4 Tips for Pitching Guest Posts
Guest posting: it’s a process that even some seasoned bloggers shy away from. On your own blog, you can post anything without anyone else’s permission or oversight. When guest posting, you might be experiencing editing, compromise, and other delays for the first time. For all its intimidation factors, guest posting is worth the risk for the exposure to new audiences, the new relationships with other bloggers, and the high-quality backlinks. …
Install Google Analytics Fast
How can you know how well your blog is doing if you never check whether anyone reads it or not? Sure, you can see the comments, but only a tiny fraction of your readers will actually stop to write a comment for you. To actually see if people are getting to your site, you need analytics. Plus, then you get to see all sorts of other information: how long they …
The Best StumbleUpon Strategy
StumbleUpon is a social media site that encourages users to browse the web by seeing pages that have been voted on by fellow stumblers. When one user clicks “I like this” to give your site a thumbs-up on their toolbar or your StumbleUpon badge, you will start getting new visitors referred by their common interests. This targeted, engaged audience is a great one to get to know. By making your …
How to Use Facebook for Business
Social media is being pushed on businesses more and more. Do you feel like your business is too late in the game? Not sure what to do to just get started? Here’s a beginner’s primer on using Facebook for your business and your fans. Create a Fan Page First things first, create a page for your business. Make sure you have a few photos and a logo on hand, and …
What the Hello Bar Can Do to Increase User Engagement
The Hello Bar is a slick new service from the creators of Slidedeck. The only purpose of The Hello Bar is to add a one-line colored bar to the top of your website with a simple call-to-action and a link. But however plain it might seem, it is getting plenty of attention. The Hello Bar is being used by a number of well-known bloggers and internet marketers, and they are …
Top 25 Books Every Blogger Should Read
It might seem backward to read a book about blogs instead of doing all your research on the internet, but books are still some of the best ways to immerse yourself in a subject and get a thorough overview. Plus, a blogger needs to at least be knowledgeable in copywriting, advertising, marketing, organization, design, and (oh yeah!) writing. That’s a lot of research! Thankfully, we’ve distilled a number of subjects …
Texas, Get Your Business Online – Intuit participates with Google
Maggy the Happy Clown has done her homework. She’s number two for a key Yahoo search, she has a Google Place, a basic Facebook page, and a presence on Yelp. But without her own website, any customer hiring Maggy is taking a leap of faith. So, when Google came to Austin offering free websites for small businesses in Texas, Maggy was at the front of the line. In a recent …
How to Get Other Bloggers to Link to You
Links are the online representations of relationships between two bloggers. Those relationships can span from being peers or readers to close partners and friends. But sometimes it takes a spark to get a fire going. Which of these sparks could get you into a relationship with another blogger? Write interesting content The best bloggers always create interesting, high quality content to share with their audience and only want to link …
How to Optimize Your Blog’s On-Page SEO
When total strangers are coming to your site merely on the recommendation of a search engine, you can feel pretty famous. But to really build a successful blog, you need to keep those readers coming back for more, and you need to keep getting new visitors – and the SERPs (search engine results pages) are great places to get those visitors! Search engines love fresh content first and foremost. Your …
Sell Online using an Intuit Website
Intuit Websites is excited to unveil a new technology that helps you get paid by your customers. Our new Intuit Web Payment is the professional way to accept credit cards on your website – without asking your customers to sign in, sign up or enter bank account information. There are several ways to utilize the Intuit Web Payment offering based on the size of your business and how many items …