Active Business Blogs Draw 6.9 Times More Organic Search Traffic Than Non-Bloggers

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How to Get the Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011 from Tamar Weinberg

Image by Tamar Weinberg via Flickr Every year, I spend hundreds, perhaps thousands of hours reading articles on Internet Marketing for my annual Best Internet Marketing Posts blog post. The effort to find these posts, read them thoroughly, identify whether they meet certain criteria, and categorize them takes an incredibly huge toll on me, but … Continue reading How to Get the Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011 from Tamar Weinberg

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Image by kk+ via Flickr Whenever I present on the topic of 'practical, tactical social media' organizational leaders usually like what they hear about social media and how to implement it to build their brands online until they hear that in order to achieve maximum results, they'll have to post a thought every day for … Continue reading IMNOTAWRITER

10 Reasons Why New Blogs Fail

Many bloggers don’t even make it to a full year. The truth is, blogging is much more difficult than most people realize. It seems easy enough, keep an online diary on a topic you love and people will read it, right? Wrong. I’ve witnessed so many blogs rev up…and burn right back down. Avoid these … Continue reading 10 Reasons Why New Blogs Fail

Turn Your Expertise Into Dollars Online

Image via Wikipedia Small business owners possess a wealth of knowledge about their industry or sector, and when they share this knowledge with Internet () searchers, it lends credibility to their business and attracts new customers. Blogging is a key medium for sharing your expertise. The most recent Merchant Confidence Index, a survey of 10,000 … Continue reading Turn Your Expertise Into Dollars Online

Five Key Ingredients for a Successful Corporate Blog

Image via Wikipedia So what are the keys to a successful corporate blog? Here are five tips: 1. Content that provides insight, perspective and information. At its core, a corporate blog has to give its readers information they can use to increase their knowledge, learn new things or receive insight. 2. It has need to … Continue reading Five Key Ingredients for a Successful Corporate Blog

6 Easy Ways to Get More Visitors to Your Blog

Image via CrunchBase A blog is an important asset to any business. It allows you to gain visibility as a thought leader, engages your audience in conversation, and acts as link bait. But you can only reap these benefits if you can actually get visitors to your blog. By now, we all know that content … Continue reading 6 Easy Ways to Get More Visitors to Your Blog

How To Provide Attribution in the Blogging World

Image by Old Shoe Woman via Flickr Though the Internet has no set guidelines for how to provide attribution, one rule is clear: Links are the currency of the Web. If you use someone else’s content, whether licensed directly or through fair use, it is important to be sure to provide a clickable link to … Continue reading How To Provide Attribution in the Blogging World

5 Ways to Make Your Blog Posts Outstanding

Image via Wikipedia Are your blog posts just “okay”? Want to make them great? If so, keep reading. A great blog post respects the needs of three distinct entities. It educates and informs your audience (your subscribers and visitors), optimizes for the search engines and sufficiently energizes you so that you do a good job … Continue reading 5 Ways to Make Your Blog Posts Outstanding

The 7 Deadly Fears of Blogging and How to Overcome Them

Image via Wikipedia I remember back to early 2008, when I’d just started blogging, that even though I had great ambitions, my knowledge, expertise, and confidence as a blogger was sorely lacking. I stumbled through my blogging career for over a year before I felt I had a really good grip on things, and even … Continue reading The 7 Deadly Fears of Blogging and How to Overcome Them