Top 10 Resources Every Blogger Needs

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Like any worthwhile endeavor, bloggers need to continually educate themselves to stay up-to-date at their craft. You need to have reliable resources in your blogger’s toolkit that you can turn to for advice, tips and tutorials. The following books and web sites can keep you at the top of your game building a successful blog and may even lead towards a fulfilling and profitable business along with it.

Books Every Blogger Should Read

Here are the top 5 books every blogger should own.

Book #1. “Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income” by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett

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This book by Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett is what I call the encyclopedia of blogging.

It contains everything you need to know, from blog set up basics, to building a “sticky” community of loyal followers, to going beyond your blog and building a business or career from it.  Examples from Rowse and Garrett’s real life blogs and websites are peppered throughout, so you are getting hands-on, practical lessons. There’s even a section on flipping your blog, so this book is a keeper that you will refer to again and again.

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Visit: href="http://probloggerbook.com/" target="_blank">ProBlogger the Book

Book #2. “Content Rules” by Ann Handley and C.C. Chapman

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Ann Handley and C.C. Chapman have created the complete guide to content for businesses. Why should you use it? Even if your blog doesn’t become your business or bootstrap your career, this book can teach you a great deal about creating content that appeals, goes viral, and sells. The book is separated into 3 parts: why content rules, how to make yours rule and successful case studies. “Content Rules” starts by helping you get grounded in why you need compelling content, continues by showing you how yours can stand out from the crowd and ends with a checklist covering all the material in the book.

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Visit: href="http://www.contentrulesbook.com/" target="_blank">Content Rules

Book #3. “Online Reputation Management for Dummies” by Lori Randall Stradman

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Don’t let the title put you off – as a Dummies book ambassador, I can tell you that these guides are well-written and take you from start to finish in everything you need to know. This Dummies title covers social media in depth. Why am I recommending this particular book by Lori Randall Stradman, rather than one with social media in the title? Because this one addresses your entire online presence, including protecting your reputation and how to fix things if you get into trouble – for example, you are smeared by some of your followers. Real world examples from big business failures guide you in fixing your blog-sized problems competently and professionally. In addition, Stradman gives you soup to nuts information on everything you need to know about using social media and building an online presence, including tips and tools to make it flow smoothly.

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Visit: href="http://www.dummies.com/DummiesTitle/productCd-1118338596,descCd-buy.html" target="_blank">“Online Reputation Management” at the Dummies Store

Book #4. “Digging into WordPress” by Chris Coyier & Jeff Star

If you are using a self-hosted blog with WordPress, this book is the ultimate guide. (If you’re not self-hosted, href="//localhost/blog/web-hosting-guides/the-dangers-of-free-web-hosting">here’s why free web hosting is not the best option.) This book is designed to take a blogger who has never even heard of WordPress from beginner to expert. Yes, you will learn techy things in this book but all of it is in service to running a better, more user-friendly blog – such as working with your RSS feeds, optimizing how your comments are set up, search engine optimization and managing plugins – just to name a few chapters. Plus it’s all written in clear, easy language and has a supporting website as well.

The paper version is pricy, but at , the PDF is far more useful – you’re going to be online when you go through the steps in this book anyway.

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Visit: title="Digging into wordpress" href="http://digwp.com/" target="_blank">Digging into WordPress

(Also check out Jerry’s recent href="http://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.net/blog/interviews/jeff-starr-interview/">interview with Jeff Starr.)

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Book #5. “Photography for the Web” by SitePoint

Now that you’re a blogger, you need to know a little something about photography, without spending a fortune on a class. This Sitepoint book by Paul Duncanson is your solution. It’s an easy, clear read with lots of examples. It guides you through all the functions on your digital or DSLR camera, and walks you through the basics and more advanced configurations of lighting, framing, color correction and more. This book will get you outside the box of using the “manual” setting on your camera and help you to maximize shots even if you don’t have a high end camera. A must-have resource for product review and event bloggers.

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Visit: href="http://www.sitepoint.com/store/photography-for-the-web/" target="_blank">Sitepoint’s “Photography for the Web” page

Blogs and Websites Every Blogger Should be Following

In addition to the latest editions of these books, you should also subscribe to and follow a number of websites. Here are the top 5 websites every blogger should be reading.

1. CopyBlogger

I’ve put in the link to their incredibly valuable blog, but you can also register for free for more resources, such as ebooks and an internet course.

