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Understanding Google Webmaster Tools

02.27.2010

Today your assignment is to set up your Google Webmaster Tools account and submit your sitemap. A sitemap is just what it sounds like — a map of all the pages on your site — but it’s written in a language that is easily understood by search engine spiders. By submitting a sitemap to Google, you are helping them “see” your site more easily, crawl your site more easily, and find all your pages more easily.

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Cultivate Community: Find Your Blogging Tribe Part 3

02.20.2010

The final challenge in finding your blogging tribe is to cultivate your tribe community. Blogging is a powerful way to find support and friendship if you make the effort. Remember to always give back, offer support and provide value to your tribe and you will surely see it grow.

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Blogging Ebook and Saturday Sharefest

02.13.2010

Michelle from Scribbit has a free ebook that offers some excellent blogging basics. Download and read it this weekend.

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Find Your Tribe Part 2, Live From BlissDom

02.06.2010

Think about ways you can thank your readers for supporting you. Maybe you can do a weekly round-up of links highlighting some of your tribe/commenters? The idea is to encourage interaction. If certain people comment regularly on your blog, I bet your readers might like to read their blogs, too. Pay it forward and watch your tribe grow.

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Find Your Blogging Tribe – Saturday Sharefest

01.30.2010

Have you found your blogging tribe? It’s more than a community. It’s that core group of special blogging peeps that visit and comment regularly and take action on what they read and learn at your blog. They support you, they recommend you, they retweet you.

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The Key To Using Keywords – Saturday Sharefest

01.23.2010

Keyword usage is confusing to many bloggers. You want to optimize your blog and get some Google juice, but you’re not sure what keywords to use, where to put them, or how often to use them. Today I’ll try to take away some of the mystery for you.

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Blogging Inspiration and Motivation – Saturday Sharefest!

01.16.2010

In my quest for blogging inspiration and motivation, I’ve collected some amazing links that I want to share with you. Read them all. Now. Then visit your SITStahs and leave some comments to fire them up!

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How To Add A Favicon To Your Blog – Saturday Sharefest

01.09.2010

A favicon is that tiny image that shows up in your browser tab next to the web site name, and in the address bar, and next to the blog name in your favorites or bookmarks list. It’s a cool tool that adds a little bling to your blog and lets people know how hip and knowledgeable you are. Here’s how you add one to your site.

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Blog Resolutions – Saturday Sharefest

01.02.2010

It’s a new year and we’re all reflecting on the past and what we want to achieve in the future. Don’t forget about your blog! What do you want to accomplish in 2010? Build your personal brand? Double your traffic? Blog more often? Try vlogging or podcasting? Learn more about social media? Comment more?

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How Often Should You Post? Saturday Sharefest!

12.19.2009

There are advantages to posting often, and at regular times. The more you update your blog the more often search engines will send their crawlers to your site to index it. The more often your site is indexed, the faster your new posts will appear in search results.

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FTC? Disclosure? Huh? And Saturday Sharefest!

12.12.2009

By now you’ve likely heard about the FTC announcement regarding blogger disclosure. Some bloggers feel it’s essential to disclose what we’ve been paid or given for free. Others think it’s ridiculous that bloggers have to disclose something that the rest of the journalism world is not required to disclose.

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Five Items All Blogs Need – Saturday Sharefest!

12.05.2009

You decide to start a blog. You think of a name, sign up with Blogger or Wordpress or some other platform, write a few posts and start spreading the word. What else do you need to do? Here are Five Things Every Blog Needs.

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Getting People To Listen – Saturday Sharefest!

11.28.2009

While social networking, blog promotion, commenting and search engine optimization certainly have their place, you are most likely to strike a chord with readers by being real. By sharing experiences and ideas that you are passionate about and by carefully – and regularly – crafting posts that demonstrate that passion.

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Finding Images For Your Blog Posts – Saturday Sharefest!

11.20.2009

As I wrote in a previous Saturday tip: photos in your posts are good. But how do you find photos and properly attribute them? Here’s a list of sites where you can find great photos to use in your posts.

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Top 10 Reasons to Move to Wordpress – Saturday Sharefest!

11.14.2009

Since SITS changed blogging platforms from Blogger to Wordpress last week, I’ve received lots of tweets and emails asking, “Why?” Today I present to you the Top 10 Reasons to Move to Wordpress.

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Link Effectively – Saturday Sharefest

10.30.2009

New to SITS? Welcome!! Go read this to get started.
Welcome to the weekly blogging tip and comment game! This week I’m talking about writing effective links in your posts.
When you want to insert a link in your blog post, it’s important to consider your anchor text — the words people click on to [...]

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Twitterfeed Promotes Your Blog – Saturday Sharefest!

10.23.2009

New to SITS? Welcome!! Go read this to get started.
Welcome to the weekly blogging tip and comment game! This week I’m talking about using Twitterfeed to promote your blog.
Twitterfeed is a service that enables you to automatically share your blog posts on Twitter (and Facebook, if you choose). Every time you update [...]

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Saturday Sharefest

10.17.2009

New to SITS? Welcome!! Go read this to get started.
So it’s Saturday.
And, we were planning on day 2 of the auction.
But it’s 2:08 AM in Las Vegas and we just walked in from a great night at SITScation.
And, I {Tiffany} don’t have the posts complete (this conference planning is a lot of work!
I [...]

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Define Your Blogging Goal – Saturday Sharefest!

10.09.2009

New to SITS? Welcome!! Go read this to get started.
Welcome to the weekly blogging tip and comment game! This week I’m talking about creating an elevator pitch for your blog.
Most of us have heard marketing gurus tell us about the importance of having an elevator pitch. An elevator pitch is a concise and [...]

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