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Are You Growing Enough Voices

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RSS subscriptions are up. You might expect that this blog that has been written almost entirely by me for two years would experience a bit of a lull during this period, as different authors with less blogging experience took over. You would be entirely wrong. Visits are up. Page views are up. Retweets are up.

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Please Help Me Pick a New Look For My Blog

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Changed the sharing tools to incorporate Sexy Bookmarks plug-in (Michael Stelzner at Social Media Examiner turned me on to it). I'd suggest that you move the search box somewhere below the navigation– maybe above the RSS feed option on the right? We’ve added Disqus as the commenting system.

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How to Match 10 Key Success Metrics to Your Blogging Strategy.

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Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers. This is especially misplaced with group written blogs, where the broad content focus and inconsistent tonality makes RSS subscription less likely.

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Is Your Twitter Addiction Paying Off

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I once calculated time spent blogging vs. number of RSS subscribers. link] jaybaer Seriously, you are missing the boat on the Double Down. It's awesome! link] jaybaer Oh man. Please don't make me go there again. Back of napkin, it's something like 10 subscribers per hour (best case). link] jaybaer Absolutely Patrick.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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(Incidentally, these internal links are also a SEO positive) 4. If your blog is consistent enough that you believe RSS subscription is realistic, make sure visitors can easily subscribe to your RSS feed. Example: Subscribe to our RSS Feed cos next weeks post will be just like this one – but TWICE as awesome.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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[link] [link] Hot In Marketing 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness | Blogging and Content Creation | Social Media Consulting – C. link] [link] duane forrester Alltop RSS – 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness [link] [link] Matt McDougall 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness into Mktg Success.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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I’ve linked to a recent post of mine about Gartner’s recent report that half of social media campaigns will fail. link] seo company, high wycombe, buc Just thought i would Stumble upon this ideal opportunity to link build! Especially social media, but even SEO, PPC, email, etc. link] Alasdair Munn Good post.