Category: Blog
How to Find Creative Commons Images for your Blog
If you are a blogger then one of the ‘annoying’ tasks that pops up is finding quality images to go with your post. Images are important for every blog post – if you don’t have an image it can really detract and won’t be anywhere near as inviting to your readers. It just seems to […]
Read More | Share4 Foundations to a Successful Blog
How do you define a successful blog? For me, this is a blog that creates impact with your target audience, provides them useful information, creates influence and ultimately makes money. There is no set procedure to create a successful blog, but I believe there are 4 key foundations that will give your blog every chance […]
Read More | ShareIs Guest Blogging still worthwhile?
When I first started this blog in early 2010 – at that time guest blogging was one of my main strategies to build exposure to the site, gain new traffic, build relationships, and admittedly build relevant contextual links. I still to this day have these pages on my site inviting guest bloggers – Guest Blogging in Social […]
Read More | ShareBook Giveaway/ Blogging Competition – Enter Now!
We have a few spare books to give away, and want to give them to one lucky reader. 1. Do you have a blog – either your company or personally? 2. Do you have a spare 5-10 minutes? Write a quick article (min 100 words) about our monthly social media stats and you will go […]
Read More | ShareOptimising your Blogs Internal Link Structure
If you have a blog with a significant number of blogs and articles, say over 500 then it is important you continually optimise your site for best SEO practices. One area often overlooked is the internal link structure of your blog and this is important for 2 main reasons: 1. This will encourage visitors to click around […]
Read More | ShareBloggers Guide to Creating Interesting New Posts
As bloggers we are always looking for different ways to show off our articles and ideas. It’s important to vary the structure of your content to continually engage readers. Simply writing news related articles will become a little stale and you can often entice your readership with opinion pieces, how to articles and so on. […]
Read More | Share5 ways to stuff up your Blog
Everyone seems to be sharing their tips on how to better their blog, but I don’t come across many articles that describe some of the most typical blogging failures. Some of these I have seen directly with my own eyes so wanted to share them with you. 1. Blog owner that stops caring I have […]
Read More | ShareWelcome to the 1K Club
Today marks kind of a special day for this blog. This will be the 1000th post on the site. I started this blog back in early 2010 and started posting articles in May 2010. Why did I start socialmedianews.com.au? Well there were a couple of reasons: 1. Social Media was starting to gain real traction […]
Read More | ShareDo you need a Corporate Blog?
Many companies are asking themselves – Do we need a Corporate Blog? Blogging has become so mainstream, many small, medium and large companies have corporate blogs – so how do you know if your business needs a blog? In fact many businesses are creating their own blog just because ‘it’s what everyone else is doing’. […]
Read More | ShareHow to Build a High Quality Blog Readership
Are you blogging for business? or personal reasons? Building a high quality readership is important whatever the case – you want your readers to be a valuable asset to your website. In fact many blogs have trouble sustaining a long term reader - so today we will discuss some tips to help build a high […]
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