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8 Tips for Successful Business Blogging

Ari Herzog

This also means that you’ll need to host your own blog. This helps engage your readers and gets them excited for each day that you deliver new content. This can be accomplished with plugins or widgets. Insist your readers can connect with your company. There are various widgets and plugins for this as well.

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Blog Formatting: How to Make Your Readers Love Your Blog

Writtent Blog

Most free blog hosting sites have some form of advertisement as part of the deal, but try to go for the lesser distracting ones if you’re opting for the free hosting. It’s tempting, when you see what widgets are available for your blog, to add tons of them to your sidebar. There’s also the matter of RSS Feed Readers.

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8 Important Admin Tasks to Do When Launching a New Blog

ProBlogger

And a lot of established blogs still have the “meta” widget in the sidebar, despite it offering no value to readers whatsoever. 3: Remove the “Meta” Widget from Your Sidebar. By default, WordPress places certain widgets in your sidebar. Don’t think you need to keep these.

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5,867 Words on Becoming a Conversion Machine: A Guide for Bloggers

Viper Chill

However, thanks to the ViperChill forums, I recently learned of ‘ Widget Context ‘, a plugin that lets you specify which sidebar widgets show on which types of pages on your blog. They basically host a few files for me (such as my CSS and javascript) and I handle the rest of the blog loads with my usual hosting.

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PLEASE DON'T TAPE MY MOUTH SHUT

Myrland Marketing

This is occurring in part due to the increasing use of RSS feed readers which allow readers to view content from a platform that doesn’t permit the display of comments. When you make the decision to host a blog, it’s the same as hosting an event.

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45 Marketing Tools to Consider for 2017

Razor Social

The tool then sends you alerts to your email or RSS feed reader each time it finds relevant mentions. There are many tools out there that you can use to create animated videos or to host a live show. TalkWalker is a very powerful monitoring tool but it also provides a free alternative to Google Alerts. GoAnimiate.

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How I Really Built a Blog with 6500 Subscribers

Viper Chill

If you go back to blogging in it’s simplest form, then all you’re left with is a writer, a blog post, and a reader. Blog subscriptions, fancy sidebar’s and “most commented post&# widgets are all really just extra ways to get people to stay in the simple loop of it being them, and your content, and you.

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