November, 2016

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How to “Properly” Move WordPress from HTTP to HTTPS

ThemeIsle

Back in 2014, Google made the announcement that HTTPS was officially a ranking factor for Google search. That one little decision took HTTPS from “that thing that only ecommerce stores need to worry about” to “something every WordPress user should implement if they want to maximize their search rankings” But as important as it is, The post How to “Properly” Move WordPress from HTTP to HTTPS appeared first on Themeisle Blog.

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Are you one of life's success stories? Here's how I found success right under my nose!

Contented

Last week I went to a marketing seminar. The session was led by really enthusiastic sales and marketing experts with high impact careers. But rather than feel really boosted by the hyped-up energy in the room, I came away thinking that we are always fed the same vision of success – the vision that we should all aspire to building a global empire — a mega-brand, being self-made multi-millionaires and being at the top of our chosen game — no matter the personal cost to our health and our relations

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Should You Move Your Blogging Site To HTTPS?

ProBlogger

By ProBlogger SEO expert Jim Stewart of StewArt Media. You’ve no doubt seen the subject of HTTPS in the media recently – the importance of applying it to your blogging website in order to preserve your Google rankings has been widely reported. But what does it mean for you? Do you have to drop everything and start the process of moving over right away, or will it pay to wait a few months?

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How to Set Up All In One SEO: A Yoast SEO Alternative

ThemeIsle

In this tutorial, we'll teach you how to set up All In One SEO. We'll also review the pricing options (spoiler alert: there's a free version) and its various features. Plus you'll get breakdown of All In One SEO vs Yoast to help you decide which one to use. The post How to Set Up All In One SEO: A Yoast SEO Alternative appeared first on Themeisle Blog.

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing

Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.

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How to Create Blog Images for WordPress With Canva (100% Free)

ThemeIsle

Are you including blog images in your WordPress posts? Years back, it was normal for blog posts to just be text. But these days, your posts need some visual imagery to really stand out. For instance, BuzzSumo found that articles with images every 75-100 words got shared more often than those with fewer images. But here’s. The post How to Create Blog Images for WordPress With Canva (100% Free) appeared first on Themeisle Blog.

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Don’t Kill Your SEO Chances Before Your Blog Has Even Begun

ProBlogger

This is a guest contribution from Matt Clough. There’s nothing like the rush of a new idea forming in your mind, the adrenalin that comes from suddenly have a clear focus and direction. This is as true with blogging as it is anything else. If you’ve got an exciting new blogging project, it’s very tempting to get the not particularly exciting stuff – hosting, blog platform selection – over and done with as quickly as possible in order to move on to truly bringing your idea to life.

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Community Discussion: Traffic Growing Tips

ProBlogger

It can be argued that getting traffic is the number-one priority for just about every blogger – for reach, for influence, for authority, for sales… it’s what we all aim to grow. Over the years here at ProBlogger we’ve discussed traffic and how to get it over and over again. We’ve talked about how content is king (and also so is being useful ), getting traffic without advertising , optimising for SEO , leveraging your Facebook presence , small tweaks for big results

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4 things I Learnt as a Blogger Working at an Influencer Marketing Platform

ProBlogger

This is a guest contribution from Sam Wright at techgirlblog.com. . I’d had my technology lifestyle blog for little over a year when I began working with an influencer marketing platform, connecting brands and bloggers on sponsored collaborations. Blogging in my region hadn’t become a true income source yet (that has changed in recent months and I like to think I had something to do with it) and a solid nine-to-fiver seemed the “safe” bet, especially as the platform would let me continue my blog

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Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?

ProBlogger

Well now, wasn’t that an eventful week? I don’t know about you but it’s been hard to get my head around work and usual processes when everything has been shaken up so much. Social media was in its element (both good and bad, really) with election news, but regardless of what’s going on at the top, we have to keep on working and making our projects the best they can be.

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New to Blogging? Ditch the Fear of Judgement

ProBlogger

By ProBlogger psychology expert Ellen Jackson. You will become way less concerned with what people think of you when you realise how seldom they do. David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest. I wrote my first blog post two years ago, after a seven-year hiatus from writing. It was not an intentional hiatus – it was fear-induced. I was scared of feeling.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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New to Blogging? Ditch the Fear of Judgement

ProBlogger

By ProBlogger psychology expert Ellen Jackson. You will become way less concerned with what people think of you when you realise how seldom they do. David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest. I wrote my first blog post two years ago, after a seven-year hiatus from writing. It was not an intentional hiatus – it was fear-induced. I was scared of feeling.

