ITB 042 Bad Blogging Advice 9: It doesn’t matter how often you blog as long as you blog every once in a while. The search engines are looking for websites that are current and the best way to keep your website / blog current is to update it on a frequent basis. This alone is a good enough reason to create a reasonable blogging frequency. Your blogging frequency choices not only impact you but they also impact your audience.

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It can be a real challenge to get to page one of Google for a single keyword. Instead spend your time talking about your blog topic theme instead of just one single idea.

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Do you have blogging goals? I spend a lot of time thinking about my goals and the goals for my blog. I do mind maps, create notes on EverNote, heck I have even used such great tools as excel and SpringPad for goal setting. As a matter of fact to be honest, I sometimes love the act of goal setting and planning better than the doing.

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I recommend that you spend about 15 minutes a day working on your social media. If you do that every day your social media will be effective. Be careful though because social media can and will suck you in and before you know it time has passed and you feel overwhelmed.

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Now let’s get down to it and discuss Things Google Says you should avoid Part 2. Don't feel obligated to purchase a search engine optimization service. Some companies claim to "guarantee" high ranking for your site in Google's search results

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Boost SEO Not so secret tips from Google: Things Google says you should avoid with your blog. Don't fill your page with lists of keywords, attempt to "cloak" pages, or put up "crawler only" pages. Learn more in this podcast.

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Bad Blogging Advice Part 8: Don’t write more than 300 words.

This is terrible advice but I do understand the spirit behind it. I teach that a good rule of thumb is write between 400 – 600 words on average. This is enough content for the search engines to pay attention and generally enough to share a few valuable tips or make a good solid point. However, these are just guidelines and not rules.

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Bad Blogging Advice: Don’t worry about it, those images are free because they are online.

First, let me scream! Arhhhhhhhh! Ok thanks. This issue is becoming even more confusing because there are more and more places to get these free images. The problem is that you must carefully read the rules related to any specific image.

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Stop hating your readers and do these three things: Is your blog unattractive? Do people have to squint to read your blog post? I hate your pop up!

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We are going to discuss three easy seo tips for your blog. How to seo an image, Google webmaster tools, optimize your social profiles and Google local.

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