Social Media and Blogging Weekly Round-Up {02.11.12}

There were a LOT of great social media and blogging posts this week… here are some of the best posts I stumbled upon:

What Writers Can Learn from Chefs about Cooking Up Good Design

Before your readers can digest your content, they’re going to “taste” it with their eyes. They’ll get an impression of your writing before they read it — this is inevitable.

8 SEO Tips That Take 15 Minutes or Less

For seasoned SEOs this is rather elementary information but should serve as a reminder of what should be a daily check for a site as they require so little time to assess and can be implemented rather quickly. In fact, you could tackle one of these items every day over your morning coffee and in a little more than a week create the opportunity for additional site traffic.

SEO: How *I* Write a Blog Post Part 5

SEO can be complicated. And it’s not a science. But I do think about it with every post and the little rules I do know, I stick by. Even little steps can help your SEO.

How to Use Backlinks to Rank Organically in the Search Engines

By hyperlinking keywords you grab the attention of your readers. The links add a depth to your blog post telling readers that there is more information that they want to know about on a different page.

15 minutes to better website content

Here are 9 things that you can do to jump start your SEO copywriting and social media strategies in just 15 minutes or less.

How to Recover From a Social Media Hangover

It’s so important if your business hinges on your ability to put your creative brain through some mental hoops, that you protect that brain as much as you possibly can. That means taking periodic breaks from all the technology you surround yourself with and simply turning it all off… Here are 3 tips on how to claw your way out of the mental fog, find your motivation again, and let your voice ring out…

How to Develop a Reputation for your Blog – A Quick Guide

To get your blog’s popularity right up to stratospheric levels, you will need to take proactive steps to develop a reputation for your blog and make sure that you are able to maintain this reputation that you have so carefully developed.

Stop focusing on making money with Social Media Marketing, focus on creating value for your customers

Don’t focus on how you can turn social media into a sales funnel for your company, think about how you can use these tools to create value for your customers.  Do that, and the money will follow.

Why You Should Care About Building an Email List

If you haven’t tapped into the power of a good email list, you’re losing a ton of opportunities.

How Bloggers Can Create and Use White Papers

White papers were first used only by companies that sold expensive and technical products, but nowadays they’re being effectively used by small business and bloggers, not only to generate leads directly, but to also generate emails for newsletters.

The “New” SEO Secret Weapon

Ready for the mind-blowing “secret new ingredient”? It’s the authority, editorial focus, and relevance of your site — in other words, your site quality.

4 Ways to Increase Your Facebook Page Visibility

Have you noticed less interaction on your Facebook page in the last few months? Getting your updates to appear in the coveted news feed is more challenging than ever.

Getting Blog Traffic Through CommentLuv Blogs

One great way to get new visitors to your site is by commenting on blogs in your niche. The likelihood of bringing those potential new readers back with you is increased by commenting on CommentLuv blogs.

Do you want more engagement OR more traffic to your blog?

Probably the most important point to realize is that you can do one or the other, but probably not both.  What I mean is that many bloggers want more engagement AND more traffic.  But in general it takes a different approach to grow traffic than it does to grow engagement.

Increase Blog Traffic By Building Trust and Taking Control

Refreshing your stats all day is not going to bring new readers to your blog. You need to get out there and make those connections. You can take control of your traffic in a number of ways…

6 Mistakes to Avoid When Emailing Your Subscribers

How do you ensure that those who have signed up to your email list actually read the emails that you send, let alone that they continue to subscribe? And how do you ensure that you benefit when people actually read it. Most problems that occur in email marketing for blogs are the result of a few key mistakes as I will now outline.

21 Essential Tools for Bloggers (That Don’t Cost a Bean)

These tools will actually help, not hinder you, as you start your blogging journey. They will help take you from blogging newbie to confident, efficient and well-seasoned blogger.

How to Craft a Privacy Policy for Your Website

Privacy policies are often not given the attention they deserve. Many companies churn them out, not realizing their true importance. While not everyone will read the policy, it’s these types of policies that say a lot about what the company stands for and what it wants to achieve. Information is key to future growth. It provides insight that can’t be replicated in other ways.

Expand Your Business Quickly Through These StumbleUpon Marketing Strategies

StumbleUpon was responsible for more social shares than even Facebook in the United States recently. Given that StumbleUpon only has 20 million users right now while Facebook has 800 million, this shows you the enormous potential for growth through going viral via SU. If such a small community can account for such massive amounts of traffic now, imagine the coverage you can get when this community grows even bigger.

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