How to Make Solid Connections with Blogging Influencers

6 Simple Action Steps to Create Ridiculously Solid Connections With Influential Bloggers

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If your goal is to be recognized in the ranks with other influential bloggers one day, here’s something you should know… content isn’t king. Yes, I know that statement may go against everything you’ve heard since entering the blogosphere, but I’m here to tell you that statement is indeed the truth. As I’ve gone along in my blog building adventures, I’ve encountered many new bloggers who are struggling with the concept of reaching out and connecting with influential bloggers in their niche. So this article is going to detail step-by-step exactly how to start, build and maintain solid relationships with influential bloggers.

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7 Reasons Why Unemployed People Should Start Blogging

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Blogging has exploded into the mainstream web over the recent years, with more and more people turning to blogging for a variety of reasons.
The beauty of blogging is that you don’t need a degree or a scholarship to start doing it, you don’t need a huge amount of money either, and more over being unemployed means you have all the time in the world to work on your blog, to some degree. I certainly wished that I had made the decision to start blogging when I was unemployed for a solid 4 years, back almost 20 years ago, but to be honest the internet had only just started coming to life…

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3 Reasons Why You Don’t Deserve To Make Money Blogging

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In the new year do you plan to make money blogging – Is that your primary goal? It seems that sooner or later, every blogger wants to make this phrase a part of their blogging story. There are many bloggers who claim that their only passion is to blog their brains out without having the desire to make money from it, but yet they somehow manage to make a good chunk of income from their blogs.

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Incapsula Review: Is It The Best Way To Make Your Blog Faster and Safer?

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About a month ago, I saw Justin of Dragon Blogger talking on Facebook about a new service he was using called Incapsula. I decided to sign up (it’s free) and give Incapsula a try. The best way to visualize Incapsula is to think of it as the “middle man”. Incapsula sits between your server and your reader, so instead of your user’s computer asking your server to deliver your blog’s pages directly, it asks Incapsula and then Incapsula talks to your server. In addition to protecting your server, Incapsula also gets rid of some of the server load.

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Don’t Miss This Special Twitter Event!

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When I was speaking in Ohio at a blogging convention, I realized the price of admission to go to one of these things. To be honest, it’s kind of outrageous the prices they charge. While there, I really got to thinking about events that I could create that would be free to bloggers who were just getting started. The kind of event that you could attend in your own living room or office. Naturally that event would have to be online, and that’s just the event I created!

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Facebook Promoted Posts: Time to Change Channels

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Facebook Promoted Posts have been getting some not so welcoming reviews. Especially from small business owners without deep pockets to spend in social media.The more favorable option is to focus your efforts on a different platform altogether. No you shouldn’t abandon Facebook entirely, but, if your reach declined drastically, you may need to cut your losses. This is how I see it…

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24 Ways to Grow Your Blog and Kick the Inertia Out of It

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the initial months after starting your own blog is usually spent in multitasking a lot of different things like choosing a great theme for your blog, choosing categories for your posts, setting up accounts on social media sites and Autoresponder services and most importantly- creating great content. Your blog has grown a little from where you started off in the beginning but has now reached a plateau or a standstill. So What Should You Do Next…

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