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Category: Blogging
Become a More Productive Blogger with a Ten-Minute Workout!
The New Year is finally here, and many of us are considering new and inspirational ways to help us build a better, more popular blog. As I’m sure Blog Bloke will agree, the strongest pillar of a successful blog is the regular production of great, original content. In theory, this is a wonderful principle, but in practise […]
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Blogs are for Smart People.. Facebook is for Dullards
Putting it in layman’s terms, a new study suggests that if you want to be a big success on Facebook, it helps to be a dullard: People who like to challenge their minds have high NFC (need for cognition), while those who avoid deep thinking have low NFC. Whereas, according to the authors, “high NFC individuals […]
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Is Blogging Really Dead, Just Like the Web is Dead? Ya Right..
I was reading a great article from Mathew Ingram at Gigaom about how blog research statistics can become totally twisted: Blogging is on the decline, according to a New York Times story published this weekend — citing research from the Pew Center’s Internet and American Life Project — and it is declining particularly among young people, who are using […]
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Why Content Curation is BS
When I see internet marketers pushing “content curation”my BS meter automatically goes off. Beep .. beep .. beep! Today is no exception. When I first heard of the term “content curation” it was from internet marketers. I immediately thought of content scrapers, plagiarizers, list makers and the like trying to game Google to get a better […]
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10 Blog Design Tips That Will Take You to the Next Level
Anatomy of a Successful Blog: Most new bloggers don’t understand the difference between a professional blog and an amateur. So I’ve outlined below 10 of the most common blog design tips you can easily make that will help you to improve your blog and join the ranks of professional bloggers: 1: Make your borrowed template your own. […]
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2010 Marks the Beginning of the End for Quality Content
The BIG NEWS for 2010 is Google is dumbing-down it’s algorithms to accomodate the idle chit-chat of Social Media. Google is ringing in the New Year with a PageRank shakeup that will be earth-shaking. A new trend is unfolding that will give Social Network accounts like Twitter and Facebook a better Page Rank than Blogs! Last evening I wrote on Twitter: With Google’s […]
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8 Killer Blog Tips for Getting Free Traffic
I am by no means an expert on the topic of blogging. But I’m going to share with you some 8 effective ways that I’ve discovered to get more readers to your blog. It has worked for me and I’m hoping you too can get great results as I have. So without further ado here […]
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15 Secret Tips for Building A Better Blog
Today I’m going to give you 15 tips that will show how you can build a better blog than your competition. I will give you the insider’s secrets for growing your blog exponentially and how to become an authority in your blog niche. In no time at all you will be able to boast thousands of newsfeed subscribers and Twitter followers and kick sand […]
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8 Twitter Tips to Promote Your Blog
A few days ago I wrote an article “Twittering Vs. Blogging: Is Twitter a Blog Replacement or an Enhancement for Blogs?” I made the case that Twitter can be an effective marketing tool for leveraging your followers – NOT as a blog replacement. So when I came across the title of a Twit Tip it immediately caught my eye. The title was “Using your Blog to […]
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