
Boost Your Blog #5: Check for Hot Posts
Continuing our discussion of things you could be doing right now to improve your blog, today’s tip is: 5. Check your metrics for “hot posts” One of the tasks that I build into my own blogging on a monthly(ish) basis is to dig into Google Analytics. I do a number ...more
Search Engine Optimization

Make Business Blogging Fun: Write About Holidays, Anniversaries, and Other Milestones
This guest post is by Lindsey McCaffrey of Absolutely Write. Business bloggers: do you consider every day Labour Day? Take a breather: finding things to blog about doesn’t have to be hard work. In light of the upcoming Labour Day weekend, I’m going to share a little tip I like ...more
Business Blogging

Boost Your Blog #4: Optimize Other Key Pages
Continuing our discussion of things you could be doing right now to improve your blog, today’s tip is: 4. Optimize other key pages Yesterday, we talked about pages on your blog, and it might also be worthwhile looking over some of the other key pages on your blog. For example, ...more
Writing Content

The Fail-Proof System to Score National Magazine Publicity for Your Blog
This guest post is by Melissa Cassera of www.casseracommunications.com. You write a blog post. You post it. You tweet, Facebook, Digg, Stumble, and perform every other type of online promotion to supersize your presence. What are you missing? Promoting “offline” using a major influencer like a national magazine can bring ...more
Blog Promotion

My “Methods” for Building a Successful Online Business
Today I received an email from someone asking what my “methods” are for building an online business. That’s always a tough question—particularly because I got the sense that it was asked by someone looking for an easy and quick answer. Here’s my response. I’d love to hear what you’d have ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Boost Your Blog #3: Optimize Your Advertising Page
Continuing our discussion of things you could be doing right now to improve your blog, today’s tip is: 3. Optimize your advertising page When I mentioned I was writing this post on Google+ (connect with me here), Nick Roshon suggested auditing your advertising page. If monetization through selling advertising is ...more
Advertising

9 New Productivity Tools to Simplify Your Online Life
This guest post is by Leo Widrich of Buffer. After Google+ entered the social networking scene not so long ago, the number of online distractions hasn’t really decreased. At the same time, innovations and smarter solutions to handle your actions online have fortunately continued to thrive too. Instead of the ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

Monetizing Your Blog with a Clean Design, Tribal Headhunter Warriors, and Fine Art Nudes
This guest post is by Glen Allison of www.GlenAllison.com. This is a case study outlining my three-step website development and the graphic design aspects of my blog monetization. As a visual artist, when I finally decided to start monetizing my blog, one of my primary concerns was to maintain the ...more
General

White-Hat SEO + Social Media = Link Bait Magic
This guest post is by Ben Jackson of SEODiscovery.org. You’re a blogger. You want traffic. You know between nothing and a lot about SEO? Perfect. Most people are intimidated by SEO and just as many have no clue what it’s all about. This is exactly why corporations waste thousands upon ...more
Search Engine Optimization