Your blog has been up for awhile and it generates a fair amount of traffic. Now what? If you feel that offering advertising is appropriate for your audience, start monetizing that content. What kinds of monetization techniques are available to bloggers? This section will go into monetization techniques in more detail. Choosing When to Monetize [...]
Your blog has been out there for a bit now, so it’s time to tell people about it. You can do the whole job of networking and participating on blogs, which is ideal, but there are a number of other participatory strategies that can be employed to get your blog’s name out there. Blog & [...]
Blogs are a terrific platform to launch viral content. Because the voice of blogs is more “natural” (in comparison to a corporate voice that many people are used to on the typical business website), blogs are one good soundboard for perfect linkbait – that is, “the art of targeting, creating, and formatting information that provokes [...]
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You want to dive in and write a blog, but you feel that your ocean of ideas will soon dry up into an oasis (and you’ll need to keep your readers intrigued with updated posts so as not to lose your audience). Where can you find ideas for your content? Thankfully, you’re not alone. There [...]
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The reason why blogs are popular is because most of them – or the most successful ones – offer a level of transparency between the reader and the writer. Instead of seeing a corporate voice, you often learn about individuals in executive corporate positions as humans. Blogs have a different overall feel, and posts are [...]
Since WordPress is by far the most prolific blog platform with plugin support, this section will discuss a number of WordPress plugins available for making SEO easy. All in One SEO Pack: If you have to choose one plugin for WordPress to use, this is the one you need. The All in One SEO Pack [...]
It goes without saying that search engine optimization is just as important for blogs as it is for websites. However, fortunately, blogs integrate software that pings search engines to inform them of new content (as discussed in the previous section), and consequently, blogs are usually crawled a lot more often than a static site. In [...]
So, you decided to take the plunge! That’s great! There are a number of blogging platforms available, and some provide features that are not offered by others. In this section, we’ll discuss the popular options and review the pros and cons of each. Keep in mind that you should consider the decision of choosing a [...]
In today’s day and age, news consumption comes from traditional media and what is now known as “new media.” Traditional media is what you’ve all grown up hearing about: newspapers, television, magazines, and books. New media, on the other hand, is a relatively new term that has emerged within the past two decades and deals [...]
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A blog, which is short for “weblog,” is a website that is usually maintained by individuals or groups, and more recently, businesses, which offer commentary and ideas for a larger audience. A typical blog features an entry, often sprinkled with graphics and video, followed by comments by readers. The entire layout of the blog is [...]