CategorySocial Media
Pinterest Basics for Bloggers
This guest post is by Yang of ChilliSauce.co.uk. Does your world only revolve around Facebook and Twitter? Now it’s time to move on: in case you haven’t heard, Pinterest is the new rising star of social media! Pinterest was developed in December 2009 as a closed beta that was released ...more
Social Media
Have You Set up Timeline on Your Facebook ‘Page’ Yet?
In the last day Facebook have rolled out Timeline for Facebook Brand pages. There’s been a lot of talk about whether people like them or not, but the reality is that they are here, and in a month they’ll be rolled out on your Brand page whether you like it ...more
Social Media
Use Social Sharing’s True Motive For Better Traffic
This guest post is by Shakira Dawud of Deliberate Ink. You’re getting regular traffic, but it’s flatlining. The regular crowd is still with you, but your subscriber base is fluctuating. And you’ve noticed you’re not being shared on social media very often. If you were to ask, you’d hear all ...more
Social Media
Your Social Media and SEO Game Plan for 2012
This guest post is by Herman Dias of SEOsoeasy.com. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have heard about the Google Panda update and what it did to many low-quality websites last year. It was more like a Google sniper attack on all the spam and rubbish sites. ...more
Search Engine Optimization
Social Survival for Bloggers: a Peek from the Inside
This guest post is by David Leonhardt of Zoomit Canada. Zombie accounts at Reddit are increasingly frustrating content creators on the internet. A “zombie” account is an account that appears to be active to the user, but to nobody else, usually as a punishment for that user submitting his or ...more
Social Media
What’s the Secret to Monetizing Social Media?
This guest post is by Neil Patel of KISSmetrics. Have you been able to make money from social media? Has your effort and time on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and your own blog paid off? If you’re like most bloggers, you probably realize it’s not so easy. However, no matter ...more
Social Media
How Millionaires Approach Social Media
This guest post is by Jaime Tardy of EventualMillionaire.com. I’ve interviewed over 50 business owners who have a million-dollar net worth or more. As a blogger and podcaster I am always so curious as to how they use social media in their businesses. If I were to generalize, most of ...more
Social Media
What Motivates Readers to Share?
This guest post is by Dan Zarrella of danzarrella.com. In my research into sharing, I realized I needed to develop a framework that would serve as a model for the decision-making process that takes place before someone spreads an idea. This framework describes the three criteria that must be met ...more
Social Media
6 Steps to a Loyal Blog Following
This guest post is by Shari Lopatin of www.sharilopatin.com. I had a writer friend tell me the other day I have the best social network she’s ever seen. “What?” I asked, shocked. After all, I only have about 380 Twitter followers (I follow 200-something). “You should check out these people ...more
Social Media