Pinterest is a powerful search engine that, when used correctly, can drive significant traffic to your website. However, so often bloggers lose out on valuable search optimization opportunities because they’re making these common mistakes. Learn how you can avoid these common pitfalls by learning these Pinterest best practice tips. Fix these 5 things on Pinterest for Better Traffic Now Are you making these common mistakes on Pinterest? … [Read more...]
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From best blogging practices to keeping you legal, you will find all kinds of tips to help you be an excellent blogger that converts readers into fans of your blog.
Blogging can be not only fun but a business, but you need to know the right information to succeed. You can trust you are getting the best information and tips from our hand selected blogging pros! Our blogging pros have been blogging for years and are here to educate you on the best tips and tricks around.
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4 More Ways to Outline, Write, and Strengthen Your Landing Page
Have you ever thought about the difference between a mediocre movie - and one that pulls you into the story? There’s a lot of elements in a movie - which means there’s an awful lot that could go wrong. That’s why proven, reliable directors, actors, and writers are in demand. And wouldn’t you know? It’s the same thing with your landing page - so now let’s take what you’ve got and strengthen your landing page. Don’t have your landing page … [Read more...]
Are You Making the One Mistake that Keeps People from Staying on Your Blog?
Is your bounce rate high and your session duration low? I am going to tell you a little secret that may be hard to for you to hear. It's you. Well, maybe not you. But, your blog could be too painful to navigate that people simply aren't staying on your blog. Look at your blog from a reader's perspective: Can I find what I am looking for? Is there too much clutter in the sidebars? Am I bombarded with ads and opt-ins the second I hit … [Read more...]
How to Leverage Even More Content for your Blog with Microblogging
As we keep up with the trends in content marketing and SEO, we know that those longer blog posts (full of information) are great for our page rank and for Google's SEO algorithms. But we also know that we can't be writing those essays every day (or even every week)! That is why microblogging, or micro-content, needs to be our best friend. Because when we're trying to get our content regularly seen, writing new blog posts all the time isn't really … [Read more...]
Are Blogging Mistakes a Learning Tool? Or Just an Excuse to Give Up?
How do you view your blogging mistakes? Are they a simple excuse to give up? Or your best learning tool? Learn from today's IBA blogger how a change of perspective gave her the courage not to give up, but instead to use her lack of experience as a way to become a better blogger. My blogging career ensued out of the blue, literally out of nowhere. I didn’t know the first thing about blogging or even what a hashtag was! But nevertheless, … [Read more...]
Creative Briefs in Action – Looking at 3 Stellar Landing Pages
Okay, so let’s just get this out in the air before we start: we aren’t going to be able to look at actual creative briefs. They’re “internal documents”, so they aren’t something that businesses usually share. Because, well, they’re precious, precious data. But what we **can** do is look at their landing pages, sales pages, blog posts, or whatever else they’ve written. Because when we look at those, we can get a pretty dang good idea of how … [Read more...]
Your Blog Needs a Start Here Page – Here’s How to Set It Up
How do you turn your new site visitors into loyal readers and customers? That is a hard task, but it's not insurmountable. Creating a stellar start here page will allow you to control the narrative once a visitor steps foot on your website. Where will you lead them to? Today's post is all about why you need a start here page and how to get it all set up! Compelling Reasons for a Start Here Page Turn Visitors Into Fans You have seconds - 7 … [Read more...]
5 Tasks Every Blogger Should do to Avoid Blogging Tech Problems
Blogging tech problems can rack havoc on even the most seasoned bloggers! With these five tasks, you will be well on your way to avoiding pitfalls that can lead to blogging problems that can last hours if not weeks. Go ahead and 'pin' this image to help other bloggers out! 5 Tasks Every Blogger Should do to Avoid Blogging Tech Problems Inevitably in your blogging career, things will go horribly wrong. Don't believe me? Here are just a … [Read more...]
5 Important Blogging Stats Easily Found on Google Analytics Home Tab
Does Google Analytics intimidate you as a blogger? Don't be! When you start tracking and understanding these five statistics from Google Analytics, you can find new ways to grow and improve your blog. Plus, you can make sure you are properly monetizing your blog! Go ahead and 'PIN' me so you can find these important stats out later! 5 Important Blogging Stats Easily Found on Google Analytics Home Tab Understanding your blogging statistics … [Read more...]
Beginner Blogging: How to Properly Source Music for Videos
Do you know how to properly source music for videos you create? At IBA, we teach you how to legally find the best music for your videos! Go ahead and 'pin' this so you can easily find these tips on how to properly source music for videos! How to Properly Source Music for Videos You've decided to take the plunge into video creation, and you want a little bit of background music. So you download the latest tune from your music sharing app and … [Read more...]