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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

When it comes to SEO and building links to your website you can’t just go willy nilly. And you shouldn’t jump on the latest link building or optimizing SEO fad because it very well may come bite you in the butt in the long run. Most took pictures in their shirts and blogged about their company. Guest Post by Stuart McHenry.

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APRIL 22, 2015

Does your business blog have the livelihood of a funeral? When you look around at your blog and analytics, what do you see? You have absolutely no evidence whatsoever that anyone even cares remotely about your blog. What’s going wrong with your business blog?! Blogging for business purposes is (still) relatively new.

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MARCH 16, 2011

But really, how many blogs does a gal need? If you and I talk regularly on Twitter, or Facebook… heck, even in the early days of WUL (and I have to stifle a giggle as I say that, because this blog is barely two years old!) So it’s probably high time that I started a food blog. Image: kennymatic via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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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. I really like its functionality, plus it’s a great way for folks to search on your blog as well as on the Interwebz without actually leaving your blog. LinkWithin.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

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. I just get kicks out of mobile blogging w/ multimedia.

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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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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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JANUARY 18, 2011

What this does is let you select a certain number of blogs from your blogroll, and only that number of blogs will be displayed. I love how, when you click on an image, it starts the slideshow right on your blog! Don’t forget I started out this post with my initial list of five ways for you to spice up your blogging.

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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. Let me unpack this a bit.

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APRIL 21, 2011

This is part of the Blogging for Grasshoppers series. As I’ve been paying more attention to blogging—not just the writing thereof, but the look and how the posts come across—one of the fields that I believe is little-used is the “excerpt&# field in one’s WordPress blog. What plugins such as AiO SEO, etc.,

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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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JUNE 6, 2011

This is part of the Blogging for Grasshoppers series. [I This was a post I'd been meaning to write for a long time, because I believe it can really help your blog, so I put a lot of effort into it. Which didn't mean that the blog went down, but Livefyre, the super-duper comment system I've been using, did. Paying attention.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Establishing your voice A blog post with pointers isn’t only meant to teach, it is also meant to connect with readers. Umair Haque , blogging for the Harvard Business Review , places the Gap logo debacle into this context of creativity. When it comes to blogging, anyone can compile data and churn out a post.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The thing is, despite the ad nauseam posts on SEO for news releases, I discovered this recent report from Schwartz Communications that shows a pitiful 18% of news release headlines are SEO-optimized. A word to the wise In my experience, communication pros these days are, more often than not, wise to SEO in general.

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AUGUST 5, 2013

Social Media May Soon Drive More Traffic to Your Site Than SEO. Why: SEO is a tried and true method to drive traffic to your site, but as Katy Schamberger explains, changing demographics may soon make social media engagement more important than ever. 7 Tips for Making Small Business Blogging Manageable.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

How To Revive Old Blog Content. Why: In this in-depth and thoughtful post, Mike Alton goes through how and when (or when not to) revive older blog posts. Small Businesses and SEO: What You Need to Know. Shelly Kramer explains why SEO is often a stumbling block for small businesses, and how to overcome it. Appreciation.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

A year and a half ago, I started a blog about my pet guinea pigs called Cavy Savvy. Originally, I wanted a way to test the SEO techniques I was learning about at work, and having a hobby blog just seemed like a fun way to do so. Here is how I made Cavy Savvy a success, and how you can apply some of these techniques to your blog.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Still, there’s a lot more that goes into content marketing than simply writing a blog about a new product. On top of that, you need to consider SEO. With 70% of internet users saying they’d prefer to learn through content rather than ads , content marketing makes perfect sense. Longform Makes Better Content Marketing?

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MARCH 20, 2011

What with birthing a new blog , helping a new client get started on their digital initiatives and attending the Google for Nonprofits event this week, I had a ton of useful information coming my way. Recipe for successful blog marketing & SEO at TECHmunch Austin 2011 , by Lee Odden. 101 free SEO tips , from DIYSEO.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

Get Shareaholic test Filed under Erica Holt , Guest Posts , Marketing | Tags: google instant , nonprofits , search engines , SEO | Comments (9) Site settings comment help? Mark as read Approve comment Erica, One more point about user behavior: SEO isnt always a zero-sum, one-search one-result game. Regardless, thanks for visiting!

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APRIL 20, 2015

If your site isn’t mobile-friendly, your SEO probably won’t be as high… or may even drop. The Definitive Guide to Mobile SEO. ” The title is a little too SEO-ish for me, but it’s still a good post. How to Make Your WordPress Blog Mobile Friendly.

