The latest TopRank blog post is titled “5 Ways to Grow Your Blog Community and Readership”. Lee Odden says, “The more relevant readers of your blog content, the more opportunities to attract, engage and convert those readers in your online sales efforts. Content marketing, brand publishing, media sites that blog, and consumer publishing are all competitors for the time and attention of your target audience. So how can a company increase the number of readers of its blog content? Here are 5 tips I’ve implemented with many companies and for ourselves over the years“. 5 Ways to Grow... [...]
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‘Five Traits of Guest Content That Audiences (and Editors) Can Actually Use’ – ‘MarketingProfs’ Blog
The latest article on ‘MarketingProfs’ is titled “Five Traits of Guest Content That Audiences (and Editors) Can Actually Use”. Alyce Currier says, “Guest article or post submissions can be a great asset to a publication, but they can also be an excuse for bad content to slip through the cracks. Editors as well as guest-post writers must therefore take special care to ensure that they do not lower their usual standards. I was spurred to write this article after reading a blog post about what makes for a great guest post: Kate Morris’s “The Anatomy of a Great Guest Post”... [...]
The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “Confessions of a Full-Time Blogger”. Pamela Vaughan says, “A recent conversation a few of us full-time bloggers had via our corporate chat platform: “Before I check the style guide, does anyone remember if we capitalize the word my in headlines?” “Yeah. It’s a pronoun … right?” “I don’t remember what it is, but I know it’s capitalized.” “Yeah … I don’t remember what anything is called in grammar. #blogconfession” Then the light bulb went off: Hey,... [...]
The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “How to Write a Blog Post Every Single Day”. Ginny Soskey says, “If you’ve ever been in a content creation role, you know that there’s lots you can do to make sure you’re creating great content every single day. You can’t just wait for inspiration. You’ve got to be prepared, motivated, and focused — all at the same time. The trifecta can be hard to get, even for the savviest of writers. So if your job is to create content every day, how do you achieve all that? To get to the bottom of this, I... [...]
The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “A blogger’s guide to setting up a WordPress site: customising your template”. Christopher Ratcliff says, “This is the fourth in a series of posts discussing how to set up and run a WordPress blog from a relatively experienced expert, which will feature many helpful and hopefully relevant tangents. In the first article I discussed the first few steps involving sign-up, the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, and your social media presence. Then I looked at writing your first post using the WordPress... [...]
The latest MOZ blog post is titled “3 Steps to Identify Blog Topics that are Relevant to Your Audience”. Aleyda Solis says, “If you’re reading this post right now, chances are that you have experienced this (or know someone who has): You have the deadline of a blog post coming, but you still don’t know what to write about. Sometimes you get away by writing about breaking news or a trend in your field, by doing a review of a new product or service, or by covering a recent conference or meetup that you have attended, but you can’t do this all the time. You also want to write... [...]
The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “WordPress Wednesday: The E-Commerce Wait is Over for WP Business Users”. Amberly Dressler says, “Aspiring or budding e-commerce merchants who may have been contemplating leaving WordPress for a true-play e-commerce platform, can stay right where they are. WordPress announced that its Business users can now connect their sites to their online stores with three e-commerce partners to choose from: Ecwid, Shopify and ShopLocket. Connecting your site seems pain-free, with users simply having to go to the eCommerce Plugins option... [...]
Jay Baer‘s latest ‘Convince & Convert’ blog post is titled “Did We Just Invent A New Form of Blogging?″. Baer says, “SlideShare is one of the most underrated content platforms in existence. Owned by LinkedIn, SlideShare is essentially the YouTube for presentations. Although, it’s not just presentations these days, as SlideShare’s 60 million monthly visitors also upload and view infographics, documents and other file types. SlideShare has even gotten into the video game, as you can”. Did We Just Invent A New Form of Blogging? Jay Baer’s ‘Convince & Convert’ Blog [...]
The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “What to Do When You’re Sick of Your Blog”. James Chartrand says, “ Let’s talk about your blog. You might just have mentally winced — blogs can be a painful topic. You know you should have one, because everyone tells you so. You know you should write blog posts on a fairly consistent basis. And you know you should publish regularly too. But you don’t. Just thinking about blogging makes you cringe“. What to Do When You’re Sick of Your Blog ‘Copyblogger’ Blog [...]
The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “A blogger’s guide to setting up a WordPress site: 14 vital widgets”. Christopher Ratcliff says, “This is the third in a series of posts discussing how to set up and run a WordPress blog from a relatively experienced expert, which will feature many helpful and hopefully relevant tangents. In the first article I discussed the first few steps involving sign-up, the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, and your social media presence. Last week, I looked at writing your first post using the WordPress... [...]