Blogging Tutorials

Tips and tutorials to help increase your proficiency with free blogging software from Wordpress.com and Blogger.

Blogger Interviews: Blogging and Social Media HOA with Mitch and Ileane

When long time blogging friend Mitch Mitchell of I’m Just Sharing asked me to sit down and chat with him via a Google+ Hangout On Air, I was more than happy to do so. It seems I’ve been spending a great deal of time in Hang Outs lately so there was relatively little fuss involved with getting things set up for the recording.

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Need a New Way to Promote Your YouTube Channel? Try RSS Syndication

I bet you’ve found countless ways to promote your blog using RSS syndication, but you might not realize you can promote your YouTube channel with RSS syndication as well. Using an RSS feed allows you to automate the promote process in countless ways. Since this is a short blog post, I’m not going to keep you in suspense about how you can put this YouTube promotion strategy to work, the first thing you’ll need to know is how find the RSS feed for your channel…

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Why On Earth Do We Need Search Engine Optimization Experts?

Hiring a search engine optimization expert to write copy on your pages is overkill. Worse, it benefits one part of your business by risking the rest of the business. A search engine optimization expert will get your site higher rankings in Google and other search engines, but he might sacrifice your sites’s readability or selling strength to do it. What good is it to your site to rank high but sell poorly?

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4 Online Tools to Monitor Your Brand

Killer Tools to Monitor Your Personal and Blog Brand

Monitoring your brand mentions and knowing your online reputation is extremely important. Not only does this apply to people who use their personal name as their business, but also for the name of your business, website or blog. For example, my personal name and blog have become a brand itself over the past several years. My name is “Zac Johnson” and my site is ZacJohnson.com, so this makes it easier for me to track the brand and monitor both my site and my personal name.

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Give Link Discovery a Fighting Chance with Monitor Backlinks

There are two things that many bloggers struggle with in the fight to grow a successful blog. The first is developing well-written, relevant content and the second is attracting high-quality backlinks. The latest search engine updates and all of the other changes to internet landscape have left scrambling to squeeze out as much of that precious link juice as we can get our hands on. You’re probably asking yourself a few questions. Who is linking to my blog now? Do I have enough of the high-quality backlinks I need? What is the anchor text that is being used for those links? I’m using Monitor Backlinks to find answers.

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Five Reasons Why College Students Should Get Blogging!

Starting a blog is super idea for anybody but it’s a particularly good plan for college students looking to further their employment prospects. A blog has a million and one advantages-but that would make for a rather lengthy article! So instead, I’d like to bring you five reasons why you should consider blogging as a student.

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Must Have Tools For Blogging and Internet Marketing

Blogging and Internet Marketing is a minefield! Here are some must have tools that will enable more effective attraction, engagement and conversion. When I started my own business helping others improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their sales and marketing I was confident in my ability to market to my audience, manage the sales process and ultimately sell my services. What I overlooked was that a large part of my business was being done online, and this was a fairly new concept to me. As it is to most of us!

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