Guest Posts

All of the guest posts on Basic Blog Tips are in this category. I also included a post highlighting all of my guest posts.

LinkedIn

LinkedIn and Your Resume

49 Comments / Guest Posts, Social Media / /

With 130 million profiles on professional networking website LinkedIn, there’s great potential for you to increase your professional visibility among those in your industry and beyond. It would be almost silly not to consider the benefit of actively participating in LinkedIn’s social networking as well as maintaining an up-to-date resume. But despite the fact that social media networks are fast becoming a primary form of communication for millions of users, some people aren’t quite convinced that a social network for professionals is worth their time.

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Blog Writing Checklist

Blog Writing Checklist: Have You Covered These 8 Blogging Essentials?

103 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / /

Readers love to read list posts — for example, “5 Ways To Win a Negotiation”. The advantage for you is that they’re easy to outline, to research, and to write. In the example below, we’ll follow a wedding photographer as she thinks through a blog post that she can write for her business blog. I recommend that you get out a pen and paper or open your favorite word processing document. Read the post once all the way through. Then come back and fill in your own ideas step-by-step until you’ve outlined your post.…continue reading…

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Joost De Valk

Blogger Interview: Joost de Valk aka Yoast

66 Comments / Blogger Interviews, Blogging Tutorials / /

In this installment of the blogger interviews series, I have the chance to introduce to you to Joost De Valk aka Yoast. We chat about WordPress, plugin development, SEO, blogging conferences, social media and more. He also give us an insider tip about what might be coming to the next version of WordPress.…continue reading…

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Impressive Brand Image for your Blog

How to Create an Impressive Brand Image Around Your Blog

65 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / /

Today, every successful blog thrives on the brand image online. Many bloggers have the perception that only blogs with good money to spend on amazing designs and featured authors can create a brand image. It is completely untrue. The best things about a blog is that helps a person become a one-man army – depending on how well he/she expresses their opinions on a topic or issue. Creating a brand image is all about influencing your reader in such a way that it leaves a lasting impression on their minds about your blog…continue reading…

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Google Shopping

Credit Card Processing Alternatives for Beginners

53 Comments / Guest Posts, Tech / /

When you’re first getting an eCommerce site or web store up and running, one of the main things you need to deal with is credit card processing. If you already run a brick-and-mortar store that has a merchant account, chances are you can simply talk to your bank about adding online processing. If not, however, you need to start from scratch; and the merchant account application process can be difficult and time-consuming. Fortunately, there are some credit card processing alternatives out there. These payment gateways offer you the ability to accept payments without a merchant account…continue reading…

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13 Things the Game Travian Teaches you about Online Business

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Before we begin talking about online business, here is a small insight into the game. Travian is an online browser based game that does not requires you to download anything to play it. The user base of this game is huge; they got plenty of servers for every country in addition to the international com servers. A game server holds anywhere from 20k to 50k active players. A player starts with one village, and then he has to increase the amount of villages and make troops to fight with other players. In all fairness, the game is crazy and the players like to do anything to win. However, this game cannot be won on skill alone, it requires everything that an online business requires to succeed, like diplomacy, networking, money, skill, experience, dedication etc. in short, you can’t win, if you don’t give it everything you got.

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Comment on your blog

What Are You Getting From Your Blog Comments?

90 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts / /

Comments are an integral part of a successful blog and it’s also one of the tools which can add a lot of dimension to your blog. So what are you getting from your comments? What, you are not sure…Ok, let’s see what all you can get from the comments. It all depends on commenting strategy, first you need to decide what do you want to get from your comments. Since the first step is to decide what you want to gain from your comments. Your strategy can be based on any of the following commenting strategies

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