In one post, he shows you a 10-step prioritized plan to improve the SEO for your blog without spending a lot of time or money. When trying to promote your blog, search engines can be a powerful way to bring you new, relevant readers and subscribers. Here we go: 1)  Site-wide keyword strategy. sitewide keyword strategy helps you determine the emphasis of your blog. Many of these keywords should be prominent on most pages of your site. How to do it – Determine your most popular topics and generate a short keyword list around those topics. MORE >>

How Business Owners Can Benefit From LinkedIn’s Features , this week’s featured guest post, by Carol Tice, Make a Living Writing blog. LinkedIn is a highly useful social-media site for business owners looking to connect with prospective customers, suppliers, partners, or other businesses in their town. If you haven’t already built a profile on LinkedIn, I recommend it. LinkedIn has a reputation as a social-media channel with a very businesslike “flavor,&# and that’s one of the reasons I like it. The blog tool. The jobs. MORE >>

Here are the most common questions I am asked about blogging and some answers! How do I get started with blogging? Write out the first 25 blog posts headlines you think you would like to compose. Last month, I had the same number of page views as my first 18 months of blogging all put together. How often should I blog? But here’s an easy regimen to follow if you want to shoot for one great blog post per week: Can you write a 500-word essay on a topic that interests you? That’s blog post number four. Great blog post! Money? MORE >>

While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business. Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were “familiar with” Twitter in a poll taken earlier this year, versus just 5% in 2008 and 26% in 2009. Although fewer Americans use Twitter than Facebook, Twitter users “are far more likely to follow Brands/ Companies than social networkers in general. Twitter users frequently exchange information about products and services.” MORE >>

Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You. LinkedIn is a professional network built around one’s employment capabilities. People who use LinkedIn expertly, like Christopher S. Here are some thoughts on amping up your LinkedIn presence. The first horror show I see when reading other people’s LinkedIn profiles is that they’re written completely dry, as if robots are the only thing that will read them. LinkedIn has an official opinion on connecting up with others. business , linkedin , networking , socialmedia100 , socialnetworks. MORE >>