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Traffic

What is a URL shortener? Should I use an URL shortener?

May 17, 2010

URL shorteners aren’t new, but not everyone knows what they are or understands how useful they can be. I want to introduce you to a few URL shortening tools and explain how they can make a real difference in the way you track what your audience is doing with your information. Why Should I Shorten [...]

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Choosing the Best Link Generator for Your Carnival

May 10, 2010

Blog carnivals can be a great way to promote community and increase traffic not only to your site, but to your participants’ sites. But how do you do that? With a linky tool. A linky tool allows carnival participants to submit a title for their link and a link to their site. The linky tool [...]

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Blog Traffic Magic: Is a Blog Carnival Right for Your Blog?

May 4, 2010

As bloggers we like to know that people are reading what we write and that we’re connecting on some level with our audience. The more people that come to our site, the happier we are. Maybe you’re happy simply because people are coming or maybe you’re happy because more traffic means more revenue (especially if [...]

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How to set up a Google Alert (and why it’s a good idea)

October 21, 2009

Google Alerts is one of the most versatile online tools. It allows you to listen to conversations you may not be aware of. Conversations that involve you or your brand (and maybe even your competitors). As you manage your online presence, it’s important to listen to what people are saying and how they are saying [...]

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What is HARO and How Does It Work?

October 7, 2009

Finding sources for a news article is hard when you don’t know where to look or if you don’t have contacts within an industry. It’s also hard to contribute your knowledge on a given subject when you don’t know who needs your help. Enter HARO, which stands for Help A Reporter Out and is a [...]

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Recap: Setting Blogging Goals

August 19, 2009

Today I’m re-posting an article consisting of notes I took from an interview Darren Rowse (Problogger) did last summer with The Blog Squad about setting goals for you blog.

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Helpful Blogging Links: May 22, 2009

May 22, 2009

Expert blogger Melanie Nelson finds and presents the most helpful blogging tutorials, new, and information links. Find out about HTML code for special punctuation, how to get the most out of Google Docs, how to analyze web statistics, and much more!

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Which directories should I use to promote/list my blog?

May 4, 2009

Unless you’ve decided to blog in a vacuum and don’t care if anyone reads what you have to say, at some point you’ve probably looked for ways to encourage new readers to find your blog. When I started blogging in 2004, it wasn’t uncommon for a blog to be part of several blogrings. A blogring [...]

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Want More Traffic and Subscribers? Guest Post!

April 29, 2009

Sarah Mae is a household engineer (a.k.a stay-at-home mommy of three and wife to one very cool motorcycling husband) who absolutely loves blogging!  She owns the blog Like A Warm Cup Of Coffee (home of Motivate Me Mondays) where she spends her time journeying along side other women who are seeking to find the eternal [...]

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How Do You Know If Your Blog Is Successful?

April 22, 2009

When I discuss blogging with others we invariably end up talking about how to make a blog successful. It may not be the thrust of our conversation, but it does come up. We all want to know how to do what we do better. Today’s article discusses Google PageRank and demographics and which is more [...]

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