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APRIL 10, 2011

It’s probably a whole other blog post, but there’s so much to be learned from commenting, and about commenting, on blog posts. 4 SEO mistakes that are easy to fix , by Ken Mueller. Why: I read this post a while back and, like Brian, was fascinated by the comments.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2010

A few tips for experimenting with QR codes , by Joe Walton at the Real PR blog. What is the best SEO secret you know? PR of course , from the PR and Media Blog of James Crawford. Why: public relations professionals spend a lot of time trying to learn about SEO and increasing online visibility. Wanna Subscribe?

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AUGUST 2, 2018

Think ebooks, white papers and even blog posts. Plain-text emails look more personal, less marketing-y and actually have better open rates (HubSpot does a great job explaining why in this blog post ). Seek out a reputable, high-quality SEO agency to help you get your search ducks in a row. And long-form content.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

whatever, I never can tell) and revel in blog posts that make you feel the writer is talking to you, no doubt you are already familiar with Olivier Blanchard ‘s The BrandBuilder Blog. Olivier has one of those remarkable blogs I know I can go back to time and time again, because I will find something to re-read, and re-read again.

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JULY 3, 2013

People ask me about social media, SEO, websites, brochures, press releases, speeches, blog writing, PR, message strategies, sales, consulting…everything. I got a reply email 12 hours later, at 4:31 AM that said: Thank you for your quick response. Believe me: saying I specialize in writing doesn’t hurt me one bit.

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MARCH 28, 2016

6 Ways to Attract Return Visitors to Your Blog. Why: This is a terrific post from Amy Lynn Andrews on spring cleaning your email list – highly, highly important! ” What are you doing to make over your strategy this year?

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MAY 23, 2016

While typing this blog, I tried looking for Simon Sinek’s TED talk “ Start with Why.” I had to stop Sinek’s lecture because I started losing my focus on writing this blog. Also, thank you, Brandon Andersen , for the suggestion of Moz’s The Beginners Guide to SEO : I’ll read that too. Make it personal.

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

The effect of brand building on search traffic , from PPC Blog. 3 street selling tactics that boosted my email subscribers over 100%, from The Smart Passive Income Blog. Creating keyword opportunity lists with Excel Custom Sort , from SEOmoz’ The YOUmoz Blog. This could come in handy. India’s Twitter , from Inc.com.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Why: “Whether you’re working on blog post or creating social media updates, the more people involved, the richer the results can be,” writes Ann Smarty as she explains how “using collaboration tools makes the process smooth and seamless.” How to Simplify SEO, PR, and Social Collaboration. .” 3.

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JUNE 22, 2016

LinkedIn long-posts are blog-style posts using a very similar interface to WordPress or most blogging platforms. Despite the loss of control (at least from the perspective of SEO traffic or rudimentary metrics), publishing to platforms is easy to do and has a lot of distribution benefits that self-publishing does not.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

And because part of the SxSW selection process is getting public votes in for the various submissions, many of the blogs I read, many of the high-powered social media people would be tweeting and Facebooking madly about their panel, asking you to vote for them. To each their own. Talk about trying to multitask! The second.

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OCTOBER 24, 2010

Cause-related marketing: seeing RED and pink , from Katya ‘s Non-Profit Marketing Blog. Cause and effect , by Michael Martin from MediaPost’s Marketing: green blog. Shannon Pauls Very Official Blog Spin Sucks TopRank Online Marketing Blog Writing Boots - David Murray Love WUL? No way around it. Shall We Tweet?

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Mark as read Approve comment Okay wow, you brought with the poetry and the blogging. Totally impressed and Ill have to steal this idea, use it when Im stuck for a blog post. " Blogging poetic by @shonali: An Ode To Monday [link] [.] Oh, one other thing: my blog = my sandbox. Except my ode to Monday would be more.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

While I try to keep it updated, it certainly does not reflect all the blogs I subscribe to in my Reader. Part of this is because some of the blogs I Read (yes, that’s a capital “R&# ) have nothing to do with public relations… but I love them any way. and break up the blogs accordingly. Dave lays out how.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

It is also fascinating to see volunteers across the globe helping this community grow… there are people who are involved in growing its social media presence, working on SEO, volunteers organizing local meet-ups regularly to build the community… all-in-all, this is the first such social network for sustainability that I have come across.

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MARCH 23, 2016

With a keen interest in social media, she blogs regularly at In My Humble Opinion. How did these chats help me? Regularly interacting with these communities helped me gain immense knowledge. While I learnt a lot in my day job at a PR agency, I learned even more via these chats. reading and traveling.

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