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7 Reasons WordPress Rocks for Blogs

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Did you hear about the Blogger shut-down in May that left thousands of businesses without their blogs for several days? That’s not good news; after all, what are bloggers to do without access to their blogs? WordPress.com is provided by WordPress, the Open Source blogging software. What’s the difference between the two?

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Content is King for Social Media Success

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Until the last couple of years as Google and other search engines changed their algorithms with updates like the “Panda” update, you rarely heard the term “content marketing.”

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Is Your Marketing Plan Integrated?

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But do you need a blog, social media, search engine optimization, or e-mail marketing? It isn’t as simple as it once may have been, as new tactics appear frequently and the search engines change daily. Do you need 75% traditional marketing and 25% online marketing or vice-versa?

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Content Marketing – What is it and How Does it Work for Business?

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Content marketing includes writing articles, blog posts, guest posts on other blogs, articles and content for your website, creating videos, creating podcasts, press releases … anywhere you can create and publish content online. Once the content is written, you then begin to utilize it to link to your website or blog.

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5 Easy Ways To Reach Local Customers Online

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Your local blog – Make your blog a valuable local resource. Local search engine optimization – People search for all kinds of things online, and a lot of what people search for is local. Once you’re in the search engines, local search gets a lot easier.

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10 Simple Truths About Business Marketing Today

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A blog is still the one indispensable online marketing tool that will get you more search engine exposure than almost any other tool. Social media is not an “if” anymore, but a “when” and a “how.”. Social media is not a substitute for building relationships. It is a channel for building relationships.

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Your Online Posts – Including Facebook – Will Soon Be Found by Google

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The search engine giant will soon begin indexing posts on Facebook and other sites and showing those comments in Google search results. Any site that includes PostData, such as WordPress blogs , will be searched by Google. How do you know if information on those sites can be found by search engines?

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