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7 Lucky SEO Tools for Your Blog

by Seth

Most traffic for highly successful blogs comes from search engines like Google or Bing.  Search engine visitors are more likely to buy products, click on advertisements, and sign up to newsletters.  The question is then, how do bloggers get search engine traffic?
Search engine optimization or SEO is how to take your blog from a low [...]

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Refresh your Blogging Process

Refresh your Blogging Process in 4 Steps

by Ashwin

In this article, Ashwin from Thoughts Unlimited goes over the PDCA method and how that can help you treat your blog more like a business. If you would like to write a post for us, check our guest post page for details.
I am sure most of you reading this post are either actively running a [...]

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Make More Money Affiliate Marketing - The Pros & Cons of Showing Full Posts

Make More Money Affiliate Marketing – The Pros & Cons of Showing Full Posts

by Alex

As we discovered on Monday, the more tag is a very powerful feature in WordPress. By simply using the more tag, or not using it has a significant impact on the chance of your post being read by the readers of your blog.

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Learning Social Media Marketing from… Chick-fil-a?

by Matt Langford

When you think of Social Media Marketing, you probably think about Twitter, Facebook, Mashable, or even Ashton Kutcher. But what about everyone’s favorite fried white meat spot: Chick-fil-a? Bet you don’t think of them! They even have a mean cookies and cream milkshake, but that’s a topic for another day. Now I’m thirsty. Crap.
What could [...]

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Breaking down the More Tag: Displaying Partial Posts

Double Your Pageviews – Pros & Cons of Displaying Partial Posts

by Alex

Just like a killer headline, there are other influences that contribute to the likelihood of whether or not your post will get read. Today, I am going to talk a little about the more tag in WordPress.
I have actually decided to split this into a two part series. In this post, I will talk [...]

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Spammers Beware: Intellectual Property Rights in Blogging

by Seth

Any blogger with 10 posts or more and at least 2 months with a live blog knows spammers are everywhere.  Creeping around the internet, looking to pray upon the technologically innocent. 
Busy bloggers also seem to be great targets for spammers with large pageranks, lots of comments, and too much to do in to little time.  [...]

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5 Ways you are Unknowingly Harming Your Posts

5 Ways you are Unknowingly Harming Your Posts

by Alex

It’s common that once you start reading around the blogosphere, you will find trends that others have been partaking in on their blogs and you may want to get in on it. You learn things people are doing to make their blog better, and more “error free” if you will.
On blogs just like this one, [...]

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8 Blogging Tips for Teaching and Learning Online

by Seth

Teaching Sells, CopyBlogger’s Membership site, has recently just launched and sold out in the same day.  The excellent videos, free pdfs, and buzz about teaching online made me think about the excellent medium blogging is for teaching and learning online.
Not only does “teaching sell” but its also fun and invigorating.  Its absolutely wonderful to be able to [...]

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Recycling Blog Posts

The Power of Recycling Posts

by Alex

The idea of moving older posts to the top of your blog is something that is more powerful than many bloggers think. While implementing this idea on your blog comes with many great benefits – it also may start some negative things within you as well.
So some of the benefits of republishing blog posts to [...]

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Help! My Writing Needs a Doctor

by Seth

Last night I had a fever of 101.4 and felt completely miserable.  My head hurt, body ached and I felt exhausted all throughout the night. Being sick made me think about the benefits of good health.  Especially when my doctor started talking about the potential of having H1N1 or swine flu!
Under these conditions my sick [...]

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18 Resources to Help you Write Better Blog Titles

by Alex

Headlines are a lot of things. They’re neglected, undervalued, a gateway, and most of all – a pain in the ass to create. If you blog, then you have written a headline before. Whether or not you were aware of it at the time, the headline you wrote made a significant difference in the performance [...]

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Blogging Resources Improve Search Engine Traffic

by Seth

Blogging Resources are tangible content visitors can use to build their understanding or refer to regularly.  Most blogs will have one or two of these resources and the most successful blogs have dozens or hundreds of valuable resources to offer their readers.
The reason why these resources are important is because they are very link-worthy.  Articles [...]

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6 Lessons I Learned From Walking On Crutches That Tie Into Blogging

6 Lessons I Learned From Walking On Crutches That Tie Into Blogging

by Alex

A few months ago, I hurt my ankle pretty bad and was forced to walk around in crutches for about a week. I have to say that this was the most difficult thing I had to do in a long time due to how much I walk around in school all day.

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