Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Image: Greig Christie via Flickr, Creative Commons Since Google Instant’s launch just over a month ago, digital marketers have been scrambling to figure out how search engine marketing strategies might need to change. So far, early research indicates little difference in the length of searches since Google Instant.) Search algorithms.

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Kikolani

JUNE 25, 2013

PostRank was a social analytics platform that scored blogs based on their engagement (comments and social shares). I wrote about PostRank regularly as a way to discover the most engaging content on blogs for inspiration, guest post pitches, and competitor research. PostRank Alternatives. Google Reader.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Earlier this week, I shared the top 25 blogging and social media posts on Kikolani. The following are my top 25 favorite guest blogging contributions, allowing me to cover a wider range of topics. Learn how to balance blogging expenses with income, as well as project future earnings. Link Building.

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Kikolani

JULY 28, 2010

There are a lot of places to list your blog for getting the maximum exposure, as well as places where you can receive blog reviews that may be the first impression a visitor may come across for your site. Here are some to add your blog or submit your site to in order to increase your blog traffic and reputation.

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Jason Yormark

AUGUST 25, 2010

Like many bloggers, I’ve gone in and out of writing, and that doesn’t help with maintaining a consistent flow of traffic to your blog. At the end of the day, driving eyeballs to my blog isn’t really the ultimate goal, writing useful and appreciated content is. But I like anyone loves to see people visit.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

If you are a blogger trying to make money online and the recommended powerful ways to make money with advertising, affiliate marketing, and creating products is not working out for you, then you need to focus on doing something you’re already probably good at – creating content. Find Blogging and Freelance Writing Jobs.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

It’s the Google generation’s way of thinking. As you continue to hone your craft (as I try to do), here are some of the exercises I put my writing (and those of my guest bloggers) through on a daily basis, to see if it looks as attractively as it (I think) reads. I just get kicks out of mobile blogging w/ multimedia.

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Kikolani

JANUARY 16, 2011

I would have to say that it was the fastest and hardest I’ve typed within one hour, but it was a great experience where I got to really learn a lot about what blogging questions people have today. Social Media Examiner’s Live Blogging Q&A. Question: How important is video blogging as compared to typical blogging?

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

A while back, I was looking at my Google Analytics for WUL and I noticed that my 404 page , i.e. the one you get when the server can’t find the page you’re looking for on a particular site, was the 4th most highly-trafficked page on my blog. And they wouldn’t bother to poke around on the blog to find it.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Ten Reasons PR Pros Should Blog November 10th, 2010 Tweet Last week, Joe Hackman hosted Danny Brown , Gini Dietrich and me on his BlogTalkRadio show, aptly entitled PRapalooza. Blogging is a strange beast.

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Kikolani

JUNE 15, 2010

In the last few months, I have had the privilege of becoming a regular contributor on several multi-author blogs such as Search Engine Journal , Famous Bloggers , Social Media Examiner , Search Engine Watch , and Stay on Search. This should be the most obvious and important use of a private blog group. Announcements.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 13, 2011

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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Kikolani

JANUARY 26, 2010

One of my goals for 2010 is to attend some events / seminars / conventions pertaining to blogging and social media, and today was a great start as I attended the Social Media Arizona event in Tempe. Blogging Tips for Serious Bloggers. The presentation included great tips for both beginning to advanced bloggers.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 24, 2011

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.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Google, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Amplify, are the here and now. calendars – Google Blog Search [.] Shannon Pauls Very Official Blog Spin Sucks TopRank Online Marketing Blog Writing Boots - David Murray Love WUL? And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent. Thanks for visiting! Wanna Subscribe?

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 25, 2010

I’ve been including it in my e-signature for a while now, and have incorporated it into my website as well as this blog (you’ve probably noticed the Tungle widget on this blog, even if you haven’t used it). When people use it instead of email to schedule meetings, it really saves time. I don’t.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Where to use keywords in corporate blog posts , by Lee Odden. Whats more, I just added new fruitful blog names in my Google Reader. Shannon Pauls Very Official Blog Spin Sucks TopRank Online Marketing Blog Writing Boots - David Murray Love WUL? And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent.

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Kikolani

JUNE 27, 2011

There may also be times where you want to only share writing by you, and if you have a lot of guest bloggers on your site as well as guest posts on other sites, having a full RSS feed for your blog won’t do. The next part may be different for some of you if the only domain you have is your blog. Creating a Custom RSS Feed.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 5, 2010

So today’s roundup features seven posts from blogs that I have never before shared; not because I didn’t want to, but because I was too thoughtless to do so. When I clicked through to her blog, I was even more enchanted. Google can’t save us from ourselves , from SpeakerBox’s The Sounding Board.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 6, 2011

Let’s face it, how you make money from blogging is in serious flux right now. How to get you standing out in front of brands and agencies, and find new ways to make money from your blogging pedigree along the way. Bloggers everywhere need to rethink their approaches: display advertising needs reinvention: who’s it working for?

