Ari Herzog

JUNE 2, 2015

Everyone wants to be a blogger. Forget about Blogger, Drupal, etc. Set up the user experience via themes, plugins, layout, sidebar widgets, colors, fonts, and menus. Set up a RSS subscription feed – and an email subscription feed. Think about having guest bloggers, especially if you’re taking a vacation.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 13, 2011

Other targets are content farms and “scraper&# sites (those which pull in content through RSS feeds or robots and post it as their own) but may also affect sites like eHow and About.com who, up until now, have dominated the results for a lot of topics. So what’s a blogger to do? trust me, you’ll learn a lot).

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Kikolani

JANUARY 20, 2012

Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+ , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. 5 Things Every Blogger Needs to Teach Their Readers & Why it Matters – Want to grow a successful blog? Or subscribe directly to Fetching Friday only via RSS or email. The Resources Mashup.

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Justin Levy

JULY 30, 2010

If youre new here or just an old friend, Id love it if you subscribed via RSS feed. As engagement and sharing on Twitter, Facebook and other social tools continues to increase, many bloggers are noticing a sharp decrease in comments on their blogs. I love comments as much as the next blogger. Both are great.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

8 Effective SEO Techniques Every WordPress Blogger Should Use by BloggingPro. A nicely crafted and illustrated reference to how to do a variety of things with WordPress from setting up a static home page and custom navigation bar to adding breadcrumbs and widgetizing a theme, footer and page menu.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

And a lot of established blogs still have the “meta” widget in the sidebar, despite it offering no value to readers whatsoever. While there’s nothing wrong with being a new blogger (we all were at some point), you probably don’t want to look like a complete beginner. 3: Remove the “Meta” Widget from Your Sidebar.

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Stay N' Alive

MAY 9, 2011

Since writing for LouisGray.com a few years ago I've been curious about Blogger. I talked to Rick Klau , Blogger's Product Manager at the time, at a BlogWorld expo a few years back and he insisted I try it. I admit I didn't like the interface of Blogger at first. So my main choices were Blogger and Wordpress.com.

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Kikolani

JULY 13, 2011

The million-dollar question every newbie blogger ask is “How can I drive traffic to my blog?&#. Sure you can find tons of resources over the internet from successful bloggers who tackle topics on how they were able to achieve traffic when they started a decade ago, more or less. This is a guest post by Ramcel Gatchalian.

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Proactive Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

He explained that instead of focusing only on the front end of a news portal, today you have to be aware of what’s needed behind the scenes to make it easy for people, bloggers journalists and search engines to find, use and share your news content. by using share widgets, offering short pre-made tweet samples w/short URLs, etc.

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Kikolani

MAY 28, 2013

Aweber Web Form Widget – This free plugin for Aweber users will allow you to install web forms easily on your blog, including as a checkbox in your comment form. Kikolani is now using Feedblitz to deliver the latest posts to you via RSS. Pricing is $4.95 Be sure to follow Kristi on Twitter , Facebook , and Google+.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 9, 2011

Widgets and tools that allow for embedded content have been around for years. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Seriously, this isn’t a mind-sweeping technological advancement. WordPress has plugins that do the same thing so it’s really nothing new.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

What I like most is the combination of RSS feeds, bookmarks and widgets in one tab (section) according to a context. So, I would like to thank the bloggers and you too for sharing the good ideas! Each channel is implemented with existing components, including html and link components and widgets.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Phil on Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted to: RSS/Atom , Reader One comment, add yours! Google Reader is a very popular online tool for reading RSS feeds. In this article we will take a look at a few easy ways to subscribe to a new RSS feed. t have an RSS feed!) Subscribe by RSS feed or by email today! Comments RSS.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 18, 2011

A Better Blogroll If you like highlighting other bloggers on your site via a blogroll, you will probably find that as you add more and more to them, it becomes a huuge list. All you have to do is go to your Categories widget, and select the option to “show as dropdown.&# And my guest bloggers, both frequent and infrequent.

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Writtent Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

It’s tempting, when you see what widgets are available for your blog, to add tons of them to your sidebar. Even with a pre-set template, a lot of bloggers will feel it necessary to add their own HTML to personalize it a bit more to their liking. There’s also the matter of RSS Feed Readers. Your clients will appreciate it.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Blog Post Promotion Guide – Get a copy of my popular Blog Post Promotion Guide which helps bloggers promote their own posts, guest posts, contest posts, and posts for clients for $12.50 – that’s half off the regular price with free access to future revisions. Or subscribe directly to Fetching Friday only via RSS or email.

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ProBlogger

JULY 6, 2011

Readers now want multi-media content, social media widgets, great writing, and so on. The job of managing research, affiliates, guest posts—all while learning new technologies—has already begun to overwhelm some small bloggers. It’s obvious to many blog readers that some bloggers need help. Bloggers are people too!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 9, 2008

Posted by: Amit Agarwal , a professional technology blogger at Digital Inspiration and an exceptionally creative Docs user We were first introduced to Amit Agarwal when he sent us a video , detailing how to use Docs as an RSS feed reader (check out the accompanying and instructive blog post , as well). Live blogging with Docs.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 10, 2011

So if you’re interested in helping me become the next bad-ass SEO blogger finding out how to optimize your social media profiles for search for better personal and professional branding: Check out this post and follow the step-by-step directions. What’s at stake in this blogging contest? A nice cash prize of $1,000!

