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ProBlogger: Most Popular Posts on ProBlogger 2014: Social Media

ProBlogger: Most Popular Posts on ProBlogger 2014: Social Media

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Most Popular Posts on ProBlogger 2014: Social Media

Posted: 16 Dec 2014 06:37 AM PST

Social media and how to navigate it was, again, a big issue in 2014. Which platform is best? How do we use it effectively? Are we still using Google Plus? Where did everyone on Twitter go? These are the answers we found…

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1. 5 Ways to Promote Your Blog Without Relying on Google Traffic

As Darren has said before, putting all your eggs in the Google basket can be risky (and devastating – he almost lost his business). We learned how to boost our traffic without relying on the Google fallback.

2. How to Socialize Your Posts for Maximum Effect

What’s the point of promoting our blogs on social media if nobody is reading it? This Theme Week post had great tips on how to be effective across the board to drive traffic back to your site.

3. Facebook Theme Week: Boost Your Organic Reach with These Tips

2014 made one thing abundantly clear: not everyone wanted to pay to be seen on Facebook. In fact, some bloggers really resented it. We delved into what strategies are effective on Facebook to work with their algorithms instead of against them. We outlined the best ways to organically reach the majority of our audience with what we have to promote.

4. Facebook Theme Week: Case Studies of Popular Pages and What They’re Doing to Get Great Engagement

Another post in our week-long discussion about what the biggest Facebook pages in the world were doing to interact with their fans and drive up engagement. It turns out their strategies are very simple – and they’re all ones we can do, too.

5. A Social Media Etiquette Guide You Might Find Useful

An in-depth infographic that laid it all bare: What’s, right, what’s wrong, and what works? On what platform? You’ll find it very comprehensive.

 

What do you think? Do you struggle with Facebook too? Given up on G+?

Stacey is the Managing Editor of ProBlogger.net: a writer, blogger, and full-time word nerd balancing it all with being a stay-at-home mum. She writes about all this and more at Veggie Mama. Chat with her on Twitter @veggie_mama (cat pictures welcome!).

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How to Check if a Domain You are Buying is Clean - DailyBlogTips

How to Check if a Domain You are Buying is Clean - DailyBlogTips

How to Check if a Domain You are Buying is Clean

Posted: 15 Dec 2014 08:56 PM PST

Whenever you start a new online project one of the first things you’ll need to handle is the domain name. You have basically two options here: to buy an available domain or to buy an existing domain from its current owner. The second option might be better for serious projects, as you’ll be able to find better domains if you consider existing ones.

The problem, however, is that an existing domain might have been penalized by Google in the past, and this could be disastrous for your project. How do you avoid this situation?

Matt Cutts publish a video some time ago covering the steps you can go through to prevent the problem. They are:

1. Search on Google for ‘site:domain.com’

This search query will basically ask Google to list all the indexed pages from a certain domain name. If no results are returned, be worried, because it means the domain is not indexed by Google. Usually this is a result of a ban or a heavy penalty in the past. Sometimes parked domains will not be indexed, so those could be an exception.

2. Search on Google for ‘domain.com’

With this second query you’ll basically be looking for people talking about your domain, specifically in a bad way. For instance, you want to make sure that in the past people didn’t complain about receiving spam from the domain or about being scammed by something that was being sold there.

3. Check what Internet.org says about it

The Internet Archives allow you to see the history of any website. You’ll be able to see what content was hosted on the domain over the past years, and this should tell you is there ever was anything questionable there.

4. Check Google Webmaster Tools

You can ask the buy to give you access to the Webmaster Tools account of the domain. This will allow you to see if there are any warnings or penalties.

You can view the full video below:

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