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10 SEO Benefits Of WordPress For Blogging

by Marie Thomas

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a set of measures you can take to boost the rankings of your blog in the search engine results pages. WordPress is one of the best CMS (content management systems) to use if SEO is important to you.

Many SEO specialists optimize each page of the site for the search engines.  If you plan to monetize your site, you need to build a relationship with your audience and get more traffic from search engines.

WordPress for SEO

WordPress is a well-optimized CMS built for SEO-friendliness. It allows you to create an SEO-friendly website that will boost rankings and increase user engagement.

Using WordPress in conjunction with a well-coded theme and an SEO plugin can help you create a blog that provides search engines with all theinformation they need to properly index your content.

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SEO Blogger Outreach: 4 Rules Of An Impeccable Outreach Strategy

by Vlad Koval

You’ve probably been there a hundred times. You work on an awesome and holistic piece of content, you put your heart and soul into it.

And at the time you publish it, you get …

Nothing.

No shares, no comments, no rankings. Yes, quite frustrating. But the truth is: no matter how great your content is, it still needs links and promotion.

This is why having a blog outreach strategy is crucial when it comes to SEO. Sharing your blog content with the right audience can significantly boost your site’s visibility.

Sadly, the outreach skills of a majority of people leave much to be desired. This is why I came up with this short guide to SEO blogger outreach and how to get the most of it.

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Rule #1 –

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5 Legal Considerations For Bloggers: Protect Your Content And Create Your Blog’s Legal Pages

by Priya Florence Shah

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Today, there are millions of bloggers as the internet has become a place where people communicate and share copious amounts of information.

However, there are some legal pitfalls that come with blogging and many bloggers have no clue as to how to deal with them. Here we focus on some of the legal issues that bloggers may face.

Disclaimer: This article does not in any way offer legal counsel or advice but simply discusses legal considerations for bloggers and provides tips on protecting your content and creating your blog’s legal pages and disclaimers.

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5 Awesome Cyber Monday Sales For Bloggers And Marketers

by Priya Florence Shah

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I’ve scoured the internet to find the best Cyber Monday deals and deep discounts to help you build your business online.

Here are 5 of the best Cyber Monday deals on hosting, domains and some of the best marketing tools to help you build your business online, including a discount for my own course.

1. Convertkit’s Creator Starter Kit

Starting your own business and doing work you love is truly life-changing. But to reach those goals, you have to have a solid product and an audience who believes in you to give that product.

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7 Black Friday Deals (Including My Own) For Bloggers And Marketers

by Priya Florence Shah

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I’ve scoured the internet to find the best Black Friday deals and deep discounts to help you build your business online.

Here are 7 of the best Black Friday deals on hosting and domains to help you build your business online, including a discount for my own course.

1. Become a Content Magnet Masterclass Recording – 59% Off!

I’m offering a discount of $10 on my Become a Content Magnet Masterclass recording plus exclusive downloads. Get 6 steps to publish free, expert content to your blog without paying writers or writing it yourself.

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Top 10 Dos And Don’ts When Writing Website Content

by Shiva Kushwaha

Imagine visiting a beautiful website that looks modern and is accurate to the brand. You’re impressed at this point and willing to give the company’s products a chance.

Now imagine reading the website content. It is full of spelling and grammar mistakes, has outdated information, and has a poor writing style.

That would immediately affect how you look at the company. That’s why website content is just as, if not more important than the website design.

These 10 dos and don’ts comprise my best practices for writing website content. They will help you write good website content and earn customer trust.

1. Do Use Your Own Voice

The last thing you want is for your text to sound dry and boring. It is easy to include all the information a customer might need, but it’s difficult to add your own spin on it.

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10 Professional Video Making Tips For Beginners

by Pulkit Jain

Before we begin, there is one thing I would like to address. A lot of marketers do not see a positive ROI on videos and leave them out from their content strategy. This happens because they miss out on video creation basics, or choose to ignore it.

If you’re one such marketer, this article is for you. By the time you reach the end, I hope you get inspired to make more videos for your brand or business and consider video as an integral part of your marketing strategy.

Here are 10 professional video making tips I have for you. Deets below:

1. Remember your goal

It is very easy to sway in the other direction while making a video. Your intention may be to drive more traffic to your blog with a video, but midway you may begin considering brand awareness.

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4 Essential Influencer Marketing Tips To Boost Your Social Reach

by Vaibhav Kakkar

Social channels are full of business opportunities. Almost every social platform offers its own set of advertising options to help you target your users effectively.

But today, content creation is so prolific that in 60 seconds, around 3.3 million Facebook posts, 449k tweets are created.

To save users from this content shock, these same channels also give power to your audience to “block” or “hide” your content. Top that with 41% of millennials using ad blockers and it is very little you can do to stay in their radar.

As brands are becoming more aware of these powers, they are turning to influencers to lower the advertising noise and reach their consumers in a less intrusive way.

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The ambiguity of “influence”

Influencer marketing is booming.

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7 Not-So-Obvious Pinterest Mistakes That Are Hurting Your Shares And Engagement

by Priya Florence Shah

Most bloggers that discuss Pinterest marketing talk about the basics of using the platform, such as creating a Business account, using Rich Pins, and optimizing your profile and boards with keywords.

But, as an active and engaged Pinterest user, I see a number of not-so-obvious mistakes that Pinners are making all the time. Many of them can affect how your Pin is shared, and whether it gets clicks back to your website.

In this article, I outline 7 not-so-obvious Pinterest mistakes that are hurting your shares and engagement.

1. Using the wrong code in your Pins

I see many Pinners using their image’s alt text to generate their Pinterest description. But, the primary purpose of alt text is to describe the photo to visually impaired users, so doing this can harm your website’s usability and search engine optimization (SEO).

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips For Bloggers

by Priya Florence Shah

This post is a list of search engine optimization (SEO) tips for bloggers. It will be kept updated as I come across new and better SEO tips for blogs. Bookmark it and check back for updates.

Updated: 6th December 2018

I wrote this article (originally called Search Engine Optimization For Blogs) in 2004 and when I revisited it, I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was not as outdated as I feared.

A lot of these tips are still valid, but I’ve added a few new ones and updated it to reflect the new ranking factors of social media and mobile usage.

Blogging software is really a simple Content Management System (CMS) that easily adds new pages and integrates them into your site’s navigational structure and linkage.

Blogs and blog posts are naturally search-engine-friendly because they are text-rich,

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