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Great reads from around the web on June 6th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user. To a search engine the words [taj mahal] have been just that—two words.

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Listening Curriculum: Draft - What you think?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Once people understand the value of the listening, you need to figure out what you will listen to. It's important search for the basics or what we call "ego searches." Do search at site for the first time.

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Ask Britt: How Do You Increase Blog Traffic?

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Enable subscription to your rss feed with Feedburner. Write titles with phrases that people are searching for (i.e. Provide a way for people to easily share and bookmark your posts by using something like AddThis or Add to Any. Bookmark your posts in del.icio.us, and other social bookmarking services.

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How to Get Someone Other Than Your Mom to Read Your Blog

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Search on Google Blog Search and Technorati --two blog search engines, for other people writing about your topic. In Technorati you can search for when your topic, in Wendy's case, "homeschooling" and "homeschool," shows up in a post, or by posts tagged with "homeschooling" and "homeschool." Do both searches.

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7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Avoid Analytophilia Alexandra Samuel coined that phrase in a post on social media analytics and metrics about the greatest peril of social media: analytophilia. She recommends that you don't go into your analytics or stats program without composing a specific question first. Are there patterns? And if so, what are they?

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Tools for gathering data for blog and web page metrics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've found traffic largely comes from search and RSS subscriptions." Google Analytics. Subscribers in Bloglines or via feedburner (Does anyone know how I can get a total number of subscribers that is accurate with several different feeds?). " traffic is an important metric to evaluate a blog. want to waste some time.

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5 Practical Reasons Why You Fail To Get Digital Marketing Results

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Using Ahrefs’s rank tracker tool I am able to see exactly how well this keyword is performing down to the number of people who are visiting as a result of organic search: I currently track over 300 keywords and monitor them on a regular basis, which equates to once or twice per week. Measuring Page Performance.

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