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Monday Roundup: Blogging Tips from Around the Interwebz

Waxing UnLyrical

There’s a ton of stuff going on, so here at WUL we’re taking a short break from “live” blogging this week. So, in the spirit of education and the public good, here are are five articles that will provide you with blogging tips from optimizing your excerpts to increasing your readership.

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12 of the Best Guides and Sources for Free Stock Images

Webbiquity SMM

At the core of any successful blog is valuable content—helping readers solve a problem, increase their knowledge, work more effectively. But text alone isn’t enough; to really make a blog stand out, it needs to include compelling images as well. As noted on the CyberChimps blog , “a picture is worth a thousand words.

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Start-Up Marketing and Yourself: Don’t be a Swiss Army Knife

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Jonas Bergsten [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. 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.

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How We Got a Link from The Huffington Post

Navolutions

By David Shankbone (Own work) [CC-BY-3.0 ([link] via Wikimedia Commons There are plenty of blogs that get links from HuffPo on a daily basis, but this was a first for us. Because no one had commented on the SEO/content marketing side of it, and because the post was only six hours old, I decided to whip up my fastest blog post to date.

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New Instagram Ad Analytics Tools Introduced: Insta-ads

Devumi

There’s no questioning the fact that Instagram has lots of uses for social media marketers. The new Instagram ad analytics tools being introduced recently are a way to offer those with money a chance to skip past building a social media following and reach more users. Insta-graffiti by JAM Project.

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Why Would I Buy 1000 Twitter Followers?

Devumi

This isn’t a bad thing as they are primarily there to boost your social proof. If you’re planning on buying 1000 Twitter followers and then not doing any sort of social media marketing to draw fans in naturally you will not meet with any success on Twitter. 1000 dollar note from Wikimedia Commons.

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How to Establish a Pinterest Marketing Strategy in 9 Easy Steps (With Pictures)

Devumi

Pinterest is a very different social media platform when compared to Twitter, with minor similarities to Facebook. The marketing options that Pinterest gives you are about as wide as any other social media platform. Cross over to other social media platforms. Feature image from Wikimedia Commons.

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