Firebelly

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

And what if the headline had been “Boost your Blog Traffic” instead? What if the original title of this post had been “Boost Your Blog Traffic”? And I’ve seen blog posts and magazine articles that are just about that jumbled. A blog post is around 300 – 400 words. So why, how, what?

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ProBlogger

APRIL 8, 2014

Even WordPress also published an announcement post in which they share the details of Getty’s new offering and how easy it is to embed an image into your blog. Compare these facts above to going with Creative Commons content instead: Creative Commons : Creative Commons-licensed images can be used for any purpose, by anyone, anywhere.

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SocMed Sean

MARCH 18, 2012

"Spring" via promanex on Flickr under creative commons license. Just a heads-up…your blog may need some Spring cleaning, too. WP-CleanFix is a great plugin that can help you do some Spring cleaning on your blog. Are those widgets slowing down your blog? Ahhhh Spring! There you go!

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Ari Herzog

AUGUST 12, 2012

I get a lot of my ideas from other blogs. He shared how to get blogging ideas from emails. When I find my writing segues away from the title, I copy that chunk of text and create a new blog post from it. There are many places online for free photos for your blog. People leave your blog if you have too many links.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Increasing traffic to your blog is probably one of the most important things you should work on this year. Here are 10 uncanny ways to drive more traffic to your blog. Take posts from your blog and expand on them for an e-book. Use your blog and guest blog posts to promote your book. Sell it on Amazon.com.

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Buffer Social

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

But there’s one question we get asked quite often: Where can you find free images that are high quality and cleared to use for your blog posts or social media content? But you can find a public domain photo, use a Creative Commons image that might need attribution, or even create your own image from scratch. Stocksnap.io.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 14, 2011

If you’re just getting started blogging (or maybe even if you’ve been doing it a while), here are some WordPress plugins I really really like. Image: terren in Virginia via Flickr, CC 2.0 It just did it on the Flickr link above.) Why bother, if you already have a search box on your blog, you ask? LinkWithin.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Image: mj*laflaca via Flickr , Creative Commons It’s about how that writing looks. They might be helpful to you as you continue on your path as a blogging Grasshopper. Platforms with mobile interfaces like Posterous can be quick easy ways to mobile blog. I just get kicks out of mobile blogging w/ multimedia.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

First, you… Image: Kate Sumbler via Flickr , Creative Commons Hold on! 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.

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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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agora pulse

AUGUST 7, 2019

You need visual content for blog posts, social media posts, thumbnails for videos, slideshows, ads … and so on. CC0 (Creative Commons Zero). Flickr Commons. You could spend hours browsing the weird, wonderful, and vintage images on Flickr Commons. I’ll get to that after we look at the sites.).

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 14, 2012

This popular plugin lets you incorporate all of your social sharing buttons into a customizable bar that sits on the top or side of each blog post for easy sharing. Creating visually appealing content for your blog has become increasingly important, especially now with the advent of Pinterest. No Google or Flickr search necessary.

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Social Media Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2010

One of the oft-overlooked elements in the routine of blogging is image selection. So you see, the cavalier approach to image selection simply won't do for blogging. This post is designed to help you think about where and how you choose images for your blog (or site, or brochure, or whatever), with some bonus content thrown in.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 28, 2012

It meant the end of the 30 word “Read More” blog posts whose link led to another 30 word post that led to another 30 word post, and so on. Photo credit: ajc1 (Flickr, Creative Commons). It means now we can get some real marketing done.

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SocMed Sean

MARCH 11, 2012

'Angry bird puts a lid on it' courtesy of etee on Flickr via Creative Commons license If you’re engaged in social media for either personal or professional purposes (and if you’re reading this, I’m betting you are), there’s an important skillset and rule that you might want to think about: The art of not replying.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Image: twchoi11 via Flickr , Creative Commons Though I wouldn’t consider myself as devoted as some fan clubs. Image: Gitgat via Flickr , Creative Commons Instead, speak up and join the conversation. If you choose to stay quiet, it may create an opportunity for the rumors to gain even more traction.

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Firebelly

JULY 31, 2012

He looks at just a few articles per week or day, and shares them with our readers on the Firebelly blog. Photo credit: Chuck_Heston (Flickr, Creative Commons). It’s just this much shy of spamming as a way to build page traffic for Paper.li. This is why I like my colleague Chad Richards ‘ posts so much.