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Jeff Esposito

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

My favorite thing about the WordPress blogging platform is that outside of the backend system, no two blogs operate the same way. This is mostly due to third-party plugins that meet certain requirements that bloggers have. Image: Wikipedia. Over the past few years, I ave tried dozens of plugins to accomplish goals for the site.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

First, marketers of all stripes seem to have accepted (for now) that social media in large measure = Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube and blogs. Esteban Kolsky´s last blog. Esteban Kolsky´s last blog. Esteban Kolsky´s last blog. Focus on How, Not What I draw two conclusions from this data.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2010

As of now, I have Amplify set up to auto-post to Twitter, Facebook (I can sync it to either my personal or business page, or both) Google Buzz and Delicious. There are several other options, such as Flickr, Tumblr, WordPress, Blogger, etc… even Ping.fm. You can set up your own blog. You can schedule posts to Facebook.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

In fact, a search for “social media agencies&# on Google yields more than 41 MILLION matching Web pages. Remember, the most important customer of EVERY company is Google. Don’t just let your clients post to their Facebook page willy nilly, or write random blog posts whenever they feel that WordPress urge.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Image: Lars Plougmann via Flickr, Creative Commons Really, if you just read through the comments, there’s your follow-up blog post… but since I promised you one, you’re getting one. I’ll hopefully be expounding on those in a future blog post.&# A Burke always, always keeps her promises! Interesting.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

If this takes the form of a blog post, it usually includes some kind of disclaimer (“this is my list,&# for example), and a question at the end as to who you would add. Comment on their blog posts. Ask them to contribute to a blog post… or profile them in one. Blogging doesnt have to look like high school.

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 29, 2011

Blogs for business are an outstanding tool for business, they can build community, be the backbone of your social media program, and drive traffic to your website, just for starters. Its so easy to think that because their are millions of blogs (and if you check out Technorati you’ll see that I am write right.) Define your goal.

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The Way of the Web

APRIL 7, 2011

I can’t remember where I first saw their offer mentioned (Possibly Reddit ), but if you emailed them via an address listed on their blog, they offered to send a T-Shirt and a cool little trading cards booklet which I can’t find to photograph right now. Say 25% of the T-shirt recipients are like me and have a blog.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 1, 2010

Google Analytics Before Google Analytics came along there weren’t really that many decent tracking tools available. Instead of waiting around for Google to catch up, you can see what is happening on your website, right now. Postrank I have been using Postrank Analytics for about 3 weeks now and find it really impressive.

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Viper Chill

MAY 6, 2010

More specifically, I’ve feared that I would run out of blog post ideas. You can find blogs that will give you a few link building tips each week and then I go ahead and write 15 in one post. You will find blogs with tips here and there on Wordpress SEO , and I go and write what I think is the only guide you’ll ever need.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 7, 2011

Experienced blog publishers recognize that popularity and traffic come over time. When you build a blog for the first time, nobody will know about its existence unless you tell them. If you send a tweet or share a link about your new blog post, wait some time and do it again. Once you tell someone, tell the person again.

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Kikolani

JUNE 28, 2013

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+ , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Blogging / Content. Share Your Best Blog Posts.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 26, 2011

You can see more about this in the Facebook video on the subject (and I thought it was interesting that there’s no way you can embed this in a blog post, but whatever…) Hmm. Ad Age didn’t say this, but I assume #4 applies only if you’ve already “liked&# that page.) In aggregate they will ad up.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

Do I have social media integration on my business blog? If you have a business blog, you have to integrate your social media profiles on it. Ask your blog’s readers to follow you on Twitter, subscribe to your YouTube channel, add you on LinkedIn, or “Like” you on Facebook. There are plugins that can help you do that.

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Kikolani

JULY 23, 2010

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, a new SEO blogging contest, and some creative sheep LED art on kikolani.com. Blogging / Writing. 5 reasons why blogging is not easy – what you’ll need to be successful. The Resources Mashup. Business / Career / Finance.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 17, 2011

You had an idea for a blog. You developed a smart blog strategy. You learned how bloggers make money, and you even followed some examples of how Darren makes money with his blogs. Then you picked up a “how to&# guide, like the excellent free ebook from Michael Martine, “How to Start a Business Blog.&#.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

I do this by keeping links to the introductory #measurePR post , as well as to the MeasurePR category on my blog handy. When you go back and look at the transcripts, you’ll find people share a wealth of resources… blog posts, websites, and most of all, their own thoughts, often artfully captured in a perfect sound bite.

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