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- 20 Email Marketing Tips You Need to Know - 2012-05-11 14:34:35-04
Let's face it, there's no end of 'email marketing experts' out there running workshops and courses on how to deliver a winning email newsletter. In reality there really are no 'secrets' to success – it's all just common sense. From having a plan in place to making your content stand out, a good newsletter is basically all about proper checks and good practice. With that in mind, here's 20 very simple email marketing tips you need to know before you send your next newsletter. Nothing complicated, nothing hard – just plain common sense. 1 – Have a plan A successful email marketing campaign is based on having a plan in place, so work out what it is that you want to achieve. Do you want 100 sign-ups? Do you want 100 click-throughs? Work out what it is you want to achieve and plan how you'll get there. 2 – Design ...
- Adding a Forum and Community to Your Blog - 2012-05-14 12:31:25-04
Your blog is starting to gain some traction and you’re wondering what you can do to take it to the next level. If you’re at this stage, then you might want to think about adding a forum to your blog. Why You Want a Forum for Your Blog Some people may think that forums and blogs are two very distinctly different kinds of websites, but that does not mean that they cannot co-exist. In fact, many of the most popular blogs on the Internet also have their own forums. This is the case with shopping sites like SmartCanucks, as well as technology sites like Futurelooks. One of the biggest reasons why you may want to add a forum to your blog is that it can be (almost) self-sustaining. We’ve mentioned several times before that content is king on the Internet, and when you set up a forum, the community will ...
- BloggingTips is ComLuv Plugin Enabled – Let's Spread Love! - 2012-05-14 14:00:05-04
Haven't you noticed? BloggingTips has been ComLuv enabled for the past few weeks and going by the number of comments we are receiving, I can comment two things with firsthand experience: The ComLuv plugin draws more traffic; The ComLuv plugins improves blog's user engagement. Aren't these two things that every blogger, from newbie's to experienced, craves for? YES? Then if you haven't already, below are the important links to help install and activate the ComLuv plugin: ComLuv plugin for WordPress ComLuv plugin for Blogger They are really good tutorials. You won't have problems to install them. Read the tutorials in detail before attempting. The blog Pro Blogging Success gives a list of 8 WordPress plugins which should be deactivated before installing the ComLuv premium (paid) plugin. These are: KeywordLuv GASP Twitterlink Comments Free ComLuv version Trackback Validation Plugin Top Commentators Widget Do Follow Plugin No Self Ping Benefits of the ...
- Top 10 Tips for Increasing Your Blog's Ranking - 2012-05-14 14:34:46-04
The Internet or the World Wide Web is a vast universe in which millions of web pages are filled with tons of information on a plethora of topics. But the only problem is that, all these web pages are either titled with some mysterious name or placed on a server with coded paths. What makes the use & searching of the Internet easy even for a newbie is the effortless access & use of search engines. Search engines are online tools, which can be used to find specific information on sites on the Internet. Whenever any person is looking for some information on the Internet, they typically go to either a popular or a personal favorite search engine. They enter the query in the search engine & check up the results or links displayed. People generally tend to click the results or links displayed at the top. It is perceived ...
- Building a Product or Service Off Your Blog - 2012-05-15 12:31:27-04
As your blog continues to grow and mature, you’ll likely start looking for other ways that you can expand this online business. After all, your blog is a legitimate business, even if it may have started out as a personal interest or hobby. When you’ve built up an audience and developed a sizable mailing list, it’s time to capitalize on that reach by building a product or service off your blog. Release an E-Book or Digital Product You might remember an earlier article in this series where we talked about writing an e-book to accompany your blog. There are two main ways that you can go about handling the e-book. You could use your branding power and reach, selling the e-book to your audience either directly or through an online marketplace like Clickbank. Alternatively, you can give away your e-book for free, in exchange for people signing up for your ...
- 30 Awesome Single Page WordPress Themes - 2012-05-15 14:00:31-04
Sometimes all you want or need is simplicity. Nothing says simple like a single page portfolio or blog on WordPress. The following 30 designs are just that, single page WordPress themes for the blogger, artist, or business who just want to keep it simple. Some of these themes accomplish their single page design through sliders, others through auto-scrolling, and still others by pure minimalism. No matter how it’s accomplished though a single page theme stands out from the crowd and can give your website a truly unique look and feel. Let us know if you like the themes in this roundup and please don’t hesitate to drop us a link if we missed one of your favorites. 1. Mojo Regular License: $20 Info & Download | Demo 2. Solo Regular License: $49 Info & Download | Demo 3. Glider Access to all Elegant Themes: $39 per year; Developer Access: $89 ...
