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Building a Successful Blog

by Jeremy Blanton on July 21, 2011

Today I had the honor of presenting at SMM Camp 10.  The subject of today’s 3 hour webinar was on blogging.  There was plenty of wonderful presentations given by people like Heather Elias, Chris Smith, and Jay Thompson.
I gave a 15 minute presentation today on some tips to building a successful blog or mouse trap [...]

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When It Comes to Content Creation Just Do It!

by Jeremy Blanton on June 1, 2011

So, over the past week or so, there has been quite the conversation going on about what is considered good content.  The discussion began on Twitter, and then moved over to a blog post by Rob Hahn, which brought out some really good discussion on the subject.  To sum up Rob’s 1,761 words his main [...]

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Linking Strategies for Your Blog

by Jeremy Blanton on October 21, 2010

We write blogs regularly and share wonderful information with others.  One of the integral parts of a blog post are the links.  These links give an added layer of depth of knowledge to your posts.  What most don’t realize is that the links you insert into a post have either an internal or external destination.  [...]

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Making your WordPress Site More Social

by Jeremy Blanton on October 19, 2010

We all hear the importance of social media and why you need to have a strong presence in it.  We know that there are sites like Facebook, Twitter, & YouTube and other social networks.  Many times though we want to see what type of results these social networks are sending in traffic to your sites.
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50+ Tools Webinar for Tech Savvy Agent

by Jeremy Blanton on October 18, 2010

Today I had the pleasure of doing a webinar with Tech Savvy Agent on 50+ tools to enhance your social media strategy.  In this class I covered multiple plugins that should be used on any WordPress Site first.  It was then followed up with various tools to use with Facebook, Twitter, Video, and even web [...]

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Goo.gl Changes Link Shortening

by Jeremy Blanton on October 2, 2010

Today I took some time to play with a new favorite of mine Goo.gl.  This is a great product that the search engine giant created that simply rocks.  What Goo.gl does is allows you to shorten links quickly and easily.This feature alone is nice, but it isn’t the reasons that fell in love with this [...]

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Google Instant and How It Will Change Your Keywords

by Jeremy Blanton on September 9, 2010

Google Instant released today which I believe will be making some major changes in the way consumers search online.  What this allows is for people using the search engine giant to begin the search process while you type in the term you are searching for. No longer to you have to type in the entire [...]

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Increasing Blog Traffic Through Comments

by Jeremy Blanton on August 30, 2010

We all know that one great way to increase traffic into your site is to visit other people’s sites and leave valuable comments on specific topics.  Leaving those comments shows that you care about whatever the topic might be, or you are able to share your knowledge answering a question that someone posed in a [...]

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How To Use Creative Commons Photos- For FREE!

by Jeremy Blanton on August 14, 2010

How to Use Creative Commons Photos- The Why

We all understand the importance of adding photos and labeling them properly into our blog posts.  Adding just 2 images can increase the time someone stays at your blog by up to 300%!  That means if the average time is around 30 seconds, we can get someone to [...]

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Increase Blog Traffic- Understanding Your Keywords

by Jeremy Blanton on August 10, 2010

Today we continue our series on how to blog and increase your blog traffic by discussing the subject of keywords.  In case you missed my last post, you can read it here and pick up a few more good nuggets on how to increase your blog traffic.
Keywords are by far one of the most misunderstood [...]

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