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DECEMBER 6, 2013

Much has been said about link building and guest blogging. Guest blogging can be a useful form of link building as long as you focus on quality and not just on acquiring links. The links you get from guest blogging are usually in your author bio, which is published at the bottom of your articles when you get them published.

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MAY 24, 2012

A small business blog has a number of benefits, however, it can also be a tax on valuable time resources. Having a blog is, too a certain extent, a waste of time if you don’t have the resources to actually promote it, to put the content in front of readers. So how and where should you promote your blog? Where are they?

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

It’s being said more and more: “you need to blog and put lots of original, relevant content on your site.” This is where your employees can be a great resource for real-life blog ideas. You could even have interested would-be writers do blog posts and give them a bio with what they do in the business.

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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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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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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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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 10, 2014

I’m going to share with you three very popular ways to create a list for publishing to your blog and tell you what the advantages are to each type of list. The next time you make a list for publishing to your blog, try one of these types of lists. Lists are very popular among bloggers.

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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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AUGUST 29, 2012

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. Failing to SEO your blog – You don’t have to over-optimize – that is, focus entirely on SEO.

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APRIL 11, 2013

There are two ways to get involved in the guest blogging craze. You can be a guest blogger on someone else’s blog or you can accept guest bloggers for your blog. One downside is you have to go through a lot of low quality content and spam in order to find a few nuggets of good content to publish.

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APRIL 23, 2012

Current research is showing that corporate blogging is on the wane with businesses preferring the short sharp and punchy content they can throw at both Facebook and Twitter. That’s where a blog has it’s corporate power for businesses of all sizes. Maintaining a blog is only as hard as you make it.

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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. E-books – Write and publish e-books.

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MARCH 10, 2012

Frank Reed has written an interesting post on Marketing Pilgrim that highlights where blogs are now going in the business world. Nielsen’s NM Incite is currently tracking over 173 million blogs – that’s a lot of blogs, many of which you will need to compete against. Blogs are still powerful tools in the right hands.

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MARCH 19, 2012

Whilst blogs and blogging has its detractors, there is no doubt that a small business blog can be a real benefit. Blogs can be an aid to both a search and social marketing campaign, however, it often helps to simplify things to gain a clearer picture. In their simplest state, blogs are communication tools.

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JANUARY 18, 2016

You don’t have to search hard for people online these days who talk about the difficulty of reaching your core audience with blog content. Does Blogging/Social Media Work? Everyone in the audience wants what I have–a three-book contract with a traditional publishing company. Blogging Versus E-mail.

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MAY 12, 2012

Blogging can be hard work, especially when it comes to delivering good quality content on a regular basis. Some small business blog writers find that two or three times a week is sufficient. Some small business blog writers find that two or three times a week is sufficient. The main issue then is quality content.

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AUGUST 1, 2011

Article marketing is generally thought of as something that takes place off of your website whereas blogging is generally something thought of as something that takes place on your website. However, you can publish articles on your website and you can blog apart from your website.

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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. Create an e-book and self-publish it on the Kindle, ePub, and iBook formats.

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MARCH 30, 2012

There are tens of thousands of blogs that are suddenly finding they no longer ranks in search results. The reason is quite clear – Google has well and truly slapped several link/blog networks and the results have been startling. Publish ten posts on these networks, and the website owner suddenly had 1500 or more inbound links.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2013

No matter what type of blog or business you are running, an editorial calendar – or content calendar – can help keep you on track and manage your content better from day to day and week to week. If you have a WordPress blog, there is an Editorial Calendar plug-in you can use. Scheduled publishing date. Keyword(s).

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OCTOBER 30, 2015

But here are the ways you can use long-form content to supplement what you are doing with short articles: Blog posts – Anything over 2,000 words is considered long-form in blogging. Long blog posts can be more detailed and offer far more value to readers than short-form blog posts. This is how the experts do it.

