5 Vital Tips For Writing Killer Guest Posts

Guest Post - Today's host is Harrison Kratz who provides fresh tips for writing great guest posts.Want to get involved ? See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Blogging effectively is not the easiest thing in the world to do. Guest blogging may be even tougher. When guest blogging, you have to adapt your writing and content to another source in order to appeal to a community other than your own. That said, guest blogging can be one of the most effective ways in building your brand and authority as you open yourself up to new readers and conversations.

Here are five tips for writing effective guest blog posts that any blog owner will be happy to publish:
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6 Reasons Working From Home Improves Your Life

Guest Post - Today's host is David Crawford ,Many chase the dream of becoming a professional Blogger and working full time from home David looks at how this can improve your life.Want to get involved ? See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

When I started working from home, I had many friends ask me why I was doing so. After all, we are so accustomed to heading to work each morning that for many people it seems strange that I roll out of bed, head to my little corner room, and start working. Because I am eager to tell people about my personal experience and love to share what I have learned, I want to present you with the reasons I work from home and how I benefit.
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How A Blogger Can Benefit From Pinterest

Guest Post - Today's host is Sam Peters who looks at how you can use Pinterest to help your Blogging efforts.Want to get involved ? See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

When it comes to gaining traffic for your blog or website today, social media is key, and few are more influential than that new kid on the block, Pinterest. Pinterest has grown from an unknown site-sharing website to a networking blockbuster in a very short amount of time, and savvy bloggers are taking advantage of its popularity and a variety of benefits that they can have by becoming a member of Pinterest.

Building a Fan Base

Whether your blog is monetized or you simply do it for the simple pleasure of sharing your views, your main goal will always be increasing traffic to your site. The more readers you have, the more publicity you'll get, which will increase your readership even more. Using Pinterest is a great way to do this.
Whether you have a financial blog or a fun crafting site with instructions on recycling sweaters, you'll find fans of your subject on Pinterest. Do a search for people with your same interests and follow them. Some of them will follow you back. Pin your post on argyle pillows and people searching for your subject will link to it, causing any number of people to check out your blog.

Finding Topics

Everyone who writes a blog has a dry spell once in a while, when inspiration doesn't come and they have a hard time finding a topic to write about. Spend a few minutes clicking through some boards and you'll find dozens of new ideas to spark blog posts. Use the Pinterest boards as a starting point when searching for new material, and you'll tie your blog posts into subjects a lot of people are talking about.

Gauging Interest

Every blog has posts that seem to hit a high note with its readers as well as those that hardly anyone shares or comments on. If you're looking for posts that create a discussion and social media sharing, look through Pinterest to find out what the hot topics of the day are. Don't just stay in your area of interest -- look through other topics that have nothing to do with your subject.

If you find a hot button subject that people are pinning across the site, you've probably got a good topic for your next blog post, as long as you put your own spin on it. If they're talking about it on Pinterest, they'll probably talk about it on your site, as well.

Pinterest is one of the hottest social media platforms known today, and will only continue to grow in popularity as the months continue on. So if you are a blogger and are serious about increasing your online visibility and readership, then you need to not only be on Pinterest but utilizing it as part of your regular social media strategy.

By Guest Author -Sam Peters is a blogger focusing on personal finance. She specializes in teaching people how to avoid falling in to credit pitfalls.

Animated Sassy Social Bookmark Gadget For Blogger

I know how much you all like social bookmarking gadgets and widgets especially unique gadgets that can catch the eye of readers and get them bookmarking your blog.Today I have a very cool social bookmarking gadget with a stylish animated effect.With the Sassy bookmarks gadget a basic share button is placed in the corner of your blog, then on hover 6 icons for the main social bookmarking websites appear in a semicircle.The buttons that appear are for Pinterest, Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Email.Below we have a live demo then check out the tutorial to add the Sassy Bookmarks to Blogger.

Add The Animated Sassy Bookmarking Gadget To Your Blog

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Will Password Managing Applications Keep Your Blog Safe ?

