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

JUNE 20, 2011

So here are a few simple steps that anyone can follow in order to ensure that their guest post has a higher chance of getting published on their target blog. Research your target blog. You will want to know what topics the blog owner posts, and what topics are popular. Get to know the blog owner. Have great timing.

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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. 9 of my top 10 blog articles are social media related.

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Harp Interactive

MARCH 31, 2010

Blog Comments. Google Page Rank for branded and unbranded terms. Here are some tools to measure these with: Google Analytics: (Set up advanced segments, events and reporting) to get key visitor, referral and viewership statistics. PostRank : A content analyzer and provides great feedback on Tweets, Digg, Stumble and Freindfeed.

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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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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. Are tweets more important than Facebook shares?

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Metrics Postrank Social Media Klout 160

Kikolani

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Writing is my number one source of income that has been a result of my blogging activities. Guest blogging isn’t just about getting exposure – there are plenty of sites that will pay you to contribute an article to their site. The following are my tips for getting a paid contributor spot on a great blog.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

PostRank has a comparison tool that uses its Domain Activity API to measure total engagement based on user participation across multiple social platforms. PostRank counts “engagement events” which it defines as individual activities such as a tweet, like, comment, digg, RSS view, etc. So I ran 30+ news sites through the tool.

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Sites News Postrank Engagement 176

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

It’s the Google generation’s way of thinking. They might be helpful to you as you continue on your path as a blogging Grasshopper. This is hugely helpful, because each theme is different and, as a result, the way a post looks when published on one blog, might look completely different on another.

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Twist Image

DECEMBER 1, 2010

from Facebook status updates and 140 character tweets on Twitter to Blogs and posting videos on YouTube , the landscape is far, wide and deep. PostRank is one of many online analytics tools that attempts to rate and score social statistics from reader's online to help people determine what is worthy of reading. google reader.

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Postrank Google Reader Statistics Publishing 108

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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Questions WordPress Postrank Blogger 167

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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Postrank Curation Foursquare Case Study 168

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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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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Jason Yormark

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

I knew running a contest would give my blog a traffic and engagement boost, but I was definitely curious to see how much exactly. 10 PostRank (50% higher then average). I would say that what the contest did for me was encourage existing readers of my blog to engage, not so much attract new readers. Add this to Google Bookmarks.

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Social Media Postrank Technorati StumbleUpon 124

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

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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Akamai Marketing

JULY 28, 2011

Now, as I said in an earlier blog post, you should use several different metrics to dig deeper into your audience and see what’s really happening with the content your sharing. Comments and Shares on Website/Blog : Track the topic and the number of shares and discussion around the topic. Increased share of voice?

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Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

5-star ratings on Yelp.com from blog readers. Companies like PostRank (with its analytics product), and Klout (with its online influence measure) and leading this integrated metrics parade. A search of Google for “good email open rate&# fins 74,600 matching web pages! What you can do with them matters a lot.

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Metrics Postrank Klout Marketing 128

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. You have no editor to tell you what not to post on your blog.

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ROI SEO Social Media Tips 114

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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Tools Adwords Marketing Class 247

Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 15, 2011

link] #smb #smallbiz Log in to Reply WendyBlomseth says: March 18, 2011 at 3:02 am RT @CarolineMelberg: Is Twitter Still A Good Marketing Tool?

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Small Business Tools Postrank Twitter 93

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? Suburban solitude, domesticity, neatly-numbered blocks, are the here and now. Read All About It!

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Postrank Tourism RSS Blogroll 129

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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Plaxo Products Tools Class 251

Janet Fouts

JANUARY 27, 2011

It’s a given these days that before at least 50% of the first-time meetings you’re about to have you and the person you’re meeting will have Googled each other to learn a bit more about the person. Postrank Analytics.

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Klout Brands Social Media Postrank 138

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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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. Below are six that I’ve found extremely useful and I’d suggest you check them out and install them onto your blog. Image: Wikipedia. It has also increased the time spent on the site.

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WordPress Sites Postrank Wikipedia 44

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? from Mizz Information. Trying to figure out Quora? by Bill Sledzik.

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Class Postrank Tourism Survey 144

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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Class WordPress Postrank Comments 202

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. Keep up the great writing as this is a very valuable Blog! Plus the related blogs/links feature on most of these online sources really help you dig in one particular direction if you so wish!

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Review Case Study Postrank Study 209

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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SocialFish

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Deirdre Reid has another great 101 post about Google Reader. As it happens, I LOVE Google Reader and I have TONS of Reader tips for ya! list of links on the associationTECH blog – so I can find them all later when I’m ready to write the post. Tip 3 – Postrank extension. You got any good ones?

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Google Reader Google Postrank Tips 200

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. 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. Can you say OMIGOD?!

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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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Social Media Class Creative Commons Flickr 224

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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