ProBlogger

JUNE 9, 2013

A big part of the pro blogger dream is to be your own boss. Being a full-time blogger leaves you plenty of opportunities to get lost – online, in sleep, in your own fears. Fortunately, tools and skills to be a successful full-time blogger are learnable. Are You Ready to be a Full-Time Blogger? Getting lost.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

As Michael Stelzner said at Blogworld, “You’re not a blogger, you’re a publisher!”. She has become famous for her weekly resource posts, Fetching Friday , and is a prolific guest poster on many high-profile sites. He had a popular blog, Free Pursuits, but focused on creating a legacy rather then just being a blogger.

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Other than your company’s website, most mentions were likely in well-known online news sites or trade industry publication sites. I’ve used this tool on behalf of small clients for finding hundreds of key influencers on Twitter, blogs and various other social networking sites and forums. Social Mention. Alterian SM2.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Explain your goals and establish clear guidelines for any mention of the company on social media sites. She provides an excellent taxonomy of the social media landscape, categorizing the different types of social media tools into: • Social News Sites (Digg, Reddit, Kirtsy, etc.). Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.).

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

They harnessed blogs and message boards – “be very careful if you are trying to sell them – must be a very genuine conversation” Went to breast cancer blog sites – tried to give relevant information and how they can join in National Breast Cancer Awareness day.

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 27, 2009

As a blogger, online marketer, writer, and a shameless self-promoter, I am always on the hunt for content and ideas for creating online content. Enter a keyword phrase and it lets you choose a category, such as: - Offers (sites where you can make money). Social Media Sites (what people are talking about on the social media sites).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Using market intelligence, Royal Caribbean identified supporters of the cruise line via social networking sites and took the opportunity to give fifty of the most ardent supporters, called Royal Champions, special privileges, including free paid cruises and invitations to special events with company executives.

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Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 9, 2012

“The most boorish and abusive of husbands ever,” concluded a blogger on Reality Roll Call. The fallout: Internet message-board commenters went even crazier than usual , posting Fowler’s home address, which in turn prompted him to threaten to sue the website where it had appeared. The Register ).

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 6, 2012

I see message boards and fan sites brimming with excitement over the latest film or gossip about one of the actors, and when they show snippets of the premiers on the news, there are always lots of screaming fans. Why bloggers should care. Many bloggers do this extremely well. Yet they exist out there.

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Proactive Report

OCTOBER 24, 2011

While there were vigorous conversations going on in forums and message boards, there were no social networks. Blogs and social sites are tools for news-gathering and dissemination; for investigation and crowd-sourced fact-checking. No one was wirelessly connected. Fast forward to 2010: 79% of adults use the Internet.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 14, 2011

Sure, the traffic has grown, slow and steady, but I decided that I needed to do something different this summer; not only to grow the site faster, but to make marketing more enjoyable for myself. And these are the kind of people who aren’t trolling comment threads and message boards like the rest of us. My experiment.

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Bare Feet Studios

JULY 8, 2009

Second – Conflicts of Interest As bloggers, podcasters, marketers and PR professionals adopt social media tools and tactics, they are often caught in the middle of problematic situations. Blogola – like it’s sister payola , it refers to bloggers receiving products and services in exchange for media coverage.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 22, 2023

The post 4 Ways A Superhero System Will Make You A Better Blogger appeared first on ProBlogger. And yet, here I am: now a pro-blogger (750 published posts, most of which are 2000+ words), and a published author! Ask yourself: is this Batcave designed in a way to help me get closer to crushing it as a blogger, or farther away?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

A visit to the main T-Wolves Web site finds absolutely none of the humility and forthrightness that made the original ad so compelling. So, I turned to the team’s Facebook page, where NBA rules have not yet been codified, and team’s have more leeway than they do on the official Web site. Your Web site. At a minimum.

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Bare Feet Studios

OCTOBER 7, 2009

I was approached (via several urgent phone calls over the weekend), to become an affiliate of a new web site and to also have this company make a presentation at our upcoming Social Media Club meeting. “We launched our Site 10 day’s ago and according to Alexa Rating we surpassed twitter in 3 days.&# “That was easy!&#

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

If you’re a blogger, do you know how to stay on the right side of the law? law is that bloggers must be open with the fact that they are being paid to use, promote, or review a product. To date not one single blogger has been sued over the issue that I know of. Some bloggers like Leo Babauta do not.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 29, 2011

But I am going to say that if you are a blogger or someone who has a blog, you probably already know whether or not your content is considered a content farm. – Press Release Web Sites (prnewswire.com, prweb.com, marketwire.com, businesswire.com). – Google News. – Tweetmeme.com (tweets are categorized).

