Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 22, 2015

Does your business blog have the livelihood of a funeral? When you look around at your blog and analytics, what do you see? You have absolutely no evidence whatsoever that anyone even cares remotely about your blog. What’s going wrong with your business blog?! Blogging for business purposes is (still) relatively new.

How To 100

How To Hubspot Flickr Engagement 100

ProBlogger

APRIL 22, 2021

The post How to Hire Writers for Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. This blog is based on episode 169 of the ProBlogger podcast. Most blogs start out as a solo effort, with one person doing all the writing, marketing and social media updates. That’s certainly how I started all my blogs. build up my archives.

How To 48

How To Applications Flickr Groups 48

Twist Image

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

By the way the conversation flowed at this year's BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Los Angeles, you would think that Blogging was brand new. It was yesterday morning's keynote (which was also the last day of this three-day long conference) that brought out a ton of in-person discourse on Blogs, Blogging, Social Media and the future of media.

Questions 101

Questions Tumblr Flickr Journal 101

Writtent Blog

MAY 1, 2013

If you’re in charge of your company’s blog, SEO is just as important for you as creating quality content that inspires engagement and generates leads. After you slave and sweat over writing those high-quality articles your readers love, use this checklist of 14 blog writing tips to properly optimize your blog posts.

SEO 111

SEO Tips Engineering Wikipedia 111

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

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.

Class 215

Class WordPress Creative Commons Postrank 215

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Marketing > 7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins 7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins by Tamar Weinberg on July 15, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Frank Lee. These days, many people have started a blog for hobby or business.

Blogger 250

Blogger Engineering Flickr SEO 250

Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

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.

scribd 101

scribd Creative Commons Meme Flickr 101

Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 23, 2014

Image: Depone via Flickr, CC 2.0. Be Your Own Publisher on Social Media: 8 Brands that Kill It. Why: Today, with Internet access and some form of a computer, virtually anyone can become a content publisher. Resources Shonali Burke Weekly Roundup blogging content online publishing ugc user generated content'

Content 198

Content UGC Consultant Flickr 198

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

First, you… Image: Kate Sumbler via Flickr , Creative Commons Hold on! A while back, I was looking at my Google Analytics for WUL and I noticed that my 404 page , i.e. the one you get when the server can’t find the page you’re looking for on a particular site, was the 4th most highly-trafficked page on my blog.

Class 241

Class Tumblr Template Templates 241

Social Media Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Image credit: Express Monorail (Flickr) "Round up the usual suspects." Corporate blogging has been with us for quite some time, with some major companies having forayed into the space in the early to mid 2000s. Or is it that there's a purpose that isn't served by blogs? "I But of course, you know that's just crazy talk.

Aggregator 166

Aggregator Disqus StumbleUpon Digg 166

Kikolani

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Anybody writing blogs for business purposes will be keen to build a sizeable readership and achieve higher rankings in the major search engines. Photo Credit: Matthew Hodgson on Flickr. By sprinkling these keywords moderately throughout your blogs, it is possible to achieve a rapid search engine and web traffic boost.

Engineering 151

Engineering Delicious SEO WordPress 151

Writtent Blog

JULY 24, 2013

Thanks to Google’s Panda and Penguin updates, getting your blog to appear on the first page of search results is trickier than ever. Write guest posts for blogs in your niche. Image credit: Pete Georgiev/Flickr. Allow guest posts on your blog. Allow guest posts on your blog. Image credit: zigazou76/Flickr.

Strategy 92

Strategy Crowdsourcing Flickr How To 92

Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 4, 2011

This is part of the Blogging for Grasshoppers series. If you publish a blog, there are three things I want to tell you today. Image: elventear via Flickr, CC 2.0. I’m not one to get overly excited by blog comment systems, but this one has me blown away. Short version. I think you should go grab it.

System 170

System Comments WordPress Joomla 170

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Image: jim crossley via Flickr, CC 2.0 Image: BES Photos via Flickr, CC 2.0 An article published on Edutopia titled Lead, Don’t Lecture , outlines teachers’ insights that are in line with these sentiments. Image: Stuart Caie via Flickr, CC 2.0 Sorry, I won’t be telling you in this post.

