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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. Facebook “Like” buttons and retweet buttons are so ubiquitous these days, many people tune them out. Know when and where to ask.

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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. Sample Headlines Include ….&#. For new blogs, I recommend writing 50 sample headlines before you write one post. Given competition of that magnitude, why should people spend time reading yours?

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Busting Facebook’s Most Widespread Myth

Convince & Convert

For over a year, rumor has had it on the web that Facebook Page posts reach an average of only 16% of fans. Actually, Facebook itself started this rumor in February of 2012 at the Facebook Marketing Conference in New York. Let’s take a moment to look at the different forms of measuring reach on Facebook pages.

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Conversion Optimization: Our New Series

ProBlogger

attract Facebook fans and Twitter followers. 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. Some of the blogger’s most common conversion goals include: grow signups to an email subscription list.

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Five for Friday 11.15.10

Jeff Esposito

Why Facebook and Twitter Are Not Replacing Blogging – One problem that I have with research studies is that any given person can manipulate the numbers to make their case for their position. There was an article in Forbes that noted the Technorati state of the blogosphere that noted that social media was killing blogging.

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

Viper Chill

People can ignore your Tweets, Facebook udpates and even RSS updates, but they can’t ignore an email. If you ask any marketer who is trying to make money if they would rather have an email subscriber, RSS reader, Twitter follower or even Facebook fan, every single one of them will tell you the first option. Probably not.

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7 Blogging Mistakes to Avoid in 2017

ProBlogger

After all, the blogosphere is really a community – and we’re all in it together. A persona sample at Xtensio. Advertise on Facebook. Personally, my favorite way to drive paid traffic is with Facebook advertising. Ad idea: Use Facebook Carousel Ads to promote multiple blogposts ( source ). We get it: Popups work!

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