SEO vs. SMO – What is Social Media Optimization all about?
Social Media Optimization is a fairly new concept and still somewhat vague, meaning different things for different people. It was first defined back in the mid-2000s, but has been re-phrased since. It was originally very link-building focused, but the recent re-phrasing has moved the meaning more towards content and sharing. Wikipedia has a nice article about social media optimization, but to my mind it's not covering all sides of the concept, so here's a little something for you.
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Elegant Themes Release Their First WordPress Plugin, Anticipate
Let your visitors know that your site is 'coming soon' with the Wordpress Anticipate Plugin.
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Have You Met Ileane Smith from Basic Blog Tips?
This post is dedicated to one of our favourite readers and bloggers!
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So You Want to be a Famous Blogger?
Blogging = Fame + Riches Well, that’s what a lot of the ‘Get Rich Quick’ e-books say! This is how a lot of people who would like to make money from the Internet initially step into blogging, they see the success of someone like Darren Rowse of Pro Blogger and decide that they too want to make ‘blogging’ their day job too. The reality is, a lot of people start blogging with this goal in mind and, after only a few months of hard-work and no results, give-up and...
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7 Things Every Beginner Blogger Should Do Before Hitting Publish
Have you ever published a post only to notice that you forgot to add something? I know I have! What’s worse is when you only spot those ‘forgotten elements’ a few days after publishing and the post has already received 100+ visitors! For this reason, I like to run through a check list before I publish my articles in the hope that I catch any errors or missing elements before the end user, my readers, even get to see the post. The great thing about having a pre-publishing check...
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Saying Thank You To Our Top Referrers
This post is to share some link love back to those that have sent us the most visitors over the past month, 27/07/2010 to 26/08/2010. The information presented here is taken from our Google Analytics account but before you look at the list I want to share my thoughts on a few things. Below you will see that this site consistently receives visitors from a large number of CSS Galleries. The benefit to using CSS Galleries is that it is a set-it and forget-it traffic stream, some sites are still...
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