Diva Marketing Blog

MAY 22, 2009

With all the chatter about social networks and widgets and videos and podcasts and apps and tweets and gizmos (oh that's the next Big thing) the traditional blog has gotten lost in the digital maze. Seems only fitting that the first up should be Mark Story's post - Help Doug Haslam Ride. I'm going to let you in on my new secret. Mommy blogs.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 26, 2013

The real difference between the reach of fans (below) and organic reach is that the latter include views of people that are not fans of the page but have directly accessed your page or seen its content in a widget (for example, a “like box” on your site or blog). An effective page still enjoys phenomenal reach without paying a dime.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

After you set up your giving page, you’ll be able to create a widget that displays the amount of money you’re trying to raise, the organization you’re supporting, and how far you’ve progressed in your fundraising. Place this widget somewhere on your blog. But I believe it can do much more than that.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Reviews work much better for affiliate sales than buttons, widgets, or advertisements. We’ve seen this approach work much better, as far as conversions are concerned, than advertisements, widgets, or buttons on your website. Keep these best practices in mind—but also focus on executing them as much as you can.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

Darren mentions the five “Cs” of blogging include content, community, points of connection, cash, and contributing something of value to the world and the blogosphere. A passive blogger is more likely to place a widget on their blog sidebar, enabling a reader to navigate to a third-party site to make a donation if they feel inclined.

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Justin Levy

JULY 30, 2010

Putting a widget on your site stating the number of visitors or subscribers doesn't either but that's a discussion for another time. I don't know if this is due to personal taste/need or a trend in the blogosphere. You have to decide why you have comments open. I've been in media for 26 years and I love feedback.

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ProBlogger

JULY 6, 2011

Readers now want multi-media content, social media widgets, great writing, and so on. In this turmoil created by the growth and development in the blogosphere, I see opportunity. The blogosphere is a big place and as it grows there are more and more opportunities for you to fill in the gaps. Become the support network.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

See you next month with more blogosphere trends from Regator. In the meantime, you can get your niche’s trends or other free widgets for your blog at Regator’s new widget site. Which of these horrors haunts you most frequently and how do you deal with it? Please share your thoughts in the comments.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 10, 2011

It’s the beginning of the month as well as the year, so, as always, Regator has provided blogosphere trends for the month, and I’ll use posts about these popular stories to inspire you to make a vow to improve your blog in the New Year. Find her on Twitter @kimber_regator , get free widgets for your blog , or nominate your blog for review.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Over the years, plenty of bloggers have found themselves in the same situation, written a bunch of ideas down, and shared them with the blogosphere. You are not the first person to be stuck for content ideas – not by a long shot.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The top ten stories of the last month, according to Regator.com ’s blogosphere trends were: 1. Find her on Twitter @kimber_regator , get free widgets for your blog , or nominate your blog for review. We’ll answer those questions today, using posts about the month’s most-blogged-about stories to illustrate good linking strategies.

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ProBlogger

MAY 1, 2016

Despite that, and even with a lot of in-depth research on marketing, the blogosphere and online business, there are a number of things I wish I knew when I finally took down my ‘Coming Soon’ page and opened for business. My original sidebar sign-up widget saw a 0.5% Before You Begin. Conversions went through the roof.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

If you care to read any of the numerous guest posting guides available across the blogosphere, you will typically read about advice relating to the same two topics: how to find guest posting opportunities. For instance, say you wrote an article on blue widgets. Image courtesy guigo.eu, licensed under Creative Commons.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 2, 2016

Bigheadedness abounds in the blogosphere, but the humble blogger often ends up on top. You can use the following widget to ask a question. It’s not a requirement, but it’s an advantage to be able to learn and work on a technical level. You don’t have to know everything to start, you just need a willingness to learn or ask for help.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 10, 2011

Reach her on Twitter @kimber_regator and get free widgets for your blog from Regator. Blogosphere Trends + The Art of Live Blogging. Kimberly Turner is a cofounder of Regator , as well as an award-winning print journalist. Post from: ProBlogger Blog Tips.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 13, 2011

Kimberly Turner is a cofounder of Regator , a site that curates the best of the blogosphere, as well as an award-winning print journalist. Reach her on Twitter @kimber_regator and get free widgets for your blog from Regator. Blogosphere Trends + Effective Calls to Action. Post from: ProBlogger Blog Tips.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

Social media connections are those I know through a variety of online forums, the blogosphere, Twitter, and the like (but I generally don’t befriend someone immediately; I still give it time). Delicious – collect news links that feed into my blog, because WordPress.com has a widget for it.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Data Shows English Blogosphere Has Peaked » Sunday, February 25, 2007. Micro Persuasion. Steve Rubel explores the impact of digital trends on business, culture, media and marketing. « NBA Launches Social Network | Main. Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center. Screencasting. Shameless Promotion. Social Commerce. Television.

