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JULY 1, 2011

SEO Blogging – With SEO blogging, the idea is to produce content that gains search engine traction. You try to spark lively debate in the comments section of your blog and promote your blog through as many social media channels as you can. However, you do use SEO and social media to help you reach your branding goals.

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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. Does Blogging/Social Media Work? However, a lot of other things have happened since 2005 that change the blogging/social media landscape. I’m not going to do that.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

As the owner of a popular business blog focused on Internet marketing topics such as search engine optimization and social media , I get a LOT of these requests, and they are now on the rise – to the tune of multiple requests via e-mail each day.

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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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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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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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AUGUST 23, 2012

Bing, the search engine, has recently started promoting specific Quora content in its search results sidebar. While this feature won’t necessarily catapult Quora to the top of the social media websites , it could give the Q&A site a boost in reputation. This is a cool feature.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

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. Now, when users Like your content, a full story including a headline, a thumbnail, and a short blurb will appear on the user’s wall. This can only grow in number.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Klout bills itself as a social media influence metric, but until now it was largely limited in how it measured influence. 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. I actually rather like this idea.

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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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