How to Alter Your Blogging Strategy for Changing Trends

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Blogging is always in a state of flux as new technology and trends emerge each and every year.

While there are certainly many time-honoured blogging strategies that continue to drive solid results for bloggers, it is also important to consider the current trends to ensure that your blogging strategy is optimized as much as possible.

The key is to give weight to the trends that seem to be here to stay, like the ones below. With that in mind, here are four things that bloggers should change with regard to their current blogging strategy.

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The 5 Best Ways to Learn How to Improve Your Blog

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It’s not hard to build a blog, but it is hard to improve a blog and refine it enough to cultivate an audience and make money. You may be able to put together a basic website in a matter of minutes, but you could spend years writing new articles and never see a single blip of increased traffic.

This isn’t a reflection of your personal ability or your potential; you may be a talented writer and an insightful web designer, but if you don’t know how to target an audience, how to build reader loyalty, and how to consistently offer better content over time, you won’t be able to succeed. [Read more…]

Online writing: How to be a Successful Freelancer

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The freelance economy is growing and with modern technologies, you can be a successful freelancer. Online writing offers you a great chance to earn more money and get out of debt. You can be a freelancer even if you have a full time job. In fact, you can use the additional income to settle your student loan payments, credit card payments, car loan payments, etc. [Read more…]

5 Corporate Blogs that Bloggers Can Learn From

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As a blogger and/or website owner, it’s your job to make sure that you’re always learning and keeping up with industry trends. Blogs can be major game-changers for businesses of all sizes. They provide a foundation for SEO and also establish leadership in certain areas.

One of the best ways to launch a successful blog is by following the example of industry leaders and corporate giants who have built their reputations by being great at what they do. More often than not, they’ve cultivated a decent-sized audience based on the valuable content they provide. [Read more…]


How to Create Killer SEO Content on a Budget

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Do you like a side serving of science with your SEO content tips? If so, Search Engine Land’s periodic table of SEO success factors makes for an interesting read. It’s not so much science, more SEO tips presented in a ‘sciencey’ kind of way, but it does tell you all you need to know about the importance of kick-ass content. As you can see, the very first element on this periodic table is quality content, which shows just what a huge impact it can have on your search engine rankings. In fact, creating good content is probably the most important off-page SEO factor there is.

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How Dedicated Servers Boost the Performance of A Business Blog

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Running a successful blog requires more than just knowing how to write content and how to communicate with your readers. In fact, many successful bloggers might say that the ‘technical part’ of their project probably had a bigger impact on their success compared to the content they provided to their visitors. Regardless what sort of blog you are hosting, there is one thing for certain – as you gain more popularity, you’ll need to revise your hosting plan and consider paying more for better services and hardware resources. But what is the best money can get? The answer to this question is, surprisingly, quite simple – dedicated server hosting. [Read more…]

The Ultimate LinkedIn Cheat Sheet

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Facebook may have 1.7 million users, Twitter 313 million, and LinkedIn “only” 106 million, but any self-respecting blogger or content marketer knows that the last network cannot be ignored. That is, if you want to build a professional brand that will help cement your credibility in your chosen field.

The general consensus is that LinkedIn is the professional’s social network, something which anyone can surmise with a perfunctory look at the platform.

It is thus a pity when new bloggers – or some experienced ones – fail to take advantage of LinkedIn. Sure, they have an account. They fill out their profile. And then they leave it at that. Perhaps they check in once a month or so – when they get a connection request or when someone endorses them.

If this is you, then you are missing out on the benefits that LinkedIn can bring you and your blog. [Read more…]

Automating WordPress Website Marketing With GetResponse

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Online marketing can become so complex, that it’s easy to find yourself sitting on your laurels, head in hands, thinking, “where am I going to find the time and expertise to grow my WordPress website business?”

Enter marketing automation. More to the point, the GetResponse marketing automation system, because it’s affordable for startups and entrepreneurs. [Read more…]

What to Look For When Choosing a Web Host for Your Blog

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The quality of web hosting is one of the most overlooked factors that can determine a blog’s success. Fair enough, all web hosting services are capable of making a site online and accessible to the intended users. However, when it comes to uptime, speed, and security, subpar hosting will get you nowhere.

That said, you need to look beyond the price tag when choosing a web host for your blog. To help you make the best decision, below are some of the factors you need to consider: [Read more…]

30 Incredibly Useful Tools You Need to Grow Your Blog

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Tools help us achieve what we want to achieve.

They help up do some faster. They help us build and communicate with our audience. They practically help us do everything.

A lot of the time, though, it’s hard what tool to choose for whatever you want to do. Whether it’s to create blog content, drive traffic, or even make money.

In this post, I will show you 30 tools that you can use to grow your blog.

Ready? Let’s do it.

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