With the integration of Google+ content with search results, it is advised that bloggers should include the seven-month old social network to their blog marketing efforts. If you want to boost your blog’s traffic, now is the time to build your Circles and prioritize it more than your fans and followers.
Here’s why Google+ should become an important part of your blog marketing efforts.
The Real Growth is in the Horizon
Google’s Senior Vice President for Engineering Vic Gundotra recently reported that the social network now has 90 million users. Almost getting ahead of Twitter and its 100 million tweeps, this growth claims that Google+ is not dying. In fact, this is just the beginning for the young social network.
Google+ was already integrated with Gmail, Google...
There are numerous ways to promote your blog. One of the proven techniques to attract readers to your site is submitting your content to blog directories. This easy promotion method can definitely help you reach your target audience.
Blog directories are similar to a phone book. They list down content and sites according to several categories. This is why they are also known as “link directories.” Users of these directories are directed to the websites and...
All bloggers might have gone through that moment when they cannot find the drive to start working on a new blog post. It is an imperative for a blogger to regularly update his or her blog with new posts from time to time. However, coming up with ideas and writing about them may not be that easy due to several factors.
An easy way to overcome this blogging bane is to plan your blog posts. Here...
New bloggers may wonder why they should still write a guest post for another blogger’s site – after all, they already have a lot to think about for their own site. But what these bloggers should know is that guest posting can help them promote their site in a number of ways. Below are the reasons why you should guest post and how it can actually help you promote your blog.
It opens the doors to...
Indeed, having your own blog requires you to learn a lot – how will you set up the blog in the first place? How will you optimize your website and push it to the top? Some of the things that you should know your way around with are blog traffic statistics. Yes – there are different types of blog traffic stats, and it’s not just about mere page views.
Below are the seven blog traffic statistics...
Blogging is a fulfilling activity. However, it can also demand a lot of your time and attention. If you really want to be a successful and established blogger, you must come up with a strategy that will allow you to update your blog regularly. Many bloggers still have full-time jobs and other obligations to attend to besides their virtual responsibilities. If you are such a blogger, you would know how critical it is to learn...
In a previous article, we talked about the need to understand your readers better through feedback and blog surveys. Here’s where the challenge starts though. A lot of website owners don’t know how to create a survey, or how to encourage their readers to answer the questionnaires. So read on how find some tips to make your efforts count.
First, it is important to ensure that your survey meets the following criteria:
Easy to understand and quick...
Bloggers must know how to write a blog title that can turn a visitor into a loyal reader because first impression matters even on the Internet. However, a good title is more than just grabbing your reader’s attention. It should also tell what the content will be about, encouraging them to read further. In fact, copy blogger Bob Bly listed eight types of blog headlines that can compel your readers to take action.
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In order to come up with story ideas for long-term publishing, you need to have a story budget. No, it’s not about the cash that you have to spend. It’s about planning what you’ll post on your blog in the coming days, weeks or months. It’s basically creating a schedule on what to post and when to publish it on your blog while sticking with it.
Keep on reading to know what posts you can publish...
Any website owner and blogger knows that it is difficult to build a community. How can you entire people to keep coming back to your page when there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of sites that offer seemingly the same thing? Well, the key is to give the readers what they want. Large media organizations know this.
For example, if you look closely enough, it becomes apparent that companies like CNBC and even CNN has...
