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How To Blog

How To Blog Choose your target audience. Brainstorm content ideas frequently based on your market segment. Research and review a content management system (CMS). Create a blog strategy and editorial calendar. Pay attention to article structure. Become an expert in marketing and promoting your blog. Learn about SEO. Use a variety of blog post styles. Repurpose old content. Perform a competitive analysis.   1. Choose your target audience. When you're starting your own blog, it's important to think of your target audience. Who are you creating the blog for? And who do you want reading your blog posts? Before you can get started, you have to consider the niche you're writing about and what topics you'll cover and why. Brainstorming your target audience is similar to creating a buyer persona for your company. Plus, this will give you an idea on what kind of content you want to produce. 2. Brainstorm content ideas frequently based on your market segment. Once you've start

To cultivate an online community and engage with an audience.

  At the very least, you might create a blog to engage with an online community of readers with similar interests. Maybe you start a food blog and ask readers to share their own recipes with you. Alternatively, perhaps you start a blog that focuses on DIY projects. You post the fun, DIY projects you've completed in your own home, and you ask your readers to share their own DIY tips in exchange.

To attract visitors to your site, and turn those visitors into leads.

  There's only so much traffic you can get from the homepage or About Us page of your company's website. Of course, those pages are critical for leads who are already interested in your products -- but they often won't attract traffic from top-of-the-funnel. That's where your blog comes into play. Your blog can be a general resource to help your website visitors even before those visitors are ready to purchase from you. For instance, let's say you sell products for e-commerce stores. You might attract some e-commerce owners who are already searching online for your products, but in most cases, the e-commerce owner isn't going to be ready to buy right out of the gate. Alternatively, if you begin blogging about tips to help the retail owner who is just starting out -- like "How to start a retail website", or "Benefits of e-commerce vs. physical store" -- you'll slowly attract an audience who enjoys your content and finds it useful. Then, wh

To share information about a given topic and become an expert in an industry.

 In 2006, Boston-native Matt Kepnes quit his job and began traveling the world. He documented his travels in his now infamous blog, NomadicMatt.com. After about a year, thanks to tireless blogging efforts and SEO strategies that enabled him to rank on Google, he began pulling in $60,000. Matt also created e-books, and used sponsorships and affiliate marketing to make money. Additionally, he wrote a New York Times best-seller, "How to Travel the World on $50 a Day." Now, Matt's blog attracts 1.5 million visitors a month and grosses about $750,000 a year -- and he's become a well-known expert in the travel space. If you want to become known as an expert in a topic that interests you, from fashion to blogging to fitness, you can -- and, oftentimes, it starts with a blog.

To help your company rank on search engines.

 Typically, a business will use a blog to help the business's website rank on search engines. You can absolutely employ SEO tactics, or use paid ads, to help your company homepage rank on page one of Google -- but a more effective, long-term solution is blogging. To consider how your company can rank on search engines via a blog, we'll start with an example -- let's say you work for a web design start-up with very little online presence. You decide to spend the first year writing and posting regular blog content that strongly relates to web design. Over time, your traffic increases and other companies link to your site for information regarding web design. When this happens, Google recognizes your company as a legitimate source for web design information. Eventually (with a lot of trial and error), your blog posts begin ranking on page one of Google for terms like "web design", "website builder", and "e-commerce website". Then, one day, you sea

What is a blog post?

 A blog post is an individual web page on your website that dives into a particular sub-topic of your blog. For instance, let's say you start a fashion blog on your retail website. One blog post might be titled, "The Best Fall Shoes for 2019". The post ties back to your overall blog topic as a whole (fashion), but it also addresses a very particular sub-topic (fall shoes). Blog posts allow you to rank on search engines for a variety of keywords. In the above example, your blog post could enable your business to rank on Google for "fall shoes". When someone searches for fall shoes and comes across your blog post, they have access to the rest of your company's website. They might click "Products" after they read your post, and take a look at the clothing items your company sells. A blog post links back to your overall blog site. For instance, right now, you're on blog.hubspot.com/marketing/what-is-a-blog. The "what-is-a-blog" section of

What is a blog?

  What is a blog? First, let's go over a brief history -- in 1994, Swarthmore College student Justin Hall is credited with the creation of the first blog, Links.net. At the time, however, it wasn't considered a blog … just a personal homepage. In 1997, Jorn Barger, blogger for Robot Wisdom, coined the term "weblog", which was meant to describe his process for "logging the web" as he surfed the internet. The term "weblog" was shortened to "blog" in 1999, by programmer Peter Merholz. In the early stages, a blog was a personal web log or journal in which someone could share information or their opinion on a variety of topics. The information was posted reverse chronologically, so the most recent post would appear first.

