17 Questions You Must Ask Before You Ditch Your Blog

Posted on October 31, 2012 Written by

This is a guest post by Marya Jan of Writing Happiness.

Are you just about had it with blogging?

Are you this close to giving up?

Wait – take a deep breath. Before you do anything drastic like deleting everything for good, answer this question for me.

Do you enjoy blogging?

No, seriously. Don’t think about things like who cares if I blog, nobody reads it anyway. My content must be terrible, nobody wants to share it. Or, I love talking about my passion but maybe I need to write about something else?

Again, take a deep breath. Get rid of anything that makes you question why you should continue to blog. And answer one simple question – do you enjoy blogging?

If you truly do, and not getting the results you are working hard for, it is time to take a critical look at your blog.

Because you need specific, actionable steps that you can take to achieve everything that you have been dreaming of.

It is time to look at your blog through your readers eyes. It’s time to visit the basics.

Pretend for a second that the blog belongs to someone else. And let the fun begin!

 

9 Social Media Tools Every Blogger Needs To Know About

Posted on October 29, 2012 Written by

This is a guest post by Siv Rauv.

Are you feeling overwhelmed by social media?

As a blogger, you have to wear several different hats, from creating good quality blog post to trying to spread the word for your blog and connecting with others.

This is where social media tools can help.

Not only do these increase the efficiency of your social media efforts, using a combination of the best tools often results in higher returns from social media.

From my own personal experience, here are the top 9 social media tools every blogger needs to know about.

Addict-o-matic

social-media-tools-bloggers-addictomatic

Addict-o-matic is fantastic for creating a customizable page for your selected keywords. It will gather related content from a range of sources for you to view from your customized page.

Why you should use it?

One of the best content curation tools I’ve come across because of the sheer amount of sources you can choose from including Bing, Google, YoutTube, Flikcr, Twitter and much, much more. You’ll never be short on ideas for your next blog post with this under your belt.

 

Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Kittens Learning Physics

Posted on October 26, 2012 Written by

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com.

The Resources Mashup

Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week.

Blogging / Content

 

Connecting Bloggers and Businesses Through Guest Blogging with PostJoint

Posted on October 25, 2012 Written by

There are lots of great guest blogging and blogger outreach networks available to bloggers who are looking for fresh content for their sites and businesses who want to connect with bloggers in their industry. The downsides to some of the pre-existing networks include price, difficulty navigating the platform, and (for bloggers) opening the door to lost of unwanted spammy requests by businesses not even relevant to your industry.

Last month, Gail Gardner of Growmap wrote about a new network called PostJoint which looks like it has a lot of potential, so I thought I would check it out. Here’s what I found are the main benefits to this network for bloggers and businesses.

postjoint-review

The Benefits of PostJoint for Bloggers

First off, let’s look at the benefits of PostJoint for bloggers.

You can get new content for your blog quickly and easily.

Looking for a way to up the volume of content you post on your blog? When you set up your account, you will select up to 10 categories for your blog. PostJoint will then show you opportunities (content from businesses) that fit within those categories which means no more wading through tons of articles that are not relevant. You’ll first want to review the content snippet to make sure it is a good quality (see the guest posting guidelines set by PostJoint) and the right fit for your blog audience. Then you can make an offer – businesses will get to choose from up to five offers from bloggers to place their content upon.

 

5 Ways to Use LinkedIn Answers for Your Next Blog Post

Posted on October 24, 2012 Written by

This is a guest post by Wayne Liew.

LinkedIn Answers is a tool often overlooked by bloggers. Over the past couple of months, I have been playing around with the available features and finding ways to get the most out of them.

While consolidating the features into The Ultimate Guide to LinkedIn Answers, I discovered the fact that apart from being able to generate traffic, leads and sales for bloggers, the platform is also an awesome place for bloggers to come up with blog post ideas.

linkedin-answers

Photo Credit: Flickr

Eager to find out how? Quickly grab a pen and paper. We’ll jump right into the first tip.

 

«Older Posts