These guys are the original gurus for teaching how to be a great blogger. Topics including everything from how to make WordPress faster to productivity tips to creativity – all content based around helping you to build a world class blog.

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Visit: href="http://www.copyblogger.com/blog/">CopyBlogger

2. Boost Blog Traffic

Written by Jon Morrow, the expert on guest blogging and former writer for CopyBlogger, the first thing you get at this website is “Headline Hacks,” an incredibly useful cheat sheet for writing headlines with the best chance of going viral. All his tips are focused specifically on blogging and offer manageable advice on how to get your blog where you want it to go. The posts are pretty well detailed, but also easy to read. Jon has a great style that just makes you want to read more – and often you’ll find yourself laughing.  I highly advise subscribing. Morrow doesn’t post every day, so when he does, you’re sure to get some great information and amazing tips that you never thought of before.

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Visit: href="http://boostblogtraffic.com/">Boost Blog Traffic

3. Traffic Generation Café Blog

This great little blog I stumbled on earlier this year not only does a weekly blog review of social media, marketing and SEO trends and changes, it also supplies lots of tips, tools, plugins and advice that can help you steadily build traffic and sort through your analytics. This is a great way to stay on top of news from changes in Google, the latest social media trends and general ideas on how to better target traffic for your blog.

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Visit: href="http://www.trafficgenerationcafe.com/blog/">Traffic Generation Café Blog

4. Social Media Examiner

A couple of years ago, I noticed that when I googled blog resources, this site would come up – with lots of information! After that, I started actively seeking it out. As you know, your blog can only be successful with quality social media engagement, and this is your go-to resource for how to achieve that. In addition, there are plenty of posts that specifically focus on blogging, many geared towards generating traffic.

Case studies, expert interviews, how to posts, videos and a weekly podcast are some of the treasures you’ll find on this site dedicated to social media best practices.

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Visit: href="http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/">Social Media Examiner

5. A collection of articles at SITS Girls called “Photography Tips for Bloggers”

If you’re not – and never want to be – a career photoblogger but you want to quickly reference tips on basics of photography for your blog, this page is for you. I still recommend buying the book I mentioned above, but this handy resource will provide tips that you can start using immediately.

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Visit: href="http://www.thesitsgirls.com/photography-tips/">Photography Tips for Bloggers

Last but not least

Finally, I’d subscribe to the href="http://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.net/blog/">blog here at Web Hosting Secret Revealed. href="//localhost/category/blog/interviews">Expert interviews, href="//localhost/category/blog/seo">help with SEO, href="//localhost/category/blog/web-tools">web tools you shouldn’t live without – these are just some of the topics our team covers. Remember that being a successful blog is not just about writing great content, it’s about using all the tools at your disposal to keep your blog interesting, fresh and attractive. Staying educated about what’s going on in the world of blogging is the way to do that.

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50 Things Every Web Hosting Shopper Should Know

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If you have launched or are looking to launch a website, then odds are that you know you will need hosting. Think of it like a house – the website itself is the house’s structure, but you need a place to put it; hosting is like the lot.

As you begin shopping for Web hosting, you will find hundreds of companies, each with their own promises, guarantees, and options. It’s a web that can quickly become confusing – even to someone who has previously secured hosting for a website. So, before you jump into shopping, here are the 50 things every Web hosting shopper should know

1. b2evolution

A content and community management system that integrates various popular components and features of CMS (content management systems), blogs, galleries, email and marketing tools, and forums into a single open source program

2. Bad hosting neighbor

This term can mean several things – it can refer to a less than honorable website to which you link from your site or it can refer to another party in your shared hosting environment affecting your site performance by using excess CPU or RAM for their own site

3. Bandwidth/data transfer

The amount of data that can be transferred from one point to another in a given time period. This affects things like page load times.

4. Blogging platform

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The software or site that acts as the home for the blog. There are countless sites available that serve as blogging platforms, including WordPress, Joomla, Blogger, Typepad, and more

5. Cloud hosting

A type of hosting that stores data virtually in the cloud where it is accessible to the owner anywhere, rather than at physical data centers.

6. CMS

Content management system – Provides an easy way for the everyday internet user to manage website content through a graphic user interfact

7. Country code tld

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These are the two letter codes that signify content and websites in other countries, such as domains that end in .us or .uk.

