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Four Things Every Great Blog Post Needs

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Blogging is about more than just writing some words and posting them online. You need to make sure that those words you spend time writing are found by people, and there are ways to make sure that your posts are more visible and easier to discover.

While there are numerous ways to create shareable and findable blogs, there are some key points that can make the ones you post more interesting. This won’t guarantee that they go viral, but it will make them something people enjoy reading, want to come back for, and share with their own friends.

A Title That Pulls Them In

Titles are everything in the online world, much the same as in newspapers. You want catchy headlines that make people need to read what you have to say. People love to read lists and they love to learn how to do things. [Read more…] about Four Things Every Great Blog Post Needs

7 Tips for Promoting Your Music on Your Blog

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As a musician, one of the most important things you can do to self-promote is maintain a personal blog that incorporates audio clips of your music. But it’s important to do it in such a way that it doesn’t annoy users: all your plug-ins should promote a positive experience. How do you strike that balance?

WordPress offers seven key plugins that are perfect for musicians. It’s arguably the most professional and user-friendly blog option on the market: WordPress looks like a “real” website, and it’s so easy to use that even Luddites can be successful with it.

Here are the best WordPress plugins for promoting your music on your blog. [Read more…] about 7 Tips for Promoting Your Music on Your Blog

The Ultimate Guide To Blog Promotion

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In the time it takes you to read this sentence, 3 new blogs will have come into existence. There can be no doubt that the world wide web in general, and social media sites in particular, are becoming more crowded and more competitive every second.  The result?  Standing out from the crowd is getting harder and harder.

Social media marketing is both necessary and extremely challenging. Blogs are an integral part of SEM, but simply building one isn’t enough. You need to get people to read what you write!

That being said, there are myriad resources that have become available which can help you promote and measure the success of your blog. Below you will find a definitive guide to some of the best resources online.

Overview of Blog Promotion

Promoting Your Blog

Some sweet, simple and easily actionable tips for blog promotion from Google itself, although we also love their disclaimer: “This is in no way a science or guarantee; it’s simply a few suggestions with which many bloggers have found success”. If you know little to nothing about blog promotion, it’s a good place to get an idea of the basics without getting overwhelmed.

21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic

SEOmoz offers some great, detailed advice for bloggers who want not just more traffic but better, more targeted traffic. There’s a lot here to help diagnose why your blog might be fledgling, and what to do to remedy the situation. [Read more…] about The Ultimate Guide To Blog Promotion

Adios, Google Wave! Is Buzz Next?

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All things come to an end, even the good ones; or maybe, most especially the good ones. For the longest time now, Google seems to have had a golden touch. It has reached such great heights, but even such a big entity makes wrong judgment calls every now and then. With Google Wave, it seems like one of those things.

Yesterday, an announcement on The Official Google Blog finally put an end to speculation about Google Wave. Launched around a year ago in June 2009, Google Wave generated tons of interest and excitement – not so different with many other Google products. The interest did not prove to be enough, though, and even the most hardcore fan has to say goodbye.

Here’s a snippet of the announcement:

But despite these wins, and numerous loyal fans, Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users can easily “liberate” their content from Wave.

There’s good news at least – fans will have till the end of the year to use the site. Users will also have the tools to extract all the content they’ve put in there.

Now I am wondering…will Google Buzz suffer the same fate?