Five Easy Ways to Increase Your Blog's Comments
We are often asked, “How do I get readers to comment on my posts?” It is regularly the case that a blog might look great, have great content, and yet no comments. Seeing the benefit in building a community around your blog; encouraging people to comment is an important aspect of any blog. Here are 5 easy [...]
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General Motors Is Doing It…Are You?
For those who haven’t heard, the car manufacturing conglomerate General Motors is now using blogging as a way to connect to different market segments.
Thats right, GM is blogging.
Make your way over to GMnext.com, you will find articles written by executives, proper use of podcasts and other forms of new media. To me, this cements the [...]
Social Bookmarking Podcast with Neil Patel
Are you using social media to market and promote your blog? If not, you are missing out on a potentially significant source of traffic!
Recently, the UBD team (Josh, Matt, and myself) participated in a podcast with Neil Patel on social bookmarking and how to leverage social media for your blog.
For those of you who don’t [...]
Basic SEO Tips For New Bloggers
Search engine optimization (SEO) is a topic that every new blogger eventually has to learn about and become aquainted with. We pride ourselves on creating SEO-friendly blogs, but there are always more things that can be done to enhance the SEO functionality of your blog.
Below, are a few tips from Ahson Rafiq, a young web [...]
Ad Placement: A Few Simple Tips
What do private ads, affiliate ads, Google ads, and pretty much all other forms of advertising have in common? They all can benefit from proper placement on your blog. In this article, we will go over the basic blog layout (i.e. header, sidebar(s), content, footer) and a few very simple ways that you can more [...]
Read More »Unique Blog Designs "Must Have" Wordpress Plugins
Choosing plugins that truly benefit your blog design can be difficult if you’re a Wordpress novice. With over 1,400 plugins available at wordpress.org, you’ll find yourself looking for a few needles in a very thick haystack. Luckily, there are plenty of Wordpress veterans that have been around long enough to sift through the masses and [...]
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From working with thousands of bloggers and companies, such as MySpace, Inc. and Yahoo!, Inc., to exhibiting at the Blog World Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, and IZEA Fest in Orlando, Florida, Unique Blog Designs (UBD) is known by much of the online world. How did they get started?