- How to Leverage YouTube to Grow Your Blog - 2012-05-15 15:25:03-04
I was recently catching on my daily reading when I came across the headline Youtube becomes the Top Dog in Mobile Data Traffic. One thing that we all know is how great and powerful Youtube is, but the above headline says it is now the most influential site when it comes to mobile traffic; in other words, it has dominated the mobile market. Taking a look at that headline made me realize how much a lot of marketers are missing on just for not using videos on their blogs, and I'll be sharing a few ways to use Youtube to grow your blog below. 1. Be Ready to Break the Rules If you've taken any time to study video marketing in all phases of it, you'll notice one thing; less than 98% of the videos that are put online stand a chance to succeed online. Why? Because these videos are ...
- Write Better, Blog Better: 3 Essential Writing Tips for Bloggers - 2012-05-15 17:10:00-04
While web traffic and search engine optimization tips are absolutely useful for a blogger hoping to gain in popularity throughout the web, there are many basic elements of blogging and writing that can also help significantly with this pursuit. Oftentimes, it seems that bloggers today get so caught up in SEO, traffic, and social media marketing that they forget about the writing element of blogging. After all, the cruxes of blogging are the posts that you write. If you want to be a truly successful blogger (a challenging feat at that), you have to consider important things like SEO, web traffic, marketing, and design, while also maintaining focus on your writing itself. Trust me, there are very few individuals out there that are going to read a blog if the post are poorly written or constructed. Try out these three essential writing techniques to create a blog people will actually ...
- Finding Blog Success, then Rinse and Repeat - 2012-05-16 11:45:25-04
Now that you’ve followed along this entire series of articles from Blogging Tips, you are in a great position to launch and run a fantastic blog of your own. You’ve learned how to register your domain, set up WordPress, customize your blog, outsource your work, and market your blog through social media, among several other lessons. So, what is the next logical step? If It Works Once, It’ll Work Again Who says you have to stop now? If you walked through all the steps outlined in this series of articles, then you are in a great position to have a well-oiled machine. Your blog will become second nature to you and you’ll already be familiar with all the steps necessary to take your blog from just an idea to a fully viable business capable of generating some serious income. If you’ve done it once, you can do it again. And ...
- 05 WordPress Plugins for Social Media Promotions - 2012-05-16 14:00:08-04
The use of plugins is the best thing I like about WordPress. The WordPress plugins are easy to install and they really enrich the usability and scalability of any self-hosted WordPress blog/website. This post will list some of the best WordPress plugins for social media promotions. In a previous post, Zac also lists few social media centered WordPress plugins as part of the BloggingTips.com Complete Guide to Blogging series. Consider my list as an extension of Zac's list. Here we go: 05 WordPress Plugins for Social Media Promotions (1) Sexy Bookmarks If you want massive social media exposure and quick promotional tools, this takes the first spot in the list of WordPress plugins. It is available in 15+ languages and includes a huge icon-based list of social media bookmarking platforms. You can display the plugin at the end of each blog post. It can be customized for mobile viewing too. ...
- 2 Powerful Steps To Turn Your Blog Into A Money Maker - 2012-05-16 17:02:27-04
Finally, you can make money blogging. I'm glad to share my fail-proof strategies for building a profitable blog that can generate income from every angle. If you don't read this post, you may continue to struggle thinking that 'favor' or good fortunes will come your way one day. Turning a blog to a money maker isn't a guess work; it takes a goal – a plan – hard work. And because I know how to turn a new blog into a money maker, I decided to launch a new blog, my latest passive income ideas blog is already striving, generating leads and bring trickles of income. It's barely two month old. How do you turn your blog into an instant money maker? Well, if you're reading this post with a get-rich-quick mindset, I'm sorry to disappoint you. I don't have the answer to your question and I don't recommend ...
- Taking Your Blog to Pinterest - 2012-05-16 22:13:08-04
Pinterest, a massive collection of online bulletin boards that display users’ handpicked favorites from all over the internet, has been taking the social media world by storm. The site's users create virtual bulletin boards to display their favorite ideas and things by uploading their own images or linking to an image that is already posted online. Users can browse the never-ending flow of pinned ideas on the homepage and re-pin images and ideas that spark their interest. The more an image is pinned, the more it is seen by the Pinterest community. As a blogger, this popular new form of exchanging ideas can be harnessed as both a promotional tool for your blog and as an additional way to reach your readers with your blog’s unique ideas. Whether you're new to the blogosphere or already have a dedicated following, Pinterest can be highly beneficial for you and your readers. Consider ...
