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10 Marketing Strategies Declining in Popularity, but Still Effective

10 Marketing Techniques Declining in Popularity, But Still Effective by @sbizideasblogContent marketing and social media marketing are some of the hottest trends in marketing right now in 2014. Google’s emphasis on the importance of quality content and the growing popularity of social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google Plus, it’s not surprising that searches for these terms are continuing to increase.

However, there are quite a few marketing techniques that have shown a continued decline in search volume through the years, but are still effective. Are you using these strategies in your marketing mix? Let’s take a look at some of these marketing strategies.Read More

SEO vs Social Media: Blog Traffic Increase

SEO vs Social Media Case Study via @sbizideasblogThere are many ways to get traffic to a new website and blog, and in this article, I want to talk about some of the results from Small Business Ideas Blog for 2013 and the plan for 2014.

I created this blog to test various marketing tactics and in 2013, I experimented with SEO and social media, as well as a few other things. Sadly, I only wrote 3 blog posts in 2013 (busy with other projects), but despite that, blog traffic increased over 700% in 6 months, which goes to show that a little content promotion can go a long way.
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How I Accidentally Increased Social Sharing on a Blog Post by 96%

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Blogging and content marketing are becoming increasingly important for promoting businesses online. Setting up content for effective social sharing can greatly increase the viral nature of content distribution and get you more visitors for each article you write.

In this article, I want to talk about how I accidentally increased social sharing for a blog post on my blog. The post was title 101+ Source for Blog Content Ideas and I was using email outreach to let people know about the post since it was a new blog.

About half way through my email outreach campaign, I made some adjustments to the post to make it more sharable. One of the things that I did was add a text based image to the top of the post, which basically contained the title of the post and some graphic elements.

The post was published in July of 2013 and since then has received 52 Pinterest shares. And this is on a new blog with little previous exposure. The Pinterest sharing on this post accounts for nearly half of the social shares on this post – which was a surprise since I was mostly trying to generate sharing through Twitter.

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How I Quickly Got a 300% increase in Traffic to a New Blog

One of the biggest challenges that bloggers face is getting enough traffic to their blog, especially when you are just getting started out. In this post, I’m going to discuss how I got a 300% increase to a new blog post using a simple but underutilized tactic called email outreach.

In fact, the blog I’m talking about is this blog – Small Business Ideas Blog. Brian Dean from Backlinko has a good write up on how to do this and Neil Patel is also a big advocate of the effectiveness of this technique.

Although Brian and Neil are SEO’s, email outreach is really more about audience building and is perfect for bloggers.

First, a little background…

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101+ Sources for Blog Content Ideas

101+ Source for Blog Content Ideas by @sbizideasblog

Finding topics for blog posts on an ongoing basis can be intimidating for beginner bloggers. But there are actually many ways that bloggers and content writers can find a never ending supply of content ideas.

Creating great content is critical and becoming even more important, not just for bloggers, but all website owners. Great content will get you higher search engine rankings from more links, increased visitors and subscribers, and credibility.

So in this post I tried to create the most comprehensive list of the best ideas for finding blog content topics. You don’t have to use them all, but find a few that work for you and be sure to bookmark this post in case you need more ideas in the future:

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