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5 Reasons Why Your Business Should Keep A Blog

January 21, 2013 by Leave a Comment

This is a guest post by Natalie Hamlin of Increase Visibility.

What if those mere minutes could be the key to connecting your business with an intently-listening audience?

Working in the digital-media sphere, any Internet guru can tell you that content is the key to gaining listeners, and there are a ton of businesses that haven’t gotten the memo yet. For all you companies that have a dedicated blogger on your team, here’s an imaginary gold star. For companies that haven’t yet jumped on the blogging bandwagon, listen to these five reasons why your business needs an up-to-date blog:-

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5 Reasons Guest Blogging Is The Best Traffic Generator

September 12, 2012 by 1 Comment

 

This is a guest post by Tom Corson-Knowles of Online Internet Marketing Help.

Guest blogging is one of those online marketing strategies that really doesn’t get enough credit.

You see, writing a guest post just isn’t as glamorous as having 10,000 Facebook fans or 50,000 Twitter followers. Most bloggers and online marketers would rather brag about how many followers they have on Twitter instead of how much money they’re making in their business.

And hey, that’s all fine with me. I love my 10,000+ Facebook fans and 30,000+ Twitter followers – and they do help me grow my business, without a doubt! But I can honestly say that all those followers and fans and YouTube subscribers and Pinterest followers contribute to just a small fraction of my online revenue compared to guest blogging.

Here are the top 5 reasons why I love guest blogging:-

1. It’s Free

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5 Techniques on Using YouTube for SEO

July 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment

 

This is a guest post by Emma Tomlinson of Smart Traffic.

Are you using YouTube for SEO?

Face it, you have been sucked into the vortex of video sharing. Fortunately—or unfortunately—most of the videos you watch are amazing, hilarious, terrifying, touching, or even disturbing!

But whatever it is, you cannot deny the power that YouTube has over you and other Net surfers. If you need proof, search for “Justin Bieber – Baby ft. Ludacris” and be astounded by the number of views it has gathered. Hint: over 700 million!

Indeed, YouTube has become not just a sensation but a phenomenon, and a persisting one at that.

And because its members are highly diversified, it only makes sense that online marketers are using this for their SEO goals.

But how exactly does that work?

Check out some of the best techniques in YouTube that I have scoured for you guys.

# 1 Create attractive titles for your videos

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5 Awesome Tips For Adding Images to Your Blog

January 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment

 

It has been said many times that online readers appreciate short sentences, small paragraphs and lots of white space to make blog posts easier to read. To avoid being crushed under the avalanche of content now available, online readers scan text quickly, looking for pertinent details. Apart from breaking up your text into bite-sized blocks, adding images is another great way of avoiding the Great Wall of Text that turns readers off.

Here are 5 tips to help you get the most out of images in your blog posts.

1. CONSISTENT SIZE

Cropped or resizing images to the same size, creates a consistent, coherent look in your posts. For most blog layouts, image width will be the most important measurement to maintain consistency with. Use trial and error to find out the image width that suits your blog’s layout best, and then stick to it with all future posts.

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