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Lifting the Fog of the Blog: 8 Strategic Questions Before You Write 1 Word

Convince & Convert

There are more than 150 million blogs, according to Technorati’s “State of the Blogosphere&# report. Depending upon how the blog fits your strategic business objectives, you may prefer your readers to download longer form content (like an e-book), or subscribe to your blog, or leave a comment, or tweet your post.

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Conversion Optimization: Our New Series

ProBlogger

boost downloads of free products, whitepapers, and samples. These days, competition within the blogosphere is only getting stronger, and readers are only getting more savvy. Share your experiences with us in the comments … and keep an eye out for the first part of our series a bit later today.

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Busting Facebook’s Most Widespread Myth

Convince & Convert

This reach is called “organic”, which means that it only records the views which result through no action of a friend (such as like, share, or comment). Organic reach only records views which are not the result of a friend’s action (such as like, share, or comment). The views that are a result of actions are recorded in “viral” views.

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Five for Friday 11.15.10

Jeff Esposito

I am not sure what to think of it as I am just starting to test out the beta and will reserve comment for a week or so. There was an article in Forbes that noted the Technorati state of the blogosphere that noted that social media was killing blogging. The platform called RockMelt looks to merge social media with social media.

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Blogosphere Trends + Effective Calls to Action

ProBlogger

Even if you’re not selling anything (yet), you still want your audience to take action by commenting, interacting, sharing, Facebook “liking” your post, watching your videos, attending your events, etc. In this example, the bloggers directly asks readers to vote in the poll and state their case in the comments. Create visual interest.

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating Your Blog Logo

ProBlogger

In reality, the blogosphere is split on this issue. If you plan on hiring a designer, or using the services of a design company, here are a few pointers that you should consider: Always check the designer’s portfolio samples. the blogs of Seth Godin and Matt Cutts). These cases are exceptions to the rule.

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Squeeze Page Optimisation: How to Get 700+ Free Leads and a 64% Conversion Rate

Viper Chill

Blog posts here at ViperChill generally receive a large number of comments. Though less than a third of the audience here opts for email updates, I get more comments from these readers than anyone else. I would love to hear them in the comments. Probably not. I Tested a Mini Mad Libs Format.