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 23, 2011

Virtually every social media monitoring tool worthy of the label covers the big social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter), social bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit) and content sharing sites (YouTube, Flickr). A blogger raises a question about your company’s financial outlook. Workflow capabilities.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

And yet, here I am: now a pro-blogger (750 published posts, most of which are 2000+ words), and a published author! Today, I’m going to share with you a 4-step system that will help you finally crack the code and consistently improve at your efforts to become a superhero blogger. Just ask Darren! BATMAN: Hack Your Batcave to Win.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

50 Habits of a Highly Effective Blogger. I met a few celebrity bloggers like Mark Cuban, John Chow and Matt Mullenweg (founding developer of Wordpress) and attended many great sessions about blogging, podcasting, videocasting, SEO and social networking, etc. a highly effective blogger would â?¦. Network with other bloggers.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Look to Yelp and Forums When you get beyond social networks, the heaviest concentration of influential impressions is on ratings and reviews sites (32%), followed by discussion boards/forums at 29%. Same with the message board trolls, who are all too easy to overlook in favor of bloggers and Twitterers. Good stuff.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 3, 2008

Amit Agarwal is a professional blogger and personal technology columnist for a national newspaper. He launched this site in 2004. The Best Website Monitoring Services for Tracking Your Site’s Uptime. BlogAds Invitations Available for Bloggers & Site Owners. Best Indian Bloggers. Sites We Like.

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Diva Marketing Blog

JULY 26, 2012

Critical : determine your content direction that goes beyond your brands or company messaging. Board and Pin Creation. Include search engine optimize key words in bio, board and pin descriptors. Board names should be creative but descriptive key words are a bonus. Identify sites will you not pin (from).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

Consider focusing your link building tactics internally — that is, on your site. Think instead about social media traffic, good content, a cleanly coded website, slow progressive growth, and your site’s authority. SEO Checklist: 60 Essential Checks Before Launching a Website : Is your site ready to be launched?

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ProBlogger

JUNE 8, 2012

Social media sites are great for a number of different purposes, including connecting with your readership and establishing yourself as a thought leader within your industry. Clearly, in order to identify the pain points your audience is expressing on popular social networking sites, you first need to locate your readers!

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Viper Chill

OCTOBER 26, 2009

There’s also the ‘leave your job’ type bloggers writing excellent content such as Cody , Corbett and Christine. If you’re lucky, the top sites in your industry will be bloggers. The top articles here will probably also help you find the top bloggers. Just know who they are. Do they run blogs?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I do this only occasionally, however, as my friends/followers on each site don’t have much overlap. Also, some bloggers (including Ari Herzog and Valeria Maltoni ) don’t favor including tweets as comments, since they are not true “comments.&# Despite being free, Google keeps adding functionality to Google Analytics.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 26, 2010

Or, how when I worked with Bacardi we drove so much traffic to their site that we took down their servers. Facebook After recently surpassing Google as the most popular site in America and closing in on 500,000,000 monthly unique visitors, Facebook has huge amounts of traffic that you can ethically leverage to grow your business online.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 19, 2013

Why would a site crash on theme installation? As you browse through themes online and explore their demo sites, there is no way for you to guess which theme would cause your blog to crash. The best times to crash your site. Let’s face it—there is never a good time to crash your site. Is your blog lost for good?

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 3, 2012

I read about the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org , yet I wasn’t up for all the technical mumbo-jumbo that I thought comes with launching a site on WordPress.org, even if it allowed me to monetize the blog. What’s a blogger to do? Important: Do not delete your site from WordPress.com, at least not yet.

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Socialmedia.biz

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Looking at it another way, this could be the beginning of a process of licensing and verification that will separate the proper journalists and reporters from the bloggers, propagandists, anarchists, marketers, and dirty, dirty affiliate marketers. This has actually been a boon for sites like these.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 25, 2011

The huge growth of online sites like Youtube, Twitter and Facebook, which have the potential to give anyone a large audience are a great example of this in action. It happened to me in 2007 and it’s just happened to tech blogger Louis Gray who, this week, announced he is now managing the social team for Google+.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

They might not be the lifeblood of your site, but they’re definitely driving more users to the network, which we hope actually helps your bottom line. Reply Jonathan Evans April 28, 2010 at 2:57 pm Good interaction here on your site. fan pages)? fan pages)? Reply Ruben Quinones April 28, 2010 at 11:12 am Tamar, right on point!

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

by MediaPost SearchBlog Social media sites now drive more traffic to many popular sites—including Comedy Central, NFL.com and Netflix—than Google does. That sounded low to me, so I checked some of the B2B technology client sites I manage. Social Media Stats, Facts and Research Does Facebook Need To Build A Search Engine?

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