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If you want to make your blog a success, whether financially or otherwise, it’s important to choose a niche for your blog.
There are many reasons why niche blogging is better than general blogging, so consider these points before you hop on the blogging bandwagon and start to write.
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Recently Google announced that it will be rolling out a new kind of search – one that’s more personal to you. This new search will include three different types of features – personal results, profiles in search and people and pages.
If you’re like me and do a lot of testing with keywords and rankings, you’re annoyed by the idea that your habits on the internet will show up in your search results. While I somewhat understand how this is relevant to me, it gets in the way of identifying what the outside world is looking for.
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Some of you may have noticed a rather obtrusive, large font, full-width section that sits at the top the eleven40 demo site. It’s on every page, screams in your face and is hard to ignore.
I’d like to introduce you to my Welcome Text Widget.
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Using Google Alerts, you can set up a monitoring system to track anything you want, such as finding out what’s being said about you or your company; keeping track of articles you write under your name; monitoring the competition or simply to keep up to date on any given topic.
Google Alerts has many beneficial uses, and many of those can help you blog. Keep reading to find out how this internet monitoring program can help you become a better blog.
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There are numerous reasons people start blogging. Because free blogging platforms provide anyone with a computer and internet access the ability to set up a blog and begin writing within minutes, new blogs are constantly popping up on a variety of subjects and for a number of reasons.
But why do people start blogging? What motivates them to put their thoughts and ideas out there?
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When you need images to enhance your blog, you want to make sure the photos you use aren’t violating copyright law. However, purchasing photos every time you need one can get expensive.
Here are five places to find images for publishing on your blog, both free options and those that are very inexpensive.