Yesterday, one of the luminaries of digital marketing, Avinash Kaushik tweeted: In his Google+ post Avinash shared that his blogging strategy has been to follow these 4 principles: 1. Staying focused 2. Publishing only original stuff 3. Sticking to publishing only what’s “incredible, relevant, of value” to your audience 4. Obsess about discovery The above [...]
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Yesterday, after I tweeted out one of the links I’ve found of interest, I received the following question back: After verifying that Eric is asking about the stuff I microblog it occurred to me that this would make a very nice blog post topic. After all, in the ocean of information many of us are [...]
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With the fairly recent Google’s “Farmer” Algorithm Update multiple bloggers (affiliates in particular) became concerned (subject also brought up by Joe Sousa in his recent post here), and started wondering if they (as content producers) may be affected by it. The short answer is: “No, as long as what you produce is unique and quality [...]
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As the year draws to a close, and I’m looking into ways of improving my readers’ experience with my blog, I see that the numbers of those who access it via mobile devices has greatly increased since 2009 (as many of you probably know, I started blogging daily on 1/1/2009; so it is good/right to [...]
It’s Friday again, and today my who-to-follow-on-Twitter focus is on the people that, at one point or another, have helped me improve my blogging (and content writing) skills. I am certain you will find their tweets and posts of help too, and it is with this desire that I am happy to bring you my [...]
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I know the title of the post may sound banal and obvious, but it wasn’t such to me when after 500+ days of daily blogging I decided to take a break, and write only Mondays through Fridays. I had heard some old-time bloggers argue that regularity is no longer the key, and I decided to [...]
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I know, CCCP may not bring up good memories in most minds, but today I’d like to give the old abbreviation a new meaning — one that comes from my personal experience and understanding of what makes a good blog post, and a good blogger. There are 4 adjectives to remember: C – Consistent (a-post-a-day [...]
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Having put together over 500 blog posts since 1 January 2009, I’ve found it especially interesting to monitor which of my posts get most of readers’ attention. It appears that certain types of blog posts are destined to become more popular than others, even though the content in those “others” can at times be significantly [...]
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If I were asked which WordPress plugins I would recommend to bloggers that use this popular platform, and want to enhance the usability component, I would list the following five: 1. Akismet [plugin's site] by Matt Mullenweg – Checks comments posted in your blog against their own database and places suspicious ones into a Spam folder. It [...]
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