How to blog successfully
Blogging can be a very rewarding experience if you are writing about something you are passionate about. Successful blogs often acts as a source of income for their blog writers, and many people start or shape their careers around the blogs they have started. If you are interested in getting involved in the wonderful world of blogging, read these steps on how to blog successfully: Set up your blog: the first step to blogging is setting up an account with a b
read moreUse your blog to increase your rankings
What can you do to increase your organic rankings on the search engines for your website? By adding a blog to your internet marketing strategy you can do this. By using a blog and optimizing your blog posts, each post adds an additional page to your website that can be fresh, relevant, and keyword rich. Using this method can be a great way to increase your organic search results on the search engines. Blogging requires that you write original and interesting conte
read moreSimple blogging strategy to get results
If one of your goals with your internet marketing strategy is to increase sales from targeted traffic, then you should consider creating an optimized blogging campaign to get more out of your website. If you own a blog, the best thing you can do is to keep the content interesting and engaging so that targeted visitors will keep coming back to learn more. Activity and engagement attracts Google and this can increase your organic website rankings. Everyone is always t
read morePinterest marketing ideas
As I mentioned in my previous blog about Pinterest (link to Francoisblog2), this is the fastest growing social media network – with 10-million monthly visitors, it’s an increasingly important place to “be seen”. What makes Pinterest different from Twitter and Facebook is that you don’t need a lot of followers or friends to be seen. It’s a very “open” website and people can stumble upon any pin board when pinning pictures. Think out of the box You’r
read moreLayar – the new augmented reality browser
WSI recently live tweeted and blogged a social media conference where one of the speakers told everyone that Layar is “the next big thing”. We just touched on the topic and I don’t think many people really understood what the site is about (“augmented reality browser” doesn’t really make a lot of sense right off the bat), so here’s a bit of information about what this is and how it works: What is Layar? Layar is a free-to-download augmented reality br
read moreAbout Pinterest
When asked what the fastest growing social media network is, people automatically think of Facebook and Twitter. Pinterest, however, is the fast growing social network and if your brand isn’t on there – you’re missing out. The website has over ten million monthly visitors, which is a huge amount of traffic. Around 70% of the site’s users are women. The site is valued at £125-million and everyone from Whole Foods, the US Army and the Backstreet Boys already
read moreMore live tweeting and blogging at the Social Media & Tourism Forum
From Tuesday, 27 February to Thursday, 1 March, we were live blogging and tweeting the Social Media Tourism Forum. The event, which was organised by Global Prospectus Training, took place at the Crowne Plaza in Johannesburg and there were top speakers from rad digital agencies in South Africa (one of the speakers – Marvin Tumbo – came all the way from Kenya to attend the event). Most of the attendees were either from local municipalities and tourist destinations
read moreHow to Set Up Your Own Blog
There are many online blogging platforms that you can use to set up your very own blog. You do not need any web design experience to set up and start writing a blog- anyone can do it. Blogging platforms provide you with the web space you need to start getting your message across. These are considered to be the five best blogging platforms: Blogger: This is a free web based blogging platform. Tumblr: This is also free of charge. Wordpress: This is a very popular, ea
read moreWhat is a blog?
A blog is best described as a website that you constantly update with articles or blog entries. You can treat your blog as a forum, a diary, a news room or a special interest forum. The best part about having a blog is that you can write or blog about anything you like. You can use it to promote your company or services or write about the latest celebrity gossip – whatever your heart desires. The key to any successful blog is activity. You need to keep writing and
read moreIncrease your online visibility with a blog marketing strategy
If you have been blogging for a while and you are not having any success, you might have a couple of questions looming over your head. How do you measure if your blog marketing strategy is successful? What topics have you written that were the best received? Of course you can use web analytics to track the number of visitors to your blog, but traffic doesn’t mean anything without a blog marketing strategy and if no one is engaging with your content. Find below
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