Most of the blog posts I write make the assumption that you have been blogging for a while, and understand the basics. However, for those of you who are just passing through to decide whether a blog is right for you, here is my perspective.

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Making The Jump To Writing Your First Blog

After my previous post on little known blogging tools , there are some more tools that may not be directly related to pressing Publish, but can certainly help with your blogging life. WebMii is related to the previously mentioned Social Mention and Addictomatic , but rather than looking at your brand reputation (though you can do that too), WebMii searches the web for your first name and last name. It’s pretty cool actually, especially if you name is your brand, but of course, unlike your brand, your name is often not unique so you can find out some interesting namesakes! Gliffy is a cool online diagram drawing tool

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More Easy Blogging Tools For You

This week I have a great audio interview that Andrew and I did with one of our wonderful Income Blogging Guide members, Debbie Bills from Happy Maker Now . It’s only about 22 minutes long and will give you more background on what you can expect from becoming a member of our blogging course. If you’d rather read it than listen to it, there is a full transcript below.

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Podcast: How Income Blogging Guide Can Help You With Debbie Bills

Understanding and factoring in Search Engine Optimization when you’re posting articles can be a bit daunting. However, there are organizations out there that provide data to help which can help your search engine ranking.

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Blogging To Increase Your Search Engine Ranking

Most of us at some point or another have thought about the possibilities of guest blogging, or may even be doing it right now. Guest blogging is the exchange of information (content) from one blogger to another, for a site which is not your own. It can be hard enough coming up with original content for your own site, so the idea of writing for someone else on top of your usual routine probably fills you with dread

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Why Bother Guest Posting?

Last week I told you that Income Blogging Guide has re-opened and to help promote it you have a chance to win an 8G iPod Nano (5th Generation – worth $125). All you need to do is download our free Income Blogging Guide Blueprint . Entering is really easy

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Fancy An iPod Nano?

Now this post is going to be slightly ironic as it’s text but hey I do lots of videos too! Unless you have been living on the moon for the past few months, you may have noticed that video is taking off , when it comes to delivering information through your blog. Online marketing videos are the latest craze for people wanting to promote themselves, their company and their products. Making the jump to video is easier than ever, and we need to keep up to date with new technology developments to keep our blog at the forefront of people’s attention! Here’s why using video on your blog can provide a cheap, easy and engaging way to encourage people to come to your blog, stay a while, and then return to it again and again… You get your message seen by your target audience These days, people have less and less time to spend on…just about everything! Long pages of text may be informative, but it could put some of your potential customers off if they think they’re going to have to spend time reading it.

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Why You Should Use Video On Your Blog

It’s my privilege to be a co-founder of the Income Blogging Guide Membership course , and this week it has re-opened its doors to new members and we’d like to celebrate. To celebrate (and generate some buzz, of course!), we are holding a contest where you can win the latest 8G iPod Nano (5th Generation – worth $125). Please note: if you live outside the U.S.

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Win The Latest 8G iPod Nano – Enter The Simple IncomeBloggingGuide.com Contest

You can’t visit many blogs these days without seeing the Twitter logo and being invited to ‘Tweet’. Twitter is a micro-blogging tool which is becoming more and more widely-used and no longer seen as just a bunch of people “writing about what they had for dinner” (I had a salad by the way…). Here are a few ideas on how Twitter is beneficial for you or your business: As a research tool: It allows you insight into an amazing community of people from around the world to find out what they are thinking, feeling and experiencing in different ways

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Using Twitter To Promote Your Blog and Enhance Your Business

Those in the WordPress world understand that security is a key concern of any online application, and that includes with WordPress. After all, the majority of updates released by the WordPress team involve hardening – or securing – the WordPress platform against continuous ingenious attacks and vulnerabilities that are discovered.

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10 Plugins To Harden WordPress