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Kikolani

AUGUST 3, 2011

Nowadays, we have countless blog posts to read concerning how to improve our traffic numbers through various search engine optimization techniques and blog-design widgets. In the blogosphere, this means that you sometimes have to open up your blog to other voices in order to foster discussion among the blogging community.

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Almost Savvy

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Do I belong in the blogosphere? The first lesson anyone learns about the blogosphere is “listening&# before jumping in to conversations. Do you belong in the blogosphere? While there, I took one course in programming, which involved a tall stack of punch cards and a card reader half the size of my current SUV.

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Almost Savvy

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Do I belong in the blogosphere? The first lesson anyone learns about the blogosphere is “listening&# before jumping in to conversations. Do you belong in the blogosphere? While there, I took one course in programming, which involved a tall stack of punch cards and a card reader half the size of my current SUV.

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Writtent Blog

JANUARY 17, 2014

What is their widget, and how will yours be different? How saturated is the blogosphere in your industry? Unless your industry is incredibly narrow or low-tech, there’s a very good chance your competitors are already blogging. If their efforts are decidedly mediocre, look toward personal brands and content creators in your niche.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

The blogosphere trends for the month of January 2011, in order, were: Egypt , State of the Union , Golden Globes , Verizon iPhone , Gabrielle Giffords , Super Bowl , Martin Luther King Jr , Sundance Film Festival , Flooding , and Consumer Electronics Show.) See if you can find a legitimate pattern or trend in a story you’re covering.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 16, 2011

It’s been said before, but in the blogosphere, the more colloquial you can make your writing, the better. Font formatting, color schemes, picture choice, picture captions, headlines, comments, and widgets all play an integral role in conveying the overall message of your blog. Ostracize people. You can’t write for everyone.

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Viper Chill

JULY 25, 2016

This isn’t some “SEO is Dead” article you see go viral in the SEO blogosphere every six months, but a genuine prediction based on how Google search results have evolved over the last few years. Adding do-followed links to widgets. ” If you follow the SEO blogosphere, you’ll undoubtedly know who he is.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

You need to network with like minded individuals and build relationships with people in the blogosphere so that you ultimately get inbound links, comments, and visibility. Whenever I have friends looking to enter teh blogosphere, I always remind them that the internet has an impressively long memory, so be careful what you put out there.

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Viper Chill

JULY 11, 2011

However, thanks to the ViperChill forums, I recently learned of ‘ Widget Context ‘, a plugin that lets you specify which sidebar widgets show on which types of pages on your blog. Though I don’t do this personally, it’s a popular choice around the blogosphere so that’s why I’m covering it.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 24, 2010

And, since I started using the “little white men&# in my post graphics I have started to see them all over the blogosphere. Thanks for the support, and welcome back to the blogosphere! I definitely borrowed the idea of your footer RSS/Twitter widget but have modified it consistently over the past couple months.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Online community managers are a slightly different breed than social PR folks, or bloggers, or people who are devoted to social news or folks who are widget and mashup fiends. Nice collection of different perspectives from across the blogosphere. Specialties in social media work are already developing.

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Viper Chill

MARCH 11, 2010

Some people focus too much on designing & putting all the ‘fancy widget’ that the site get cluttered. I think if we help each other out like this we can start to make the blogosphere look brilliant, not blah. Great to have you over here, as always! I love simple design myself.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Essential statistics from the State of the Blogosphere 2010 – this post summarizes some major findings, but if you want the full details, head to the source at Technorati. Trick or Tweet: Meet the new Twitter style guide – a look at the official Twitter buttons, widgets, and apps.

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Kikolani

AUGUST 11, 2010

What long-term effects would there be on the blogosphere? When I first started seeing pop-up ads used in the “blogging tips&# niche I started to worry. What happens if everyone starts using the same system to reach visitors? My strongly negative reaction stems from this concern for the nature of blogs.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

I believe that our business practices, processes, and output will modularize the way widgets have changed web design. I believe working remotely will become the rule, not the exception, and that we’ll replace some portion of office-meeting time with video now that it’s free-to-cheap. A gem of a post.

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ProBlogger

MAY 11, 2011

Kimberly Turner is a cofounder of Regator , a site that curates the best of the blogosphere, as well as an award-winning print journalist. Reach her on Twitter @kimber_regator and get free widgets for your blog from Regator. Blogosphere Trends + Readability Scoring. Let us know in the comments! Post from: ProBlogger Blog Tips.

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Writtent Blog

AUGUST 3, 2016

This could be old spammy comments, deactivated themes, old files on your server and unused plugins and widgets. By engaging on the blogosphere, directories, websites, social media and press contacts, you are effectively telling your story through a 3rd party medium, magnifying the story telling done through your own website.

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