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By June 16, 2013

YouTube continues to command the attention of users across the globe with each fiscal quarter seeing huge increases in market share. Bloggers and marketers are paying attention too and uploading videos that show off their products and establish their expertise in the hopes of attracting an avalanche of new visitors to their websites. Every minute of the day 100 hours worth of video is being uploaded to YouTube. To top it off, studies show that more that 64% of people are more likely to make a buy after watching an explainer video. Yet the truth of the matter is that many people fail to capitalize on the YouTube craze because they simply can’t get enough views on their videos. This is why video optimization is critical to your success on the second most popular search engine on the planet – a.k.a., YouTube.

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Thumbnail image for 7 Content Writing Secrets Every Blogger Should Know
By June 13, 2013

You’re sitting at your desk, you’ve just spent the last 3 hours sculpting the perfect post, you finish, hit publish, and think to yourself…”This is a winner.” Then, you sit back and wait for your readers response. Several hours later you return to your post anticipating favorable likes, re-tweets, and shares. “WHAT!” “No re-tweets, likes, or shares!” You feel a bit discouraged but return the following day to see if anything’s changed…

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Thumbnail image for SEO Trends to Focus on Post Penguin 2.0
By June 11, 2013

In 2012, we saw Google and other search engines making revolutionary changes to their algorithms. Sticking to Google only, we saw the company rolling out major updates to their deadly algorithms that landed several thousand websites in the dust. Google continuously updated and terrified Webmasters with Google Panda and Google Penguin updates and refreshes.

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Thumbnail image for RebelMouse Proves What A Social Front Page Can Do For You
By June 8, 2013

RebelMouse works hard so you don’t have to. This is how to use RebelMouse. It’s a great place to showcase all of your blog posts and social shares. You may also curate more content right on the RebelMouse dashboard. You may tweet or share the content right from inside of RebelMouse. Overall, they make it very easy for you to use RebelMouse. They have just celebrated their 1st anniversary back in April.

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Thumbnail image for 4 Key Design Blunders That Can Turn People Off
By June 6, 2013

As soon as your readers visit your blog, before they even read your content, they will either trust or distrust you based on your web design. There are a lot of design mistakes out there and you need to avoid them and learn how to make your readers trust you even before they start reading your content.

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Thumbnail image for Two Old-Fashioned Ways to Thank Email Subscribers and a Brand New One
By June 4, 2013

These days everyone has turned their attention to the importance of building a loyal and engaged list of email subscribers. If you’re keeping up with this trend you know that email is the most effective and “tried and true” method of getting traffic, building trust, and let’s face it – making money online today. Most of us bloggers and other email marketers rely on AWeber as our email service provider and it makes sense. But no matter which email service you use, you need an effective Thank You messages to ensure that subscribers follow through with the double optin for your list.

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Thumbnail image for Review of WP Facebook Open Graph Plugin For WordPress
By June 2, 2013

You probably don’t need convincing that posts with images stand out more than those without images. This little bit of eye candy can mean the difference between your post standing out on a social site like Facebook or getting lost in the crowd. You may have noticed sometimes when pasting a link into a Facebook post that Facebook will automatically grab an image, title and description from your link. This little bit of behind the scenes work that Facebook does helps your post stand out by displaying visual elements such as an image and bolded title. If your blog has the meta data Facebook is looking for, any blog link pasted from your site will look great on Facebook.

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Thumbnail image for If You Wait for Perfection You Might Miss The Boat
By May 29, 2013

Did you ever have a problem and wish the perfect solution would come along? Let me put it this way – ever feel like you’re waiting for a “sign” before making a decision about something? Well some might call it procrastination and maybe it is just a little bit. But this kind of stuff happens to me all the time. I feel like there are little voices in my head saying “not yet” or “just give it another couple of days before you make a move”.And then all of a sudden…BAM!! It seems to appear out of the blue and the answer falls right into my lap! Well that is what happened to me earlier today when I decided to install Google+ Comments here on Basic Blog Tips.

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Thumbnail image for Recognize the Value of Your Blog and Your Self Worth
By May 28, 2013

For most of us, devoting ourselves to blogging means that we need to make money from it. It doesn’t mean that we do not love the subject we are writing about. We are simply doing what most other people can only dream of and getting paid to do something we love. Writers aren’t giving their books away for free, screenwriters aren’t writing screenplays for million dollar movie productions for nothing, and newspaper editors don’t work all day long for the love of their art. They all get paid, as should bloggers. The bottom line is: Doing what you love does not mean you should not be paid appropriately for it.

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Thumbnail image for 8 Ways To Create Blog Posts That Go Beyond Mediocre
By May 26, 2013

Understanding how to create blog posts that go beyond ordinary is a Blogger’s dream come true. Unfortunately great blog posts are not that easy to achieve. Blog posts that go beyond mediocre have to start with creating great content, but the real road to success means pushing the envelope a bit to include the elements that help you better connect with your readers and provide value. That’s what we’ll discuss here.

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Thumbnail image for How To Build An Interactive Social Media Following
By May 24, 2013

If you want to be successful online, then building a social media following should be one of your top priorities. But there is a misconceptions some bloggers have, that success can be determined solely by the numbers. For example, in email marketing, they say the more subscribers you have, the better your chances are at selling more products. In blog readership, you get more traffic because you have that many more people that are subscribed to your RSS feed when you publish a post, therefore helping you gain more attention. Why have 10,000 fans on Facebook if only 5-15 people interact with you on every update? I would rather have 1,000 engaged fans than 10,000 non-engaging one’s.

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Thumbnail image for The 7 Most Dangerous Blog Design Mistakes
By May 21, 2013

There are many millions of blogs on the internet, and probably about 98% of them are garbage to be honest. And because there is so much choice out there, it is very hard to stand out – unless you can “WOW” a first time visitor with a great design, interesting content and also plenty of engagement. Probably the best way to get loads of traffic and engagement to your blog is simply to have people make repeat visits, and come back on a regular basis for more.

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Thumbnail image for How I Use Social Media To Drive Traffic to My Latest Blog Post
By May 18, 2013

Traffic is the lifeline of a blog; if you don’t have it, you don’t exist. Most people rely on the mighty search engines for their traffic. But there are other ways of getting traffic to your blog by utilizing the power of social media. The role of social media sites is front and center when it comes to driving traffic to my site. The most popular ones include; Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn in descending order in terms of traffic. This means that Facebook is the biggest traffic referrer to my site, other than the search engines. But how do I really do it?

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Thumbnail image for 4 Ways to Ruin Guest Posting by Turning it into Spam
By May 16, 2013

Undoubtedly, guest blogging is a favored strategy for those looking to acquire links from top quality niche sites. Prominent blog owners are usually inundated with emails asking whether they accept guest articles. Since guest blogging or guest posting is a popular means for self and blog promotion, Google is keeping a close eye on how blog owners and authors If operate with their posts. While guest posting is beneficial and powerful as the site owner receives fresh content while the guest blogger receives a link, it comes with its own set of pitfalls.

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