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Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Note: you can subscribe to video on iTunes but I’m waiting for them to offer the audio RSS version too! Here is a typical widget from Wordpress 3rd party developers which allows bloggers to ask for donations on their blog, and uses PayPal as the backend for donations across the online community. Caring But Not Committed.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

RSS/syndication = Blog Readers â?¢ link] - free& easy Joan Vinall-Cox Slide 18: Fill in the Blanks Joan Vinall-Cox Slide 19: RSS/syndication - Readers â?¢ the RSS icon Joan Vinall-Cox Slide 20: Bloglines â?¢ Popular with sophisticated bloggers - [link] â?¢ RSS/syndication â?? Slideshare.net (beta). Featured. |.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 12, 2012

As a blogger, you should be spending at least 80% of your time creating killer content. Now you can spend your time connecting with likeminded bloggers, responding to comments, and making money instead of copying and pasting the same update all over the web. Use this RSS to Twitter recipe to automatically tweet new blog posts.

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Josh S Peters

JUNE 11, 2010

See you in comments !; -) Ivana Sendecka is: Lifelong Learner | Business consultant | Coach | Blogger | Reader | Listener | Passionate about life & about unfolding talents in people| “Talk walker”| Person who cares| Living “Curiosity on steroids”| She runs a project NGLS – Next Generation Leaders of Slovakia.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Set up an RSS Reader. The best way to do that is using an RSS reader like Google Reader or Netvibes. ve set it up, your RSS reader will aggregate all of the new posts on those fantastic blogs in one place â?? favorite posts into one place in your RSS reader. Become a Blogger (and a Twitterer). Comments rss.

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Freelance Social Media

MARCH 1, 2009

The blog has now been up for 4 months and features five guest bloggers a week in addition to promoting the #gno weekly events. Instead, we wanted to use it—when we weren’t using it to promote #gno parties or capturing RSVP info—as a way to promote community members’ blogs. Featuring the Thesis Wufoo Skin WordPress Admin

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 25, 2010

I’ve been including it in my e-signature for a while now, and have incorporated it into my website as well as this blog (you’ve probably noticed the Tungle widget on this blog, even if you haven’t used it). If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Outreach –these are created by emailing bloggers or sites that are in your niche or similar to your niche (places that have something in common with yours), as well as submitting to directories. Offer a widget or simple graphic with a link in it to your blog which will allow other to link to you easily and effortlessly.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Outreach –these are created by emailing bloggers or sites that are in your niche or similar to your niche (places that have something in common with yours), as well as submitting to directories. Offer a widget or simple graphic with a link in it to your blog which will allow other to link to you easily and effortlessly.

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Justin Levy

JULY 14, 2009

If youre new here or just an old friend, Id love it if you subscribed via RSS feed. Recently, a group of green bloggers banded together to raise individual $1 donations from their readers. Mashable’s Summer of Social Good campaign, for example, has a widget that does both. And very often they are used to raise money.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 2, 2011

Install Recent Global Posts widgets: Display recent posts from all blogs across your network, and bump your featured blog posts to pin them throughout the day. Update topics for featured blogs: Create specific forum topics for each of your sites and reply whenever your blog posts get kicked out of recent posts widgets.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 13, 2012

Post your petition on your blog or website: “Embed a petition widget on your site and let your readers sign your petition right from your page.” blogger wrote an article about the story and included a link to access the petition. That is self –explanatory and it is awesome. Better yet, email the author of the publications themselves.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 11, 2012

Widgets and apps can help pull a Twitter feed to a website, or a blog RSS feed to a LinkedIn profile or Facebook profile. Google+, however, does not allow Twitter feeds, Facebook activity streams or RSS feeds to be imported. This reflects Google’s effort to ensure that the content on Google+ is always unique.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

The blogger (Professor Jutras) posts his ideas, occasionally throws in some editorial and takes some light, widget-fed microblogging (the current events some students share). But it’s only ever got two participants: the original commenter and the blogger. I see this seminar as a blog.

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Saying It Social

MAY 1, 2010

Google Reader allows you subscribe to RSS feeds across the web. An RSS feed is simply a real-time running list of posts, tweets, blog posts, Facebook links, etc. You can add widgets to your blog’s sidebar to display real-time posts from some of your other sites.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 13, 2014

And have you ever wanted other bloggers, journalists and writers to reference you as an expert in top publications on the web? On the other hand, if you have won an award that would be difficult for other bloggers to attain, that is a keeper. One of the smartest things you can do as a blogger is to build your email list.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

On a daily basis we bloggers are bombarded posts about so-called unique methods of making money, getting new advertisement opportunities, and how to increase revenue streams. It becomes so deeply ingrained in our minds that the end goal, if we care about monetizing our blog, is to become the next millionaire blogger.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

I, like so many other bloggers, had figured people would come to my site in the way I had designed it. We evaluated and planned and created images and installed widgets. Maybe you’ll take care of it with a widget on your sidebar, or maybe a popup. Are your RSS feed, signup, Twitter, and Facebook buttons easy to find?

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