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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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AUGUST 28, 2015

More tools have been developed to help Internet marketers implement and measure successful marketing campaigns, and when we think about online marketing tools and tactics we often think about search engine optimization, e-mail marketing, blogging, and social media. There are plenty more online marketing tools.

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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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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Sometimes you just want to write a blog post about a topic that will benefit your readers and you want a keyword that isn’t necessarily popular but will allow you to write about a topic that you may not normally address on your blog. Soovle is a great tool for helping you do that. Soovle is a real simple tool.

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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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JULY 1, 2015

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. On the other hand, a blog is a new way to create and publish content that is versatile and customizable to your brand’s needs.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

It’s not just a marketing tool. You can use it to find information to write about on your blog or to find new markets for your business niche. Did you know you can use Twitter for research? Here are a few ways to use Twitter for conducting research: Twitter Search - Twitter has a search feature.

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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? Blogs are also very effective – as SEO tools, as branding tools, and as social media marketing tools. It’s a loaded question. What do you mean by “more effective?&#.

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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. He does mention a few tools that will cost a little bit, but most of his information is going to cost you effort instead of your cash. Learn How To Do These Simple Things.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

There are many small businesses that have found blogging to be an inexpensive tool for both marketing and SEO. If you’re blogging for small business, you need to include a maintenance schedule into your routine. You can also set up an account with Google’s Webmaster Tools.

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

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. It’s the perfect branding tool. Branding begins with the conversation.

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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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AUGUST 21, 2014

I sure hope you have a blog for your business, because this is one of your biggest tools for communicating and actually connecting with your customers. Your blog is how your readers get to know you and feel like there’s a relationship — particularly when you can start a conversation that becomes a dialog.

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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. Your blog is an SEO tool - For everything else that a blog is, it’s also an essential SEO tool.

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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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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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AUGUST 24, 2011

Blog marketing - Nothing enhances a website’s SEO more than a well-written blog. Blog marketing - Nothing enhances a website’s SEO more than a well-written blog. Draw them in with a blog, then snag their e-mail address to use for your e-mail marketing. Those tactics are: E-mail marketing. Social media.

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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. Better yet, use Google Alerts and other notification tools to keep you in the loop. Blogging for Small Business blogging content marketing research Social Media'

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

People who don’t spend much time on the Internet will often ask me, “What is a blog?&# You are reading a blog. If you were on the main page of my blog you’d see a series of headlines, each one followed by some text. The headlines would be in blue and would be followed by a date and then the blog post.

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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 21, 2011

Q&A Sites And Competitive Intelligence » IM: Small Business Tool Or A Waste Of Time? If you are going to do business online, then it makes sense to use online communications tools. One of the most primitive online communications tools is instant messaging. It’s been around almost as long as the Internet itself.

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MARCH 15, 2011

How Q&A Sites Can Boost Your SEO » Is Twitter Still A Good Marketing Tool? With so much noise on Twitter, is it still a useful marketing tool? Like anything else, you have to use the tool effectively. 3 Responses to “Is Twitter Still A Good Marketing Tool?&# Are you getting results from Twitter?

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APRIL 6, 2012

If you have a website, then you need a blog. If nothing else, writing regular content your blog will continually remind the search engines you exist, and they are constantly searching for new, up-to-date and relevant content. Blogs help websites rank in search results, and ultimately that has to be your goal.

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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. If you have a Webmaster Tools account, check to see if you have any messages.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Marketing Tools Are Useless Without This Thing… If you aren’t actively trying to understand your customers, you are almost certainly missing your marketing target in some critical ways. How can you use tools without having an idea of what you are working toward?

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JANUARY 16, 2014

Google has developed a WordPress plugin for publishers that does two things: Allows you to add AdSense ads easily to your WordPress blogs and websites. and Allows you to verify your website at Webmaster Tools with one click. Keyword research tools. I have a feeling this is just a start.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

Aside from the fact that web properties like Geocities and Posterous have been cut off from the World Wide Web – and it could happen to Tumblr too – Tumblr might actually be a good way to help you attract new readers for your blog and new customers for your business. Blogging for Small Business SEO Social Media Tumblr'

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NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Content calendars are important organizational tools for bloggers, content marketers, and online businesses. 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. Keyword(s).

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

They can jazz up your WordPress website or blog with just a few little codes and these codes can do wonders to make your site or blog look incredible – and do incredible things. The good news is, you can do it yourself with simple tools called shortcodes. Create custom-designed Buy Now buttons.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

E-books are some of the best promotional tools you can add to your online arsenal. Here are 5 powerful ways you can promote your e-book so that you get the recognition you deserve as an author and an expert in your niche: Press Release – Even online, press releases are still a powerful public relations tool.

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JULY 3, 2014

I bet Trevor Klein is a Tolkien fan, but he also is a good communicator of the process Moz went through to combine the various metrics for their blog and create one, easily digested, almost-completely-automated scoring metric. The One Metric is an excellent tool that many of you will appreciate, but it isn’t magic.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

In fact, if you want to keep tabs on your competition, listening is essential, and there are plenty of tools available to help you listen. Google will notify you when those keywords are mentioned online – in a blog post, on a website, in social media, or wherever. TweetDeck and HootSuite are social media management tools.

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AUGUST 19, 2013

Guest blogging – It’s great that you’re posting on your own blog on a regular basis, but are you doing any guest blogging? By taking advantage of guest blogging opportunities as they arise you can reach more people at a faster rate. If not, you should. You can expand your reach in powerful ways.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Did you know you can use Amazon.com as a social networking tool? This is truly a useful tool for writers, musicians, artists, other crafts persons, and people in the publishing industries. You can designate a Wish List on Amazon and display your wish list with a widget on your website or blog. Are you a big reader?

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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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MARCH 11, 2012

For small business owners, there are five faces of social media that can be made to work together to promote your business – and they really are starting to gel into one complete marketing tool. Twitter – while Twitter continues to have its knockers, it is a great tool for blasting out short messages. What are those faces?

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