger

MAY 8, 2012

Are you having trouble keeping your blog readers interested in what you have to say? If interest is waning, it may be time to add some variety to what you’re giving readers, besides just writing blog posts, week after week. Then, I began editing down short excerpts from those hour-long events and using them as blog posts.

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ProBlogger

JULY 29, 2011

A new blogger is born today! This baby blogger does not know the perils of comment moderation, stalkers, low traffic, and spam that await her. I wonder what type of blogger she’ll be. With millions of bloggers out there, there are a certain number of very identifiable qualities that are seen. You will laugh.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Next week marks the 3 month anniversary of Vanessa (my wife) starting her first blog at Style and Shenanigans. It’s been a fascinating process to watch her plan, launch and grow her blog. My hope is that in doing so it’ll help others at the beginning of their blogging journey to get their blogs rolling.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 10, 2009

Development Social Media An Interview with Blogger Bob From TSA’s Evolution of Security Blog Tue, Mar 10, 2009 Best Of , Government 2.0 When I first started “ Social Media Str ategery &# six months ago, on e of my inspirations was the TSA’s “ Evolution of Security &# blog. Government 2.0

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Is there a sign on your blog silently screaming, “Please don’t help me grow?”. From the newest bloggers to the most well-established ones, that’s what happens when you don’t have clear and public guest post submission guidelines. Don’t scare away great guest posters and make people give up without you ever knowing.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 28, 2012

When I introduced Ramsay as a new member of the ViperChill team, one of the things we asked you all to do was share some of the challenges you face when it comes to blogging. I remember you mentioned before about a strategy where you can do an email publication instead of a blog. – Jayme.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2010

There are several other options, such as Flickr, Tumblr, WordPress, Blogger, etc… even Ping.fm. You can set up your own blog. Just like Posterous, you can use Amplify as your primary blogging platform, as well as auto-post to your own blog. Ah, but does the image accompanying your blog post show up?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

After I had expressed my thoughts in my blog post, I had an exchange with Louis on Twitter about comment fragmentation. I’ve learned to adapt by integrating those conversations on my blog wherever I can (as you can see, Richard Cunningham just posted on Louis’s site and you can read it here. This is a win-win approach.

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Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

You are here: ViperChill » Social Media » The Most Important Blogging Analysis Ever The Most Important Blogging Analysis Ever Written by Glen, this post has 79 Comments If you ask anyone what makes a blog popular, they’ll say content. What are the most popular posts on the top blogs out there?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

None of these folks blog weekly, so they are full of cool new ideas, and you’re going to love what they bring to the table here at Convince & Convert. Looking forward to reading the guest blog posts. Please thank them for their contributions with your attention, comments, and tweets. Hope your son enjoys hockey camp.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

While I was away, Convince & Convert featured 11 guest blog posts from friends, clients, and colleagues. Some of the guest writers blog on occasion at their own sites. None of them blog routinely. Blogging every day doesn’t make you a better thinker or consultant, it makes you faster at WordPress formatting.

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The Social Media Hat

AUGUST 2, 2016

If you've been in the social niche for any amount of time you will notice the throngs of people, marketers, and bloggers that are all struggling to make their brand known. We know we are able to get the answer from how the poster has written with one of the 5 W's. Click here to get involved with the community!

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Kikolani

JULY 30, 2012

In a very real way, people take notice and assume that the company has something to say, that it is part of the community rather than simply a static web page. Don’t let the ease at which posts and updates can be performed detract from how important they are to communicate with clients and followers! Related Posts.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 7, 2010

What should you link to in your blog posts? We’ll answer those questions today, using posts about the month’s most-blogged-about stories to illustrate good linking strategies. Let’s look at how a few bloggers used links to improve their posts about these stories…. Build relationships and community. Call of Duty.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 27, 2020

The post 9 Reasons Why You Should Build a Community Around Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. But for the next couple of weeks I want to talk about one particular method: building a community. But for the next couple of weeks I want to talk about one particular method: building a community.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 26, 2010

Do the folks at WordPress use Blogger to host their personal blogs? The guys installing your organization’s blogging software don’t realize that the “Add a Picture&# button doesn’t work because they don’t have blogs. Do the IT guys developing Windows 7 use Macs? Notice anything?

