The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “5 Dangers of an Unorganized Blogging Strategy”. Kelly Kranz says, “The dangers of an unorganized blogging strategy are real, they are habit forming, and they don’t serve your marketing’s bottom line. I manage content production for our agency, which means you can often find me in the proverbial trenches of our clients’ blogging processes and editorial calendars. I tend to find that the idea of starting or running a blog is met with a very nonchalant attitude. People all over the internet are blogging so one assumes... [...]
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The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “6 Tactics That Turn a Blog Into a Business Engine”. Stanford Smith says, “ Somewhere, a business owner is writing a blog post. She writes the headline first, pens a killer introduction, and makes her point with 892 carefully crafted words. Satisfied, she hits “Publish” and waits for fortune to arrive with a roll of $100 bills in one hand and a book deal in the other. This is the legend of the lone blogger who climbs the mountain of success one post at a time. I’m not going to debunk this story“. 6 Tactics That Turn a... [...]
The latest article on HubSpot blog is titled “How to Select the Perfect Image for Your Next Blog Post”. Pamela Vaughan says, “By now, you’ve probably heard about the importance of visual content. Social networks are displaying images more prominently in their feeds, and visual content tends to generate much more engagement than text-based content. It’s not surprising — our eyes naturally gravitate toward images, and content is much easier to consume when it’s broken up by visual components. Ever click through to an article, see a huge, daunting chunk... [...]
The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “WordPress Multisite Can Be Structural Advantage For SEO”. Phil Singleton says, “WordPress is by far the most popular content management system for small businesses. It’s super easy to use and when structured properly, great for search engine optimization. WordPress also gives you the ability to create a ‘website of websites’ or your own network of sites, on a single installation. You can find the official networking explanation of WordPress Multisite here. We will not get into the background or specifics... [...]
The latest ‘Econsultancy’ blog post is titled “Which type of blog post is best for ongoing traffic?”. Steve Masters says, “Different types of blog post bring different benefits to your website. Through painstaking research into all the blog content of one website, I have been able to identify clear patterns that should help you think about ways to plan your content strategy. In this article I will explain the analysis that led to the results you will see here“. Which type of blog post is best for ongoing traffic? ‘Econsultancy’ Blog [...]
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... [...]
‘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... [...]