Blogging

HOW TO: Create a Master Feed of All Your Guest Posts (and Publicize It)

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

If you guest post as much as I do, you are (1) probably guest blogging too much and (2) already losing track of what, where and when. My guest posts are usually the best of what I can. It's unfair to this blog readers if I am not sharing my best ...

5 *Quick and Easy* Ways to Re-package Your Content into a Viral Image

Monday, November 21st, 2011

This is not the first time I am doing a post on content re-packaging in different forms and types. Thus, I have already shared why giving your great articles a new life is so effective for content marketing: ✔ It brings traffic to your old content (and reanimates your old ...

Free Formatting Checklist for Guest Authors and Paid Contributors (Download)

Monday, November 7th, 2011

One thing I have clearly realized while being a full-time guest post editor at SEJ is that most (guest) contributors (no matter how much we love them) are terrible at formatting. It very seldom happens that a guest blogger will browse your blog for a few minutes and copy your obvious ...

Searching Google… by Author!

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

It is amazing how many new things we may discover in very familiar services by just experimenting... I've been using Google for ages and I am quite familiar with its advanced operators but I just discovered a new one a couple of week ago. Actually, I've been aware of it for ...

HOW TO: Re-package Your Best Content for More Exposure (and Links)

Friday, January 21st, 2011

A couple of weeks ago I did an article at our BlueGlass blog on the 3Rs of *really* great content (http://bit.ly/ecw8zK). The third "R" was about smart re-packaging or re-purposing your content which obviously requires more information and clarification. Your best content doesn't have to live only once. If you have ...

Use Gmail Search for Keyword Research and Inspiration

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

If you write several blog posts weekly for many years, you are very well aware of what "writer's block" means. It happens very often that you just need a couple of words, a single line of text to get inspired. But where to find those words? To me keyword research and ...

Do You Blog on Trending Topics? Do It Right to Get Noticed and Get Ranked!

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Your blogging style is up to you. I for one usually shy away from newly hot and trending topics for various reasons: firstly, I am not based in the USA and thus I am slow in learning what everyone says, secondly, seeing great coverage, I usually have hard time finding ...