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JANUARY 17, 2014

Your Blog – Add a blog to your website and update it every day, or as often as you can publish valuable content. Third-Party Niche Websites – Guest blogging and writing guest articles for other sites within your niche allow you opportunities to reach your target audience where they are already hanging out.

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JANUARY 28, 2014

Whatever content you publish on your blog, in your newsletter, on your website, through social media … it’s all a reflection of you, your business, and your values. First, it allows you to see if the content you’ve been publishing is a true reflection of your business and it’s values.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Public Speaking – Believe it or not, if you are a public speaker, you can drive traffic to your blog. Just as important, you can attract links to your blog and website. If you publish routinely to your blog, send links to that content in your newsletter. Sign them up for your newsletter.

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MARCH 20, 2014

It can be blog comments, forum posts, guest articles, author bios, or anything that is created by your website’s users and published on your website, blog, forum, or other Web property. Think about comments on your blog, for instance. SEO for Small Business blog comments forum posts SEO UGC user generated content'

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

Writing and publishing a book will give you instant credibility. By writing a book on your topic and offering it for sale on your blog or website, you tell your prospects and your customers that you are a person who knows your business. So what’s it take to be a published author? That’s right. Here’s why.

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JANUARY 9, 2012

Some people call it a publishing schedule. Your writing plan is a pre-scheduled list of blog posts or articles that you plan to write over the next month. First, note the date you want your article or blog post to be published. If you can summarize the article or blog post in one sentence, then you have clarity.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

If you have a business blog or you need website content, or even if you do any guest blogging or publish articles at various places around the Web, you need a way to come up with constant content ideas. The next time you write an article or blog post, answer a question you’ve heard from one of your customers.

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APRIL 19, 2011

Or find websites within your niche that publish articles. Even niche-related blogs. Where are they publishing? What are they publishing? Articles are still good marketing tools. But distribution channels change, and the methods that article marketers use should change right along with them. Whose doing what?

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MARCH 18, 2013

If you’re concerned that the demise of Google Reader will kill your blog, rest your eyes. In fact, I’m confident that it won’t – especially if you do these three things to increase your blog readership right now. These are not the only means you have of promoting your blog, but they are a good start.

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MARCH 11, 2012

People can follow those who publish videos that interest them. Blog – the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle. You can pull videos from YouTube, pull content from Twitter (or publish links to your posts), link images from your blog to Pinterest, and publish links to your posts on Facebook (with a short summary to attract interest).

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JANUARY 7, 2014

I think the most fascinating part of this blog post at Search Engine Journal is that the best time to send out your e-mail newsletter depends on what you are writing about. But what about blogging? It seems that the best time to publish a blog post is in the morning, and Mondays are high traffic days for blogs.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

Even if you produce great off-site content (and you should) that helps your website rank well in the search engines, your website visitors will get more value out of great content that you publish on your website. It’s a two-pronged pitchfork.

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APRIL 30, 2011

» Kudos To HubPages Anyone who has read my blog for very long knows that I am a strong advocate of article marketing. That is, I believe that writing articles and publishing off of your website with links back to your website is a good way to promote yourself online. But I guess not.

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AUGUST 16, 2012

Here are 4 suggestions for offsite content marketing, places where you can publish your content or have others publish content on your behalf. Other blogs – You should write to your own blog as often as possible, but don’t be afraid to be a guest blogger too. That’s a good question.

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AUGUST 21, 2015

Post snippets of your e-book on your Facebook page and LinkedIn Pulse blog–just long enough to be blog posts–and drive people back to your landing page for the e-book. Start a Pinterest Blog – Pinterest is a highly visual platform. Offer something for your readers when they land on your blog.

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AUGUST 21, 2015

Post snippets of your e-book on your Facebook page and LinkedIn Pulse blog–just long enough to be blog posts–and drive people back to your landing page for the e-book. Start a Pinterest Blog - Pinterest is a highly visual platform. Offer something for your readers when they land on your blog. Even Pinterest.

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