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

You lazy, ungrateful, good-for-nothing blog!”. Blogs are supposed to bring you traffic, collect comments, and spread your name across the Internet as everyone happily shares the content you so painstakingly created. But instead, your blog acts more like an apathetic teenager. But your blog was meant to be so much more than that.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 2, 2009

He advocates for asynchronous communications and for engaging with the community when and where they are, rather than trying to get more comments or web traffic. He advocates for asynchronous communications and for engaging with the community when and where they are, rather than trying to get more comments or web traffic."

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

I hope to use this as my home base for reporting back my thoughts on the sessions, on the speakers, and on what I learn from my fellow bloggers. I’m particularly excited to meet some of the notable bloggers that I’ve got on my blogroll as well as meeting some other new and upcoming bloggers too. The Whole. :

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Ever since I read Chris Guillebeau’s manifesto, 279 Days to Overnight Success , I’ve been inspired to create one for my own blog. The way that it communicated the message of his blog, packaged in an attractive, shareable, valuable asset that cemented his place as a niche leader, was enough to make this blogger gush.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 4, 2010

But campaigns like this - and blog posts like yours - help prove that this is, in fact, very true. As a previous poster mentioned, I dont follow celebrities either. Those are the kind of campaigns that raise awareness and build community -- and you nailed the importance of community for nonprofits. Read All About It!

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The Marketing Blog

JUNE 17, 2008

Home About In the Media Services & Tools for Bloggers OSSCamp Summer Edition June 18, 2008.3:22 Reply karmel July 2, 2008 at 10:51 pm u guys should check out my blog on great tshirts i’ve come across … it will be an eye opener for many of you in terms of what kind of stuff is available online these days.

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Today, I had the pleasure of participating in a Department of Homeland Security Blogger Round Table—an extension of the National Dialogue on the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review occurring online right now. Through this process, a community has been developed and needs to be cultivated. events around DC. third) phase of the process?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

That story hit the front page of Reddit and on Digg , and 67 people voted on my comment : Props to Reddit for visibly interacting with the community it serves. Reply Mark Dykeman September 26, 2007 at 7:38 am Hi Tamar, great blog! We’re a small but growing community, and have a much more open philosophy.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Anyone can set up a website for their personal voice; we call that a blog. The point is that consumers now have a more potent aggregate power: someone with a problem can now reach others with the same problem faster, build a community around this shared problem easily, and mobilize lots of people behind the common cause more efficiently.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 31, 2013

People often speak in very broad terms when giving tips or suggestions to improve blog traffic. One of the reasons I believe the 30 Days to a Better Blog is so successful is that it gives you clear, actionable and step by step advice regarding WHAT TO DO. Images are vital to our blog. Share your content with a new community.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 23, 2008

Basically, Chris has built up such a loyal following that whenever he tweets about one of your blog posts, tweets, etc., An argument that I often hear is, “why should I spend the time hassling with some blogger with a few thousand readers, when millions read the New York Times? How many pitches does a reporter get each day?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Digital and Dollars – Successfully Adding Online Marketing (..)

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

In my upcoming book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web ( Amazon link ), which is slated to be released in late Spring, I talk about the importance of brand evangelism as part of an effective community management strategy. Perhaps we will see better “strategy&# and less “campaign&# in the future?

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Five years ago, when I joined my company, the only mentions of the terms “wikis&# and “blogs&# were usually preceded by the words “What the hell is a…&# Now, as with most organizations, there is an enormous demand for social media, both internally among my colleagues, and externally with my clients. briefings.

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