Good, Better, Best: Blogging Practices You Need to Know

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Each and every day we’re bombarded with new blogs and articles that claim to have the next big secret to writing a successful blog post. Though these articles are usually full of good tips, the secret to blogging is that there is no secret – there’s no magical code or piece of advice that will make your [...]

Blogging 101: Optimize Photos

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Today’s in our Blogging 101 series is how to optimize photos for your blog. Read on to learn why this is important and how to do it! 4 Tips on How to Optimize Photos for Your Website/Blog: 1. Select an Image that Fits: The reason someone may choose to click on your blog post is [...]

Blogging 101: Resize a Photo for Online Use

Resize a Photo

Today in our Blogging 101 series we are focusing on resizing a photo for your blog. When your website or blog starts to get popular, we all know that we want to try to keep people coming back for more. The last thing you want is to slow your site down just when it starts [...]

Blogging 101: Yoast SEO Plugin

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Welcome back to our 2nd installment in our Blogging 101 series! In case you missed it, check out Blogging 101: Google’s Keyword Tool to catch up on where we are. Today, we will be discussing the Yoast SEO Plugin for WordPress. WordPress is not only a great blogging platform, but what we use to build our [...]

Blogging 101: Google’s Keyword Tool

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Class in in session, welcome to Blogging 101! Here at SocialNicole, a big service that we offer is help with website design and development. As you can imagine, that usually includes helping to get a client’s blog up and running. One thing that we notice is that many people have issues getting traffic to their blog. This can be [...]

The Importance of RSS

Understanding RSS

Readers are always looking for ways to find interesting content in faster and easier ways. And writers and websites are always looking for ways to connect with readers. This connection used to take lots of time and energy – but not anymore! RSS is a quick and simple way to make sure your content is seen immediately [...]

Best Social Media Blogs

Best Social Media Blogs

The easiest ways to find out about new trends and changes in social media is through a blog.  They are generally quick and easy to digest posts that give you the information you need to know without overloading you.  That being said, it isn’t the easiest thing to dig through the countless number of social [...]

My Blogging Journey

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  I’ve never been a fan of writing. Writing papers in school was like pulling teeth!  So when I started with SocialNicole, I was dreading the thought of putting out new content for clients daily, weekly or monthly.  Yet I was in for a huge surprise when I really got started in the blogging game. [...]

Business Blogging: Why Bother?

Golden Reasons to Blog

We’ve spent some time this month talking about the history of our own blog and tips to start your own, as well as how to create your first content calendar.  But, so far, we’ve neglected to answer that one important question that kicked this all off: Why should I blog? After spending this blogging month with us the [...]

Creating a Content Calendar for Your Blog

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The following is a guest post from Kay Roseland (@KayLoire): In March of 2012, I joined Lawson Software, now Infor, and was tasked with creating, editing and managing a corporate blog. At first, since I had created a personal blog, Shareology, this seemed like a no-brainer. While working on Shareology I was bemused by someone [...]