How to Write a Blog Post Using Pillar Content

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Learning how to write a blog post may seem easy enough. It is just a matter of throwing together a few paragraphs and grabbing your readers’ attention, right? We’re sorry to tell you that is just not the case. Truly writing compelling content on a blog doesn’t usually “just happen” – it takes time to [...]

Blog Critique: In These Small Moments

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You see it on forums a lot…bloggers asking people to review this blog and give honest feedback. And then the post is full of “I like your blog!” or “you’re doing a great job!”  Unfortunately, the feedback being provided doesn’t help bloggers objectively critique their site and make changes. I’ve been putting my marketing, writing, and [...]

Five Free Tools to Monitor your Site

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Website statistics offer the unique opportunity to track exactly how others are finding and interacting with the content you produce. Without them, you’re flying blind as a blogger or relying solely on direct feedback. While direct feedback can be valuable, it also represents a small portion of your readers. Monitor your site with an analytics [...]

#SITSpics First Monthly Photo Challenge!

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You’ll hear this piece of advice time and time again: Your blog will do better with images. You’ll hear it seventy-five different ways shouted from the rooftops because it’s true. Humans are visual creatures. We love pretty, shiny things. In fact, we love them so much that we’re completely transfixed by them.   Did your [...]

Twitter Chat Made Easy: A How to Guide

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Every night there are several Twitter events that happen online, and you don’t even have to leave your house to participate. These events are different from a Tweet-Up, where people coordinate a live meet-up using Twitter to get together in person. Instead, a Twitter chat is where a group of people decide to virtually meet [...]

The Blog Frog: Read and Play Summer Fun Community

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Since we began blogging, many of us have put reading actual books on the back burner…blog reading has to count for something right!?! We started our SITS Book Club as a way to help ease ourselves (and you) back into reading. When we were approached by the Blog Frog to become community leaders for the [...]

10 Ways to Dazzle Readers With Your About Me Page

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We’re almost halfway through our 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Summer Challenge for 2011, and Day 14, how to write an about me page, is one of those days that’s easy to overlook because on the surface it’s not as edgy as Opinion Post day or as fun as how to write a link [...]

#SITS31DBBB: Monitoring Content with Google Alerts!

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Welcome back to another day of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog with The SITS Girls! Here in the Education channel, we are going through a handful of activities from Darren Rowse’s Problogger eBook together at a slow downed pace. Day 9 discusses how you can join a forum and start participating. After you [...]