8. CPU

Central processing unit, or the brains of the computer where all of the calculations take place.

9. Database

A document or system that archives and records sets of data and information

10. Ddos attack

This acronym stands for denial-of-service attack or distributed denial-of-service attack. It is a type of cyber attack that attempts to make a computer or network resource unavailable against the wishes of its owner

11. Dedicated hosting

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A hosting scenario in which you lease an entire server, rather than sharing the space with other organizations

12. Dedicated IP address

In general, most organizations are fine with a standard IP address, however, if your site deals with particularly sensitive / secure information – or if you have a need to access files and your site via FTP, you may need a dedicated IP address.

13. DNS

Domain name system – translates Internet domain names and host names to IP addresses

14. Domain name

The domain name is how people will find your site – it’s the URL. Make your domain name simple and intuitive – for example, if your business is “Bob’s Pets,” your best domain name would be style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium;">www.bobspets.com. Don’t deviate from your business name whenever possible – doing so will only hurt your chances of securing business.

15. Domain privacy

This service is provided by numerous domain name registrars. As the site owner, you would purchase privacy from the domain registrar who in turn would replace your info in the WHOIS with information for a forwarding service to main your privacy and anonymity.

16. Domain registrar

This refers to the entity registering your domain. When you register your domain, you will go through the process of registering your domain name / URL to associate it with your IP address. Doing so ensures that you own your site and are the only one able to access your domain. The actual domain registrar is an entity that has the access and accreditation to register domain names, including the extension, such as .com, .net, .us, etc.

17. Drupal

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A free online open source content management framework system that is based in PHP. It typically requires a programmer to customize it, but makes content editable for marketers and others who might update website content, but do not know HTML or programming languages

18. Ecommerce cart

Stores a shopper’s items for them to purchase during an online shopping session

19. Email hosting

A way to secure email for your organization. Email hosting is facilitated by a hosting service that operates email servers. Additional fees are required to have your organization’s email addresses associated with your proper domain (ie; name@yourorganization.com)

20. Fantastico

A commercial script library that makes it easy for users to install Web applications to a website by automating the installation process

21. File permission

Files can be set to grant access to only assigned users or groups. Permissions may include entire access to the file, access to editing, read-only, etc.

22. FTP and SFTP

Types of file transfer protocols. FTP works using two separate channels to transfer data, while SFTP transfers information via a single connection using a secure shell protocol.

23. Green hosting

Eco-friendly hosting that involves using green technologies to facilitate the hosting services. For example, the technologies are often made from eco-friendly materials and / or work to reduce emissions and resource usage (such as energy) while running

24. Hosting coupon code

Occasionally, hosting organization will provide online coupon codes to offer organizations hosting service discounts. These coupon codes are typically valid only for new customers, though there are certainly exceptions to every rule

25. Hosting uptime

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This refers to the amount of time that a server has been up and running. Most often, this number is given in percentage form (ie; 98% uptime). This number is a good point of reference when shopping for Web hosting, as it lets you know the likelihood of your site and information being consistently live. For example, if a potential provider has 82% uptime, you may want to look elsewhere as their servers have significant downtime – and if the servers are down, so is your site

26. ICANN

ICANN stands for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This organization coordinates the unique identifiers assigned to each computer across the globe so that each can communicate with the others; this coordination enables the internet to function. It also administers the allocation of Internet naming resources and certain responsibilities related to DNS management.

27. IP address

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A unique string of numbers and dots that identifies each individual computer connected to the internet

28. Joomla

A free open source content management framework system for building and publishing Web content.

29. Live chat support

A customer service feature that allows you to reach company customer service over the Internet on-demand. Most frequently, this service is via typed chat

30. Malware

Harmful software that aims to damage or disable your computer, website, or network

31. Money back guarantee

A guarantee from the hosting company that if you are not satisfied with their service, they will return your funds (and stop service)

32. Mysql

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A popular open source relational database commonly used by programmers to pull queries and reports

33. MX record

The MX record (mail exchanger record) specifies the mail server that is responsible for and allocated to receiving email messages for a particular domain. This resource record resides within the DNS system

34. One click installation

Often times, software and hosting services require complex installation and set-up processes. One click installation means that installation should be easy and can be done by the user with the click of a button

