This morning, while talking with Janet Giacoma, we discussed the value of guest posting, or more precisely, pursuing the idea of guest posting on other people’s blogs.

So after a lengthy conversation about marketing strategies for the upcoming New Year (and of course once I was off the phone), I started doing a bit of digging. (Guest posting is not something new to us, but it never hurts to do a bit of background research to bring yourself up to speed.)

Guest Posting Secrets (How to Get Published on An A-List Blog), posted a little over a year ago, provides the information anyone considering adding such a marketing strategy to their business should take the time to read… first!

“In this post, I want to share the strategies I used to secure guest-posting spots at three Technorati Top 100 blogs (ProBlogger, Copyblogger and Zen Habits) without any prior contact with the owner. I don’t include that information to boast – I simply want to show you that these methods work. If they worked for me, they can work for you.”

This informational post provides specific guest post directions such as:

o  Why guest post on popular blogs?
o   Choosing where to guest post
o   Coming up with the perfect idea
o   Pitching your post (includes email template)
o   Opportunities to look out for
o   And important things to remember

Not surprising, it also appears that the post about guest posting may itself BE a guest post. How clever is that?

Our suggestion? Make the time to study up on, and implement, this social media marketing concept as soon as possible, and reap the benefits.

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Yeah! While we tell people this day in and day out, there are still a few doubting Thomas’ out there that believe nothing tops a good PR ranking.

Yes seeing that little green bar means a lot to some, but we’ve also seen hundreds if not thousands of “stories” online. By stories, I mean as we visit sites with decent PRs, a check of their TRAFFIC stats often shows they are getting little if any visitors.

So what’s the big deal about PR anyway? Which would you prefer… a nice PR or thousands of visitors, search engine spiders, and rss feeders crawling all over your website and blog?

Sort of a rhetorical question isn’t it…

But, why take our word for it? Here’s a recent quote from none other than Matt Cutts of Google fame himself: (more…)

This morning cruising through Social Spark, I happened to come across a new search engine that is so simple to use, yet highly effective.

Find.com Search Engine

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If ever there is a Gold Medal for blogging, Linda Rembowski of Forcedgreen would win hands down!

The August 16th edition of the WebProNews includes a quick (I don’t know what to call it… article? post? tidbit?) of information from their staff writer, David A. Utter. He writes:

The popularity contest of blogging and gaining links and traffic doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time and work.

And, of course, he’s not far off the mark. However, today we’ve got the great pleasure of taking our Sunday Fun Day to tell you about the huge success of (more…)