Janet Fouts

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PR 101- Reaching Out to Bloggers

Janet Fouts

If you’ve got a great story it seems only natural for PR to reach out to bloggers in your space and get them to write about you right? Yeah… well that seems to be the latest problem for bloggers who get tons of emails and press releases every day trying to get them to write about whatever product or service. Not so much.

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Whaddya Mean-Blogging is Dead?

Janet Fouts

“It’s hard to recall these days, now that most bloggers are corporate drones (*cough*), but blogging was originally the pursuit of hobbyists. &#. I’ve never been a daily blogger, but that doesn’t devalue blogging itself. I also take offense at the suggestion that the first bloggers were “hobbyists&#.

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I’m a Social Media Informer

Janet Fouts

The site makes it easy for you to scan quickly for the headlines you want to read further and then go read it on the blogger’s site. I’m honored to be in the company of some amazing bloggers, including Problogger , Dave Fleet , Chris Brogan , Joel Postman , Louis Gray and Jay Deragon and several others.

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14 step bare-bones guide to influencer outreach

Janet Fouts

Visit a search site like SocialMention.com and enter your key topics, one at a time. If the influencer is blogging, look up the page rank of their blog on Google to get an idea of how popular the site is. Decide what the best communication method is for each blogger. Will you share their blog posts?

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Is Article Marketing the Way to Build Traffic to Your Blog?

Janet Fouts

In February Google rolled out an update to their algorithms likely directed at sites that duplicate content for article marketing as well as those that “spin&# articles (replacing phrases and words so they aren’t exact duplicates and then posting to article hosting sites). So what’s a blogger to do?

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Do you syndicate your blog?

Janet Fouts

You see, lots of bloggers have their blog posts syndicated on other sites that aggregate content, and sometimes we write posts specific to a site just to get our names in front of more readers who frequent that particular web site. It’s like guest blogging, but more focused. Really it boils down to three things.

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Social Networks and Privacy

Janet Fouts

As an activist and a blogger he’s very visible online and his one word Tweet “Arrested&# made headlines around the world. I was told about this list of 8 things you shouldn’t give to social networking sites at CFP. I’m trying to keep my focus in this case on activists and their issues with privacy online.

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