ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2011

This year, I tried to go outside of the social media echo-chamber and focus on people who are expanding beyond their blogs. As Michael Stelzner said at Blogworld, “You’re not a blogger, you’re a publisher!”. Alexis Grant is a publishing powerhouse. These are 20 people who stood out to me this year.

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Intergrowth

MARCH 24, 2023

ShareASale connects publishers to advertisers who are looking for help driving sales. Publishers can get paid per phone call, lead, or website visitor that they drive for the advertiser. Fair warning: I’ve been using this tool daily since 2012, so I’m a bit biased here. Looking for help managing content marketing and SEO?

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Neil Patel

JULY 23, 2021

SlideShare is a content-sharing platform that allows you to upload media presentations and share them on your website or social media profile. Acquired by LinkedIn in 2012 , the company was later bought by the audiobook subscription platform Scribd. Let’s get started. What Is SlideShare? It is free to use for anyone.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 5, 2021

Google Hangouts on Air launched in 2012, with Google adding live-streaming and community elements to their already existing Hangouts platform. With Spreaker, you can publish your podcast quickly and easily using their Content Management System. What Was Google Hangouts on Air? At the time, it made perfect sense.

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Top Content Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2022

Medium is a website and online publishing platform that enables its users to share their stories and ideas with the world. Another major difference between Medium and most blogging platforms is that it allows its users to post content without placing ads on their site. Medium was started in 2012 by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams.

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The Creative Penn

MAY 8, 2023

Michael Anderle (LMBPN), Joanna Penn (The Creative Penn), and Dan Wood (DRaft2Digital) at London Book Fair, April 2023 Dan Wood is the COO of Draft2Digital , which helps authors self-publish alongside excellent support. He's also the co-author of many more with other authors under his company LMBPN Publishing. Both: Hello.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 11, 2024

There are more options for publishing and reaching readers than ever before, and the indie author business models are splintering and diverging, so how do we know which path to follow? This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system.

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Buffer

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In 2012, we regularly had writers like Matt Ragland share their unique perspectives on the blog. We’ve published 17 guest posts that have brought in over 26,000 pageviews to the blog, with some pieces performing as well as in-house content. We also loop in our social media manager, Mitra Mehvar, for social content.

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Neil Patel

MAY 19, 2020

Lesson #5: SEO will never convert as well as paid ads. Here’s the main reason: If you are bidding on terms like auto insurance through ads , you can drive people to a landing page that looks like this: But if you want to rank organically, you’ll have to do it through content. I publish one new blog post a week.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The spider notes new documents and changes, which are then added to the searchable index Google maintains. Those pages are only added if they contain quality content and don’t trigger any alarms by doing shady things like keyword stuffing or building a bunch of links from unreputable sources. What Website Indexing Factors Matter?

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Freelance Writing Jobs

JUNE 20, 2023

And if you’re smart and have a little bit of luck, that passive income can start adding up to a significant amount. You can also consider hosting display ads on your blog by partnering with advertising networks like Google AdSense and Ezoic or reaching out to brands to suggest a sponsorship deal.

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Smart Blogger

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In a 2011 study published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology , experts found that our brains process “tangible” (i.e. And in a study published for Brain and Language in 2012, psychologists found that a certain part of our brain is “activated” when we read sensory words. sensory) words faster than other words.

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Neil Patel

JULY 12, 2021

Marketing automation is the act of using software and technology to create and implement applications to automate repetitive tasks, such as (yes) email marketing, ad campaigns, tracking, and much more. Use AdRoll to Automate Ad Campaigns. Unfortunately, they don’t publish their pricing. What is Marketing Automation?

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The Creative Penn

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In the intro, Self-publishing's ongoing evolution [ Publishers Weekly ]; Audiobooks on Spotify and how my listening behavior is changing [ FindawayVoices ]; Author ecosystems , and an overview on the Kickstart your book sales podcast. First of all, on that whole lifetime deal companies, all of that, this is the same with publishers.

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Freelance Writing Jobs

AUGUST 15, 2022

Medium is a unique publishing platform that enables content creators to share their work, and get paid. While you may not be able to rely on Medium to generate a full-time income, there are other benefits you can reap by publishing on the platform. But again, the ads and clicks generate revenue for the writer, not the article.

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Freelance Writing Jobs

AUGUST 15, 2022

Medium is a unique publishing platform that enables content creators to share their work, and get paid. While you may not be able to rely on Medium to generate a full-time income, there are other benefits you can reap by publishing on the platform. But again, the ads and clicks generate revenue for the writer, not the article.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 6, 2023

In the intro, publishing trends for 2023 [ Written Word Media ]; Apple AI narration ; ChatGPT into Bing [ The Verge ]; Comments on Audible [ Brandon Sanderson , Audiblegate ]; TikTok ban and problems [ Reuters , Rolling Stone ]; my Pilgrimage Kickstarter. Different ways to monetize your brand to make ads profitable.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 6, 2023

But because they're shorter books, I've still been publishing as much. Joanna: Well, just on the Kickstarter, I mean, your social media posts are often just interesting things with dragons on them, right, like lamps and random stuff with dragons. So I'm writing fewer words a day , I used to shoot for like 7,000 to 10,000.

