Be sure to feature you blog link on social profiles at Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or whatever is relevant to your business. Your analytics now tell you what keywords people use to find that post. How to do it – Look through your analytics to see what types of traffic you’re getting for a page. Another option is to write new posts relevant to the referring keywords and sites you’re seeing in your analytics. Twitter for animal shelters), but use relevant variations of that keyword. Find him on his smart marketing blog or, even better, say hi on Twitter. MORE >>

Use your analytics tools to determine which pieces of your content have performed particularly well.  Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn are all great places to post links to your blog posts, ebooks, and webinars.  Once you’ve started distributing your content through multiple channels, look at your analytics to figure out which ones are the most effective.  Guest post by {grow} Community Member Sarah Goliger. As marketers, we know that the best way to generate quality leads for our businesses is by creating great content.  You’re targeting the wrong audience. MORE >>

Twana is probably some teenager in a Third World country hired to propagate and populate fake Twitter accounts that will later be sold on eBay. Twitter has done a good job clearing out most of the porn stars and MLM hacks who almost brought the service to its knees by mid-2009. Chris Brogan, one of the top five social media bloggers in the world who currently carries enough Twitter followers to form a small nation, tweeted out about a specific issue … and I did too. But there is no Twana Florance. What does it hurt?  Here’s why. Social influence and spam. MORE >>

For example, I sat through a Forrester presentation on new social web marketing analytics and their ideas on measurement took resources that were way out of reach of the small business owner, meaning … most of us. I don’t follow Starbucks on Twitter and probably never will. We became friends over Twitter.  Although his shop is 15 miles from my home, I go out of my way to support his small business entirely because of our personal Twitter connection. The conversations, research, presentations, and case studies focused entirely on large corporations. MORE >>

Look at your Google Analytics for the keywords people are using to find your blog. surround myself with awesome people on Twitter (who may be interested in my content; make the content easy to share; respect and support the people who honor you by reading your blog and commenting; blog consistently so people expect new content. As I teach and speak, I start to see certain themes in the questions I’m asked. Here are the most common questions I am asked about blogging and some answers! How do I get started with blogging? Start with your strategy. Money? Community? Actions? MORE >>