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More Blog Traffic Might Be Sitting Right Under Your Nose

If you’ve ever maintained or contributed to a blog, you know how difficult it can be to grow your readership. Perhaps you are even familiar with the daily ritual of logging into your blog platform to check on your visit and click numbers, hoping against hope to see an uptick. TrafficUnfortunately, no magic formula for a successful blog strategy exists, but you do have options at your disposal that increase your chances.

What may surprise you about these tips and tricks is that they don’t require much time or effort. In fact, they may actually be strategies you already know to be effective but have neglected recently because you’ve been sidetracked by other tasks. If you are making a push to boost your blog numbers, consider implementing these fool-proof tactics:

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What’s in a Name? What’s in a Brand?

shutterstock_112457309Confession… I am having a bit of an identity crisis. Let me backtrack.

I have just come off of what can only be described as the best two weeks of my life. On October 26, in front of our beloved family and friends, a beautiful sunset and a birch wood, fall-colored altar, my husband and I (still so strange to say that!) said, “I do.” It was the beautiful culmination of five incredible years of dating, one long year of planning and countless well wishes over the last few months. And it truly was, as everyone predicted, the best day of my life.

That Saturday evening was electrifying—from the reading of our personal vows to our first dance to the cake cutting to the throwing of my bouquet. It was a whirlwind of emotions and one of those defining life events. Continue reading “What’s in a Name? What’s in a Brand?”

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Debunking Content Marketing Falsehoods – Part Two

Don’t you love when someone is positive about a fact and you prove them wrong? Like when someone swears that the capital of North Carolina is Charlotte when you know it is Raleigh. Or when your friend is confident that Tobey Maguire played Kevin in “Sin City.” He didn’t. It was Elijah Wood.

Well, we at Content Boost love dispelling content marketing myths– including two of the most egregious ones: that if you haven’t started content marketing yet it is too late to get in the game and that social media is not for your business. Don’t believe us? Have a look at part one of this series.

Today, we debunk two more misconceptions.

Fallacy: If you flood your blog or newsfeed with content, the search engine spiders will come for you and rank you.

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