Class 178

Class Flickr WordPress Template 178

Kikolani

OCTOBER 24, 2012

While consolidating the features into The Ultimate Guide to LinkedIn Answers , I discovered the fact that apart from being able to generate traffic, leads and sales for bloggers, the platform is also an awesome place for bloggers to come up with blog post ideas. Photo Credit: Flickr. Browse for Blog Post Ideas. Conduct a Survey.

LinkedIn 167

LinkedIn Survey Crowdsourcing Blogger 167

ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

The post 7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Recently on ProBlogger we’ve been looking at the topic of building community on a blog. We started by identifying 9 benefits and 3 costs of community on a blog and then looked at 5 stages of building community on a blog.

Communities 40

Communities Strategy Forums Project 40

Dave Fleet

JULY 26, 2010

As it happens, lots of organizations publish their social media guidelines online, ready for you to review and use yourself. Blog Policy. Corporate Blogging Policy. Blogging Policy. Guidelines for Student Blogging. Corporate Blogging Policies and Guidelines. Blogging Code of Conduct. Blog Assessment.

Policies 419

Policies Resources Liveworld Social Media 419

Writtent Blog

MARCH 20, 2014

Image credit: Flickr. What if you could get an entire blog totally ready for publication in this amount of time? I’m not suggesting that you start publishing anything that’s less than awesome in the name of efficiency. Getting started: Image credit: Flickr. 0-8 Minutes: Outline your blog. Here we go!

How To 103

How To Flickr Statistics Creative Commons 103

Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 16, 2011

But really, how many blogs does a gal need? If you and I talk regularly on Twitter, or Facebook… heck, even in the early days of WUL (and I have to stifle a giggle as I say that, because this blog is barely two years old!) Image: kennymatic via Flickr, CC 2.0. So it’s probably high time that I started a food blog.

WordPress 183

WordPress FeedBurner Smart Phone Blogroll 183

Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

For both public relations and search engine optimization, publishing content via other people’s sites is a critical part of their everyday duties. Image: SalFalko via Flickr, CC 2.0. Gatekeepers are the ones who control what is published on their site. Below are tips on how to build a network (and then maintain it!)

Blogger 263

Blogger Strategy Technorati Community building 263

Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

As each year passes, blog marketing techniques evolve. If you’re a business, you may have the luxury of hiring an awesome Internet Marketing Company to keep up with the trends, but as individuals managing a blog for as a hobby or for profit, it’s up to you to not only maintain that blog but keep up with ways to increase traffic.

Questions 167

Questions Adsense Marketing SEO 167

Ari Herzog

MARCH 3, 2011

Plug photo by Adam Mulligan on Flickr. The blog platform, as an open source community, is collectively shared by anyone and everyone who contribute code and provide feedback about what works and what needs improvement. When you read an article on this blog and see related links underneath it, those links are generated by a plugin.

WordPress 168

WordPress Lurker Postrank NoFollow 168

Kikolani

JULY 6, 2011

I just don’t have the commitment to build a better blog in 31 days. In fact, I don’t think anyone needs 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. You have the talent, you have the passion, and, evidently, you have the desire to improve your blog. Let’s build a blog people want to read. Why do you blog, Tony?

How To 160

How To Forums Hosting Flickr 160

Ignite Social Media

APRIL 8, 2022

Besides seeking permission, it’s advisable to embed posts on your blog or website. Social media teams should consider using platforms such as Flickr and CreativeCommons.org , where they can find copyright-free images with licenses for editorial and commercial use. This includes videos, images, written text, and music.

Fair Use 215

Fair Use Social Media Meme Public Domain 215

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Ten Reasons PR Pros Should Blog November 10th, 2010 Tweet Last week, Joe Hackman hosted Danny Brown , Gini Dietrich and me on his BlogTalkRadio show, aptly entitled PRapalooza. Blogging is a strange beast.

