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ITB 042 Bad Blogging Advice 9: It doesn’t matter how often you blog as long as you blog every once in a while. The search engines are looking for websites that are current and the best way to keep your website / blog current is to update it on a frequent basis. This alone is a good enough reason to create a reasonable blogging frequency. Your blogging frequency choices not only impact you but they also impact your audience.https://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging

It can be a real challenge to get to page one of Google for a single keyword. Instead spend your time talking about your blog topic theme instead of just one single idea.https://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging

Do you have blogging goals? I spend a lot of time thinking about my goals and the goals for my blog. I do mind maps, create notes on EverNote, heck I have even used such great tools as excel and SpringPad for goal setting. As a matter of fact to be honest, I sometimes love the act of goal setting and planning better than the doing.https://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging

I recommend that you spend about 15 minutes a day working on your social media. If you do that every day your social media will be effective. Be careful though because social media can and will suck you in and before you know it time has passed and you feel overwhelmed.https://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging

Now let’s get down to it and discuss Things Google Says you should avoid Part 2. Don't feel obligated to purchase a search engine optimization service. Some companies claim to "guarantee" high ranking for your site in Google's search resultshttps://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging

Boost SEO Not so secret tips from Google: Things Google says you should avoid with your blog. Don't fill your page with lists of keywords, attempt to "cloak" pages, or put up "crawler only" pages. Learn more in this podcast.https://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging

Bad Blogging Advice Part 8: Don’t write more than 300 words.This is terrible advice but I do understand the spirit behind it. I teach that a good rule of thumb is write between 400 – 600 words on average. This is enough content for the search engines to pay attention and generally enough to share a few valuable tips or make a good solid point. However, these are just guidelines and not rules.https://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging

Bad Blogging Advice: Don’t worry about it, those images are free because they are online.First, let me scream! Arhhhhhhhh! Ok thanks. This issue is becoming even more confusing because there are more and more places to get these free images. The problem is that you must carefully read the rules related to any specific image.https://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging

Stop hating your readers and do these three things: Is your blog unattractive? Do people have to squint to read your blog post? I hate your pop up!https://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging

We are going to discuss three easy seo tips for your blog. How to seo an image, Google webmaster tools, optimize your social profiles and Google local.https://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging

In this podcast we are going to discuss a quick tip from the previous podcast and then we are going to discuss the a few questions that you should ask a developer before you hire one.https://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging

In this podcast we are going to discuss the problem with perfection. Does perfectionism keep you from blogging? In the process of recording episodes for this podcast, I get up from my mic often. I find so many important things to do that are urgent….more urgent than recording a podcast. That is not true though. None of those things are more important that recording those podcasts.https://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging

The idea of “just write some stuff” indicates that your content does not matter and that your audience does not matter. The reason that you should blog is to add value and even if you are a humorous blogger you are still adding value. I want you to run a long standing and successful blog and that requires thought before action.https://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging

In this podcast we are going to discuss a tip directly from Google but first let’s discuss a bit about the last few podcasts. I have been working on a series called Bad Blogging Advice and this is a short intermission from the series. So I just wanted to do a quick recap before we move on todays topic: Does your blog answer the question.https://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging

In this podcast we are going to cover another bad blogging tip: Blogging will save your SEO problems. forget for a moment of the act of “doing” SEO and think about the reason that you care about SEO. You care about SEO because you are trying to get people to your website / blog so that you can connect with people and then have them take an action, whatever that is. Blogging will increase traffic which in turn helps with the concept of SEO.https://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging

Bad Blogging Advice:Write amazing content This is a controversial topic and frankly it is a vague tip.What exactly is good content? How do you define it other than to say that you know it when you read it.https://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging

This is part 3 of a 12 part series called bad blogging advice. in the course of my studies on the idea of blogging and all things related I have seen some amazing blogging advice and I have seen some really bad blogging advice. Then there is the blogging advice that seems good on the surface but turns out to just be overwhelming or confusing for the newbie. In this series we are going to discuss just such things.https://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging

Let's discuss a piece of really bad blogging advice: Blog Design doesn’t matter. Blog design effects everything about your blog including SEO and page rankings. Let's talk blog design.https://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging

In this podcast we are going to discuss a piece of really bad blogging advice: if you write it, they will read it. Just because you write blog posts and release it, it does not mean that your readers will find you.https://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging

Write something worth talking about. Write something that will inspire people to link to you. Links from other websites are a crucial part of getting your blog ranked higher in the search engines. Be focused on your topic and write content that people will want to share. Link bait is a phrase that we all hear thrown around the SEO jungle and all that it really means is be the answer.https://www.amazon.com/shop/iteachblogging