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Get Your Questions Answered on Startups.com
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I have always believed that the more you give, the more you get back. Everything I have learned about blogging and business, I have learned from others. I didn’t suddenly discover the knowledge. Whether it was reading a book, attending a conference, or going through message boards, there has always been someone on the other side to answer my questions/concerns. So it’s always nice to be able to give back to those who are just getting started with their journey in the business world. I was a big fan of ideablob as it was a service that let people share their ideas with the world and get advice on how to proceed with their projects. Unfortunately, the service was shut-down when the parent company filed for bankruptcy. Startups.com is another service that lets users ask their questions and have them answered by the community fast. If you want to make it big as a blogger, you need to treat your blog as a business. If you have never run any business in the past, you are going to have issues and concerns to deal with on a daily basis. Thanks to Startups.com, you can get some of those issues answered.
The idea behind Startups.com is noble and something all entrepreneurs need to pay attention to. At the same time, Startups.com can be more than a Q&A forum for you as a blogger. Not only you can help other bloggers have their questions answered, you can also find out what people are curious about and write posts about those issues. LinkedIn Q&A has been a great source of blogging ideas for me and Startups.com can help as well. Read more »
Backupify: Back Up Your Online Social Life
I don’t know about you, but I have so many posts on Twitter, Facebook, and my Wordpress blog that keeping track of all of them is not too easy for me. It’s easy to assume that you will own your data on top social networks forever. But what happens if one of these social networks goes out of business. Would you be able to recover your posts? What if someone messes with one of your online accounts. Would you be able to restore your account to its original state? With Backupify you won’t have to be worried about that.
Backupify is an intuitive online backup system that lets you backup your Twitter, Flickr, and other online information for future references. The service currently allows you to backup the below services:
Backupify, which is free for a limited time, is expanding its services beyond the above list and will be supporting Tumblr, Gmail, and YouTube in the future. Read more »
Take Your Blog To the Next Level With Wibiya
Is your blog growing fast? Maybe you are going global faster than you can handle. Or maybe you just want to give your readers a chance to navigate through your content in a more effective fashion. Whatever the case, you can count on Wibiya toolbar to make things that much easier on your blog. Wibiya is an innovative service that lets your users go through your content in a more effective fashion, translate your work, and even share it with their friends on Facebook or Twitter. Wibiya makes it so easy for your readers to connect with you on social networking sites and share your work with others.
Once you install Wibiya’s script on your blog, the following footer-bar is going to show up in your footer. As you can see, it gives you readers an easy way to check your latest posts out, read a random post, connect with you on Twitter, and even connect with you through Facebook connect. They can also sign-up for your RSS feed in the process. So any way you look at it, Wibiya gives your readers yet another way to go through your content.
AllTop: Where Top Blogs Go
This past few days, I have talked about a couple of tools that you can use to develop new post ideas for your blog. But there are other ways to come up with blogging ideas and improve your blog besides using fancy tools. One of the best ways to learn new blogging tactics to take your blog to the next level is by watching what other top bloggers are doing with their own blogs. AllTop is an innovative service that gives you access to a large list of top blogs on almost any topic. So no matter how narrow your niche, there is a good chance you can find other blogs around in that niche on AllTop.
AllTop has 3 ways to help you find the blogs that interest you the most. You can use the search function to come up with a list of blogs around your keyword phrase. You can also search through blogs by category. That’s especially helpful if you are trying to do some market research and find top blog that could be potentially challenging in your market. You can also search through AllTop blog alphabetically. That is useful if you have a very specific topic in mind and want to find out what angles other bloggers are using to tackle your niche. Read more »
Submit Your Blog To Social Media Sites with Social Maximizer
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So you spend a lot of time creating content to provide as much value to your readers as possible. That doesn’t mean you are going to get a lot of traffic. You still have to work on promoting your blog to make sure you get the exposure your blog deserves. One of the best ways to get more exposure for your blog and drive traffic to it is by getting involved on social bookmarking and networking website. Sure. Everybody tweets and participates on Facebook. But you need to do more if you want to maximize your social media opportunity. There are hundreds of websites that you need to be present on to keep driving traffic to your blog. These sites not only help drive traffic to your blog but some help you climb the SERPs as well.
So being involved in the social media is a no brainer. But submitting your content to hundreds of social bookmarking and networking websites can be too time consuming. As a blogger, you have got more important things to worry about. That’s why you should try outsource business processes that are not your core competency. And I can tell you social media submission is not a core competency for a blogger. That’s where Social Maximizer comes in. It’s a wonderful service that lets you submit your blogs to hundreds of social media websites, while giving you the control over your listings. It can save you a lot of time while giving your blog a chance to gain some traction and go viral.
How It Works
Working with Social Maximizer is very simple. All you have to do is figure out what pages you want to submit and what your listings are going to be about. You want to pay extra attention to your title and description. Other than that, there is no reason you can’t complete the process in less than 5 minutes.
Don’t worry. You know exactly what site you are submitting your pages to. In fact, you can pick and choose as Social Maximizer gives you control over all aspects of this process.
All in all, Social Maximizer is a wonderful service that lets you submit your blog pages to social networking and bookmarking sites without you having to go through the process by hand. You may be interested in doing the process all by yourself, but it’s better to invest your time in creating viral content. Don’t be afraid to delegate and outsource tasks. You can’t do everything, and thanks to services such as Social Maximizer you don’t have to.
How To Use HitTail To Get Ideas For Your Blog
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If you haven’t heard of HitTail before, it is a graphical analytics tool that is made for people who are not necessarily into crunching numbers but would like to track how searchers get to their sites. But what people miss about this excellent service is the fact that you can use it to find ideas for your future blog posts. Take the example below for instance:
This is what HitTail shows me for a tech blog that I have been running for quite some time. It tell me that tech deals or western digital hard drives are the main area of interest for my readers. So if I am a smart blogger, I try to stay on topics that interest my readers. This is very useful if you are stuck and don’t know what to blog about. By knowing exactly what you need to go after, you can save yourself time and spend more of it on research and development.
Another very useful feature that HitTail has is graphs that you can get for your longtail keywords and top ten keywords. You can get the graphical representations for all search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, and MSN (see below).
These graphs not only show you what the hottest keywords are on your blog, they can also give you an idea how to use longtailing more effectively. Longtailing SEO is very underrated these days but with the low level of competition out there, you should definitely take advantage.
HitTail is very affordable and does cost about $99.95 a year for their introductory service. If you want to get really deep within your data, you can pay them about $300 a year to get features such as “organic vs. paid” searches and adwords integration. But this service has been so useful in generating ideas for me that even at $300 a year, it is a steal.