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Increasing Your Completion Rates – How to Get Participants to Finish Your Course

ProBlogger

From ProBlogger Expert Sam Nordberg. Online courses are all the rage right now, but sadly, there are some staggering figures when it comes to completion… and not in a good way. Seth Godin shared on Tim Ferriss’s podcast once that most online courses have a drop off rate of 97% , and even his own courses have a drop off rate of 80%. 80%?! That means that only 20% of the people who sign up for the course actually get through to finishing it.

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Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?

ProBlogger

New emojis have given me cause to celebrate this week, as has the encouragment of early sucking – read on! The Importance of Sucking at a New Job for a Year Or Two | Ross McCammon. I can’t stress the importance of this! Even if the “new job” is your blog. You need to suck at it, and suck at it early so you can get better at it faster!

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Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?

ProBlogger

Facebook Says It Found More Miscalculated Metrics | The Wall Street Journal. Whoops! Three Different Ways to Name Your Blog or Website | Aliventures. It’s such a big decision! And sometimes we need all the help we can get. How Often to Post on Social Media? [Proven Research from 10 Studies] | CoSchedule. We read this sort of thing every time, and plenty of it does come down to when your audience responds best.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service

Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.

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Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?

ProBlogger

As November winds up (and plenty of you are still enjoying what’s left of the Thanksgiving weekend), Instagram continues to roll out Snapchat-style changes, we have some epiphanies courtesy of Seth Godin and Unsettle blogger Sarah Peterson, and thinking from the point of view of our customers (those of us who have them!). The internet never sleeps!

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44% Off the Best Thing We Created in 2016

ProBlogger

Black Friday is almost upon us, with Cyber Monday right around the corner – the ‘silly season’ has started and before you know it we’ll be panicking about the holidays and whether we’ve ended up on the Naughty or Nice list! Here at ProBlogger we’re busy working on some exciting plans for 2017, but paused to think about what we could do for you to round out 2016.

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Community Discussion: Guest Post Pitching Strategies

ProBlogger

As the editor of ProBlogger for the last three years, you can imagine I’ve seen every. pitch. ever. when it comes to guest posting. The most I see (and immediately delete) are the ones that are copied and pasted straight from a template, with a couple of ProBlogger links inserted, and obviously emailed to all and sundry in the hopes something might be successful.

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PB168: 7 Steps to Editing Your Blog Posts

ProBlogger

Edit Your Blog Posts With Seven Simple Steps. A lot is taught about the importance of writing great blog posts, but it is in the editing of your writing that your post can really be made to shine. If left unedited, it can create a very different impression that can hurt people’s view of you and your blog. In today’s episode, I want to share with you a simple 7 step process to editing your posts.

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Lets Get Physical: How to Blend Direct Mail Marketing with Your Digital Strategy

Speaker: Akeel Jabber, B2B SaaS Investor and Growth Marketer at Horizen Capital

⭐ Are you ready to boost campaign success? Consider the untapped potential of integrating direct mail marketing seamlessly with digital marketing strategies. Combining the physical, tangible impact of direct mail with the dynamic reach of digital marketing can be a game-changer, significantly increasing your ROI when done right. Direct mail grabs attention, making it great for reaching your target audience 📩 Digital marketing keeps the momentum going, driving action 📲 So.

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The Subtle art of Successful Blogging – an interview with NYT Bestseller Mark Manson

ProBlogger

Mark Manson is arguably one of the hottest bloggers in the world right now. Over two million people visit his self-improvement blog each month and his new book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life has gone off in a big way, recently hitting The New York Times bestseller list. Mark started blogging in 2008 in the dating space, before pivoting to personal development in 2011.

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How to Create Consistently Valuable Content for Your Blog

ProBlogger

Doing something of value is a basic motive that drives us in doing pretty much anything in our lives. Writing is a passion and there is a little art in every piece of content we create, irrelevant of the topic or the reason why we put the words in this sequence on the sheet in front of us. When we talk about blogging, we should consider the value of our texts, especially if we write professionally and there are targets to be reached.