- Top 10 Must-Have WordPress Plugins - 2012-05-17 11:37:40-04
Every blogger uses effective plugins in his/her site. Normally, after successfully installing the WordPress script, the confusion (choice of plugins) sets in. Visiting WordPress.org today and hitting Plugins will show you 19,368 Plugins and 298,881,751 Downloads (and counting). So whether you're a newcomer or have been blogging for some time now, you can still get overwhelmed especially on those cool plugins. I hope you'll find these Top 10 WordPress plugins helpful in one form or another. After all, they have been keeping their promises of remarkable wonders on my sites since installing them. 1. Akismet – this is a built-in plugin and all you have to do is activate it. For first timers, you just have to acquire your Akismet key once and place it in all of your blogs. Once installed successfully, it'll catch spam comments for you. I could have hundreds of comments right now, but since I ...
- Staree – Share Photos and Videos with Celebrities and Friends - 2012-05-17 13:36:45-04
There’s a new and exciting way to share updates, photos and videos with your friends online while also connecting with all of the major social networks. Staree was launched today and the goal behind the site is to make it more fun and profitable to share your favorite pictures and updates with your friends. Today the site has officially moved out of their beta launch and are now accepting members from all social platforms. The better your rankings and following in Twitter, Facebook and Klout, the more likely you are to be accepted and setup with a profile page. Staree allows users to post photos and videos from their mobile device or desktop, and share them with friends through Facebook and Twitter. Users make money from display advertising targeted to their content and product placement in photos and videos. What’s exciting about Staree is that it brings the worlds of ...
- A Look At Bing – Why It Isn't As Good As Google - 2012-05-17 18:53:31-04
Recently I switched to Bing in an attempt to show support for the underdog (not often Microsoft gets to be called an underdog!) and to try and encourage a bit of competition among search engines. This would be a very good development for webmasters and bloggers as it would mean that we no longer had to do precisely what Google said – and it would mean that no longer were we completely susceptible to any changes to Google which currently could completely ruin our business. Trying Bing So I moved over to Bing to try and practice what I preach, but the only small problem was this – it doesn’t really seem to be much good. Constantly I find myself searching for Google so that I can get the result I want. I recently searched ‘best SEO blogs’ and the top result wasn’t a countdown of the top blogs – ...
- Link Development Tips for Business Blogs - 2012-05-18 11:49:49-04
10 tips for attracting relevant, high ranking inbound links I learned that search Engine Optimization (SEO) link building is a vital element to the success of a business blog working for a firm that specializes in Search Engine Optimization. However, if you're new to blogging and the world of SEO, you might be just learning how important inbound links (those coming from other relevant or expert sites within your industry) are for improving your page rank and your ability to be found organically in the search engines, like Google. Here are 10 valuable tips and rules you should remember and follow as you start building links for your business blog: 1. Target quality inbound links And by that I mean relevant sites with high page ranks. Concentrate on those over sites that don't have any relevancy to yours as well as those with low Google page ranking. 2. Try to ...
- Creating Effective Local Web Sites and Marketing Campaigns - 2012-05-18 14:04:29-04
No matter what type of business or service you are running, you need to adapt with the times. Even local doctors, dentists and all other medical practices will quickly fall behind if they do not implement internet technology and web sites into their business model. The truth is, more and more people are looking online to find reviews and information about visiting a doctor or professional before actually making an appointment. If local businesses in your area don’t have a web site, they aren’t getting ranked and providing the customers with what they want… which also means they are losing out on a lot of business. With the massive rise in local marketing and web sites, this leaves huge room for opportunity. Not only for the local businesses in your area, but also for designers and marketers as well. Officite is well established web site creation and hosting service that ...
- 5 Free Tools that Help You Build a Community Within Your Blog - 2012-05-19 10:00:27-04
A few days ago on Blogging Tips, Zac Johnson wrote about the importance of Adding a Forum and Community to Your Blog. If you are wondering why you should do this, be sure to read his post before trying out one of these tools. Not only does he explain the benefits, but he also tells you when the best time is to start a community on your blog. Today, I’m going to go over 5 free tools that can help you achieve the goal of having a blog community. These tools integrate smoothly into any WordPress blog and are sure to help bring more traffic to your blog as well as increase readers and user engagement. BlogFrog BlogFrog adds a mini community to your blog complete with a forum, profiles, photo sharing, live chats, broadcasts, and much more. They also make it easy to integrate your forum with your blog via ...
- Panda Spearheads Push for High Quality Websites - 2012-05-19 11:54:44-04
Google is doing it again. Making sure content is king. In case you haven’t noticed, there's a slow but steady sea change in the attitude of the internets content gatekeepers. The change will affect how everyone approaches doing business on the web. The shift may, as one writer suggested, define the next incarnation of the web. The wide-open, everyone is welcome structure of Web 2.0, is shifting back to a form that emphasizes quality and accuracy. And it can't happen too soon. Especially when you consider the proliferation of keyword-stuffed junk that often passes for "content." Underscoring this shift is Google's latest search algorithm update, which has caught the attention of web masters and designers. Dubbed Panda, the new search algorithm was rolled out last year and an update was announced at the end of March. When originally announced, the update was specifically aimed at reducing rankings for low-quality sites ...
