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Blogging: The ultimate crowd sourced knowledge management?

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In my tutorial series “Blogging 101 – Starting a blog from scratch” I have already covered the basic question many nonprofit organisations ask themselves: “Does my organisation need a blog?” There was one issue I did not highlight, though: Blogging is a kind of crowd sourced knowledge management. What do I mean by that? An [...]

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Basic SEO advice from the expert

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For anyone taking blogging seriously, “SEO” or “Search Engine Optimization” is serious stuff. SEO is the craftmanship involved in improving the volume and quality of traffic search engines generate to your website or blog. As I described in my “Understanding the traffic on your blog” primer, a large part of your visitors stumble upon your [...]

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Automatic Email alerts for new backlinks to your blog

Sites linking back to your blog’s homepage or to a post, are a measure of success for a blog, as we explained before. It is always interesting to check the backlinks, to see what are others saying about your blog, what has been quoted or commented on. As you know, you can find backlinks via [...]

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How does your blog score on PageRank?

A PageRank (PR) is one of the main ways to check a website’s “ranking” amongst its peers. Am I talking Chinese here? “PageRank” is Google’s rating (between PR0 and PR10 on an logarythmic scale) of ‘how valuable’ your site is to the web community (and hereby I shamelessly summarize 234,000 books and 1,234,000 articles written [...]

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Comparing Yahoo, Bing and Google searches

Microsoft’s new search engine Bing has been released for about three months now. Have you checked how it returns keywords related to your blog? Or even more importantly, how would Bing compares to Google and Yahoo searches? Michael Kordahi made it fun to compare the three search engines on his Blind Search site: Enter any [...]

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