Should You Abandon SEO for Social Search and Optimization?

Analytics for For Bloggers By Bloggers

There’s a lot of talk at the minute on whether there’s any value left in traditional SEO, or search engine optimization. Much of this is due to Google’s recent announcement that they’ll be placing more emphasis on personal results from users of Google+ and other Google services. Part of this comes from Google’s ongoing battle [...]

Three Simple Strategies That Add Value To Your Blog

Strategies That Add Value To Your Blog

I was just going back through some of the posts here at For Bloggers By Bloggers and realized that there is a TON of value here for the blogging community. If you are a new blogger or well established, there is valuable content for your particular situation. For example: If you need specific blogging tips, Social Media help, or [...]

5 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub – Day 3: Building Blocks

Social media profiles

Last time we looked at decluttering your social networks, for the simple reason that having too many spreads you too thin. Being spread too thin dulls your impact, and to use social media for your goals (and meet those of your customers) you need to have impact at every touch-point. Think of it like a flashlight [...]

5 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub – Day 2: Decluttering

Social media profiles

Yesterday we looked at why you need a social media hub, and why your blog is the ideal platform. Today, we’ll look at how you declutter your social outposts so you can start using the strong ones as building blocks to fill the holes in your social media hub. Analyzing. Prioritizing. Socializing. We’ve all done [...]

Increase Clicks On Your Tweets By 200%

Dashboard on Buffer

Recently we looked at a lot of data and found some amazing stats: People that start to Buffer their Tweets increased clicks on links they posted by 200% within 2 weeks of using. The amount of retweets doubles on average. Finally Buffer users increase their follower count by 104 followers within 3 weeks on average. [...]

Is Twitter Helping or Hurting Your Blog?

Is Twitter Hurting Your Blog?

Call me old fashioned, but I’m still a Twitter junkie. I laugh at recent comments about its pending death. Ask a person involved in any of the recent conflicts around our world if they think Twitter is helpful? We may use it differently now, but I do not believe it is going away anytime soon. [...]

Similarities between Twitter and Blogs

elvis

Last Wednesday, I covered the similarities between Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution and Blogging, today, its about the similarities of twitter and blogs. There are actually similarities between blogs and Twitter, and I’m not talking about the basic how many characters one can write on blogs compared to Twitter. However, when taking a look at building [...]

5 Things @winecountrydog Taught Me About Social Media Branding

Welsh Corgi

Did you ever have an in-person meet-up with someone you’d first met on Twitter? And then they got tired and they took a little nap—under the table? Yeah, sounds like a bad bar tale, doesn’t it? But it happened to me. About 2 years ago, I met an amazing dog on Twitter. I became an [...]

Tweet First, Blog Later

tweet first

The reason I say so is because they should eliminate the mindset that “you can get a Gazillion traffic off Twitter“. Sure, you can get traffic from Twitter but it requires you to engage with your followers first before you spam the hell out of them with links to your blog or website. I had [...]