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Five Years with Feedly – Why I’m Not Worried about the Demise of Google Reader

85 Comments / Guest Posts, Tech / Sharon Hurley Hall / 03/24/2013

When I first heard Google Reader was going, I was really upset. It wasn’t so much about reader itself, but about the possibility of losing the services that depend on it, like my Google Reader interface of choice – Feedly. As it turned out, there was no need to worry, because thanks to some behind the scenes tech wizardry involving cloning APIs, Feedly will still be around and working long after Google Reader is gone. I’ve been using Feedly for around five years and at this stage I can’t even remember how I found it – what I do know is that I love it.

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7 Reasons You Should NOT Start a Podcast

62 Comments / Guest Posts, Tech / Ryan Hanley / 03/22/2013

Podcasting is not for everyone. Podcasting is long-format content marketing, which means the audience expects you to dive deeper into your area of expertise. Yet despite the many experts, gurus, rockstars and ninjas within the content marketing space moving their voice to the podcast format, podcasting will NOT work for everyone. I outlined seven reasons you should NOT start podcasting. This serves as a guide to excuse yourself from moving into the podcast format of content marketing.

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How to Improve the Trust Factor of Your Blog

112 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / Harsh Agrawal / 03/16/2013

Trust is a big word and it doesn’t come at a cheap price. Either you could build trust from day one or it takes years to build that trust factor and boost your credibility. Be it ShoutMeLoud, Problogger, DailyBlogTips, every blog needs to have a trust factor, else you will find it hard to convert visitors into regular readers and customers. In this article, I will mention a few things which increase the trust factor for your blog, and help you look like an expert in your niche.

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Want Me to Delete Your Guest Post? Just Make These 7 Mistakes

135 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / Sharon Hurley Hall / 03/12/2013

Delete. That was the sound of me getting rid of another poor guest post pitch. I used to respond to every guest post request I got, but lately I’ve been inundated with approaches that are, quite frankly, poor. That’s probably one of the reasons that a lot of prominent bloggers are refusing to accept guest posts. I have to say that I love a good guest post. But I’m not so desperate that I will take any old post that someone throws my way. Here are the issues that make me turn down guest post approaches.

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Five Exciting Blog Niches for You to Explore Right Now

75 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / Zac Johnson / 03/09/2013

When creating a website or blog you need to have focus! It’s way too easy to go buy a domain name, throw up some content and lose complete interest in your site in a few weeks or even days. What’s even better is that you can actually automate the full process of creating a site, doing link building and making it profitable in a short period of time. But you need to know how to find your niche and why you are blogging – and how you are going to make money with it. Below you will find five awesome niches that you can create a site around right now, then focus your efforts on ranking in the search engines to bring in quality traffic and monetize the heck out of it.

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Guest Posts – Unsolicited or Invitation Only?

66 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / Obaidul Haque / 03/05/2013

There’s little doubt that opening a blog up to guest bloggers has the potential to create a win-win situation for both the author and the publisher. By offering guest post submissions, you do an excellent job of allowing other bloggers to voice their views while they help build a foundation of your own blog. However, when your blog grows in popularity, you start to receive tons of guest posts every week, consistently. It becomes awfully hard to deal with the flood of these submissions, most of which are poor in quality and irrelevant

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