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SocMed Sean

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Frustrated courtesy of M artinaK15 on Flickr via Creative Commons Writer’s block sucks. Blogging often entails a lot more than technical writing. Blogging requires writing, graphic design, search engine optimization, relationship building, social promotion, and a lot more. Blogger’s block sucks more.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 11, 2011

Video Blog Posts. Image: BenSpark via Flickr, CC 2.0. Once it’s loaded, embed it into your blog post, your website; anywhere you can that you own and have control over is an excellent place to host your videos. If you do put them into your blog posts, please remember the “readers” out there. I say, “Yes!”.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

The Bamboo Project Blog. Massive list posts ("50+ Ways to Use Flickr," "100 Social Media Resources", etc.) Flickr photo via BTal. You can: Take a picture (or several) and upload them to Flickr or to your blog. Write about your hometown in your blog. Flickr photo via ragesoss.

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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!

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Firebelly

OCTOBER 23, 2012

You only have to write a blog post once a week, and tweet a few times a day, and dabble on LinkedIn or Facebook. You started blogging once a week. It’s a quiet little blog or Twitter account in your own quiet little corner of the world, but it’s getting results. What Does Soccer Have to do With Content Marketing?

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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. Remember the advertorial ?

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Firebelly

AUGUST 8, 2012

It’s more than just publishing a post to your blog, or uploading a video to YouTube. And of course, you’ll want a blog to be able to send people to for more in-depth information. Photo credit: Chris Devers (Flickr, Creative Commons). Publishing is the overall approach of content and conversation.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Image: sahmeepee via Flickr , Creative Commons The Best means that you are indubitably, unequivocally, indisputably the best in who you are, what you do, and what you stand for, no matter who – or what – else you are compared with, or what others might be exposed to. Oh, one other thing: my blog = my sandbox.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

Things* (Note: Details about each task will be activated every week with posts related to each item) Week 1: Introduction ( official start of week August 7th) Read this blog & find out about the program. Week 2: Blogging Set up your own blog & add your first post. Register your blog on PLCMC Central and begin your Learning 2.0

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Image: Ranjit Bhatnagar via Flickr , Creative Commons And thanks to myfirsttweet.com , I can share it with you. 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. How unbelievably ridiculous. Or pathetic.

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

They want your information about your website and blog, and it’s up to you to do a good job providing it. That means you can’t rely on SEO tricks anymore, like a blog post that pulls the first 100 words of a news article and includes a link forwarding it to the original article. (Or What DOES Matter? Good content matters.

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SocMed Sean

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

So when I did a search for “ios 5″ on Google, not only did I see web pages and blog posts, but I also saw Google+ posts and comments on the operating system. Since no one appears to be using Google+, even writing blog posts like this one is essentially a big waste of time. Share this on Facebook Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2008

The Bamboo Project Blog. The Power of Blogging ISNT Just in Reading Them. In a few weeks were going to be looking at blogs in the Work Literacy course. In fact, I have to go on record right now as saying that reading blogs is only a small part of what makes blogs powerful for learning. Flickr photo via Nesster.

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Photo credit: JanneM (Flickr, Creative Commons). In other words, you don’t have to keyword stuff, you just have to write about the important topics that you want Google to know you for. But, thanks to Google, you have to do it a lot, you have to do it well, and you have to let Google know you did it.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Using Blogs to Enhance Learning â?? Using Blogs with Students. One such option would be to use blogs to enhance the learning environment for students. Over at Campus Technology , readers will find an in-depth post on the use of blogs in the classroom that seeks to ensure proper implementation of the tool with students.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Image: Martin LaBar via Flickr, Creative Commons And even many non-Christians will be relaxing, perhaps joining in the revelry (as many of my friends did when I was growing up in India). Shannon Pauls Very Official Blog Spin Sucks TopRank Online Marketing Blog Writing Boots - David Murray Love WUL? Wanna Subscribe?

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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. My First Guest Blog for @Shonali on Digital Marketing for Nonprofits! Wanna Subscribe? Shall We Tweet?

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Also… Image: Thom Watson via Flickr, Creative Commons OK, I’ll stop now, I can see you rolling your eyes, going, “Come on, act your age.&# Even when I am reading blogs or catching up on Reader. I actually have a bunch of them. There’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, of course. Also Cinderella.

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Yours is more like a blog without traffic if you generate thousands of visitors a day that leave your blog the next second. When you must have gone through the design and customization of your blog to suit your taste, making money with depends, solely, on one factor, and its engagement stats. How sticky is the blog?

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 25, 2011

So when we talk about the number of blogs trebling in the last two years and over a billion tweets per day being transmitted, we begin to see a much wider picture. Image: Loius Volant on Flickr, Creative Commons. The ratio is only poised to rise with time. And, as with all cultural shifts, economic shifts are inevitable.

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