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How to Grow Fans and Save Your Sanity by Changing the Season

ProBlogger

In September, I had one of the best conference experiences of my life.The atmosphere was friendly, supportive, motivated. The talks were top quality, innovative, engaging. The delivery was trendy, slick, seamless. The event, of course, was ProBlogger Event. Now, despite the motivation, the enthusiasm, the drive, I still heard the same thing, over and over again, from attendees.

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PB165: Interview with Daniel Flynn – Thankyou Cofounder

ProBlogger

An Interview with Daniel Flynn – Co-founder of Thankyou. In today’s episode, we hear from Daniel Flynn, co-founder and Managing Director of Thankyou a social enterprise that sells consumer products like water, nappies, hand sanitiser and much more here in Australia and soon to be New Zealand. They give 100% of their profits to end extreme poverty.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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PB167: My Million Dollar Blog Post? (and How Procrastination Almost Stopped me Writing It)

ProBlogger

How to Overcome Blogger Procrastination. In today’s lesson I want to talk about an issue that I think is at the heart of why many blogs don’t reach their potential. In fact it’s an issue that I think is at the heart of why many people don’t reach their potential in many areas of life. Listen to this episode here on iTunes. I want to talk about procrastination and why we so often don’t do what we know we should do.

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PB167: How Procrastination Stopped Me Writing a Million Dollar Blog Post (and how I overcame it)

ProBlogger

How to Overcome Blogger Procrastination. In today’s lesson I want to talk about an issue that I think is at the heart of why many blogs don’t reach their potential. In fact it’s an issue that I think is at the heart of why many people don’t reach their potential in many areas of life. Listen to this episode here on iTunes. I want to talk about procrastination and why we so often don’t do what we know we should do.

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PB168: 7 Steps to Editing Your Blog Posts

ProBlogger

Edit Your Blog Posts With Seven Simple Steps. A lot is taught about the importance of writing great blog posts, but it is in the editing of your writing that your post can really be made to shine. If left unedited, it can create a very different impression that can hurt people’s view of you and your blog. In today’s episode, I want to share with you a simple 7 step process to editing your posts.

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More Ways to Grow Your Blog’s Traffic Without Google Search

ProBlogger

By ProBlogger Expert Jerry Low. Google traffic is lucrative – there’s no doubt about that. Often, the most effective way to attract targeted traffic is to make sure your site is optimized for Google searches. As you may have already learned, winning that targeted traffic is one of the top strategies for making money on the web. However (and this is a big however), depending solely on Google organic search is not a good business model.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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PB165: Interview with Daniel Flynn – Thankyou Cofounder

ProBlogger

An Interview with Daniel Flynn – Co-founder of Thankyou. In today’s episode, we hear from Daniel Flynn, co-founder and Managing Director of Thankyou a social enterprise that sells consumer products like water, nappies, hand sanitiser and much more here in Australia and soon to be New Zealand. They give 100% of their profits to end extreme poverty.

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How to Make Time for Blogging During Your Lunch Break

ProBlogger

This is a guest contribution from Larry Alton. Blogging is something that we all know we need to do. But as a busy professional with a weekly schedule consisting of non-stop meetings, conference calls, project deadlines, and personal responsibilities, actually making time for blogging can seem impossible. The good news is that it’s possible to blog without inconveniencing your schedule too much.

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More Ways to Grow Your Blog’s Traffic Without Google Search

ProBlogger

By ProBlogger Expert Jerry Low. Google traffic is lucrative – there’s no doubt about that. Often, the most effective way to attract targeted traffic is to make sure your site is optimized for Google searches. As you may have already learned, winning that targeted traffic is one of the top strategies for making money on the web. However (and this is a big however), depending solely on Google organic search is not a good business model.

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PB167: My Million Dollar Blog Post (and How Procrastination Almost Stopped me Writing It)

ProBlogger

How to Overcome Blogger Procrastination. In today’s lesson I want to talk about an issue that I think is at the heart of why many blogs don’t reach their potential. In fact it’s an issue that I think is at the heart of why many people don’t reach their potential in many areas of life. Listen to this episode here on iTunes. I want to talk about procrastination and why we so often don’t do what we know we should do.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha