You’ve carefully chosen a niche market that appeals to your blog readers. It doesn’t matter if you’re blogging directly to consumers or to other businesses in and out of your niche. You faithfully and consistently post new, interesting blogs complemented with high-quality images. You know a little bit about search engine optimization (SEO) and are on the fast track to monetizing your blog. That’s great news, but if you’re not incorporating social media into your blog, you’re missing out on a huge market. You’d be surprised at the number of blogs who do not optimize their blogs for social media….

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Blogging may have started as a novelty with online diarists achieving “celebrity” status and entertainment gossip bloggers finding internet fame. However, blogging began to move into the mainstream with the popularity of news blogs such as The Huffington Post and The Onion. Now, blogging has matured and is a low-cost yet effective tool which should be a part of every company’s marketing strategy for the 21st century. Small businesses can take advantage of this low-cost method of marketing without a lot of time and effort. Making a blogging plan for 2013 can push you towards your business goals and help…

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Google has brought in a lot of changes tightening its noose around SEO. Infact it is taking effective steps in order to stop unethical and unnatural way of building links. Though it will now be difficult to generate links it still supports natural ways of building links. It is important that we generate quality links in order to elevate our blogs and websites to a higher ranking. One such way of generating natural and ethical links is guest blogging. Guest blogging is a great way to connect to a wider audience and also increase traffic on your website. This is…

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Creating content for the Internet is a challenge. On the one hand, without constant content creation, websites lose traffic and become irrelevant. On the other side of the equation, some unscrupulous webmasters and bloggers regularly seek fresh content from other sites, recycling it on their own pages. Not only is this blatantly unfair, but it could be costing the copyright owner lost revenue from advertising and sales. Fortunately, there are a few different steps that content owners can take to make certain their material is not used without permission. Taking a Proactive Approach “With the size of the Internet ever…

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As a website owner or a blog runner, your number one priority is to get the maximum amount of traffic on your site possible. And how does one systematically do that? By monitoring your traffic and checking which additions/changes to your site attract internet users and which repel them. Having your blog/site tracked can become a money demanding matter, but not if you use Clicky. What is Clicky? Clicky is a traffic monitoring tool for you blog and websites. What is Clicky’s best feature? It gives you Real-Time web stats; which means when you log into Clicky you can see…

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Anand Srinivasan blogs about interesting statistics on internet at TechCrunchies.com. His new venture KnewThis.com, a place for interesting facts will be launching later this month. Blogging is a serious job, especially if your blog depends on loyal readership and not search engines for traffic. Like in the real world, the authority of the blogger is as much dependent on how the blogger carry themselves as it is on the content. That being the case, it becomes very important for bloggers to make their online activities look as professional as possible. A lot of it is dependent on your blog content….

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A new iteration of the popular blogging platform WordPress has been recently released. Codenamed “Baker” after renowned trumpeter & vocalist Chet Baker, the new version has a slew of under-the-hood changes in addition to changes to the Administrative interface: New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin interface Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options Support…

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I have tons of Firefox add-ons installed on my browsers. Thanks to Firefox, blogging and social media work + fun has never been this easy. Following are some of my favorite Add-ons and definitely must have for any social media addict out there. Facebook Facebook Toolbar for Firefox is an excellent add-on that allows you to integrate your Facebook life into your browser. The Search Box allows you to easily search Facebook no matter where you are. Select a friend from the dropdown to go directly to their profile, or hit “enter” to see the search results. In addition to…

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Yep, we’re back again with another post on WordPress. As far as any blogging platform or CMS is concerned, WordPress has the largest community to back it up. And if there’s one thing that this community has done, is that it’s allowed WordPress to be more than just a blog. Anyone who’s used WordPress will bear testimony to the fact that it is by far one of the most powerful Content Management Systems out there and can be made to do almost anything from running a small blog to a large website. Here are a few examples of large sites…

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A blog to many novices seems like an easy way to make some money in their spare time. Yet when they start their blog they realize they have no traffic. A blog will not be successful if you do not put time and effort into it. It will take weeks before it will start to get any traffic at all. So, what do you do to begin into this big bad world of blogs? Haimin, one of our authors out here, provides some insight on Starting a Successful Blog.