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10 Best Related Posts Plugins for WordPress Blogs

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4 Steps to Increase Your Blog Traffic

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Quick Writer’s Guide to Finding Free Images

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How Timing a Blog Post Can Increase Your Exposure

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How to Increase Blog Revenue with Retargeting

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One Simple Way to Plan Great Posts, Step by Step

One Simple Way to Plan Great Posts, Step by Step

Do you run out of ideas when you’re writing a post? Or do you find that you go down a huge tangent part-way through?

Planning your posts helps to keep them on track from start to end. A good plan doesn’t take long – but it saves you a lot of time in rewriting and editing.

Here’s how to plan your posts in just four simple steps:

10 Best Related Posts Plugins for WordPress Blogs

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Related Postsis not only the best way to keep your visitors stay for long time on your Blog, but also has an SEO Advantage. Displaying Related Posts also helps in Building Inbound Links. You can display Related Posts in WordPress Blog by simply editing the .php files. If you are not familiar with coding, the other option is to use plugins. Below you can find the WordPress Plugins that you can use in your Blog to display Related Posts Plugins.

4 Steps to Increase Your Blog Traffic

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One of the most common complaints that I hear from bloggers is the fact that no matter how hard they try, they can’t grow their blogs past 100 or so daily page vies. Those early days are indeed the hardest, because you need to put hard work in without the certainty of achieving results.

If you are in that same situation, here is a simple strategy that will certainly increase your blog traffic and make you break the 1,000 daily page views mark. In fact, the strategy could be used even if your are already over that number but have reached a traffic plateau lately.

Just make sure to execute the 4 steps as planned and to spend the two hours and a half every day (obviously if you have more time available you can expand the time spent on each of the four steps proportionally).

Using Google and Yahoo! for finding free images

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Both Yahoo and Google adds filters for finding public domain photographs in image search.

There are those that believe that any image available on the Net is theirs for the taking. They go to Google image search, find a picture they like and add it to their blog or site.

The fact is that nearly all images found on the web is the property of the photographer. You are not allowed to use them without his or her permission, unless the images are very old or there is a licence that allows for this kind of use.

Quick Writer’s Guide to Finding Free Images

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Writing for the web often requires a great deal of self publishing, especially if you run your own blog or news/feature website. Because of this, there is a good chance that at some point, you will be required to find images, resize them, and add them to your articles.

Nothing can fully replace having your own photographer at your side, but there are many photographers who use the web as their digital portfolios and allow writers and website owners to use their images royalty-free. Just because an image is on the web does not mean it’s a free image and you have the right to use it, and if you start making money off your blog while illegally using copyrighted images, you could be in for a world of hurt.

There are several types of royalty-free photo sites out there. Some have their own licenses, and others use copyleft licenses like Creative Commons or GNU Free Documentation License. Still others allow the users to specify the terms such as notification and crediting. The following are several sites you can use to find free images for your writing.

How Timing a Blog Post Can Increase Your Exposure

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Is timing all that important in the world of online marketing where information flows freely twenty four hours a day, seven days a week?

Some bloggers and users of social media are satisfied to hammer out a post or send a tweet whenever they can. Others stay up late editing the next day’s blog post and setting it to auto-post at 4 AM. Is there really any advantage?

In a word, yes. In two words: definitely maybe.

Online marketers and community managers want to know one simple thing: when can they put their information, products, and special offers in front of the greatest number of people at one time. By learning about the timing of blog posts and social media updates, they’ll be able to maximize their exposure relative to the time they invest and even capture audiences that online marketers have neglected.

How to Increase Blog Revenue with Retargeting

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Retargeting is one of the fastest growing forms of paid advertising on the Internet.

What is it? Retargeting is the process of serving ads to past visitors of your website. As a website owner, you can put a little snippet of Javascript on your website that anonymously drops a tag in each visitor’s browser. Within an ad network, you can then bid to show ads to all of your past visitors.

For example, if you sell shoes online, you can tag everyone that visited your website, as well as everyone that has purchased shoes. You can then choose to only show ads to people who have visited your site in the last 7-days and who haven’t yet made a purchase.