- Use Ping.fm To Index and Rank New Posts Quickly - 2012-05-19 12:23:36-04
How do you improve search engine ranking? I came across Ping.fm a few months ago and I've fallen in love with it. It's a great social bookmarking and pinging tools. It's so easy to use and can provide your blog with the edge to rank better. The first time I pinged my post with the tool, Google spider immediately crawled and indexed my article and within 24 hours, it was on Google first page. Wow! Disclaimer: the keyword I was targeting wasn't competitive at all. It had 230 searches locally according to Google and the competing webpages were 740 when searched with quotes (" "). Bear in mind that ranking on Google first page takes time and you need to build quality links. Writing isn't enough Publishing a new post is the first stage. You don't have to stop there. It's called "article marketing" not article writing. So, the marketing ...
- How to Overcome Google Penguin's Wrath - 2012-05-20 11:31:30-04
The post penguin period has been a disaster (to most). Many sites are brought down in rank. Webmasters and Internet Marketers are thrown into dilemma. Link building techniques are now pondered. The importance and rightful SEO techniques are now questioned. The whole picture of ranking over Google is scrambled. So how do we counteract? We do not. We shall play with Penguin. At present, the Penguin update looks forth for Domain Authorities. Domains that have the highest authority rank better. Domains like yahoo, blogspot, tumblr etc are ranking highest. Gain links through these domains and you are all set. Facebook pages and Yahoo answers are adhered to Google's first page. Pages from Facebook and Yahoo rarely have external incoming links. Even if they do have, it is a 'nofollow'. Let me show an example. I wanted my site to rank for 'forex no deposit bonus 2012'. Hence did a search ...
- Dont Forget to Write Good Content - 2012-05-20 12:55:50-04
Granted there are so many different ways that you get the word on your goods and services these days, it’s often difficult to remember that the linchpin foundation of all your efforts whether they are social media or SEO based have everything to do with making sure you have good content. Now while it’s possible to put together a Facebook page that might even include a video channel to add and organize YouTube video content, all these tentacles don’t mean a thing if they lead back to poorly written text. In other words you can’t forget to write good content and that means you need to understand the differences between the kind of online writing that works well and the stuff that’s come before it. Here’s a few rules for you to consider to write the kind of content that sparkles and turns visitors to your website into paying customers. ...
- The Pied Piper of Internet Disappoints – Facebook IPO Backpedals - 2012-05-21 02:36:27-04
The legendary story of the Middle Ages about the infamous Pied Piper who leads the towns' children to their doom suits Facebook analogically. A couple of days after their IPO debut, it is evident that Facebook has not received the response it had in vision. Unlike the Pied Piper, Facebook disappoints. Perhaps, its condition is aptly summed up by Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities: "They were playing for a pop but didn't get it". Before the IPO debut, other social networking platforms had expected an increase in their share value. However, after its lackluster debut, here are the recent market reports: Facebook rises just by 1 percent, that is, 23 cents. LinkedIn goes down 6 percent. Yelp goes down 12 percent. Groupon goes down 7 percent. Zynga goes down 13 percent (worst hit!) A day after IPO debuts, I received a newsletter from Perform Insider with some really important links ...
- The 5Cs of Blogging That Makes You Successful Quickly - 2012-05-21 10:01:56-04
Are you a successful blogger yet? Everyone is looking for loopholes to climb to the top in their blogging career, but only few bloggers are truly enjoying today. Others are struggling to drive traffic, while a host of others can't even generate $100 per month from their blogs. But all that can be changed if you consider these 5Cs of blogging and take actions on them. The 5Cs of Blogging are: Create – Command – Creativity- Communication – Conversion : by Michael Chibuzor Does it make sense to you? All right, let's break the Cs down to know how they can apply to our blogging success. Are you ready? Create Blogging is all about creating exceptional contents for readers and target audience. You need to create a post that's truly helpful. You can't continue to churn articles and expect good results. There should be uniqueness in the craft. Before ...
- Blog Posts are the Most Effective Social Media Platform - 2012-05-21 11:40:46-04
Blogging for business has officially gone mainstream. According to data from MarketingSherpa, blog posts were deemed the most effective social media platform for both B2C and B2Bs. Marketers have finally realized that blogging can be leveraged as a content tool: • To generate enough interest to convert your visitors into leads, and keep you top of mind as they complete the nurturing process (hopefully converting them into customers). • In the early stages of the buyer's journey, it troubles prospects about their business, showing them there's a better way to deal with an issue that their industry sector is facing. • It's interactive, less formal, and puts a human face to your company. • It builds trust and a sense of thought leadership. • It can help you increase your ranking on Google's search engine results page (SERP). So if the benefits of business blogging are so obvious, then why ...
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