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September 10, 2014

LinkedIn Publishing Study: How Top Writers Get Featured on the Pulse

LinkedIn Publishing Study: How Top Writers Get Featured on the Pulse @sbizideasblogIn February of 2014, LinkedIn opened up its publishing platform to it’s members, meaning anyone can apply to publish articles on LinkedIn. I became interested in LinkedIn’s publishing system when I noticed that even first time writers were able to get featured on the Pulse and get ten thousand views or more.

For a 30 day period, I recorded data on about 300 posts that got featured on the Pulse. Then I started experimenting on my own by writing my own posts.

In this post, I’m going to share some of the details of this study and some insights from my own experiments with publishing on LinkedIn.

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Filed Under: Featured, Internet Marketing, Social Media Marketing Tagged With: 33 Comments
June 25, 2014

How I Got 1265 Visitors from a Channel that Most Marketers Ignore

How I Got 1265 Visitors from a Channel that Most Marketers Ignore @sbizideasblogGetting the word out about your content is one of the biggest challenges that bloggers face. Last year, I talked about how SEO sent way more traffic to my site than social media.

This year, however, social media was the big winner. Social media can allow you to reach lots of real people quickly. Which mean that even if your website is new, you can get a lot of people to your site quick.Read More

Filed Under: Blogging Tips, Featured Tagged With: 16 Comments
April 6, 2014

Guest Blogging Guidelines: How to Google-proof Your Guest Posting

Guest Blogging Guidelines - How to Google-Proof Your Guest Posting by @sbizideasblogIn my previous post, over 40 experts shared some great ideas for generating blog traffic. This article will discuss a tactic that was not mentioned. It is one of the most popular and effective tactics for generating website traffic and doing SEO at the same time. This tactic is guest posting or guest blogging, which is commonly used to promote websites, even sites that don’t have their own blogs.

Guest posting on other blogs is a topic of great controversy right now. For many years, guest posting on popular blogs has been a good way to get traffic to a website as well as get high quality links that help with SEO.

Guest posting was used heavily by top bloggers, but was also a good way for just about any business to get some exposure to their target audience. However, now that Google is cracking down on “spammy guest posting”, many website owners are confused about the rules and guidelines for guest posting and even whether or not they should do it.

In this post, we’ll cover the following topics:

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March 6, 2014

How to Promote Your Blog Content: 40+ Experts Share Marketing Tips

One of the biggest challenges that content marketers and blog owners face is trying to get readers to their content. We asked top bloggers and content marketers the following question:How to Promote Your Blog - 40+ Experts Share Marketing Tips @sbizideasblog

Name something that most bloggers and content marketers can do to improve their effectiveness when promoting their content.Read More

Filed Under: Blogging Tips, Featured Tagged With: 133 Comments
February 10, 2014

Video: Most Likes from Facebook Ads are Fake

I just saw an interesting video by Veritasium about how most likes generated from Facebook ads are fake. If you are using Facebook advertising to get likes to your page, then this video is a must watch!

Basically, there are “like farms” around the world. These businesses set up websites that sell thousands of Facebook likes to other people and businesses for a low cost.Read More

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