35. Overselling

Selling more of a good or service than the organization can actually deliver. In Web hosting, this often means selling hosted space to more customers than the provider could actually host if each customer were to use all of their allocated space. For example, if a hosting company sells to 12 customers assuming that they will only use 80 percent of their space and bandwidth – even though it could not deliver if those same 12 customers used 100 percent, that provider would be overselling. In truth, the likelihood of all customers using all available or purchased assets is very slim, so Web hosting overselling typically has very few repercussions

36. osCommerce

An e-commerce and store management software program that can be installed on any Web server that runs MySQL or PHP. This software is available for free under the GNU General Public License

37. Reseller hosting

A type of hosting in which another organization (the reseller) purchases hosting services in bulk, then resells them in smaller pieces to organizations in need of hosting. The reseller makes a profit for providing the service, but at times, customers can secure better pricing than they could if they were to purchase hosting individually

38. Shared hosting

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Ideal for smaller companies or startups that need hosting, but do not have the funds or need to host a high amount of data. In this hosting scenario, the organization leases server space from a server which it shares with other organizations. This can work out, but may come with bad hosting neighbours (see reference in list)

39. Simplescripts

An add-on service that complements blog sites, such as WordPress. The service provides one click installations and upgrades for blog sites, forums, photo galleries, and more to make installation and data transfer – not to mention website management – easy and convenient

40. Service level agreement (SLA)

A written agreement with a hosting provider or other organization that establishes the terms of the agreement, such as length of service, delivery schedule, specific scope, etc.

41. Site backup

The process of backing up your site to ensure that your data is safe and maintained in case of system failure or cyber attack. Some, but not all, hosting companies include back-up services as part of their hosting provisions

42. SSL certificate

Protects your website against malware, hackers, and cybertheft. SSL certificates are a good idea for any website, but particularly critical for ecommerce sites and any site that requires visitors to enter personal information

43. Top level domain (tld)

The Internet has a hierarchal domain name system which places some domains at a higher priority than others. There are several types of TLDs

44. Trial period

Some hosting companies provide a free trial which does allow you to better understand their services. However, hosting typically requires set-up and configuration, so moving your site if you choose not to stick with the service following the trial may cause site downtime or other growing pains

45. Unlimited hosting

A term that is intended to imply that the hosting fees cover unlimited data, disk usage, etc. However, this term is a misnomer as there are always limits to hosting; if there weren’t, hosting companies would lose money, not to mention run out of space

46. VPS hosting

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A form of hosting that provides the purchasing organization with a virtual private server (VPS). The VPS runs its own operating system which grants the customer superuser-level access so they can install the software of their choice, provided it runs on the matching OS

47. Web hosting

There are numerous hosting organizations out there – they essentially house your site, bringing it live to the Web and providing security and data storage services

48. Web server

This typically refers to hardware that helps to deliver content to the Web. Servers host information about websites, games, data, and more.

49. WordPress

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A free blogging and website building tool that uses a content management system (CMS) and is based on PHP and MySQL. There are countless plug-ins available so that users can customize their sites and run various add-on programs and utilities

50. Zen cart

A PHP-based online store management system that uses a MySQL database and HTML components. Previously united with OSCommerce, Zen Cart split in 2003 and is, like OSCommerce, available for free under the GNU General Public License

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How To Come Up with a New Idea for Your Blog Every Day

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It is a myth that you must post on your blog every day for it to be successful. Sites like href="http://zenhabits.net" target="_blank">Zen Habits and href="http://www.easygreenmom.com/" target="_blank">Easy Green Mom post an average of twice a week, yet have a strong following of readers. According to href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Zen-Habits/112127185466170" target="_blank">Zen Habits’ Facebook page, the blog has 240,000 subscribers. They have over 24,000 likes on Facebook. Easy Green Mom has over 8,000 likes on their href="https://www.facebook.com/easygreenmom" target="_blank">Facebook page.

On the other hand, href="http://weblogs.about.com/od/startingablog/qt/BlogPostingFreq.htm" target="_blank">About Guide Susan Gunelius, CEO of a marketing communications company, believes that posting frequently is key to keeping your readers. She uses the example of a newspaper and how people won’t read it or subscribe if the articles don’t change frequently. The truth is like most things, and probably somewhere in the middle between driving yourself insane trying to keep up with frequent posts and not updating your site often enough to keep readers interested.

