Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

By the same token, despite the many benefits of a business blog , not everyone should rush into it. Like owning a pet, writing a blog isn’t rocket science but does require a certain level of care and attention, lest the effort end up among the millions of abandoned, forgotten and neglected blogs littering the online landscape.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Blogging is often viewed as the core component of a B2B social media marketing strategy, and other than discussion forums, it’s the most mature component of social media. Facebook, Twitter and even newer tools like Quora may be sexier and get more attention, but blogs are the workhorses essential to making social media marketing work.

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Writing on the Web

JULY 26, 2010

What’s your favorite excuse for not blogging for your business? Here are some that I hear: “I don’t have time to blog.&#. “My clients aren’t surfing the Web reading blogs.&#. “Oh, that means I’ve got to write about my business every week?&#. Blog this on Blogger.

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Writing on the Web

AUGUST 18, 2010

Is your blog like my tennis, a hit or miss? I know people who blog like that. They write 600-900 words every few weeks, then wonder why they aren’t getting search traffic. Blogging doesn’t work that way. Blogging is a bit like tennis: you want to keep the ball in play. Blog this on Blogger.

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Writing on the Web

JUNE 9, 2011

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: a business blog is the best way to get found online, the best way to connect with potential clients, and the pathway to turning readers into clients. So, what’s your favorite excuse for not blogging for your business? Blog this on Blogger.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 12, 2010

There have been many excellent pieces written on how to find topics for blog posts, such as The best 50 blogging ideas to choose from by Aswani Srivastava and How to find topics for your blog posts from Mike Consol. But the most powerful blog posts are those that answer questions your readers have. What kind of question?

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Writing on the Web

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Are your blog posts fed automatically into Facebook? The other day I was horrified to learn that a dear client was manually posting his blog articles to Facebook. No wonder blogging seems tiresome and time-consuming. How to Automatically Link Blog Posts to Facebook. 1. Use the networked blogs application.

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Anything Goes Marketing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Here's a great podcast found on Yaro Starak's Entrepeneur's Journey blog in which he interviews Darren Rowse of Problogger. The topic of this audio download is " Building Blog Traffic ". For example, you can blog about Adsense which is a sub-niche of Problogger. Tags: business blog search.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Over time, the top source of traffic for most blogs is search. But two great sources are blog directories and RSS syndication sites. But two great sources are blog directories and RSS syndication sites. Not only do they provide valuable links, they can also supply direct traffic and help build your RSS subscriber list.

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Writing on the Web

MAY 11, 2011

Blogging for your business is like playing tennis: you read the environment, deliver key shots, get ready for the next post, respond to feedback, and try to stay on target. The biggest excuse they use for not blogging enough is they don’t have enough time. It can help your search rankings and drive traffic to your site.

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Webbiquity

MAY 4, 2010

One of the primary reasons most blogs are abandoned is that it takes time to build an audience. the graph below compares the last three months of traffic on the WebMarketCentral blog, which after four and a half years had built up a sizable and consistent following, to the first three months after launch of the Webbiquity blog.

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Writing on the Web

MARCH 10, 2011

How’s your content marketing with blogs ? Are you brilliantly blogging several times a week? The blog must be fed anyway. All of which will end up biting you in your traffic stats. Here are my favorite tips for coming up with a blog post when you’d rather be out playing tennis: Start with a picture.

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Writing on the Web

MARCH 21, 2011

What do you find is the most important thing about a blog post? Mark Schaefer over at {grow} blog asked this question and gives his opinion. Take a few minutes to decide, then leave a comment about the top blogging elements that get you to read a post. Sometimes the only thing that will save a blog post is a great headline.

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Writing on the Web

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Patsi asked me to guest post on her blog, and it comes at a good time, on the heels of an interesting blog survey… In a recent survey , I asked readers what their biggest hurdle was when it came to blogging. How much would ‘time’ be a factor if you knew exactly: Why blogging is important to your business?

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Webbiquity

JULY 6, 2010

Hard to believe that this blog, officially launched just a few months ago, has already surpassed 100 posts. Thank you for reading, and without further ado, below are the 10 most-viewed posts on this blog to date. These are the posts that readers have “voted&# as the best by their traffic so far. But here we are!

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Writing on the Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

As a blogger, you know by now that increasing your traffic means grabbing your audience’s attention and keeping it. While Writing on the Web and other websites like it have featured dozens of solid tips for improving your blog writing , I’m going to offer a source of divine inspiration when the going gets tough. Reality TV.

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Writing on the Web

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

I don’t know why it took me so long to learn this SEO stuff, but I DO know that I wouldn’t post one more blog post without using Scribe SEO Tool. Besides, blogs are naturally search engine friendly…Then I thought, oh heck, I trust Brian Clark, let’s give it a whirl and I can always unsubscribe after a month.

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Hubspot

JULY 23, 2010

People like to get something from blogs they read. You don’t have to be Shakespeare to have a good blog. The fact is that web sites with a blog received 55% more visitors , 97% more inbound links and 434% more indexed pages than those that didn’t have a blog. Focus on the "who" of your blog.

