The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “How Long Will It Take to See Results From Blogging?”. John Bohini says, “Be honest: As a content marketer, you’re maintaining an existence that relies on instant gratification in order to gain fulfillment. Much like the hopeful gym goer denouncing their workout after the scale showed no weight loss after one day, business bloggers are often restless in a similar manner. “Where’s all the dang traffic?” It becomes easy to doubt the value of blogging when you’re not seeing results quickly. In fact, very few have the patience... [...]
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The latest MOZ blog post is titled “Time for Guest Blogging With a Purpose”. Jennita says, “Dear Readers, before getting to the meat of the post about how to make guest blogging work for you and not end up looking like a spammer, I’d like to tell you a little story. A story about when Matt Cutts single-handedly changed the course of my day. The story goes a little something like this“. Time for Guest Blogging With a Purpose MOZ Blog [...]
The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “This WordPress Theme is a Perfect Fit for My Personal Site … Here’s Why it May Work for Yours Too”. Jerod Morris says, “For the first time, I am the master of my domain. And by that I mean: I finally own jerodmorris.com. From the time I became seriously web-aware, about six years ago, my name-specific domain has always been taken. Only non-.com, hyphenated, or add-my-middle-initial versions have been available. Call me a narcissist domain snob, but yuck. Maybe you can relate? Then I found out that jerodmorris.com would be coming... [...]
The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “Is Guest Blogging Dead?”. Allison Howen says, “Content consumption is at an all-time high thanks to today’s digital world of social networks and mobile devices. Unsurprisingly, this has resulted in enterprises spending more resources on content creation in order to keep up with demand. To achieve the best performance from content initiatives, enterprises must not only publish content on a regular basis, but also publish quality content based on audience preferences. This can be difficult to do, as writing blog posts, designing... [...]
The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “The New Rainmaker: Why the Key to Business Success is Media, Not Marketing”. Brian Clark says, “If you’ve been following Copyblogger for any length of time, you know we’ve been teaching people online marketing for over eight years. Specifically, something that is now known as content marketing. The key point being that this type of marketing is different from traditional marketing, but it accomplishes what marketing is supposed to do. And it’s the differences that cause so many people to struggle with it“. The New Rainmaker:... [...]
The latest MOZ blog post is titled “Getting Authorship to Work: A Moz.com Case Study”. Ruth Burr says, “We all know authorship is important, but it can be really hard to get working properly. Here’s how we (finally) got authorship working the way it should on Moz.com“. Getting Authorship to Work: A Moz.com Case Study MOZ Blog [...]
The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “Matt Cutts Declares Guest Blogging “Done” … Are We All Screwed?”. Jerod Morris says, “Matt Cutts went Richard Sherman on guest blogging today. The gist of his personal blog post — entitled “The decay and fall of guest blogging” — is this: Guest blogging was once an authentic way to reach people, but now it’s spammy, so we should all expect Google to start spanking sites that publish guest blogs. In his words: So stick a fork in it: guest blogging is done; it’s just gotten too spammy. We publish articles from guest... [...]
The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Matt Cutts declares the death of guest blogging for SEO”. Graham Charlton says, “Matt Cutts made his strongest statement yet on guest blogging, declaring it dead as a linkbuilding tactic. This does seem to be a broad statement and, as Editor of a blog which accepts (and values) guest posts, Google’s policing of the internet can be irritating. Still, there’s no doubt that guest blogging has been hammered as a link building tactic, to the extent that we’ve become tired of guest blogging approaches. So... [...]
The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “Striving for Authority”. Seth Godin says, “Everyone wants to play. That kid selling cookies (or is it chocolates) is busy raising money for his basketball team (or maybe a trip to Cuba, I didn’t hear it clearly). All I know is that these cookies aren’t the real thing, they’re not Girl Scout Cookies (capitalize them please) and they’re not Thin Mints®. That email, the one that just came in over the transom, it wants me to buy some miracle potion that’s going to make my hair grow“. Striving for Authority ‘Copyblogger’... [...]
The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “A Creative Way to Write a Month’s Worth of Blog Content in a Day”. Matthew Bushery says, “To my fellow bloggers out there who struggle to find the time to produce a lot of premium blog content: I feel your pain. The secret to blogging success is … well … that there is no one secret to blogging success. It takes a considerable amount of hard work, dedication, resources, and creativity to develop high-quality posts. But that doesn’t mean you can’t try to accumulate a nice backlog of blog posts to make... [...]