Best of 2008: Blogging for Business, Part 1
What are some of the most effective ways to attract more readers to your blog? Acknowledge other bloggers you admire? Find ideas for helpful blog posts? Assure you’re utilizing blogging best practices?
Learn all of that in more in some of the best posts from the last year on blogging for business.
4 Quick and Simple Ways to Increase Page Views on Your Blog by Problogger
A short but helpful post from Skellie with some quick and easy ways to make your blog stickier. (”End with related posts” is one example, and a practice that’s always been used with this “Best Of” series.) The prolific guest-blogger also contributed 10 Innovative Blog Business Models—a post detailing 10 methods beyond the obvious (AdWords) to monetize a blog, such as selling educational courses, eBooks, premium content, consulting services (hmm, that sounds familiar) and digital products.
Do You Show Appreciation to Your Favorite Bloggers? by Blogsessive
Alex Cristache provides an outstanding list of ways to show appreciation to your favorite bloggers (many of which can benefit you as well) like commenting, linking back, and blogrolling.
7 Strategies to Invite More People Into Your Audience by Problogger
Social media rockstar Chris Brogan details several strategies to not just grow your blog audience, but also attract the right kind of readers (these do not include getting on the first page of Digg). Among the recommendations: express, and be willing to defend, strong opinions; anticipate the needs of specific audience segments you’d like to attract, then address those needs; and spread links to your blog and RSS feed far and wide.
How to Use Yahoo Answers for your Social Media Campaign by Primary Affect
Vince Blackham explains how to use Yahoo Answers as a source of both inspiration and content for blog posts when you are struggling for fresh ideas.
50 Blog Post Ideas for Business Blogging by SEOptimise
If you can’t find inspiration on Yahoo (see link above), try one of the many helpful blog post topic ideas on this outstanding list, such as “Make a list of the top myths in your industry and debunk them;” “Analyze the current climate in your industry and explain the ramifications;” “Create a list of indispensable software or web tools for your job;” or “Collect the best blog postings in your niche and compile a best of-list” (hmm, that sounds familiar too).
The Ten Commandments of Blogging by Blogsessive
A thoughtful set of “commandments” for blog success, including “Be helpful,” “Never steal,” and “Be good and be proud: If you’re good at what you’re doing, there’s no point in not letting people know it…a good sense of modesty is helpful, but don’t confuse being modest with being shy.” Also a great complementary post to the Seven Deadly Sins of Blogging previously published here.
Previous posts in this series:
Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 1
Best of 2008: Interactive PR, Part 1
Best of 2008: SEO Tools, Part 1
Best of 2008: Search Engine Marketing
Best of 2008: Web Analytics
Best of 2008: Email Marketing Tips
Best of 2008: SEO Keyword Tips & Tools
Best of 2008: Sales & Marketing Copywriting
Best of 2008: SEO Link Building
Best of 2008: Website Design
Best of 2008: WordPress Tools and Tips
Best of 2008: Web & SEO Copywriting
Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 2
Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 1
Best of 2008: AdWords Tips and Tactics, Part 1
Best of 2008: SEO Tools, Part 2
Best of 2008: SEM Landing Pages
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