Content is more important than ever. Research from the Content Marketing Institute reveals that at least 55% of companies will increase their content marketing budget this year. Whether you’re a writer looking for established outlets to spread the word, or you’re a guest blogger looking to promote your brand and get traffic, you can get […]
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This morning I received an email from someone wanting to place a health insurance related guest post on my blog. I help bloggers retire to a life of island hopping by sharing smart blogging tips. How many of my readers are specifically interested in health insurance, and subscribed to my blog to get health insurance
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I often get this question asked and before providing a solid answer, I want to go over a few quick things. First, there is a difference between getting pages indexed and having links indexed. We’ll be discussing this further later on, but the point is, for you to get your links indexed quickly, you have
One common stumbling block trips up all bloggers at one time during their careers. Waste-of-time-itis. During particularly lean days when nobody seems to read your blog you probably want to quit. Even worse? You fear that nobody will ever read your blog. You are wasting your time, blogging in a cyber cave. If nobody is
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Facebook Groups do not have to be a link graveyard. As we dive deeper into our how to increase blog traffic series I want to share a neat way to drive traffic through Facebook. Most Facebook Groups are link dropping points. Paste your link and run. These groups are not communities, but fear-based collectives that
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Your product is ready. Finally! You have invested time, money and resources. The product has to be a hit, otherwise, it was all for nothing. You push publish and it’s live. You have finally launched the product and… Silence… Uh, oh. No one cares, let alone buys your new product. What happened? You messed up,
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New bloggers face a difficult question: should you include details from your personal life in your blog or avoid adding these elements all together? I find it easy to inject my travel stories, my blogging wins and losses and most of what I experience online and offline into my blog and brand. Other bloggers may
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Many bloggers struggle horribly to find their writing voice. In a world of mimicking bloggers who parrot phrases uttered by their mentors it feels tough to step away from the herd. Make no mistake; we as humans do follow the herding instinct. Stepping away from the crowd feels dangerous at first. Quite scary, really. But
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More than 2 million blogs are published each day. How many are read in their entirety? Whatever number comes in mind, I am willing to bet the actual number is far far less. Readers are not apathetic. In fact, the most active demographic of readers are millennials who actively search for blogs on several topics.
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If you’re like me, running 5 businesses, then it’s important you know how to organize your work, making sure you know EXACTLY what you have to going forward. It’s important you stay active and the time you’re NOT focusing on your work, you will be losing potential business. On Sundays, I sit down and create
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