Profile: Lisa Casali – ecocucina.org

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Lisa Casali's blog, ecocucina, combines her two passions; cooking and the environment. She has found a unique and interesting way to fuse cooking advice with an environmentally friendly approach. On ecocucina Lisa manages to create great images to go with each recipe she shares. Lisa was able to spend a few minutes discussing ecocucina with me. "My blog is about how to reduce our environmental impact about food." The blog was started in 2009 as a way "to sensitize people to eat and cook more sustainably." What makes ecocucina truly unique is the approach to the ingredients for each...

Profile: Amee Livingston – AmeesSavoryDish.com

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What do you get when you combine a passion for Southern Cooking, the creativity of a seasoned chef and the discipline of a fitness coach? AmeesSavoryDish.com. Amee Livingston, the creator of Amee's Savory Dish, delivers a great example of a healthy living blog consisting of recipes and tips on living a healthy lifestyle. Amee took a moment to tell us about her journey. "I began my blogging adventure in 2010." "I started my blog purely for enjoyment, it was a fun way to share my passion for fitness and food with others. I didn't realize that there were a lot of financial opportunitie...

You don’t have to do it all… Outsourced Writing

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One of the most important parts of blogging is consistency. If you drop off your efforts, your readers will notice. Over time, inconsistent blogging damages your credibility. Eventually, your readers will leave if they cannot depend on you. However, there is another way. Yes, only you know your message and only you have your brand of humor or personality. However, there are many great writers out there that are fully qualified to take on some of your writing chores. Say you like the "fun" posts, but you just cant get these out regularly. You can outsource the "base" or "foundation" artic...

5 Ways To Attract More Visitors To Your Blog

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Trending Topics One of the easiest and most effective ways to attract new visitors to a blog is to write about trending topics. If a particular topic is being talked about in the news and media, you can expect people to search for it online. Check out Google Trends for some topic ideas. Another helpful tool is Hasthtags.org, which displays the top #hashtags currently trending on Twitter. Comment on Other Blogs How can commenting on other blogs bring traffic to your own blog? Assuming the blog allows visitors to submit comments, you should be able to include a backlink pointing to your blog....

9 Blog Post Ideas for Going Viral

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Anyone who publishes content on the Internet wants their work to go viral. Going viral means that the content spoke to so many people that they shared it with friends, liked it, commented on it and blogged about it on their own spaces. It's the holy grail for any blogger or content creator. It can be quite difficult to go viral, but there are ways to increase the likelihood that people will like and share your content. Hosting Your Content vs social media outlets First, you should start a blog with your favorite hosting company. While you can post to social media outlets, you want a main...

Coming Up With Ideas

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The goal of writing for the web in today's SEO environment is to write for readers, not search engines. This means that your topic choices should be guided by the needs of your customers or readers. As we discussed previously, simply looking at the searches that people make involving certain keywords can yield tremendous insight into what people are looking for. There are a few other ways to tap into the needs of your readers directly: Question sites, like Quora or Ask.com, often yield valuable insights into what questions people may have about any given topic. Find questions that seem to ...

Choosing a Hosting Service For Your Blog

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One of the steps in launching a blog is signing up for a web hosting service. The hosting company will host your blog's files and database, displaying your blog on the Internet for the world to see. But with so many different web hosts out there, ranging in price, service, speed and reliability, how to you know which one to choose? When you sign up for a web host, you'll have to choose which type of account is right for your needs. The three main types of web hosting accounts are as follows: Shared – several customers (usually hundreds or thousands) share resources on a single serve...

Graphics from Fiverr…I kid you not, this happened

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So, I had been thinking alot about having one of those stylized images of me on this site. You know, the images that look like they have been painted or watercolored or created with markers. I figure what better way to do this than to go to fiverr.com. After all, Fiverr.com has been a great place to go for other simple needs...(hint: writing isnt one of these). Anyway, I create the job, pay the $5.50 plus a $5 expedite fee. I send them this image. . Yeah, I know. Its pretty lame, but I needed this type of image for my book and its the one I had handy. Now, I was expecting something...

Blogging: A Step-By-Step Guide

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If you spend time on the Internet, you probably already know how important blogging has become. Businesses rely on their blogs as a way to connect with customers and share information about their product. Authors use blogs to show off their expertise and gain a following. Reporters, chefs, politicians and stay-at-home moms alike can become successful bloggers. If you want to show off your expertise, build a brand or simply launch a company that you can manage from the comfort of your home, you should start blogging. Running a blog takes some time and dedication, but getting started is easy. I...

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