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MARCH 9, 2011

Widgets and tools that allow for embedded content have been around for years. But I have yet to see a really good tool that allows you to embed Facebook content. It’s free and all you have to do is copy the URL, click on the “ditto&# button, and copy/paste the content you want to embed. Just take a look at the page.

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APRIL 11, 2013

You can be a guest blogger on someone else’s blog or you can accept guest bloggers for your blog. Of course, there are some downsides to accepting guest bloggers too. 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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AUGUST 29, 2012

If you routinely publish bad content on your blog, it could hurt your reputation online and damage your brand. If you do it occasionally, that will have less of an impact, but you want to avoid bad content if you can. Bad content can be described as content with bad grammar or poor spelling.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

Guest blogging, like any other kind of content marketing, must first and foremost follow the quality rule. Guest blogging started out with a few early adopters who saw that the popularity of blogs naturally gave rise to a new form of exclusive content that benefited the content author and the content publisher.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2012

On Friday, I talked about Google’s heightened attention to quality content and how that relates to guest blogging. Where does the guest blogger want to link TO from the post? Does the guest blogger have an established track record of producing high quality content?

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DECEMBER 8, 2015

Google still likes fresh, original content, and writing a blog is the best way to feed solid meat to the most popular search engines on the planet. It’s safe to say that business blogging isn’t going anywhere. While blogging isn’t going away any time soon, it is constantly being changed in its total form.

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DECEMBER 6, 2013

What many new content marketers don’t understand is that the two go hand in hand. The reason you want to be a guest blogger is to share your expertise with new audiences and establish yourself as an expert in your niche. Be careful that you focus your articles on quality content no matter where you publish them.

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JANUARY 11, 2013

Plagiarizing other bloggers – I’ll start with the obvious one. Your blog should produce original content. If you have to plagiarize, or steal, other bloggers’ content, then you shouldn’t blog at all. There are also some ways to kill your blog completely. Keep it original.

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JANUARY 31, 2014

You can actually get a little creative in your content marketing strategy while encouraging your audience to link to you. Other bloggers will link to your resource page if you include resources that can’t be found anywhere else. Here are 4 link building methods that don’t involve guest blogging.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

It isn’t easy either, however, it can be done with a few simple tweaks to your content. Not only do they clue readers in on what your content is about, but search engine spiders pick up on keywords to determine how to rank those pages. If it’s good content, it will get more shares. Promote your own content.

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JANUARY 10, 2014

Lists are very popular among bloggers. If you just want to show a list of items that are relevant to a particular topic, and especially if the list contains an odd number where the number of items is irrelevant, bulleted lists make great content. But there are different ways to create a list.

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AUGUST 23, 2013

Earlier this month I shared with you the knowledge that Facebook was planning a way for bloggers and other content marketers to embed Facebook posts. If you are a content creator and you do not have a Facebook page, this is another reason why you should have have one. Now that’s possible.

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APRIL 21, 2012

For bloggers, you may need a plugin that allows you to write a page title; otherwise, you’ll need to manually include it in the page’s header section. Every page should have a unique title, and it should be relevant to the page’s content. It will promise a subject, and your content will then deliver on that subject.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

It’s no secret that creating content is a time-consuming task for most bloggers and it’s what prevents many from keeping a blog going and seeing success and ROI from their efforts. What could be better than to have a bunch of other people submitting content to you, where all you have to do is plop it in your blog?

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JANUARY 21, 2013

A few short years ago, bloggers scrambled to get rid of the reciprocating links in their sidebars because it was announced that Google was not going to let those links be used for SEO purposes. Then, write about them on your blog and share their content in your social media circles. Many people called it a penalty.

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MAY 21, 2013

Bloggers used to use Flickr as a place to store photos that they could use for their blogs. But if you aren’t using WordPress, or if you do other kinds of content marketing online using services like Squidoo and HubPages, then Flickr is still a great place to store and share photos. So What Can Flickr Be Used For?

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MAY 8, 2013

One killed content farms and the other killed low-quality links from low-quality sites. Some bloggers haven’t learned their lesson. Every few years Google updates its algorithms to get rid of bad practices that are causing harm. Google Panda and Google Penguin were two such updates.

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JULY 1, 2011

SEO Blogging – With SEO blogging, the idea is to produce content that gains search engine traction. You’ll also want to reach out to other bloggers within your niche and establish a dialogue with them as well. The key is to find the method that works for you. With that in mind, here are 4 viable blog strategies that work.

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MARCH 19, 2012

This makes publishing content very easy since you are not requires to learn any special computer programming languages. Spread the word through social media circles and you’ll quickly have readers (if your content is worth reading). A blog that has content regularly published can reduce that time quite markedly.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

Bing, the search engine, has recently started promoting specific Quora content in its search results sidebar. Earlier this month, WebProNews reported that bloggers can now embed Quora quotes into their blog posts. After all, Bing is the second largest pure search engine online.

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MARCH 8, 2011

It isn’t enough just to post great content to Facebook and Twitter. If you post great content in your social media efforts that in turn gets the attention of bloggers who write about you and link to you, then you will be doing yourself huge favors. Think about it.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Moments is something like the Facebook Timeline, but it takes “your most important content” from all of the networks Klout measures and adds it to your profile. These include Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Tumblr, Instagram, Blogger, Last.fm, and WordPress.com. I actually rather like this idea.

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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. Today’s bloggers have to take that into consideration as well. However, a lot of other things have happened since 2005 that change the blogging/social media landscape.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

&# Actually, this could be a big boost to your content on Facebook. When users Liked your content all that happened was a link to your article appeared on their Facebook walls, but those links often got lost in the shuffle. The Like button is a great way to encourage users to share your content, which leads to more traffic.

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JANUARY 9, 2012

One tool that has helped many new bloggers and article writers is to create a writing plan. What keywords will you target for that content? If you have a writing plan , you’ll be more focused and you’ll be able to produce more content at a faster pace. Some people call it a publishing schedule.

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

Have you noticed that content marketing is currently trending toward long-form content? By that, I mean the following types of content: 2,000-word plus blog posts. The Search Engine Journal recently ran a blog post that tells readers why long-form content can benefit their businesses. Content substance.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

Content curation has become a popular way for bloggers and online marketers to create new content for their audiences. One reason it has become so popular is that it doesn’t take as long to compile a list of links on a particular topic and add those to a blog post as it does to create new, original content.

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APRIL 1, 2013

Are you tired of writing sales content that no one is responding to? Would you like to expand the scope of your content marketing beyond the obvious posts that no one wants to talk about? Here are 5 ways you can improve your blog content easily without destroying your credibility. You add that content to your blog.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Even today, many bloggers and webmasters are suspicious of nofollow links. There are more reasons for wanting to post content on another website besides receiving inbound links. There are more reasons for wanting to post content on another website besides receiving inbound links.

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JULY 31, 2011

If you do go outside your niche to leave a comment on a blog, at least comment on the content of the blog post you are addressing. Wise bloggers see through the ploy and will delete your comment. When you leave comments on blogs, try to find blogs that are within your niche and comment on them. So the above comment was pure spam.

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AUGUST 28, 2011

Seth Godin, a veteran Internet marketer and one of the first business bloggers, is well known for his short bursts of blog content. But many other bloggers these days tend to write longer blog posts. Some bloggers won’t write one less than 1,000 words. In general, more content is better than less.

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