Over the past decade, the number of people getting their daily news online has exploded. Over 37% of Americans now read online news at least three days per week and global news sites are hitting record traffic levels. According to ComScore, Yahoo News had 138million unique worldwide visitors in November 2009, with Google News recording 100 million, The New York Times 92 million and CNN 66 million.
The public’s appetite for
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Spreading the word about your website through social media such as Facebook and Twitter is one of the most important steps on the journey to becoming a highly successful blogger. Yet using social media is about much more than just promoting your web pages and latest posts. If you can actually get people to read your social media profile pages, this gives you a direct sales pitch guaranteed to capture
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Interlinking your blog content is a highly effective SEO tactic that can boost search engine ranking through keyword-rich internal links between your webpages. This allows search engine spiders to navigate your content more easily and go through all of your inner pages looking for relevant keywords. It’s like providing a map of your website for the search engines and a chauffeur to take them where you want them to go.
The
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If you’re planning on selling photos online, publicizing your portfolio or promoting your photography business, you need to create a website that showcases your images and skill with a camera. There are hundreds of photographer websites out there, so what’s going to make yours stand out from the crowd and bring in business?
The answer is the effective use of image plug ins, small pieces of software you can add to
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As a real estate agent it’s vital you create an online presence. Last year over 90% of home buyers began their search online, with over 70% using the internet to find a real estate agent.
If you’re planning on creating a real estate agent website you may be worried it will cost you thousands of dollars due to the need to hire expert website builders. Yet that’s where you’re wrong. Using
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According to YouTube, there are over one billion views of their content each and every day. Internet users now expect to see moving pictures as part of their surfing experience. That’s why adding video to your blog can help grab your readers’ attention and make your site much more exciting and entertaining.
It’s very easy to add video to a WordPress blog and any website builder can do it. Whether it’s
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Over 90% of people who read posts that have dropped off your front page arrive at these pages from search engines. Any experienced blogger will know that traffic from search engines tends to have a much higher click through rate for ads. That’s why monetizing your old posts could be one of the most effective strategies for making an income from your blog.
In fact some bloggers don’t like to monetize
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How A Website Contest Can Drive Traffic To Your Blog
A website contest is one of the most effective methods of driving high levels of traffic to your site, increasing brand loyalty, boosting sales and creating publicity for you and what you have to sell. If you can offer a great prize that people in your niche will value then news about your contest and your website could spread around the social media platforms like a viral. Any successful bloggers will
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