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Backlinko

AUGUST 17, 2023

Retargeting ad campaigns involve targeting products to users who have previously visited your site or bought one of your products in the past. With this data gathered, you can create intricate target audiences for future social media and Google Ads campaigns. On both versions, you have a data limit of 2,000 properties.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 20, 2017

A screenshot from semrush, showing the growth of traffic since 2012. The blog is caloriesecrets.net , it was established in April 2012 and by the end of April 2013, monthly traffic from Google was 102,944. It helps you see at a glance your traffic details and the relationship between number of published posts and traffic.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 13, 2017

In 2012, Barclays launched the mobile app Pingit , a mobile payment service that lets users transfer money easily through their mobile phones. Soon after the app was launched, Barclays made the most of its social media buzz to collect real-time user feedback. Available only for U.K.

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The Creative Penn

MARCH 18, 2024

In the intro, will TikTok be banned in the USA, and how will this impact authors and publishing? Today's show is sponsored by Draft2Digital , self-publishing with support, where you can get free formatting, free distribution to multiple stores, and a host of other benefits. When did you start self-publishing? So that was fun.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

billion Zhang Yiming (41) founded ByteDance, the parent company of the popular social media platform TikTok. He founded the company in 2012, and it has since become one of the most valuable startups in the world. In October 2017, Magic Leap announced the partnership with online comic book publisher Madefire.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 3, 2017

It’d always frustrate me after I publish a post on my blog. Did I publish at the wrong time? Use a mainstream media to promote my content. This meant publishing my post on active social media sites: Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Google+, and Quora to drive more traffic to my blog.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

What Happened to Me in 2012 Penguin Updates. My site, WebHostingSecretRevealed.com, was hit badly during the Google Penguin update in 2012. Here’s an example: I published a guest post on Blogging Wizard in April two years ago. Share the page on your social media pages and forum signatures to increase the chances of being seen.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

The story need not be long or highly personal story – it could simply be sharing how you did something in your business (you’ll see me do this below when I talk about how on dPS we added a Flickr Group to dPS as an intermediate step on the way to starting a forum, now a Facebook Group ). 161 people added a comment.

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Moz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Consider: In 2012, small businesses made up 99.7% Bring creativity to bear in publicizing your most compelling reasons to shop local on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and other social media platforms. Mention was made of the famous Nike ad featuring abolitionist, Colin Kaepernick. of US employer firms.

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 26, 2024

James: I think the version of Xara I use now is from 2012. James: Yes, it was one of the Lotus Desktop Publishing. There used to be a thing called desktop publishing software. Like Meta, for example, Meta ads. Or Amazon ads, Amazon, of course, is driven by AI. It was the 90s. Joanna: I love that.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 8, 2023

Back in 2012, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos shocked the tech world by admitting that Amazon doesn’t make a profit on Kindles. Publish An Engaging and Informative E-blast or Newsletter There are few things as tried and tested as the newsletter, and it’s a great method of improving LTV. Publish authoritative content. Be responsive.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 24, 2023

Referral visitors : These visitors click through a link to your site from somewhere else, whether that’s another website, a social media page, or somewhere else. Pages Per Visit Internal linking is a huge part of publishing successful content. In 2012, the average organic reach of a page was 16 percent.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

What Happened to Me in 2012 Penguin Updates. My site, WebHostingSecretRevealed.com, was hit badly during the Google Penguin update in 2012. Here’s an example: I published a guest post on Blogging Wizard in April two years ago. Share the page on your social media pages and forum signatures to increase the chances of being seen.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 11, 2018

Update the post to fit with what’s happening today (particularly if you write about software, social media, or any other area that changes rapidly). Consider adding more detail. Ultimately, what matters is that you (re)publish the best post you can. In 2012, I published an updated edition of that ebook.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 28, 2012

In fact, these days, even social media sites can become lucrative platforms for affiliate marketing campaigns. offers affiliate, media, and tracking services and provides either a self-management or company-managed option for your affiliate relationships. This guest post is by Charles Dearing of WhoIsHostingThis.com.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

The story need not be long or highly personal story – it could simply be sharing how you did something in your business (you’ll see me do this below when I talk about how on dPS we added a Flickr Group to dPS as an intermediate step on the way to starting a forum, now a Facebook Group ). 161 people added a comment.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2018

During 2018, authors and publishers created some of the most helpful and sophisticated content marketing books. I speak from review experience, as I’ve been sharing the plusses and minuses of content marketing books since 2012. Here are some of the best options published in 2018 (and, in one case, the closing months of 2017).

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

With social media platforms becoming the online communication too du jour, and with smartphones and other devices becoming for many the preferred platform, blogs have fallen to the wayside in favour of shorter, punchier messages specifically tailored to hit a reader’s buttons. People Interact on Social Media, Not Your Sites.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 22, 2013

Longread content is becoming more popular on social media and the web in general , and publishers are finding that while it costs to create longform content, it pays. Yet research has shown that many social shares aren’t read before they’re shared (and as for afterwards, who knows?). ”—Neil Patel.

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