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Guru is the SEO persona of mother, blogger and freelance writer, Hannah Grace Gamis. She spends her spare time shuffling back and forth to doctors' offices, managing the household, watching movies, and developing her latest project the "Special Child", which she just doesn't seem to have any time for.

Jul | 20 | 2011

Benefits of Guest Posts

Posted by Guru as Community Building, Marketing and Search Optimization, Tips, Writing In my last post Beating the Blog Rut I neglected to mention another way of making sure that you still have entries even when you are having a writer's block - having guest bloggers. Asking friends and colleagues to write one or two posts on your blog is actually very advantageous and will benefit you beyond helping you get out of your rut. Some of the advantages of asking other bloggers to write an entry or two in your blog include: 1. fresh perspective - A guest blogger can give fresh perspective to the same topic. You can ask the ...

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Jul | 13 | 2011

Beating the Blog Rut

Posted by Guru as Tips, Writing Bloggers are very familiar with the blog rut. There are days when you simply can't think of anything to write. This is where Jimmy's series of posts on Tips On Coming Up with Topics (I, II & III) comes in very useful. However, for themed blogs there are those days when there doesn't seem to be any new news and rehashing old topics just doesn't appeal to you. To get out of my blog rut I often do several things... 1. skip a day - If you write everyday then skipping just a day or two to relax ...

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Mar | 30 | 2011

Adding Interest to your Blog: Formatting

Posted by Guru as Tips Too keep your blog pleasing to the eye without adding images what you can do is to: fix the layout of the blog format the text In terms of layout Blog-tutorials is definitely a good example. Blog posts are categorized and features entries for each major category are showcased. Since the blog has a very pleasing and colorful layout with images accompanying each featured category then this frees the blogger from having to come up with an accompanying image for each blog entry. What happens is that we only need to add images when we really feel the need to. When it comes to ...

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Mar | 24 | 2011

Adding Interest to your Blog: Images and Multi-media Content

Posted by Guru as Images, Tips Though I rarely add images in my posts here and have lots of pure text entries, it is actually advisable to occasionally add other elements to your blog posts to keep it more interesting. Remember you do not want one time readers only but want to get people to keep on returning. Making sure that your blog is pleasing to the eye (and never ending long lines of text is definitely NOT pleasing to the eye) is one way to make the blog more interesting and worth checking out regularly. So what are the things you should insert in your post ...

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Sep | 01 | 2010

Blog Usability: Navigation Elements

Posted by Guru as Design, Tips As I promised in my previous post I will be listing down ways you can make it easier for readers to look for the information they need in your blog. The truth is that this is all you need to do is give readers several options to navigate through your blog. This is very easy nowadays since most blog tools (Blogger, Wordpress, etc.) automatically generate the code for you. All you need to do is drag and drop and of course specify some fields. Some of the most common and useful ways to help your readers find the information they ...

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Aug | 24 | 2010

Blog Usability: Looking for Information

Posted by Guru as Design One of the great things about blogs is that they are updated really frequently, at least when compared to static websites. Because of the constant influx of new posts you can be sure that a blog generates lots of information. This is a good thing but just like papers that keep on piling up in your desk it can become almost impossible for people other than the writer to look for the specific information needed without specific instructions on where to look. With blogs the site structure is pretty simple since everything is organised chronologically. However this structure is virtually useless ...

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