Category: Featured

How to Find the Best Places to Guest Blog

By Neil Patel

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Let me just say it — guest blogging is awesome. The list of benefits of guest blogging is virtually endless. Okay, right, I know — you have to be careful with it. But, all in all, I highly recommend guest blogging as an excellent way to build your reputation and improve your SEO.

There’s a big gap between saying “guest blogging rocks” and actually doing the guest blogging. If guest blogging is so great, then how do you guest-blog?

This is important. I’m going to give you the step-by-step approach to finding the best places to guest-blog.

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Is Native Advertising Ethical? (It Depends On Who You Ask)

By Demian Farnworth

Let’s see.

A dubious six-page insert in the Denver Post appears one Sunday.

You flip through it and see articles like “Reclamation helps balance environment and energy needs” and “Colorado …read more    

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Who Run The World? Fierce Mommy Bloggers

By mhodges@saleamp.com (Megan Hodges)

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But what makes them so fierce? In the second installment of our mommy blogger series, we’ll uncover the secrets to successful content creation by the best mommy bloggers. We’ll discuss how to target audiences, tell stories, and retain readership with post frequency and variety.

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How to Build a Social Media Marketing Funnel

By Neil Patel

Who says social media doesn’t convert? Seth Godin noted: “You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers, and customers into salespeople.”

You already know that everyone is on these social sites, so I’m not going to bore you with stats on the number of users each social site has. But did you know that you are 51% more likely to buy a product if you hear good things about it on Facebook? Or, better yet, you are 68% more likely to buy a product if you read about it on Twitter?

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How to Close With Style

By Jerod Morris

This week on The Lede, we take one more big step in our podcast journey through the essential elements of a blog post.

By the way, did you know that this podcast series is based on the most shared Copyblogger post of 2014? It is — and if you haven’t checked out the infographic for yourself and shared it yet, rectify that here.

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