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Writing on the Web

JULY 8, 2010

In a recent poll , I asked readers if their marketing tasks were easier, faster, more effective since publishing a website or blog… Half of respondents said yes , significantly better results since doing web marketing. This brief poll was hosted on here on this blog, so only my readers would have responded. Blog this on Blogger.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

When asked which objectives they planned to target and measure, 88% of “strategic&# social media marketers (those who have reached the highest level of social media marketing maturity) answered “increase website traffic&# while 75% said “lead generation.&#

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Without a statistical measure of your blogging progress, adding content to your blog on a regular basis can be an incredibly lonely proposition. However, even within the business (non cat) blogging arena, there are a wide variety of potential measures to gauge your momentum. Is anyone out there? What’s the Point?

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Writing on the Web

JUNE 15, 2010

from The Wharton School and is co-founder of the social media marketing company Miller Mosaic Power Marketing that works with clients to effectively use social media marketing for their businesses. Her main blog is at [link]. Blog this on Blogger. The Smart Way to Get Started on Twitter: Twitter for Business Coaches.

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 22, 2007

There are several ways your business can benefit from blogging short of starting your own blog, from simply identifying and monitoring the most influential blogs in your industry, to asking bloggers to write about interesting developments at your company, to guest-blogging. Zimbio Web 2.0 Zimbio Web 2.0

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Writing on the Web

JANUARY 3, 2011

This is a guest post from Sam Briones, a freelance writer, who explains how to get targeted traffic to read your online content. You check your blog, and the only comments are from your mother. Submit your work to article submission sites: You’ve gotten your domain right, but people are still not visiting your blog.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Your blog works exactly the same way. There’s a First Time for Everything New research (pdf) by my clients at Compendium Blogware show that for more than two-thirds of corporate blogs, new visitors comprise more than 80% of total blog traffic. State Indicator – Turns orange when you’re in that section 2.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 2, 2013

The first place I always start when evaluating a business' marketing is figuring out where the heck all their site traffic, leads, and customers come from. Organic search traffic used to just mean the amount of traffic that came to your site via someone who found your site using a search engine. 1) Organic Search.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

WordPress is no longer just the leading blog platform , but is now the most popular open-source CMS (content management system) as well. 10 SEO Tips To Get Your WordPress Blog Ranking Highly In The Search Engines by SEOheap. How I Create and Manage A WordPress Website by Graywolf’s SEO Blog. WordPress SEO.

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LeadSquared

OCTOBER 24, 2013

What should be there in a company blog – content about product only OR content about industry as well? No will search for blog content about a product only. Website visitors read blogs which offer some value or solve their problems. Here is how one of my blogs is seen in Google searches. Question 3. Question 5.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

In the growing content marketing field, some companies choose a pure creation strategy (often using blogging platforms for publishing) and find it to be a challenge. It’s already happened in the consumer world: Sites like Digg (social curation) which have little or no original content have become key resources for information.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Spend 40% on Blogging / Content Creation. Each time you publish a blog post you are increasing the indexed page volume of your site and the ability to rank for important keywords. Helpful Links: Learn more about why every business should blog and learn a few Business Blogging Lessons From Google's Chief Blogger.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 8, 2010

Blogs are not a traditional marketing medium. Blogs written like extended brochures (in promotional language) don’t get read. A blog is rather, a place to share useful content. Certainly you can promote your company and product in your blog, but this should be more in the form of sponsorship than selling language.

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LeadSquared

JULY 28, 2015

In our last post of the series ‘How to Start Blogging – A Guide for Small Businesses’, we answered the most common questions you might have in your mind about kick-starting your blog. After reading today’s blog post, we expect you to finish these basic steps: Finalize a Name for your blog.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

Blog HubSpot TV Contributors Marketing Kit Internet Marketing Blog The HubSpot Inbound Internet Marketing blog covers all of inbound marketing - SEO, Blogging, Social Media, Landing Pages, Lead Generation and Analytics. Submit guest post ideas to rburnes[at]hubspot[dot]com.

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Writing on the Web

JUNE 16, 2011

opportunities to engage readers) of your business blog post? It’s the bait on your fishing hook which draws people over to your blog site to read your stuff. And you know yourself that a well-crafted headline gets more traffic than a bland one. Blog this on Blogger. The call to action. Share this on Facebook.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 24, 2011

But if you’re looking to do more — establish your company’s executives as thought leaders in the industry, develop relationships with customers or gather feedback from prospects and clients — then a company blog is a much better choice. Starting Without a Strategy Don’t take starting a company blog lightly.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

While it’s ok to post your blog posts to Twitter, etc., Un-clog your blog. Six killer ways to boost blog traffic and revenue via social media , October 6, 2010 have some blogs that generate considerable traffic. This one is creating moderate traffic. Is a Blog Just a Container? Don’t spam!

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Webbiquity

MAY 14, 2013

Despite the occasional “death of blogging” pronouncements (often made, ironically, in blog posts), blogs remain the core of a robust social media strategy. more here in 30 of the best business blogging guides and resources of the past year. Why You Want To Be the Last Blog Standing by Outspoken Media.

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