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Blog Marketing

Today, Rob Stretch drops the harsh truth that many bloggers don’t realize about driving traffic to a blog. Want to write for us too?

Remember the movie Field of Dreams? Here is a short summary if you have no idea what I’m talking about:

Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) lives in a small house on a cornfield. He is obsessed with baseball and hears whispers in his head telling him “If you build it, they will come.” Finally, he decides to build a baseball park in his cornfield, and the ghosts of baseball legends all congregate and the field of dreams is a huge success.

But what does this have to do with blogging you might ask?

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How I Leaped from Pagerank 0 to 4 in 21 Days Without any Connections

by Henri

Today, Henri Junttila shares his 21 day experience of blog marketing that resulted in the Pagerank increase from zero to four in only 21 days. Want to write for us too?
It’s amazing at what you can accomplish when you work hard. My blog is around 3 weeks old and it has gone from PageRank 0 [...]

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Branding Battle: Favicon to the Rescue

by Seth

Branding is an essential part of blogging and includes developing a recognizable product, service or blog.
Most good companies not only have a product that you can recognize as a customer but also a logo or icon. For instance, if I told you to tell me what the logo for Google was you could probably draw [...]

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How to Market Articles Without Leaving Your Blog

How to Market Articles Without Leaving Your Blog

by Alex

The biggest flaw of many bloggers is their inability to market a post. We all know the common marketing strategies – social media, blog commenting, forum posting. These are all ways to bring in some traffic, sure. But, they require a lot of effort to work effectively.
It is perceived by most bloggers that to find [...]

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Personalized Marketing

Marketing Personalization: It’s Not About the Numbers

by Seth

“Over 4 Billion served”, the billboard says. “60 People die from this disease every hour.” “Millions of people have this heart condition and will live shorter lives.” What do these quotes all have in common? Numbers.
Marketing strategies for businesses, non-profit organizations, and even blogs often try to use numbers to sell their services [...]

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Reaching New Customers By Expanding Your Vision

by Seth

I‘ll be honest.  Searching for new readers and customers is hard.
The work does not scare me though, it’s the fear of not being able to attract readers and customers even after I’ve put in the work.  I’m guessing this fear is not new to you or to me but is something every blogger and internet [...]

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How Bloggers can Prepare for the Future of Journalism

How Bloggers can Prepare for the Future of Journalism

by Everett Bogue

Everett Bogue writes about the developing media world at The Future of Journalism. Follow him on Twitter. Want to write for us too?
The media world is changing, in this month alone writers and readers everywhere watched helplessly as magazine giant Conde Nast folded four magazines (including the food favorite Gourmet) in one week and laid [...]

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Blog Promotion: 169 New Ways to Build Traffic like a Ninja

by Seth

Promoting your blog is perhaps the most difficult part of blogging.  After spending hours writing a great post and putting links and images in it you push the publish button and wait… but nothing happens! Your post is live on the web and no one is clamoring to read it! You can’t even get a [...]

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#1 Traffic Tip You Are Not Ready For

by Seth

Now before you start getting angry at me for determining what you’re ready for, let me explain why I made the title what it is.
In the last 2 years of blogging I have seen 2 fatal flaws which hinder almost every blogger from becoming successful.  These flaws are nasty and sometimes seem overwhelming.

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Long Term Methods for Effectively Promoting Your Blog on Forums

4 Unusual (And Long Term) Ways to Promote Your Blog Using Forums

by Alex

Everyone knows that using forum signatures is a good way to generate some backlinks. However, there are other ways to use forums to your advantage.
The ideas I came up with in here are ideas that may take a little longer for you to accomplish than the average forum promotion tactic. While you should always go [...]

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6 Solid SMO Tips for Social Media Marketers

6 Beginner SMO Tips for Social Media Marketers

by Janith

Social Media Optimization (or SMO) has been an area that I have been looking to explore for quite some time now. We’ve discussed about Twitter recently; both the negative side of Twitter and also 7 ways you can effectively market it.
However, I want to shift our focus to the more conventional social media networks such [...]

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How to Promote Your Blog Over Instant Messaging

How to Promote Your Blog Over Instant Messaging

by Alex

Everybody on the internet instant messages. Whether you have a Skype account or an MSN passport, you most likely talk to people via chat. However, few people realize how effective instant messaging clients can be for promoting your blog.

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Why Statistical Information is A Blog Killer

Why Numbers Are A Major Blog Killer

by Alex

Numbers have a large impact on our blogs and how we as bloggers interact on it. These numbers I am referring to are any kind of numbers that you see on your blog every day; statistical information basically. How many comments per posts you get, how many comments you have on your blog, number of [...]

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