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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. That’s up significantly from the rate of those requests prior to Google’s announcement a couple weeks ago. Where does the guest blogger want to link TO from the post?

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JULY 8, 2011

If you are a successful blogger in your niche, then I’d be willing to bet that you don’t get your ideas for posts all from one source. Google Alerts. Google Wonder Wheel. Google Trends. Google or Yahoo! Where do you get your blog ideas ? Twitter – Who do you follow? Check out their links.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

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. Google is going to react the same way it always has when spammers take a good thing and turn it into a game.

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MARCH 24, 2014

One of the largest guest blogging networks was penalized by Google and that got a firestorm going all over the Web. But the average Internet marketer is still advising bloggers to “ link with value.” If Google says your links are low value links, then you don’t have a leg to stand on. Valuable to whom?

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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

There is a type of blogging that is still popular and that may soon find itself on the outs with Google, if it hasn’t already. Bloggers would write blog posts, and whenever they linked to a particular page on their website, they’d use the same anchor text every time to attempt to make that web page rank for the anchor text phrase.

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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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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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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. It wasn’t a penalty, but Google was adamant that they wouldn’t reward such links either. Many people called it a penalty.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Content calendars are important organizational tools for bloggers, content marketers, and online businesses. Otherwise, you might have to settle for Google Docs, Evernote, or other online management and productivity tools to help you manage your content marketing. What kind of information should go on your content calendar?

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AUGUST 16, 2012

Other blogs – You should write to your own blog as often as possible, but don’t be afraid to be a guest blogger too. You can write guest content for other bloggers within your niche or that serve the same market. That includes Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, YouTube, and several others.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

These include Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Tumblr, Instagram, Blogger, Last.fm, and WordPress.com. Moments could potentially be a good measure of social influence , but I won’t know until I see it. I like the addition of Wikipedia and +K to the mix, but Klout currently only monitors 11 networks.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

But put it out there on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ too. Bloggers will even blog about your content. Spend a little extra time coming up with great headlines and page titles. Share your content on social media – And I don’t just mean post it on Facebook either. Yes, do that. Don’t ask them to share it.

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JANUARY 18, 2016

Google has changed its search algorithms thousands of times. 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. Some of the major updates have drastically changed how search results are configured.

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MARCH 8, 2011

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. Sure, you might get that coveted Like or Retweet, but don’t just make those ends of themselves. Think about it.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

There are already a ton of bloggers and online content sites that are using the Like button alongside a Tweet button. Innovation and continuous improvement are necessary when socializing your online content and Facebook seems to understand that. This can only grow in number.

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JANUARY 11, 2012

Forgetting the media part of social media – if you work with other online users, for example, bloggers who regularly write about your products or websites, don’t ignore them. Google local is a great advance in search engine results. If you are about to have a product release, invite them in.

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MARCH 9, 2011

Seriously, this isn’t a mind-sweeping technological advancement. Widgets and tools that allow for embedded content have been around for years.

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

By 2012, top bloggers were saying to write longer posts less often. There are a couple of things that changed that caused professional bloggers to realize that short blog posts every day is not necessarily the best marketing strategy. Most bloggers writing short-form content were doing a poor job of it. What changed?

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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. They’re only about 200-300 words each, if that. In most cases.

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