Class 226

Class Blogosphere Blogger Creative Commons 226

Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2008

The Bamboo Project Blog. The Power of Blogging ISNT Just in Reading Them. In a few weeks were going to be looking at blogs in the Work Literacy course. In fact, I have to go on record right now as saying that reading blogs is only a small part of what makes blogs powerful for learning. RANT ALERT! )

Project 265

Project Web 2.0 Module Wiki 265

Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 29, 2011

Image: orangebrompton via Flickr, CC 2.0. How I use it: I never schedule more than one, or max two, updates per day, and I always try to share other blog posts or news items I think my community would be interested in. Hint: If you optimize your blog posts by properly filling out the excerpt , then this will work even better.

Communities 232

Communities Tools Syndication HootSuite 232

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 12, 2012

” So, if they’re not “out there,” either by blogging, or tweeting up a storm, or engaging in similar online activity… does that mean they should be discounted ? Most bloggers blog too much. Image: Lanzen via Flickr, CC 2.0. The PR world is full of very smart people who aren’t “out there.”

Social Media 252

Social Media Conference Flickr Discount 252

Social Media Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2012

It's not too long ago (okay, in social media terms, it was eons ago) that Flickr was one of the major social networks. But the rise of Instagram as a deft and light app that allowed seamless integration into sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more made some wonder if there was a future for Flickr. So what happened? Remember that.

Instagram 168

Instagram Flickr Privacy Policies 168

ProBlogger

DECEMBER 1, 2012

As part of our Blogging the Festive Season series, we asked a few questions about how she’s squaring up for her first festive season on the blog. You started Keep the Tail Wagging on January 1, 2012, so this will be your first festive season on the blog. I notice that you’ve already published a seasonal post from Petsmart.

Case Study 38

Case Study Publishing Study Press Release 38

ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

The post 7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Recently on ProBlogger we’ve been looking at the topic of building community on a blog. We started by identifying 9 benefits and 3 costs of community on a blog and then looked at 5 stages of building community on a blog.

Communities 26

Communities Strategy Forums Project 26

Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 8, 2013

Image: Sean MacEntee via Flickr, CC 2.0. Content is the “meat and potatoes” of everything from websites to newsletters to blog posts; without content you literally have nothing. 4 Questions to Ask Before You Publish Content. Let me back up… if you took a long weekend, did you enjoy it?

Content 205

Content Resources Consultant Flickr 205

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 1, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Industry News > Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them Analysis of Five Top Blogs and What You Can Learn from Them by Tamar Weinberg on July 1, 2010 Share Inspired by my recent post on How Young is Too Young? ,

Analysis 226

Analysis Domain Name Blogger Adsense 226

Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 22, 2011

You may not have noticed, but for the last couple of weeks, Waxing UnLyrical has not been publishing over the weekend. While I love blogging, the blog community, social media, etc., Now, when it comes to blogging, you could certainly tell me that I can schedule posts ahead of time and do just that.

Publishing 196

Publishing Flickr Comments Analytics 196

Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Image: Dave Keeshan via Flickr, CC 2.0. And I’ve felt very guilty about being incognito on my own blog, and with you. Image: Rameshng via Flickr , CC 2.0. Image: Kamath Residency Adventure Resort via Flickr, CC 2.0. And you have been really patient with me as I’ve been figuring out my new life.

Flickr 204

Flickr Travel Eventful Blogger 204

Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 11, 2011

Video Blog Posts. Image: BenSpark via Flickr, CC 2.0. Use the easiest (and most effective) program you can find for your editing and publishing needs. Once you publish, review it and then head to your YouTube channel (or Vimeo…or both) to load that puppy. Image: Lord Jerome via Flickr, CC 2.0. I say, “Yes!”.

Embedding 225

Embedding Vimeo YouTube Flickr 225

Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 9, 2013

Image: crimfants via Flickr, CC 2.0. I pitched a post to her a few months back and she rejected it because it didn’t fit with the content that she was publishing. Regular readers of Waxing Unlyrical probably are familiar with Erin Feldman, the talented eclectic responsible for WUL’s Sarah and Sheldon illustrations.

Exercises 244

Exercises Flickr Consultant Meeting 244