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Content Paired with Social Media is King

by Christian Hollingsworth Blogging

Content is definitely the most important part of your online marketing campaign. However, if you want to make the best use of painstakingly created content, you need to make use of social media. While content is king, pairing it with social media gives it the potential of becoming the undisputed monarch of the web world. [...]

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4 Things to Check When Your Website Suffers a Drop in Traffic

by Guest Blogger Blogging

After months of hard graft, your website has finally reached dizzying heights and is generating a great deal of organic traffic. Then one day, you check your analytics and boom. Your traffic has been slashed in half, inquiries are down, and your boss wants to know why. A dip in traffic is to be expected – especially [...]

How to Name Your Blog

by Christian Hollingsworth Blogging

What’s in a name, after all? Your target readers couldn’t care less if you were called John or Paul or Matthew or Helen. But the name of your blog does have an influence on them. In fact, the name of your blog could help popularize it and generate more traffic. So, it is crucial to choose the [...]

How to Write a Corporate Blog

by Christian Hollingsworth Blogging

Every corporate company that blogs should keep one very important aspect in mind – blogging is not the same as creating a whitepaper, newsletters or memos. For blogging, you need a different approach. The style of writing, the flow of content and the character of articles need to unique and reflect your expertise, reliability and [...]

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I’m inspired by @Macklemore & @RyanLewis

by Christian Hollingsworth Blogging

A few weeks ago someone showed my Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ song, Same Love, on YouTube. I sobbed, and sobbed. Like a baby. An inspired, heart-warmed baby. For the first time in a long while, I felt like the world was finally headed in a peaceful direction. I felt peace in my heart. I felt [...]

The 7 Deadly Sins of Blogging

by Christian Hollingsworth Blogging

If you think that becoming a blogger requires no commitment from your end, you are mistaken. You could commit the most deadly sins of blogging and end up with no results for your efforts. Losing the “you” factor There are thousands of bloggers on the blogging circuit. Some of them are great, some are good [...]

How to Write Your First Blog Post

by Christian Hollingsworth Blogging

Making up your mind to be a blogger is not very tough. However, once your blog is registered and it’s time to feed some content into it, you face a block. What should you write about? Considering that it is the first post you upload, you need to be very careful about what you write [...]

How to Optimize a Blog Post for Search Engines

by Christian Hollingsworth Blogging

Optimizing your blog increases its search engine ranking. It gets you more visitors. The popularity of your blog increases and the purpose of your blog is fulfilled. There are a lot of common aspects between optimizing a blog and optimizing a website. However, a blog offers additional scope for optimization and you should capitalize on [...]

Duplicate content issues that hurt Google search traffic

by Guest Blogger Blogging

This is a guest post by Stanley Harpers, who is a freelance tech writer. Duplicate content was one of the biggest SEO killers of the past few years, especially where Google traffic was concerned. Most of those sites that have lost traffic in the recent past have done so because of many factors, among them, [...]

5 Great Places to Share your Infographics

by Guest Blogger Blogging

If you just finished creating a great infographics for your website or blog, chances are you want to see it get plenty of traffic. The latest wave of infographics have made it easy for millions of people to quickly visualize vast sums of data. Unlike boring charts and fact sheets, infographics feature eye-catching designs that [...]