However, while it might not be necessary to post every day to find success on your blog, there are many reasons why you might want to post every day. Perhaps you are taking part in the href="http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/" target="_blank">A to Z Blog Challenge and need to come up with 26 fabulous ideas for the month. Maybe you have set a personal goal to provide your readers with one post every day this month. Maybe you are planning a href="http://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.net/blog/blogging-tips/free-advertising-through-online-blog-tours/" target="_blank">guest blogging tour that lasts 30 days and you need to come up with 30 different blog posts. Whatever the reason, there are some things you can do that will help you come up with fresh ideas regularly.

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Writing prompts give you a simple idea that you can build on and grow into a unique post for your site. You will find ideas for daily writing prompts at:

• href="https://dailypost.wordpress.com/category/daily-prompts/" target="_blank">Daily Post – For example, one of the prompts was about your favorite way to spend a Saturday night. Does that spark any ideas for you?
• href="http://www.no2pen.com/blog/2012/12/bright-blog-post-ideas-for-every-day-of-the-year/" target="_blank">No 2 Pen – This blog offers 365 days worth of writing ideas. The posts are broken down by month and include diamonds like looking at the weather in your area and around the world and how that is impacting your business industry.
• href="http://www.daily-writing-prompt.com/" target="_blank">Daily Writing Prompt – This site is devoted completely to offering different types of writing prompts. You’ll find prompts for journaling, fiction, holidays, by calendar month and so much more.

Join a Blogging Event

I mentioned the A to Z Blogging Challenge above. There are many such blogging events that you can join, which can help you stay focused and even give you ideas on things to write about. For example, if you are on the letter A, you might choose to write about “A-List Clients and How to Keep Them”. Even a small tool like a letter of the alphabet can jog your thought processes and help you come up with a fresh idea. Here are some other events for bloggers.

• href="http://ultimateblogchallenge.com/" target="_blank">Ultimate Blog Challenge – This event is held once each quarter and encourages participants to blog for 30 days during a single month that quarter. Join in January, April, July and October.
• href="http://www.conversiondiary.com/2014/02/7-posts-7-days.html" target="_blank">7 Posts in 7 Days – Join other bloggers in this challenge that runs seven days at a time. Bloggers can follow each others new posts.
• href="http://suitcaseentrepreneur.com/blogchallenge/blog-challenge-day1/" target="_blank">Suitcase Entrepreneur 30-Day Blog Challenge – This challenge encourages you to write specific things for 30 days, but more importantly it has your explore things like why you started your blog, who you want to reach with your words and to look at long-term goals.

None of these quite what you’re looking for? You can also href="https://dailypost.wordpress.com/submit-blogging-event/" target="_blank">create your own blogging event and invite other bloggers to join you.

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10 Pinterest Boards Every Blogger Must Follow

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To say that Pinterest has captured the imagination of just about everyone on the web-verse would be too mainstream, but nonethless true. On a website that has emerged to be the fastest growing site in  Internet’s history,  there are benefits galore for everyone.

The pinboards, as we call them, are a great way to tuck in some heavy doses of information that comes straight from the experts. And bloggers in particular have been having spring times on Pinterest. If you are a blogger and if you are yet to discover Pinterest as a much-valuable tool, I won’t begin with my sermon on why you should explore it. Rather, here is a list of pinboards you must follow and you wil know what you have been missing.

1. Nicki | SEO Marketing

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As the name suggests, this one is a pinboard for bloggers who wish to tuck in some more SEO concepts, in order to make sure their blogs get good enough attention from search engines, thus garner good quality traffic. Nicki does out some of the most incredibly SEO techniques that can really perch you up and beyond your closest competitors. But she doesn’t dole them out in a typical yawn inducing manner. A clever tip here, an intriguing bit there – you have enough to savor here without feeling SEO-exhausted.

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2. Biz Strategist: Marketing

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For content marketing aficionados, Amanda Genther has put up a great pinbaord that boasts of a savage usefulness and a sincere attempt at educating the writers one more aspect of writing – an aspect that will push their content further into the market. all the technicalities of inbound and outbound traffic can well and truly be understood here, and then can be applied on your blog for it to gain more leverage and mileage on the Internet. the versatility of the pinboard is incredible, and pretty much unassailable.

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3. B2CInfographics

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All bloggers on the web-verse would speak in near unison when asked to recite homilies of the Infographics. The Infographics tell you way more than you ever bargained to know, without making you squint hard on any elaborative piece of text. With a clever use of pictures and information bits scattered throughout, in a very intuitive manner, this has proved to be one tool that has captured the attention of bloggers worldwide. And this particular pinboard by B2C Community leverages on that popularity quite emphatically.

