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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Telling someone to use natural keywords in their blog can have the same effect because suddenly you become overly aware of just how stilted your writing is. Marketing is all about tribes when you think about it because we are seeking to connect with people who share the same interests.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

The Internet erupted yesterday when Matt Cutts said that guest blogging is “done.” My interpretation is this, Guest blogging as a link building tool only is a dead science; you can expect the search engines (especially Google) to start roughing it up a bit. I think that’s what Matt Cutts is really getting at.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Blogging and branding go hand in hand like few other things online. You might say that to blog is to brand your business, or that branding online is blogging online. But what’s that got to do with blogging, or branding? There’s no more perfect tool for that than your blog. What changed?

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

When it comes to off-site marketing and content publishing, few tactics provide as many benefits as guest blogging. The gurus and the ninjas are right about one thing: Guest blogging produces a lot of benefit for small business owners who want to expand their businesses and build their brands. Don’t abuse it.

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MARCH 24, 2014

One of the largest guest blogging networks was penalized by Google and that got a firestorm going all over the Web. Then, a real discussion on the purpose for guest blogging got started and no one is agreeing. But the average Internet marketer is still advising bloggers to “ link with value.”

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JULY 1, 2011

When it comes to blogging, there is no one-size-fits-all strategy. With that in mind, here are 4 viable blog strategies that work. SEO Blogging – With SEO blogging, the idea is to produce content that gains search engine traction. This type of blogging has a bad name in some circles.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

One of the growing trends in the online space for e-commerce websites is to attach a blog to the site and promote the products in your store. Many e-commerce website owners simply add a blog to their sites and then promote the products in their stores. It likely will not appeal to the broader market.

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MARCH 14, 2014

There’s a raging debate in Internet marketing circles about long vs. short articles. On the other hand, advocates for multiple short blog posts over a period of time argue that the number of pages increases your opportunities for better search engine marketing and therefore give you more search rankings with increased traffic.

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JULY 1, 2015

Over the last 10 years I have seen online marketing go through quite a few changes. That includes blogging. In fact, blogging and branding are inextricably linked if you do it right. For businesses, however, blogging has changed branding in a few very powerful ways. Let’s count them.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Your business has a lot to offer, and you have poured your efforts into making it a good thing, but the truth is that marketing, in order to be effective, is not about you. Marketing Is About Your Customer. So in order to market effectively, you need to understand your customer.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

If you’ve ever been stuck on a blog post idea and didn’t know what to write about, then you might have been tempted to steal someone else’s idea. That said, here are 3 ways you can steal blog post ideas without getting into trouble. Write your blog post for that new headline. Make it your own.

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DECEMBER 26, 2013

Remember when blog comments were about building links and traffic? That was the early days of blogging. Then Google decided not to count blog comments for links. That pretty much shut down the blog-commenting-as-linkbuilding game. But blog comments still hold value. Just about everybody was doing it.

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DECEMBER 8, 2015

It’s safe to say that business blogging isn’t going anywhere. Google still likes fresh, original content, and writing a blog is the best way to feed solid meat to the most popular search engines on the planet. While blogging isn’t going away any time soon, it is constantly being changed in its total form.

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JANUARY 31, 2014

Now that Matt Cutts has declared guest blogging dead , SEOs and Internet marketers in every niche will start looking for alternative ways to build links back to their websites. But you don’t have to be a guest blog spammer to find other ways to link back to your website. Video marketing – People love to embed videos.

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JULY 3, 2012

Blogging, more than any other kind of marketing, is multi-dimensional. In fact, I’ve identified 5 key dimensions of your blog and they have all equal value. When you blog you should keep each of these 5 dimensions in mind. 1 rankings for your blog alone. 1 rankings for your blog alone.

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MAY 8, 2011

» Do You HAVE To Blog Every Day? One of the things that you’ll hear often among professional Internet marketers and SEOs is that you should blog every day. One of the things that you’ll hear often among professional Internet marketers and SEOs is that you should blog every day.

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AUGUST 24, 2011

Successful Internet marketers know you can’t stick to one tactic online and hope to succeed. Today’s post is a highlight on three online marketing tactics that have been proven to work over and over again for most marketers who try them. Those tactics are: E-mail marketing. Add it to other tactics that work.

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JULY 8, 2011

Where do you get your blog ideas ? There are plenty of places to go online to get ideas for your blog posts. No matter what industry or niche you serve, these 21 sources for blog post ideas are golden opportunities. Your RSS aggregator – Do you subscribe to the most popular blogs in your niche? Blog Catalog.

