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Blog Etiquette: Reposting Content That Isn’t Yours

By Ian | Blogging

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If you want your website to rank in Google searches, and you want your audience to see you as an authority in your industry, you need clear, relevant, well-written content. A common practice amongst bloggers is to draw inspiration from other relevant and valuable articles, which is great! Whose idea is truly original nowadays? Crediting […]

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5 Blog Email Etiquette Rules

By Ian | Blogging

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Email marketing is a huge part of the blogging world. It’s where you build connections, relationships, and leads. The main objective of effective email marketing is converting potential leads into customers, and turning first time buyers into recurring customers. Contrary to popular belief, email marketing is very much alive. In fact, it’s not as hard […]

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Blog Etiquette: Photos That Are Royalty-Free

By Ian | Blogging

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Images are a great way of making your blog more interactive and entertaining. A blog post without an image just looks like an intimidating wall of text. Articles with images get 94% more views as opposed to those with no visuals. People are very receptive to images, and images help break up long walls of […]

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How Do I Reply to a Blog Comment: The Golden Rule

By Ian | Blogging

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Once you start getting a steady flow of traffic to your blog, comments will follow, and you have to be prepared to respond. Replying to a blog comment shouldn’t be difficult, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give it your best effort. Every comment is an opportunity. You got the user’s attention with your post […]

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Does Blog Commenting Help SEO?

By Ian | Blogging

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Blog commenting is a strategy that has been widely used over the years. When its popularity exploded, people took advantage of this strategy to build backlinks, which soon got out of control because people started to leave comments for the sole purpose of building links instead of adding value.  Google soon caught on to this […]

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Is Blog Commenting Effective?

By Ian | Blogging

Has blog commenting become obsolete? Well, the answer depends on what your objectives with blog comments are. Utilizing blog commenting for link building? Then blog commenting is ineffective. Why? The comments section of blogs has become an avenue for spam. Tons of people leave comments on blogs for the sole purpose of link building. The […]

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How to Write Your First Blog Post

By Ian | Blogging

First of all, congratulations on the decision to start a blog! Welcome to the club.  Now that you have the basics of your website set up, the next step of your blogging journey is to write your first blog post. Euphoric right? But wait – what’s this feeling that keeps creeping up from deep within […]

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What Can I Post On My Blog?

By Ian | Blogging

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People post a lot of things on their blogs. The recommendation for how often one should publish content is two to three 1,800-word blog posts every week.  With that amount of content to be published weekly, you might be wondering what types of articles you can post about on your blog.  Pillar Posts (Long-Form Content) […]

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How Do You Write a Welcome Blog Post?

By Ian | Blogging

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A welcome blog post is one of the first articles you’ll publish on your blog. It sets expectations for your visitors as you publish posts regularly. Not only does the welcome blog post help you outline what your blog will and won’t address, it allows you to collect your thoughts so your blog isn’t all […]

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