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Content Creation? Curation? Focus on Publishing Instead

Firebelly

But the one thing that we’ve both agreed on is the importance of publishing of our content, regardless of where it came from. Publishing is the overall approach of content and conversation. It’s more than just publishing a post to your blog, or uploading a video to YouTube. ” types of discussions.

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Your Blog Stinks! You Should Quit!

SocMed Sean

What to do…It’s 2012 and you’ve been blogging for almost a year now with no success. You published 30 articles this year, but none of them have gone viral , you still only have 250 followers on Twitter (none of whom retweet you), and your Google page rank still sits at a 2. You wouldn’t be the first.

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Getty Images vs Creative Commons and Privacy: What Bloggers Need to Know

ProBlogger

Even WordPress also published an announcement post in which they share the details of Getty’s new offering and how easy it is to embed an image into your blog. Creative Commons II : NonCommercial in CC’s Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 What can you use Getty’s embed for? vincentsl / CC BY 2.0.

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8 Steps to Write a Meaningful Blog Post

Ari Herzog

I get a lot of my ideas from other blogs. He shared how to get blogging ideas from emails. When I find my writing segues away from the title, I copy that chunk of text and create a new blog post from it. There are many places online for free photos for your blog. People leave your blog if you have too many links.

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5 Steps to Submitting a Guest Post & Getting It Published

Kikolani

After some emails back and forth with a potential guest blogger on my site, he suggested I write a little guide on how to submit a guest post in a way that will increase the likelihood of getting it published. Research your target blog. You will want to know what topics the blog owner posts, and what topics are popular.

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Judging A Blog Post By Its Cover

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: mj*laflaca via Flickr , Creative Commons It’s about how that writing looks. They might be helpful to you as you continue on your path as a blogging Grasshopper. Preview before you publish. WordPress has a great preview function, where you can see exactly how your post will appear… before it publishes.

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10 Winnable Ways To Increase Blog Traffic (That You Haven’t Thought Of)

Small Business Mavericks

Increasing traffic to your blog is probably one of the most important things you should work on this year. Here are 10 uncanny ways to drive more traffic to your blog. Take posts from your blog and expand on them for an e-book. Create an e-book and self-publish it on the Kindle, ePub, and iBook formats.

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