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MAY 8, 2013

I’ve been a big proponent of guest blogging and still am. As happens after all Google updates, Internet marketers scramble to change their tactics. In this case, more than a decade of link building tactics were turned on their head, so what did online marketers do to gain an upper hand? So what’s the bottom line?

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FEBRUARY 16, 2015

By this time, I hope you have been convinced that adding a blog to your site has great potential for enhancing your marketing efforts, adding to your site’s authority, and increasing your audience. But where is your blog being seen? But why would your blog be a good idea to post on this site?

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AUGUST 27, 2011

When it comes to small business online marketing tactics, what is more effective – blogs, social media, or e-mail? E-mail marketing has been a mainstay of Internet marketing since the very beginning days of the World Wide Web. If you are a small business owner doing any online marketing, then you should have a blog.

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MARCH 6, 2012

If your business has an online presence then you are now in a very competitive market. The news is not all bad however, you can compete, and these four low cost online marketing strategies can help you to increase traffic, market awareness, and hopefully, profits. Forums are another activity that is free, apart from your time.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Conducting research for your blog articles and other content marketing initiatives is one of the most important activities you can perform. Blogging for Small Business blogging content marketing research Social Media' You don’t want that. It will affect your readership. Don’t rely on it completely.

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AUGUST 19, 2013

When it comes to content marketing, it isn’t enough to simply post high quality content on your own website. Here are 4 ways you can develop a more aggressive content marketing strategy. Guest blogging – It’s great that you’re posting on your own blog on a regular basis, but are you doing any guest blogging?

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JULY 29, 2012

Blogging has often been called the bridge between social media and search engine optimization. With blogging you are feeding the search engines every time you create a new blog post. If you blog once a day, that’s a new web page on your website. Its a multi-tiered approach to marketing that works.

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APRIL 15, 2013

Your first three months blogging for your business blog are critical. If you can make it through those months and establish a solid blogging routine with good work habits, then you can keep your blog active in the long term. Here’s the question: How do you get through those first three blogging months?

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FEBRUARY 6, 2011

» Is E-mail Marketing More Effective Than Social Media Marketing? It seems that e-mail marketing is still one of the most efficient and cost effective channels available to businesses – that’s both online and traditional brick and mortar businesses. Are The Yellow Pages Outdated?

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APRIL 22, 2011

Of course, you only get these benefits if your blog and if you blog in the right manner. Here are those 3 benefits: Fresh Content – Every time you write a blog post, you add fresh content to your website. Every blog post is considered a separate web page by the search engines. Do you have a company blog ?

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

When Google announced their Link Disavow tool and Matt Cutts, Google’s web search quality czar, revealed that links from spammy article sites would no longer be a valuable ranking factor, I predicted that there would be a spike in guest blog post offers for those of us with existing blogs.

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JULY 3, 2011

It’s important, as a small business, to have a content marketing strategy. A better strategy is to plan your content marketing so that all levels of your content work together for the good of your customers and your company. For instance, Will you have a blog ? Will you utilize article marketing ?

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AUGUST 29, 2012

Others can kill your marketing. If you routinely publish bad content on your blog, it could hurt your reputation online and damage your brand. Beyond bad content, there are four other big blogging mistakes that can hurt your online brand. Keep your blog reader-focused. Some mistakes are easy to overcome.

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JUNE 24, 2014

Search Engine Journal has an impressive addition to their Blogging 101 Series — this one’s called Traffic Generation For Blogs On A Budget. Pretty soon you will have a perspective on traffic generation that is applicable to far more than your blog because things overlap. Take Advantage Of The Overlap.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

Do you know what your most important marketing activity is today? Is it blogging, pay-per-click marketing, social media , or something else? This is a topic that is often debated among Internet marketers. Some people say you should start a blog and write to it every day. That’s actually not a bad idea.

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Branding is the most effective and most rewarding type of marketing a small business can perform. Blogging is one of the most effective and enduring tools available to assist the small business owner in achieving top-of-mind awareness, aka branding. What makes blogging such a useful tool for branding? But your blog is yours.

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DECEMBER 6, 2013

Much has been said about link building and guest blogging. What many new content marketers don’t understand is that the two go hand in hand. Guest blogging can be a useful form of link building as long as you focus on quality and not just on acquiring links. Your bio links are a benefit of guest blogging, not your purpose.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

Writing a daily blog for your business can make your business grow faster than any other type of online marketing. A blog is an essential online marketing tool. There is no business or marketing asset more powerful than your personality. Well, that’s what I’m telling you.

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MAY 26, 2011

In fact, a recent article enlightened me to some new ways to market a business through Facebook. Facebook Comments – This system allows you to comment on a blog and see your comments appear on your Facebook wall. Then, when they comment, their comments appear on the original blog post. But that’s not all.

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