What Is a Blog, & Why Should You Create One

Even if you're not sure what a blog is, you've no doubt come across one at some point in time. Perhaps you've stumbled across a blog when you've searched "healthy dinner recipes". In fact, if you're reading this, guess what? You're on a blog. (Very meta, I know.) If your business doesn't have a blog, you might want to reconsider — B2B marketers who use blogs receive 67% more leads than those who do not, and blogs have been rated the 5th most trusted source for accurate online information.

Where Have All the Colors Gone? Or, Why We’re Now Living in a Spineless, Black and White World.

  Ever wondered why the only colors many industries now offer you are black, white, silver, or gray? I love colors and it strikes me as odd how colors have been tuned out of so many products. While some colors are seasonal and faddish, others are perennials; a good color may last centuries, even if its use is up some decades, and down others. Colors capture our cultural subconscious and stay there for a long time. But somehow we’re now in a boring, monochromatic world. Ever wondered why the only colors many industries now offer you are black, white, silver, or gray? I love colors and it strikes me as odd how colors have been tuned out of so many products. While some colors are seasonal and faddish, others are perennials; a good color may last centuries, even if its use is up some decades, and down others. Colors capture our cultural subconscious and stay there for a long time. But somehow we’re now in a boring, monochromatic world. To industry, colors are a headache. They are tough to

Terminal emulator with packages

Termux combines powerful terminal emulation with an extensive Linux package collection. Enjoy the bash and zsh shells. Edit files with nano and vim. Access servers over ssh. Compile code with gcc and clang. Use the python console as a pocket calculator. Check out projects with git and subversion. Run text-based games with frotz. At first start a small base system is downloaded - desired packages can then be installed using the apt package manager known from the Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions. Access the built-in help by long-pressing anywhere on the terminal and selecting the Help menu option to learn more. Read help online: https://wiki.termux.com/ Reddit Community: https://termux.com/community Download Now Click here . Installing bootstrap packages & Running Commands

Lavalink

 Lavalink: Standalone Audio Sending Node Based on Lavaplayer for Java A standalone audio sending node based on Lavaplayer and Koe. Allows for sending audio without it ever reaching any of your shards. Being used in production by FredBoat, Dyno, LewdBot, and more. Features Powered by Lavaplayer Minimal CPU/memory footprint Twitch/YouTube stream support Event system Seeking Volume control REST API for resolving lavaplayer tracks (used for non-JVM clients) Statistics (good for load balancing) Basic authentication Prometheus metrics Docker images Requirements Java 11* LTS or newer required. OpenJDK or Zulu running on Linux AMD64 is officially supported. Support for Darwin (Mac), Windows AMD64, and Linux ARM (Raspberry Pi) is provided on a best-effort basis. This is dependent on Lavaplayer's native libraries. Support for other JVMs is also best-effort. Periodic CPU utilization stats are prone not to work everywhere. *Java 11 appears to have some issues with Discord's TLS 1.3. Java 1

Lavalink Setup

 Lavalink - the newer, better way to do music Lavalink is a standalone program, written in Java. It's a lightweight solution for playing music from sources such as YouTube or Soundcloud. Unlike raw voice solutions, such as VoiceNext, Lavalink can handle hundreds of concurrent streams, and supports sharding. Configuring Java In order to run Lavalink, you must have Java 13 or greater installed. Certain Java versions may not be functional with Lavalink, so it is best to check the requirements before downloading. The latest releases can be found here . Make sure the location of the newest JRE's bin folder is added to your system variable's path. This will make the java command run from the latest runtime. You can verify that you have the right version by entering java -version in your command prompt or terminal. Downloading Lavalink Next, head over to the releases tab on the Lavalink GitHub page and download the Jar file from the latest version. Alternatively, stable build

What Is VoIP & How Does It Work?

 VoIP is an acronym for Voice over Internet Protocol and is a technology that allows you to make and receive phone calls and video calls over the internet instead of landlines. Most people consider VoIP the alternative to the local telephone company. If you have an internet connection, you can call anyone without the need for traditional, local phone service or physical copper wires. All you need is high-speed internet and a VoIP service provider to handle the calls. A trusted VoIP provider can handle everything for you. Plug your IP phone in, and you're done. These digital phones use your high-speed internet connection to establish connectivity. VoIP converts your phone calls into data that is sent over the internet. You can use the Ethernet cables or skip them if you have a strong Wi-Fi signal. It does so at a much lower cost than older telephone systems. Voice over IP has many advantages over traditional phone service. What is the difference between VoIP and landline phones? The