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4. Allyssa Barnes

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The WordPress pinboard of Allyssa Barnes is aimed at offering bloggers WordPress tips and tit bits in spades. This pinboard contains a number of posts around the WordPress CMS functionalities, tips and plugins. Anyone who is yet to find his way around WordPress can leverage this pinboard and gather as much information and knowledge as they can. It brings forth plugins of all kinds – for pinterest, facebook, for analytics, SEO, etc.

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5. Sarah Beckham’s Content Marketing Pinboard

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Sarah Beckham lays great stress on content marketing – an exercise you need to get your quality content gain some recognition. She makes sure the pinboard is pretty diverse by suggesting efficient and versatile ways to achieve content marketing success. Sarah understands the areas where one should give the requisite stress and the areas where any vulgar stress should be done away with. Delivering focus in her  tips and write ups around content promotion tips, Sarah also makes use of a number of Infographics that astutely illustrate the role content marketing can play, and how it can be made best use of.

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6. Rebekah Radice’s Social Media Marketing

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This is exactly what the doctor ordered! The bloggers who have been finding it challenging to promote their blogs through the social media platform have some help coming along. Everything you need to know about social media marketing is right here for your consideration. From Infographics to elaborative articles to one-line tips and elucidatory illustrations – every bit of information on the pinboard is aimed at delivering preciseness. style="line-height: 1.5em; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium;">

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href="http://www.pinterest.com/rebekahradice/social-media-marketing/">Rebekah Radice’s Social Media Marketing

7. This (sorta) old Life’s Blogging/Social Media

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The propulsive pinboard is another haven for bloggers who add some more voice to their writings and deliver greater focus. But it not only focuses on the writing side of things. This one also draws your focus on how you can extract more out of social media and let your blog enjoy some leverage to get higher traffic. There are tips pertaining to Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and just about every social media platform you can think of.

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href="http://www.pinterest.com/ritaramstad/bloggingsocial-media/">This (sorta) old Life’s Blogging/Social Media

8. So! What? Social

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They might end up being overused in near future, but would never be over-exhausted. With a growing bent towards passing off some knowledgeable bits by the means of Infographics, their popularity is witnessing a higher surge, and this pinboard is a prime example of the same. It brings forth some insightful Infographics on social media and the corporate circle, and provides a burst of some incredible information for you to stumble upon. Bloggers looking to create an infographic themselves can take inspiration.

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href="http://www.pinterest.com/sowhatsocial/infographics/">So! What? Social

9. Blue Host

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More WordPress for you. Considering how WordPress has changed the rules of the game, it is imperative that you take in as much of WordPress as you can. A highly interactive pinboard, it puts forth everything right there for your consideration. Follow it to stay at top of the WordPress radar and expand your blogging horizon to newer avenues.

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10. Sara Pirate

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Sara covers it All – from eBook to SEO to social media. And her pinboard also boils with a considerable number of intuitive and insightful Infographics. The pinboard contains several links to posts that explain how a blogger can write content keeping in mind the best practices pertaining to being indexed by Google and the likewise search engines.

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href="http://www.pinterest.com/CleverPirate/blogging/">Sara Pirate

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Why There’s More to Blogging Than Writing – A Road Map to Guide You Through Every Article You Post

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Wouldn’t life be simple if all one had to do was write up a quick post and schedule it to go live? Ask any blogger you know and he or she will tell you that blogging is about so much more than just the writing part of the job.

Instead, you have to juggle a lot of different plates at once to truly build a noteworthy blog that readers will want to return to time and again.

It’s important to write the best content possible, href="http://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.net/blog/blogging-tips/how-to-magnetize-your-blog-and-build-your-readership/" target="_blank">magnetize your blog to draw readers to it, promote your blog and keep them coming back for more.

Somewhere between all that, you have to make sure you’re href="http://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.net/blog/web-copy-writing/keep-your-readers-interested-with-hooks-and-hangers/" target="_blank">keeping readers engaged while reading your work and plug in a few Call to Action phrases.

If you’re exhausted just thinking about it all, this simple road map will guide you through the steps you need to take to have a successful blog. The starting point is the first thing you write. The finish line is marketing and community engagement.

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