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Top 10 Blogging Mistakes

August 19th, 2011

Research by IronMonk, a New York based social marketing agency, reveals the results of a study focusing on business blogging mistakes. The study’s results, called Top 10 Business Blogging Mistakes, highlights the importance of authority, relevance, consistency, and quantity to attract prospective clients and retain and nurture existing clients.

The top 10 business blogging mistakes include poor quality content, lack of social marketing integration, inconsistent posting schedule, uninteresting or irrelevant headlines or titles, missing opportunities for search engine optimization, self-promoting blog posts as opposed to blog posts that establish your company’s authority. The results include details about each mistake and how to correct them. » Read more: Top 10 Blogging Mistakes

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WordPress Gained Prominence Among U.S. Government Agencies

August 8th, 2011

WordPress is fast gaining prominence and we find its popularity growing exponentially.WordPress is not just limited to the personal blogs anymore. The content management platform is so powerful that it has already begun serving multiple functionalities for many of the individuals, organizations, businesses and even the governments across the globe.

WordPress is now the backbone of many popular and official blogs. Umpteen celebrities, Techies ,and other professionals prefer working and communicating with the WordPress.

It is really interesting to note that the U.S. Government Agencies are also already using the WordPress platform with trust.

Here is a small list containing U.S. Government Agencies using the WordPress platform. This list was revealed at WordCamp San Francisco, 2008.

  • Air Force
  • Army
  • Central Intelligence Agency     (CIA)
  • Coast Guard
  • Defense Intelligence Agency
  • Department of Energy
  • Department of Homeland Security
  • Department of State
  • Department of Treasury
  • Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
  • Marine Corps
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation     (FBI)
  • National Geospatial  Intelligence Agency
  • National Reconnaissance Agency
  • National Security Agency (NSA)
  • Navy

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Posted in Blogging, Blogging Basics, Blogging Trends, Blogs, Business Blogging, News, wordpress, Wordpress Blogging

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Backpackers and Budget Travelers Should Rely On Micro-Blogging

June 6th, 2011

The backpackers and budget travelers can easily rely on each  other for travel information, tips and advice (“knowledge”) through an  online, open-collaboration guidebook written by its members.

Through the use of “micro-blogging” technology, travelers can upload  snippets of knowledge about the places they visit. Knowledge is anything  a future traveler might need to know, such as where to party, how to  save money, scams to avoid, transportation challenges, and other  need-to-know travel advice. Knowledge, once uploaded, is indexed and  organized by location and information type for the benefit of future  travelers. » Read more: Backpackers and Budget Travelers Should Rely On Micro-Blogging

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Alexa Ranking:It Adds to Your Blog Value

April 27th, 2010

Alexa rank was developed by Amazon.com. It measures the traffic to a site for the last three months and one month simultaneously.

The assigning of a particular Alexa rank to a website or a blog  is based on the number of surfers(visitors) to your website. The surfers to the website must have the Alexa toolbar installed on their browsers otherwise they will not be counted. The Alexa rank counts the number of visitors and page views for all the websites on a daily basis.

This specific visitor counting also limit the actual measurement of popularity of a particular website or blog. Visitors not having installed Alexa toolbar will not add to the ranking and therefore the overall ranking results will not reflect a true picture. » Read more: Alexa Ranking:It Adds to Your Blog Value

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Women Who Blog are the Most Actively Engaged Social Media Participants

April 16th, 2010

Women are nearly twice as likely to use blogs than social networking sites as a source of information (64%), advice and recommendations (43%) and opinion-sharing (55%), while they are 50 percent more likely to turn to social networking sites as a means of keeping in touch with friends and family (75%), BlogHer announced today.

The 2009 Women in Social Media Study by BlogHer, iVillage and Compass Partners, which will be released today, found that while women who use social media platforms share a strong desire to connect and to entertain themselves, there are also ways in which the motivations for using various social media platforms differ. » Read more: Women Who Blog are the Most Actively Engaged Social Media Participants

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The Power of Blogging for Business

April 7th, 2010

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Corporate Blogging and Social Media Trends Survey Findings

March 11th, 2010

The ‘Corporate Blogging and Social Media Trends Survey” conducted by ‘Compendium’ has recently been concluded with interesting and trend-indicating results.

In all 226 companies (B2B and B2C companies) participated in this survey and shared their data relating to ‘blogging traffic’, ’visitor-trends’, and ‘twitter-usage’.

Results of this survey are enough to shake the common belief that “business blogs thrive on a core-group of loyal readers”. On the contrary, the first –timers were found to be the ‘key factor’ in increasing the blog traffic.

“As more traffic is being driven to corporate blogs through organic searches and more first-time visitors are landing on blogs, companies need to develop blog and social media content that is appropriate for this audience in order to be effective,” said Chris Baggott, CEO and co-founder of Compendium. » Read more: Corporate Blogging and Social Media Trends Survey Findings

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If You can Email You can Blog Too!

March 9th, 2010

Creating content for a blog as a “blog post” is not different from writing an email on any of the web based email platform like Hotmail, Gmail, AOL, and Yahoo. The web based mail services are available free as well as paid ones. However, I assume that you are well versed with writing emails on popular free web based email services like Gmail and Hotmail.

So what do you do when you write an email?

You simply “log in” or “sign in” with a chosen username and password. This entering leads you to a WYSIWYG editor with the help of a web browser. With the help of specified buttons you simply type text in to the box and then after putting in the email address you just press the send button and send it to the desired email address. » Read more: If You can Email You can Blog Too!

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Develop Habit of Reading Blogs

February 27th, 2010

Have you ever read a blog?

I believe you must have if you surf the internet quite often. Many times when people do not know what is a blog exactly may not recollect but it is highly improbable that they haven’t seen or read a blog. In order to derive information on any particular topic or subject blogs prove to be of immense help. Thanks to all the “niche-bloggers” who perform this painstaking duty with all social responsibility.

Do you read any particular blog(s) regularly? Is it in your habit? » Read more: Develop Habit of Reading Blogs

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What You Want to Blog About?

February 25th, 2010

Blogging is an effective tool for your personal benefits. The benefits could be in form of business promotion or successful communication with network establishment. But above all it is the personal pleasure and enjoyment of blogging that will keep you blogging for a long period.

Successful bloggers admit that key to maintain a blog with all success is writing posts regularly. An expert blogger knows that the posts must be interesting as well. The enthusiasm for writing such interesting posts comes if you hold good command over the subject you are writing on. Therefore, “niche-blogging” is generally recommended by expert bloggers, unless someone is blogging exclusively for personal pleasure and wants to keep it up to himself only. » Read more: What You Want to Blog About?

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