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Every blogger has posts they feel have really hit the mark; what many call pillar articles or foundation content. When Liz Strauss (Liz Strauss) decided to celebrate the 4th Birthday of her Successful Blog with a Bring ONE Link offer she motivated me to compile these links for my readers.

There are now so many posts I wish every regular and new visitor knew about here that I decided to write this compilation so YOU don’t miss some of the most important information I’ve researched and shared.

This would be a great post to save in your Delicious or StumbleUpon account so you can return to it for reference. We will continually update and add to these important resources to keep them current just for you. Is there anything else you would like to see here? Just let us know.

MOST IMPORTANT CONTENT:

We have added so much top information, but these posts are among the most often shared:

• How to Make it Easy for Others to Recommend You
• How to Geo-Target Social Media and Blogs
• Small Business Internet Marketing Priorities
• Why Blogs Going Local is Where the Money In Blogging Is
• Blogging Collaboration Processes
• What Blog Outreach Is
• How to Choose and Use Keywords for Your Target Audience
• How to Use Your Keywords In Content

Most Important Social Media Links:

• Most Important Social Networks
• Twitter Best Practices
• LinkedIn Lead Generation System
• LinkedIn Resources
• Google Plus Tips
• How to find the best Google Plus Communities

HOW TO GROW or SUPPORT SMALL BUSINESSES:

• Small Business Internet Marketing – What to do first – what to make your priority and how to do it
• MEME: BizLuv in Support of Small Businesses – Why the economic crisis makes this essential
• BizLuv MEME: Specifically What Bloggers Can Do to Support Businesses, Causes and other Bloggers
• Marketing is NOT Evil – It is how we find what we desire. Read about how Word of Mouth Marketing (WOMM) can benefit buyers and sellers alike
• KEYWORDLUV: How Using KeywordLuv Benefits Us All

FREELANCING, JOBS and CAREERS:

• Freelancers: How to Get More Freelance Work
• Why Your Blog Should Have a Hire Me Tab
• Setting up Your For Hire page: Do’s and Don’ts
• LinkedIn Lead Generation System
• LinkedIn Resources
• How to Land Fastest Growing, Highest Demand Careers and Jobs ~ If you want to switch careers or before you decide to go to college see the video and info in this post

LOCAL SEARCH DIRECTORIES:

• How Businesses can get FREE Business Listings in Local Search Directories * Best Local Search Post *
  
• Why Local Search is so important. Use our shortcut to getting any business or Web site with a physical address listed in Major Local Search Directories including Google Maps, Yahoo! Local, Bing, SuperPages and many more.
• Scan the Local Search Categories in the right sidebar for comprehensive information on and how-to obtain listings in specific Local Search Directories

HOW TO MAKE MONEY BLOGGING:

• Top How to Make Money Blogging Resources; Who REALLY Makes Money and Teaches Their Methods Best
• How to Create a Successful Blog Based Business – All blogs are not created equal; what you need and how to get an optimized blog even if you don’t have technical skills.
• Super Thesis Resources and why we wish we had installed Threaded Comments from the beginning.

KEYWORD RESEARCH / SEO:

• ANCHOR TEXT: Are You Playing Hide and Seek with Your Market? Identify your most important goals and the keywords and pages related to them.
• SELECTING KEYWORDS: The Importance of Researching and Selecting Your Keywords First to make your content easy to find and keep your posts on topic
• TRACKING SEARCH POSITIONS: Tracking Search Engine Positions: Free, easy way to track

BLOGGING BUDDIES, BLOG OUTREACH, GUEST BLOGGING:

• How Guest Blogging Can Change Your Life – Guest post by Greg Rollett of Rock Star Lifestyle Design and Internet Marketing
• Blog Outreach: 8 Compelling Reasons You Should Be Doing It NOW – Guest post by Affiliate Marketing Expert Murray Newlands

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DOFOLLOW and BLOG COMMENTING:

• KEYWORDLUV: How Using KeywordLuv Benefits Us All
• Use our DoFollow Lists and Tools to increase your incoming links
• How We Increased Our Blog Traffic Over 76.63% in one month by first commenting and then sharing other bloggers’ content across Social Networks
• How We Encourage Community and Comments

AFFILIATE MARKETING:

• Merchant Affiliate Marketing Management – What businesses who offer affiliate programs need to know.
• Massive Affiliate Reference Resources with links to Power Affiliates, Affiliate Forums, Affiliate Training – includes How to Evaluate Merchant Ecommerce Stores so you know which will convert BEFORE you promote them. This post uses an excellent gift affiliate program as the example store.

PAY PER CLICK ADVERTISING:

• How Not to Lose Your Shirt on PPC Advertising
• My Step-by-step Method for Evaluating Your AdWords Account – what settings to use and why
• Why PPC Summit is the Very Best PPC Seminar EVER – ?(no longer live events – now AdWords Advantage Webinars instead)

ORGANIC SEARCH SEO SEM:

• Why You Can NOT Rely Solely on Organic Listings for Traffic and Revenue

BLOG DIRECTORIES:

• Coming eventually: Which Blog Directories are most important and why. Start with PostRank, Technorati, MyBlogLog, Blog Catalog and the blog directories reviewed by Keller Hawthorne  at FresheVenture.

WEB ANALYTICS:

• REVIEW: Mastering Google Analytics: Easy to Understand Free e-Course

LOGO and WEB DESIGN:

• What Makes a Great Logo – How to create or buy one; the differences in deliverables between $50 and $1000+ logos.
• What NOT To Do With Your Existing Web Site When You Upgrade or Remodel

SOCIAL NETWORKING:

• Social Networking is NOT Chat – How to get your content shared by others, where you can find us and what to do if you would like us to comment in your blog and send you traffic in our daily travels across the Internet.
• How Monetizing Social Networking Sites THIS Way Benefits Everyone
• Twitter FriendFeed Quick Start – How to get up to speed right away at Twitter and on FriendFeed

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