Blogging Tutorials

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

[Video Case Study] The Anatomy of the Perfectly Profitable Video

In video marketing, the better your video comes together, the better desired reaction you’ll get from your audience. Quick note before we go on: I never said your videos have to be perfect. As a matter of fact, that’s precisely why many of you haven’t even touched video production. You think your videos need to be perfect to work – a non-existing concept that becomes a perfect excuse to hold yourself back. Take the video I’ll be talking about in this post. It’s fun, entertaining, has a great call to action, and a few blunders I wish weren’t there. It didn’t stop me from publishing it though.

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Thanks for Your Horrible Spam Comment… DELETE!

Among all of the daily tasks and a problems that bloggers have to deal with, spam comments are probably the most annoying. First of all, once you see that little word cloud in your WordPress dashboard saying you have some new comments to approve, you feel excited! Then you are devastated to see they are just a bunch of spam comments! Nothing better than anchor text named imaginary people leaving idiotic generic comments to make your day better. Save yourself the time and bloggers the annoyance.

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3 Bloggers Meetups in Winter-Spring to Finally Meet in Person

Blogging is, by its very nature, a social endeavor, and you’ve undoubtedly gotten to know many of your colleagues, competitors, and readers over the time you’ve been contributing your thoughts and ideas to the web. While this fact may serve to make us feel particularly well-liked, it can often be disconcerting when placing a face alongside a name isn’t possible. If getting to know both your trade and your virtual social network better is important to you, check out any one of these bloggers’ meetups during this winter and spring to finally meet in person:

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How To Buffer Your Way To Social Media Success

Social media is clearly unavoidable for anyone conducting business on the internet today. The problem most people face, is that there are so many social networks out there, it’s difficult to decide which ones we should invest our time on. We need to make efficient use of our time and find out where we can get the most bang for our buck so to speak. That’s where a service like Buffer is worth it’s weight in gold, because you can connect more than one social network and keep track of who, what, when and where people are engaging with your content.

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Filler Content: Do You Need it in Your Content Marketing Strategy

Filler content refers to basically all kinds of posts that you write and publish just to fill in a gap, posts that don’t provide much practical information and that aren’t really worthy of people’s shares. “Content is king” is what many bloggers preach. And although the word “king” might be an exaggeration, you will hardly be getting any traffic if you are low on content. So looking from that perspective, there comes a question – should you publish filler content just to keep the posting frequency high?

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Time to Blog Like You Mean it

How To Blog Like You Mean It

Everybody knows that to blog like you mean it you need to be passionate about the topic that you are writing about. When I’m writing about Google, my mind quivers with excitement, a thousand ideas crash through my brain at once, and usually within just an hour or so, I can turn out a literary masterpiece, brimming with current, engaging and informative text for the reader.

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The Simplest Link Building Tutorial Ever

Let’s keep this link building tutorial as simple as one, two, three, four, five. If you follow these five steps in order, you’ll quickly build backlinks to your site which will propel you to better search engine rankings.This is not hard to do and anyone can do this. The important thing to remember is that it all just takes ACTION. In a short while, you’ll have multiple incoming links from high-value sites in your niche all with barely any work on your part using a method which can be repeated indefinitely without any further necessary link building tutorial.

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