Category Archives: Blogging Tips

How to Balance “Blogging” and the “Holidays”

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Consistent blogging is difficult for most throughout the year – but year after year it proves to be even more difficult throughout the holiday season! Whether you host the holiday get-togethers at your house or slave away in the someone else’s kitchen- you most likely find yourself with far less “blogging time” than usual. In…

Choosing Content Over SEO

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The primary concern of most website owners is to achieve great rankings in search engine results. A lot of time and energy is being spent on getting web page content to fit with the magical formula that will benefit the site’s SEO (search engine optimization). All this effort in aid of increasing the conversion rate…

The Things They Don’t Tell You as a Journalism Major

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Do we have any journalism majors here at LBS? Anyone who has been or is a print contributor? What about any that are thinking of majoring in journalism? Well, we thought we would highlight a few things that they won’t tell you in journalism school Let us know if you agree or disagree in the…

Sticky Content – Keep Your Visitors Coming Back

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What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words “sticky” and “science”? We can think of a few different things (anyone remember GAK?), but more than likely, not YOUR BLOG! Today we are going to look at how creating content for your blog is a “sticky science” – and one that…

Increase Your Blog Readership in 10 Easy Steps

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Choose topics and subjects that you love Blogging should be a labour of love. Write about topics and subjects that you are passionate about. If you are deeply interested in something, it will be reflected in your writing. Consider your blog as a place for you to explore your thoughts in relation to these subjects….

Get the Party Started: How to Get Comments on Your Blog

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You finally decided to start a blog. You’ve researched and written quality content. You publish articles on a regular basis. But people still aren’t commenting! What do you do? Throw in the towel and accept blogger’s defeat? Absolutely not! There are some very practical things that you can do to get the blogging party started….

How to Blog When You Are Exhausted and Uninspired

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Frequent Ever sit down at the computer to blog and the words just don’t come out? Your fingers are poised over the keyboard but the voices in your head are busy telling you that you’ve had a long day, there are a million other things you need to get done and it’s past your bedtime….

An Easier Method to Blogging

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Blogging is for the most part very simple, it is a basic business. It is a simple way of communicating thoughts to your readers. At the same time it is also a very frustrating business that you will be working on a lot. In this case you will need to think up content and write…

7 Ways To Find Great Blogging Topics

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Many people start blogging without no idea as to what blogging topics they want to write about. That’s perfectly alright. As the saying goes, spontaneity is the spice of life? Or was that variety? Something like that. Inevitably when that first rush of creativity ebbs away, bloggers find their muses abandoning them on a dry…

Facebook “Likes” or Google Followers?

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First of all, I wanted to start off saying that I was just chosen as a speaker of an up-coming womens blogger conference! I’m super excited and am in stalker mode search of a sponsor to cover my very inexpensive travel costs! So if you are a business, or know of one, that caters to…