Writing Around the Web is a monthly series highlighting guest posts I’ve written on blogging, business, SEO, social media, and other topics!
Analytics
- How to Find Out Which Online Marketing Strategy Drives the Best Traffic – Learn how to use Google Analytics Advanced Segements to view different groups of referral traffic – traffic from social media, article marketing, link building, directories, local search, guest posts, and so on to determine the most effective online marketing strategy for your website.
- What Your Analytics Software is Hiding From You – There are many reasons for confusing and missing data in Google Analytics. Here are just a few examples of the areas from which you might be getting conflicting data and the reasons why.
- What You Can Learn from Bounce Rate & How to Improve It – Bounce rate is the percentage of visitors who come to your website and leave without viewing any other pages on your website. Here is what you can learn from it and how to fix it.
Business
- Creating a Strong Online Reputation – Learn how to create a strong online reputation for yourself and your business.
- Optimizing Your ActiveRain Profile – ActiveRain is one of the top social networks devoted to Real Estate professionals. If you want to do well on this network, as well as have your profile come up in search results, you will need to do the following things to optimize your ActiveRain profile.
- What Do Successful Real Estate Agents Have in Common – Interesting insight into the usage of technology, social media, and marketing & advertising strategies between the highest and lowest earning real estate professionals.
Google+
- The Advantages of Google+ Pages vs. Facebook Pages – Google+ pages have several advantages over Facebook pages. The following should convince you to at least give Google+ pages a try.
- 10 Great Google+ Pages for Real Estate Professionals – 10 Google+ pages in the real estate industry to check out to see how you can get more out of Google+.
SEO
- Guide To Keyword Research – Part I: Keyword Discovery – Various methods and tools for keyword research plus how to organize your information.
- Guide To Keyword Research – Part II: Analyzing and Choosing the Best Keywords – Learn how to narrow down your list of keywords and phrases for both your main website and content development.
- Part III: 40 Top Keyword Research Posts of 2011 – 40 of the top posts on keyword research tools, strategies, and optimization.
- Search Engine Marketing vs. Social Media Marketing: The Showdown – How search engine marketing beats social media (and vice versa) and why you should be investing into both.
Social Media
- 3 Steps To Boost Conversion From Social Media Profiles – If you want to boost conversion from your social media profiles, consider this three-step method:
- Optimizing Your Social Profiles For Network (Internal) Search – The following is how social media profiles for your business appear in search results where you will be competing with possibly ten or more similar companies for clicks!
- Stop Bothering Me! The Cure to Common Social Media Distractions – The following are common distractions you may come across on the top social networks and ways to combat them.
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Kristi,
You wrote 15 guest posts this month? That is incredible and honestly I’m a little jealous. You continue to crank out amazing content… Have a great Holiday Season!
Ryan H.
Ryan Hanley just posted The One Change I Made to Increase My Blog Traffic 37.5% in Two Weeks
Thanks Ryan – you too! 🙂
Kristi,
You’ve been busy! Wow. Looking forward to reading them – especially your Google + pages vs. Facebook pages comparison.
Tom
Tom Treanor just posted Networking for Introverts: Resources For Shy Marketers
I think this month was actually a slow one for me Tom. 🙂
Wow Kristi that’s a lot of writing for one month, I’m going to start with the SEO ones because that’s what I’ve been into lately.
Jamie Northrup just posted Ranking My Blogs Case Study Week 2 Update
Hope you enjoy them Jamie! 🙂
I wonder–where do you get all those ideas? You really must love what you are doing!
Kevin K Lau just posted Relationship Marketing And Social Media Networks: What YOUR Customers REALLY Want!
I do love it Kevin! 🙂
Great work Kristi. 15 guest post on top of writing and working on your own blogs is a great accomplishment.
I read some of these posts you mentioned, but some of them I had no idea about since I do not visit those blogs where they were published. I’ll be sure to check them all out as I know I can always learn something new form your posts. Thanks.
satrap just posted How to Make Money Fast
I don’t write much on my own blog unfortunately, but having the platform to write elsewhere extends my creative freedom! 🙂
Thanks for the great round up – I’ve struggled with setting up a Google + page since it would be one more social site I would have to pay attention to. In my niche though, Twitter is useless, so I could just replace my twitter efforts with G+.
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Really loved the essential tips you have there on the SEO. Provided great insights 🙂
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Wow, it’s amazing how much great stuff you produce. Your online reputation one has made me think I need to email the owner of Dan.com again and find out how much he wants!
Dan just posted How to build trust and authority online (part 1 of 2)
Nice Post,
Each and every thing is on target for make perfect blog post you mentioned all things very well step by step from where we can get good source for our blog post.
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You are a really hard-wokring person. I wonder how you manage everything and together. I wish just good luck and continue the same pace. You are doing great!
Hey Kristi, question on the blogs that you pick for guest posts…
Are you a regular columnist for the KISS blog, or just a very frequent guest poster?
Also, do you tend to focus on a small selection of blogs when guest posting, or do you find a broad strategy works better for some blogs?
Gregory Ciotti just posted How To Regularly Write For 50,000+ Subscribers & The Progress Of My Million Dollar Blog
I came across some of the topics and they’re really very interesting and helpful. I particularly like the posts under business, Google+ and SEO since these are my niches of interest. This is where I get most of my learning Kristi. From you.
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Kristi can you do a favor to me? Kindly do enlist some blog posts which are discussing about the future of search optimization whilst search results are varying from computer to computer. Similarly if you came across some posts which are discussing how social media is taking over SEO than also mention them
Umair just posted Automated SEO Vs Manual SEO! Which is Better?
Thanks for sharing all 15 guest post, you wrote in this month.I like all the posts under SEO, Social Media and analytics.
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Wow, I thought this was a round-up of interesting articles, then realized you wrote them all, Kristi. And on such a variety of topics. Very impressive.
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When Google + Pages first came out, i hurried and made my business page thinking i needed to get a jump start on the competition, but after a day or so i stopped messing with it. For some reason i just don’t see anything ever going over the top of Facebook.
I found some good information in the links above, though. Never would have found them otherwise… Thanks!
Chris just posted Purchase Your Dream Home: Owner Financed Homes Austin, Texas
Great work:) This reduces my time because i found all the needed information through this single page. It will be very useful tips for me. Thanks for sharing all those links.
Jomson George just posted Google Launches Schemer to Challenge Foursquare
You are doing wonderful activities in blogging and soon I will be on the same.At the present I am in learning process.
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I must say you did a great job in here. If you can provide more tips on WordPress in the near future, it’ll be great as well.
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This is a good list of basic areas every Internet marketer should be familiar. I did notice, maybe adding a section of PPC (Pay Per Click) could improve it?
Along with a section for Conversion Rate Optimization.
Just a thought! 🙂