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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Kikolani

MAY 1, 2011

As some of you may know, I recently launched a photography blog, Photostry. I started out on sites by photo bloggers I met at a photowalk in downtown Phoenix and branched out from there with people in their comments and on their blogrolls. So how do I organize all of those blogs? Google Reader & Blog Commenting.

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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. They tend to love that and will happily migrate to your new site.

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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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Harp Interactive

MARCH 31, 2010

To begin with there are two types of customer interaction that you should measure and analyze: Consumers who find your website through social media: These consumers increase traffic to your website and since they come to the site qualified (with intent) they also proportionately increase conversions (eventual or immediate revenue).

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 11, 2011

One of the challenges of writing a blog is knowing how to value the wide variety of reader engagements and behaviors. PostRank Analytics solves this problem. The best part of PostRank Analytics is the Engagement Score, which is sort of your Klout score for each blog post. My favorite is Open Site Explorer from SEOmoz.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

In other words, while your content might be fabulous in its essence, your reader is doing exactly what we grew up being told not to do: judge a book by its cover. In the digital world, that’s judging content by its ability to intrigue you in a split-second. I just get kicks out of mobile blogging w/ multimedia.

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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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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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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. Post Promotion.

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SocialFish

DECEMBER 3, 2010

or higher out of 10 by my beloved PostRank plugin. I’m going to test whether this selection can be automated to some extent (thereby creating an example of how YOU can save time should you want to use PostRank rankings for your own association curating!). Why We Still Need Real Social Media Strategists (Very Official Blog).

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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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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Teach your readers to take ownership of content. Copyblogger used this book as a guide to making boring content sexy. Establishing your voice A blog post with pointers isn’t only meant to teach, it is also meant to connect with readers. When it comes to blogging, anyone can compile data and churn out a post.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 19, 2010

If web metrics from these local sites start showing less referral traffic from Google, then it’s surely possible that Google Instant is, at least in part, to blame. Bing offers an excellent guide on how to optimize sites (PDF) for its search engine. Relevant content is, and will continue to be, key to reaching searchers.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

whatever, I never can tell) and revel in blog posts that make you feel the writer is talking to you, no doubt you are already familiar with Olivier Blanchard ‘s The BrandBuilder Blog. Olivier has one of those remarkable blogs I know I can go back to time and time again, because I will find something to re-read, and re-read again.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

But what about SEO for news sites, particularly Google News? Your news release will not be competitive with well-known Beth Kanter’s Beth’s Blog. Write original, timely, relevant content , says Google (heard this one before ?). What do you think is going on here? You likely want your story to be news, now.

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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. Amongst the topics that came up was some common sense insight into the usage of geo-based social media sites like Britekite and Foursquare.

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Kikolani

JUNE 24, 2010

Short posts are easier to read, so visitors have more time to continue to additional posts on a site. Short posts are faster to write, giving the author the opportunity to write more posts for their own site or others. Do your readers come to your blog for concepts and theories or how to’s and advice? on Postrank.

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Kikolani

JUNE 27, 2011

If you’re like me, you write a lot of posts for sites other than your own and want to be able to share those posts with your readers. The solution to this would be having an RSS feed with only your content in it from each of the sources you write for. Creating a Custom RSS Feed. Of course, that is a challenge in of itself.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Amplify’d from www.nevillehobson.com Connect your community with a Twitter daily newspaper About a month ago, I discovered Paper.li , a service that aggregates content linked to by people in a Twitter community into an online newspaper. &# here’s your answer. Regardless, thanks for visiting! pts Settings. Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Amplify’d from www.nevillehobson.com Connect your community with a Twitter daily newspaper About a month ago, I discovered Paper.li , a service that aggregates content linked to by people in a Twitter community into an online newspaper. &# here’s your answer. Regardless, thanks for visiting! pts Settings. Read All About It!

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 27, 2011

If any part of your job relates to social engagement you’d best have a good look at your numbers on some of the ranking sites and see how you’re doing before you stick your foot in your mouth and say you’re fantastic at creating an online presence. Postrank Analytics. Here’s a game plan. Peer Index.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Priya took us through the strategy and tactics of the campaign, which relied heavily on these “influentials&# to generate online visibility for the campaign, and by providing interactive content online for people to “play with.&# How will they change their landing page/site to optimize conversions? Were they paid?

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Kikolani

JANUARY 13, 2011

I have seen some that are so far off base, I just wonder if they used an automated keyword search, found that I mentioned NFL once in passing, and then let then decided my site must be a great fit for a sporting goods store. Take a little time to research the blogs you are considering reaching out to. How to Do Blogger Outreach.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

While I try to keep it updated, it certainly does not reflect all the blogs I subscribe to in my Reader. Part of this is because some of the blogs I Read (yes, that’s a capital “R&# ) have nothing to do with public relations… but I love them any way. and break up the blogs accordingly. Dave lays out how.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Where to use keywords in corporate blog posts , by Lee Odden. 3 ways to get great content from your boring business , by Shannon Paul. I still have not checked out Quora, heading over to Shannons post on making boring content better. Whats more, I just added new fruitful blog names in my Google Reader. by Bill Sledzik.

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Jason Yormark

AUGUST 30, 2009

For more information on the author, check out his Socialnomics blog here , his articles at Search Engine Watch or simply get the book. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Keep up the great writing as this is a very valuable Blog! You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2010

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? Mark as read Approve comment S- Okay, now youve given me a blog idea. That’s really nice.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Communicate with Content After strategic thinking, the key to social media success is content creation. And make sure to atomize your content , taking one idea and propagating it in as many places and formats as possible, each reaching a different audience. There’s certainly a methodology for attracting blog readership.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 4, 2011

All this via one bare-bones blog and a Facebook group. With the number of dialects numbering over a thousand, these invite customized content delivery. Get Shareaholic test Filed under Amrit Pal , Social Media | Tags: pink chaddi , social media in india , UIDAI | Comments (7) Site settings comment help? Read it here.] [.]

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

A few tips for experimenting with QR codes , by Joe Walton at the Real PR blog. PR of course , from the PR and Media Blog of James Crawford. Get Shareaholic test Filed under Public Relations , Social Media , Weekly Roundup | Tags: chipotle , coca-cola , pr , QR codes , SEO | Comments (4) Site settings comment help?

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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. This is a bit disheartening and dangerous, as social media is and can be a lot more than just your company’s presence on these sites. Esteban Kolsky´s last blog.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 1, 2011

If you read this blog regularly ( ahem, there’s a “subscribe&# button to your right if you don’t ), you’ll have noticed more posts from more authors on a regular basis. In 2010, WUL got a “new pair of shoes,&# as they say, thanks to the guest bloggers, many of whom are now part of my regular blogging team.

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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. Talk to them, engage with them and their content and show them that you should be on that list. For example: Obvious: Share their content.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Walking the Social Talk December 6th, 2010 Tweet These boots were made for talking As editor of Women Grow Business (disclosure: client, which I love ), I come across remarkable blog posts every day.

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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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