Blogs are a great way to share news and opinions online. In the first article in our two-part series, we show you how to set one up and update it
Sep 022011
WordPress is already a great tool for communicating ideas, but this week Scribendi is helping the platform move up a notch with advanced editing and proofreading perks. Users simply download the plugin, and posts from that point forward are edited by Scribendi’s professional team of editors in as little as four hours.
Aug 312011
WordPress users with content hosted by the vendor can use the publicize feature to post content to Faceboo. But what about users who run the blogging software on their own servers?
Twitter, Flickr, blogs, Facebook, Youtube, Linkedin, Squidoo, Stumbleuponit, Digg, Delicious, Slideshare and a thousand other Internet based social media have suddenly appeared and left marketers with a myriad of new options, too many on which to get a handle, and very little know-how.
Mar 232010
David Meerman Scott is a best-selling author and popular keynote speaker on the topics of viral and online marketing as well as the convergence of web marketing, digital media and online PR. One of his most popular books, The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to use news releases, blogs, viral marketing and online media to reach buyers directly, was a real eye opener for a lot of companies trying to make sense of where blogs, press releases and search marketing fit together.
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Winner – TopRank Reader Poll A great photo can really add a lot of flavor to a blog post and in our own analysis at Online Marketing Blog as well as with clients, including quality images with a blog post can boost traffic and referrals 30-50%. To make posts more personal, I try to use my own photos as much as possible and do use imags from Flickr under Creative Commons from time to time. This is an area of significant impact for blogs as effective communication and marketing tools, so last week we ran a Reader Poll on the best site for royalty free, stock photos for bloggers.
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Mar 162010
Internet marketing is accelerating at light speed, with the explosion of Facebook and other social media welcoming businesses into a virtual community of viral expansion and virtually old-fashioned relationships.
Feb 162010
A friend of mine who is an experienced corporate marketer started a new business. The store just opened and being the good pal that I am, I was able to provide some advice regarding marketing on the web – specifically regarding blog marketing.
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The leader of the Catholic Church has announced to his leaders and priests that they should be actively involved with the digital era and has called for a strong pastoral presence online.
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WordPress Blogs Get New Comment Stats
Bloggers that operate WordPress.com blogs can now see who’s commenting the most on their blog and what posts they’re commenting on by looking at Site Stats. There’s a new comments panel that provides tabs for top commenters, most commented and a summary of comments.
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