All of the guest posts on Basic Blog Tips are in this category. I also included a post highlighting all of my guest posts.
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.
SEO Trends to Focus on Post Penguin 2.0 Read More »
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.
RebelMouse Proves What A Social Front Page Can Do For You Read More »
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.
4 Key Design Blunders That Can Turn People Off Read More »
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.
Review of WP Facebook Open Graph Plugin For WordPress Read More »
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.
Recognize the Value of Your Blog and Your Self Worth Read More »
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.
8 Ways To Create Blog Posts That Go Beyond Mediocre Read More »
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.
How To Build An Interactive Social Media Following Read More »
