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Blogosphere Trends + Being Opinionated

ProBlogger

This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts). But I report the list, I don’t decide what’s on it (neither does Regator —it just calculates what’s being blogged about most this week). Open letters can be a fun and creative way to share your thoughts.

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Blogosphere Trends + Effective Calls to Action

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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. These things all grow your blog and your community. Example: Mashable ’s “ Join Mashable for Two Days of Events at SXSWi ”.

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

These scenarios come to fruition in spontaneous communities, on social networks, and other self-service tools – all thanks to the availability of low cost technology and access to the world wide web. You can also not use the tools correctly or not behave appropriately within communities around the tools and market poorly.

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How a 3 Month Old Website Received 958373 Visits from Google

Viper Chill

Yet, the reason is simple: events. In February, for one of my sites, I leveraged search terms for the sporting events and Valentines Day. I will go into detail on how I leverage Google to get traffic for these events but you first need to know how to find them. At first thought, it might not sound very realistic.

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Blogosphere Trends + Improving Readability

ProBlogger

To give you some examples of these principles at work, we’ll use blog posts about the past month’s most-blogged-about stories (rankings provided, as always, by Regator. Write to communicate, not to impress. This month’s tips will help you connect with readers … even if you have no interest in your numerical score. So what to do?