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October Trends + The 10 Horrors of Blogging

ProBlogger

Gruesome typos and grammatical errors, ghastly headlines, confusing echo chambers, dreadfully empty comments sections, and more! We’ll use posts from Regator about these top stories to illustrate how you can avoid the ten horrors of blogging…. The Horror: Ghost-town comments sections. Start by making it easy to comment.

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Monthly Trends + Resolutions for a Better Blog

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It’s the beginning of the month as well as the year, so, as always, Regator has provided blogosphere trends for the month, and I’ll use posts about these popular stories to inspire you to make a vow to improve your blog in the New Year. I resolve to interact with commenters. Please share your resolution in the comments!

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Monthly Trends + 10 Tips for a Flawless Linking Strategy

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This guest post is written by Kimberly Turner, cofounder of Regator. Showing that you’re reading a competitor’s blog (especially if you take the extra step to leave thoughtful comments there) can be the start of great relationship that has advantages for you, the other blogger, your readers, and the community as a whole.

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Blogosphere Trends + The Art of Live Blogging

ProBlogger

This particular live-blog also makes the author of each comment undeniably clear, which is especially important when opinions are being shared in a post by multiple bloggers. Kimberly Turner is a cofounder of Regator , as well as an award-winning print journalist. Here are ten tips to make live-blogging work for you. Do you live-blog?

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Monthly Trends + How to Instantly Triple Your Post Ideas

ProBlogger

As always, Regator has calculated the ten most-blogged-about stories of the last month, and we’ll be using posts about those popular stories to demonstrate the power of choosing the right angle. Please share your thoughts in the comments! Kimberly Turner is a cofounder of Regator , as well as an award-winning print journalist.

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Blogosphere Trends + Effective Calls to Action

ProBlogger

Even if you’re not selling anything (yet), you still want your audience to take action by commenting, interacting, sharing, Facebook “liking” your post, watching your videos, attending your events, etc. In this example, the bloggers directly asks readers to vote in the poll and state their case in the comments. Create visual interest.

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Tucson Search Engine Optimization August 24, 2010 at 12:46 am { 69 comments… read them below or add one } Dana July 8, 2008 at 9:23 am This is so great Tamar! Online community managers are a slightly different breed than social PR folks, or bloggers, or people who are devoted to social news or folks who are widget and mashup fiends.