Blogging

Blogs are one of the most popular forms of content marketing. That's probably because adding a blog to your site can be an extremely successful way to add timely content, attract engagement, and naturally increase your keyword relevance. You can even take this tactic off your site and use guest blogging as a way to earn links.

Whether you're a beginning blogger or have been blogging for years, there's always something new to be learned. Below you'll find the most recent posts from the Moz Blog. In addition, we've selected a few quality resources that deserve particular attention.

Is Content Marketing Right for My Business? : When marketing your business, you have several choices to invest in. What sets content marketing apart from other channel?

Blog Post Ideas: Maximize Your Reach with the Right Topics : How do you come up with the best topics for new blog posts? Here we explore different paths to great topic ideas.

When Is a Blog the Right Form of Content Marketing? : Blogging isn't for everyone. In fact, should you explore other types of content marketing first?

10 Simple Steps for Creating a Blog Your Readers Will Adore : You're blog is going nowhere if your audience doesn't love it. Here are tips for creating content that actually engages people.

Deciding Where to Guest Blog: A TV Guide Approach
Blogging

Deciding Where to Guest Blog: A TV Guide Approach

Guest blogging can be one of the most daunting tasks for both professionals and casual bloggers, alike. You are faced with this unfathomably large sea of information and you are trying to find someone who will accept your little guest post on how to make tastier sugar cookies (or whatever). It certainly isn’t easy, and it’s going to take a lot of leg work before you start posting material that will generate a following for your own blog. The best thing that you can do – and sometimes, the only thing that you can do – is to try and impress a reputable blog to start building your own credibility as a writer.
The Ultimate Guide to Advanced Guest Blogging
Blogging

The Ultimate Guide to Advanced Guest Blogging

With “content marketing” being the indisputable SEO buzzword of 2012, we can expect 2013 to see an onslaught of marketers trying to build links with guest posts. The growth in this market will cause some sites to lower their guest posting standards, others to raise them, and still more to stop accepting them altogether. We're going to help you combat this by sharing how we got posts up on ProBlogger and Search Engine Journal, and by introducing you to our strategy for success with our clients.
How to Make a Successful Health/Wellness Blog
Blogging

How to Make a Successful Health/Wellness Blog

Health and wellness are popular topics in this day and age, especially because obesity is getting more and more widespread. You are interested in the topic or you have an experience you want to share, and you consider blogging the best way to express yourself. It might be so, but before starting you need to consider all the relevant aspects of health blogging and blogging in general in order to be able to decide whether you can do it and whether it is worth the effort you want and need to put into it.
The REAL Benefits of Guest Blogging
Blogging

The REAL Benefits of Guest Blogging

Guest blogging is on its height and the buzz about it can be overheard easily as whole sphere is talking about it these days. There are some who think guest blogging as one of the powerful tactic while others discourage these ”some” saying that guest blogging is highly misunderstood and people are misusing it. In my honest opinion both mindsets are correct. I did...
Guest Post your Way Out of Antarctica
Blogging

Guest Post your Way Out of Antarctica

Google claims that content is king. Contextual links are more valuable than links in footer, sidebar, or template. Consequently, you need editorial links, or links within the main body of the page. The question is – HOW do you get other site owners to publish a contextual link? The answer is simple. Guest Blogging.
12 Things That Will Kill Your Blog Post Every Time
Blogging

12 Things That Will Kill Your Blog Post Every Time

When you look around at successful blogs -- whatever industry or topic -- there are several undeniable basics to success. And it starts with blog posts that kill it…rather than get killed. But what kills a blog post? Here’s a list of 12 things. Ignore them and you will have a tough time being successful.
Buying Links is Shallow, Short-Term Thinking. Buying Blogs? Now that's a Strategy.
Blogging

Buying Links is Shallow, Short-Term Thinking. Buying Blogs? Now that's a Strategy.

I've been running an experiment with some dark-hatted links for several months, consistently hoping Google will catch them and remove their value. So far... Nothing. Well, except top 3 rankings for all the anchor text pointed at those pages. Google's webspam team has all the incentive, brainpower and money in the world, yet their bets seem to be centered firmly on Google+ and the...
Are Your Titles Irresistibly Click Worthy & Viral?!
Blogging

Are Your Titles Irresistibly Click Worthy & Viral?!

Recently, Rand did one of the best Whiteboard Fridays I've seen in a while (I do watch all of them) about increasing the likelihood of your content going viral. He touches briefly upon the importance of your title for click through rate and sharability, but in this post I'd like to take a more in depth look at titles and how they help spread your content.

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