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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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15 Places to Find Free Images for Your Blog

Writtent Blog

Are you wondering where and how to find free images for your blog? These images are for using and sharing on non-commercial websites, like personal blogs. The official Creative Commons website lets users search websites for free-to-use images from a variety of sources, including Google Images, Flickr and the Wikimedia Commons.

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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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PR and Wikipedia – let’s push for a better relationship

Danny WhatMough

Cross-posted from the EML Wildfire blog. So the CIPR and PRCA have both made efforts over the last few months to engage with Wikimedia and begin to develop a series of guidelines to help the industry. The consultation process is on a Wiki on the Wikimedia site and the initial phase will end this Sunday.

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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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Why I Donated to WordPress Developers

Ari Herzog

For the third year in a row, I donated a little something to the Wikimedia Foundation as my way of saying thanks for developing Wikipedia which I frequently link and cite in these blog posts. Andy Bailey – for CommentLuv , which lets people see your latest blog posts; and for GASP , the new competition to Akismet.

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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. It’s Swiss Army Knife marketing. The curse of the generic at its worst. See, the Swiss Army Knife has plenty of tools.

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