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The 411 on Photo Copyright Laws: 3 Tips for a Budding Blogger

AlliedBloggers — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:42:36 +0000

Every blogger knows that while great and original content is needed to help acquire a strong readership, photos can sometimes play an even more important role—after all, you can have the best content in the world but if you don’t have an overall aesthetically pleasing website, some readers might not give it the time of day. With that said, photos are typically a necessity. But simply doing a Google search and copying and pasting an image that properly correlates with your post can get you in a heap of trouble. You have to abide by copyright laws.

To learn what is ok to use and what isn’t, continue reading The 411 on Photo Copyright Laws: 3 Tips for a Budding Blogger

10 Reasons Why I Won’t Comment On Your Blog

AlliedBloggers — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 16:47:51 +0000

The one thing that I really love about blogging is that unlike visiting a static website it allows you to interact with your readers, and as a commentator it allows you to interact with the blogger and his visitors. One of the reasons I am so passionate about this is because in the real world, unless around family and friends, I tend to keep to myself.

As a blogger I write basically so that I can express myself but also to entertain and sometimes to instruct anyone who happens to land on one of my posts. But all that comes to nothing unless those posts elicit a response such as comment. I thrive on my comments, almost as much as being able to comment on those blogs that I visit. Yet even though I love to comment there are certain things that bloggers do that irk me so much I just leave in disgust.

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How Blogs Can Help You Become a Better Writer

AlliedBloggers — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:32:24 +0000

If you’re a writer, you probably have a blog. If you are a writer without one, or you want to be a writer, you should probably have a blog. Like few things, there’s absolutely no reason not to have one. It’s a painless, free way to improve your writing, to find an audience without fighting for it, and to even find out what is and isn’t working for you as a writer or for that audience.

If nothing else, blogging is sudden access to a platform through which you can do a few things that you simply can’t do anywhere else. A blog allows you to write however often you want to and in however much detail you feel compelled to write in; it sidesteps the issues of finding an outlet for your writing, as well as the tedious requirements that would otherwise require you to keep things either extremely brief or go in-depth about something. That decision is yours to make on a blog, and you have as much freedom as you’d like to take risks, especially as you’re simply getting started.

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Persistence – the critical trait for success, in any endeavor

AlliedBloggers — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:18:00 +0000

We’ve all heard about persistence.

When I first began working online I saw that while there were thousands of people looking for ways to earn money online, only a percentage of them became successful, and a handful became extremely successful.

While you still hear the occasional story of the cyber-rapid progression from rags to riches, these stories become fewer and further between. There is more competition online than there was a few years ago (although, once you really know what you’re doing, there isn’t really much real competition). And it isn’t possible to short-cut or cheat oneself into momentary wealth, as it once was.

I decided that the prime difference between the successful and the not-so-successful must be, primarily, persistence.

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6 Tips to Succeed in Blogging

AlliedBloggers — Mon, 10 May 2010 17:44:33 +0000

Well, this is yet another addition to the growing list of guest posts on this blog. And I am really glad to have this guest post from a very good friend of mine, Shabnam. Well, we all bloggers have one thing in common – We all want to be successful in blogging. But more often than not, we seem to be lagging behind. Here in this guest post, you will find some really good tips on how to taste success in this blogging. A very useful read for bloggers…

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Download Google’s SEO Report Card

AlliedBloggers — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:34:54 +0000

What is the Google SEO Report Card

As per Google:

Google’s SEO Report Card is an effort to provide Google’s product teams with ideas on how they can improve their products’ pages using simple and accepted optimizations. These optimizations are intended to not only help search engines understand the content of our pages better, but also to improve our users’ experience when visiting our sites. Simple steps such as fixing 404s and broken links, simplifying URL choice, and providing easier-to-understand titles and snippets for our pages can benefit both users and search engines. From the start of the project we also wanted to release the report card publicly so other companies and webmasters could learn from the report, which is filled with dozens of examples taken straight from our products’ pages.

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Building Outposts: Amplify Your Blog Post in Seconds

AlliedBloggers — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:45:46 +0000

Are you hearing a lot about “building outposts?” I am too. Outposts are places where you can establish a brand presence that more or less runs on autopilot. Any publishing venue lending itself to 1. visibility (otherwise why bother if people won’t find it); and 2. fire-and-forget publishing is a great candidate for building an outpost. Outposts are important for three reasons:

1. Backlinks: even if nofollow linking is used, you still have another link pointing into your material.
2. Advertisement: reinforce your brand or reputation.
3. Exposure: not everyone uses the same platforms for the same reasons, and each outpost will have a certain culture associated with it.

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Art Of Communicating in Social Networks

AlliedBloggers — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:51:10 +0000

Ahh.. one of those dreaded moments for the guys.

We all know the pressure here. Oh yes, we’re tricky. But you know what? A little wisdom can definitely save you off the hook. But first, you need to know your partner better- the ground rule before all tips and tricks.

How does this have anything to do with social media? Every bit of it – urgency and the consequences of a reckless response. Regardless celebrities or politicians, even us normal people are responsible for the words we blurted out in the open. You’ll be surprised a simple joke can either build you or crush you, especially when we’re networking with users from different cultural backgrounds and status.

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Using Alexa For Simplified SEO

AlliedBloggers — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:23:27 +0000

By now, you probably already know that one of the most important ranking factors on search engines are keywords. Choosing the right keywords on a blog post can take you to the top and with this that all important traffic to your websites. There are many keyword tools available online and one that I use often is Google’s wonder wheel. As I have shown you on my 3 simple steps for effective SEO writing, this technique works well when properly implemented. However, on certain occasions you may still want to know what keywords are really the best and which ones can be more effective. You even may have wondered what exact keywords, for example, drives massive traffic to certain websites, like eZine, one of Google’s favorite article submission website. You may also want to know what keywords drive traffic the most to your competitors. As I said before, there are many tools out there that can help you find those precious keywords (ex: Ad Intelligence), but some of them are quite complicated to use and can confuse you even more.

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WordPress Scheduled Post Solution

AlliedBloggers — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:24:31 +0000

Mye, a blogger friend of mine informed me about the WordPress scheduled post problem and asked for my help. She experienced it when she installed the latest WordPresss 2.9 version. The installation was successful except that, her setup of scheduled post were not publishing.

I know how important scheduled posts are specially for those who are into Project 365 (it’s a project wherein you post about your daily activities or take a pictures of what you are doing) , and don’t forget the members of Adgitize who are trying to post every day in order to get more points ( and more earnings).

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