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Build Your Blog Subscriber List & Keep Your Readers Reading

blog notifications and subscriptionsSubscriptions for your blog

Service Options, Setup & Implementation. For a blogger, it’s pretty exciting to get new blog subscribers and know that people are paying attention to what you do. Each and every subscriber notice can lift your heart and give you some added motivation to keep up the good work. There’s not much more rewarding than realizing you are making a difference.
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Google Semantic Search – SEO Techniques From David Amerland

Google: an ANSWER Engine instead of SEARCH Engine.

The evolving semantic web is about answers and so is this book -the answers to our questions about SEO and search (plus a whole lot more). In my ongoing quest to keep abreast of current search issues and SEO I recently read David Amerland's book Google Semantic Search. In the photo above, you can see my enthusiasm and how valuable I found it by the number of post-it markers I used.
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Your Website & Online Identity: What Are They Saying?

I'm not talking about the words.

When you start looking in to who you are, everything is bound to change. And if you’re looking because you’re hoping to change, oftentimes, the changes won’t be what you expected. The investigation itself, changes everything. Or it can if you let it. This is a good thing but you may ask why.
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Visual Communication, The Web & Social Media

visual expression equals communicationPictures are convincing.

We’ve been waking to a changed Internet. The emphasis on text-based information for reading and exchanging ideas has expanded to visual communication and an experiential approach that relies more and more heavily on visuals and our emotional response to photographic images.
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Eyes Wide Open – Fun With Pictures & Words: Infographics Part 1

picture worth 1000 wordsWhy It’s Time to Jump on the Infographic Bandwagon

Have you ever heard of a “Strawberry Fool”? It’s this delightful dessert from the 18th century; a pretty glass filled with whipped cream, strawberries and at the bottom is a “digestive biscuit” (doesn’t that just scream delicious?). But wait, what the heck does any of this have to do with infographics?
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A Great “Cheat Sheet” To Ease The Woes of Creating Compelling Content

creating contentHow Do I Do This? ...Writing Blog Posts...

It has been dawning on me that ‘real’ writers have a predetermined process, techniques and tools -that are tried and true. They may have learned tricks in school. These days, they may have picked up all the tips they need online. Or maybe they are just plain smarter than I am.
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