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Guest Blogging is NOT Dead (And Matt Cutts Didn’t Say It Is)

Webbiquity

just want to highlight that a bunch of low-quality or spam sites have latched on to ‘guest blogging’ as their link-building strategy, and we see a lot more spammy attempts to do guest blogging. Those reasons existed way before Google and they’ll continue into the future. ” The point is pretty clear.

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7 Social Media Mistakes Bloggers Should Avoid

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Because if you want to engage your business blog readers and grow your reader base, you need to use social media. We’ve been writing about the CAST system for effective blog content: C ontent (compelling). Avoid posting irrelevant content that can lead to spam feeds. A ssets (free). S ocial Media.

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Checklist: How to Start a Business Blog

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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. Businesses in particular can capitalize on this because businesses that blog experience 126% higher lead growth than non-blogging businesses.

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How Small Businesses Can Use Real-Time Case Studies to Acquire New Clients

Webbiquity

Blogmore is a gifted writer, but his blogs never make it past the spam email folder of his clients. He sends a small, yet powerful, email message along with his blogs to the clients. As a result, his business flourishes. His blog’s search engine ranking improves by 15%. Guest post by Bill Achola.

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Content Marketing in the 90s: What Was It Like?

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Today, we know this type of email content as SPAM. . The FTC instituted the CAN-SPAM regulations of 2003 , which dramatically cut down on chain email forwarding and helped reform the email inbox back into a usable, reliable space for business messaging. . Blogging and the Birth of Content Marketing.

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Proper Care and Feeding of a Blog

Webbiquity

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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12 Lessons I’ve Learned from Writing 1,000 Blog Posts

Webbiquity

In Taekwondo, students are taught they must perform each kick at least 1,000 times before they can safely say they have learned the kick perfectly. I’m not sure I craft “perfect” blog posts even after writing 1,000 of them—but I’ve certainly learned a few things. And it will seem much less like work.

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