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With the introduction of social sharing tools on Toolbox.com, you have the power to reach millions of individuals worldwide and direct them to your blog. Sounds great, right? The question is: How are you going to use this attention to grow your blog? Here are a few tips: Send consistent messaging about your blog entries [...]

Are you looking for ways to increase community interaction around your blog? Follow these 5 fool-proof tips to boost your audience, encourage collaboration and stand out within the blogging community: Be consistent. Set a schedule to post on a regular basis. The more frequently you post, the more opportunities you will have to draw in [...]

1) Be Realistic Everybody knows the “ideal” keyword that they would like to rank for, but the chances of ranking well for this keyword may be slim / almost impossible in competitive industries. Be realistic with yourself in terms of the amount of time, money and effort required to rank well for these search terms. [...]

Here’s how… 1. Be a Guest Blogger – Some bloggers solicit guest articles, in which case you can create a blog post and submit it for consideration. For example, my articles can be found on blogs like Cathy Goodwin’s Copy-Cat- Copywriting Blog. A great resource that will help you find bloggers who want content is: [...]

1. Make use of article distribution sites. This is one of the fastest, and most straightforward ways of getting your content ‘out there’ and absorb by websites. Do it as soon as you have enough original content. Don’t go for too many, just select about 3 article distributions sites and submit away (I like EzineArticles, [...]

You know the feeling of excitement you get when you open your mailbox and discover a letter from an old friend? That’s the same feeling bloggers get when they see someone’s left them a comment. Lately I’ve been wondering: what if we applied the Golden Rule to commenting and sent more “hand-written notes” to brighten [...]

Automate The “follow” Process Go to http://www.twollo.com/ and Login with your Twitter username and password. Once you are signed in you will see a box which reads “follow”…leave that. The “up to” drop down menu – set that to “up to 500″. (It’s “up to” you) In the box that reads: Twitterers talking about: Enter [...]

These are a few ways that I use to drive traffic to my site from Twitter: 1. I tweet with links to my pages. I tweet (auto tweet with tweetlater.com) about every 2 hours 1 tweet, 24/7. You have to find what works best for your audience. 2. Every so often I upload an image [...]

Here are the top 5 factors ezine publishers look for when deciding which articles to publish: 1. Does the article have zero self-serving links in the article body? Loading up the body of your article with affiliate links or other obvious self-serving links is a liability and will keep your article from ever seeing top [...]