Writing A Guest Blog Post Checklist
Before putting together any guest post, make sure to review this checklist. It will ensure you cover all your bases when providing quality content and making it as easy as possible for the target blog to publish your content. Note: “target blog” simply refers to the blog on which you want your blog post … Read more
How to Find Guest Blogging Opportunities
There are a number of ways to find guest blogging opportunities and this guide will provide you an illustrated tour of how you can get great exposure through guest posting. Whether you search for blogs that publicly accept submissions, approach blogs directly, use a guest blogging site or a combination of all those methods, … Read more
How To Find Images For Your Blog
High quality, professional images will help your blog make a much stronger impression. It’ll help make your blog appear more credible, help you catch attention and help you hold and your reader’s interest. It can also help you hammer a point home. In some cases, you’ll be able to generate your own images for … Read more
Blog Maintenance Checklist
Running a blog is a bit like running a car. Every so often, you need to put some time and energy into maintaining it. If you don’t, will it still run? Sure, it’ll run just fine – For a time. But if you go too long without changing your oil, or go too long … Read more
How to Come Up With Blog Topics
Once you’ve had your blog for a time, coming up with new topics can be a challenge. After all, once you’ve written 50, 100, 200 posts or more, how on earth do you come out and say something new? This challenge isn’t limited to long time bloggers either. New bloggers also struggle with coming … Read more
How to Come up with Great Blog Titles (with Examples)
Writing great blog subject lines is both an art and a science. On one hand, there are tons of writing principles you can employ to catch attention, to get people to read, to build connection and to stand out. On the other hand, the subject lines you write ultimately have to come from you. … Read more
Get Started With LiveFyre
LiveFyre is a blog commenting system that allows you to integrate social media with your blog’s comments. People will be able to sign into their Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Google ID accounts to post comments. They can also “like” or “share” your comments using their Facebook accounts and can also follow you using the same … Read more
Local Small Business Online Marketing Checklist
The marketing landscape for local business has changed dramatically. Smart business owners, like you, are relying less on print and traditional media advertisements and are instead embracing the power of the Internet and mobile technology. Consider this your checklist for ensuring you have all your bases covered when it comes to marketing your business locally. … Read more
How to Claim Your Business on Google Places
This tutorial will assist you with getting more exposure and traffic to your businesses. By adding or claiming your business on Google Places, you are increasing your opportunities to reach potential customers and clients. When Google users make a search on Google for a certain type of business in your area, the “Places” results may … Read more
Get Started With Intense Debate
Intense Debate is a WordPress plugin designed to facilitate active discussion and, well, debates. By default, anyone who posts a comment will be subscribed to receive emails about future comments (easy to turn off if you don’t want to.) It utilizes threaded discussions, so anyone can reply to the whole topic or to an individual … Read more
Competitive Keyword Research Process Guide for Beginners and Not Only
Doing competitive research is much more about having a good process than having the right tools. Having good tools can help you get the job done faster, but knowing how to use the tools is what’s really important. Here’s a proven keyword research process for finding keywords that are already working for your competitors. This … Read more
Get Started With Facebook Comments For WordPress
Facebook comments for WordPress allows you to put a Facebook comment box and a Facebook like box directly on your blog. Setting it up involves creating an app developer account, which can seem a little daunting at first, but really isn’t all that complicated. Here’s how to setup Facebook Comments for WordPress. Step 1: … Read more