We all use passwords to protect our personal material on the web, from our blog content to our online financial information. Passwords are practically ingrained into our very understanding of how the web works; they’re literally the means by which we access critical information online on a daily basis. That’s why it’s so important that you secure your data with the best password possible. You know the drill: a random sequence of letters and numbers works best, no familiar names, and nothing that a potential hacker could figure out. Most people (myself included) use multiple passwords for various sites just to be on the safe side.

While this advice is simple, the actual practice of keeping multiple complex passwords for the very large (and only getting larger) amount of sites you login to is extremely challenging. I've dealt with these challenges personally, and I can't tell you how many times I've had to reset passwords that I got mixed up with other accounts. Thankfully I never lost any access to an account completely.

The value of a password manager
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Five Tools For Managing Your Social Media Accounts

Guest Post - Today's host is Elle-Rose who looks at some of the tools you can use to manage your Social profiles.Want to get involved ? See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Managing all your social media accounts is something which can be pretty time consuming – if you’re not doing it properly. Updating regular posts is something which takes time to adjust to and work at - but something that your blog or business can really benefit from greatly. Investing your time and effort in social media is something totally worthwhile – and something much easier once you’re using the right tools and equipment to help you out.

Don’t feel scared or intimidated about using online tools to help manage your social media – it can help save you time and it can also mean you efforts are being recorded properly too. After all, time and effort saved in one part of your marketing efforts – is time and effort you can use somewhere else.

So here are 5 great tools you can easily sign up to online – they are easily to navigate too, so you don’t need to worry about being overwhelmed by new technology. Let us know what you think of these tools, and feel free to comment below is there are any you’d like to add.

1)Shortstack (www.shortstack.com) This is a great service that aids businesses to design and build a better looking Facebook page and customise it with various things such as videos and contests. The service is mainly free (they won’t charge for pages that have up to 2,000 likes). Beyond that, a tiered pricing system kicks in, but it’s very reasonable.

2)Buffer (www.bufferapp.com) is a brilliant way to schedule your social media activity and tweets. The website and tools lets you distribute you’re statuses and tweets throughout the day (at times you can choose and coordinate). The basic package is free – but if you want to add more accounts or schedule tweets for longer periods of time, you’ll need to upgrade. The tool is great as it lets you be sure that fresh social content is getting to your audience daily.

3)Postling (www.postling.com) was intended for small business users in mind and delivers easy-to-use tools, alerts and understandings that will help you get the most out of social media marketing and let you make the most out of your business. Postling lets you publish to all of the major social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WordPress, Tumblr and Flickr and schedule your posts in advance. It also pulls comments from all of your social media sites into one place which saves a lot of time and effort for responding.

4)TweetDeck (www.tweetdeck.com), This tool is now owned by twitter and is a fantastic way to manage multiple twitter accounts. It takes the form of a “dashboard” from which you can manage a variety of social media accounts all together in one place. It allows you to monitor and manage unlimited accounts, schedule tweets to suit your audience and filter content to focus on what matters to you the most – it’s the kind of thing you’ll wonder how you ever lived without.

5)HootSuite (www.hootsuite.com) This website and tool is very similar to TweetDeck and lets you manage all of your social media accounts on a single dashboard. This is a good solution if more than one person at your business posts to your social media accounts.

By Guest Author -Elle-Rose is a medical writer and social media manager for XXPress PCR.

Catching Readers By Using Personal Stories In Your Blog Posts

Guest Post - Today's host is Carlina Yepinski who covers adding the personal touch your blog posts.Want to get involved ? See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

There are a variety of ways that you can work to build a readership for your blog. One aspect of blogging is attracting new readers to your blog, but an equally important one is retaining those readers, so that they become regular readers of your posts. One of the best ways you can do this is to share the stories of your life in addition to the information or subject you are blogging about. For example if you are writing a food or cooking blog you can add in the details of the funny things that happened while you made the recipe or your children’s reaction to the food. These additional details are what capture your readers’ attention and keep them coming back for more. The difficult part is finding the perfect balance of detail and personal stories.
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