The Open Data movement has received a significant boost today with the announcement of the European Commission's Open Data Strategy for Europe. The move, which follows success with opening up...

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Smartphone sales set Nokia’s cash registers ringing this past Deepawali in India, with the company reportedly having sold about ₹ 400 crore’s ($81 million) worth of phones. The report comes...

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Long has the market waited to see how Nokia planned to put its best foot forward and stake its claim on a fat portion of the Windows Phone market. And...

Read More: Nokia plans to leverage exclusive EA games to boost new WP7 handsets

Apple's successful launch of iOS 5 and selling more than 4 million iPhone 4S handsets in 3 days hasn't just benefited the Cupertino-based company, the sheer number of users utilising...

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The Japan Tourism Agency is seriously looking at the potential of social media to help the country’s tourism industry regain visitors after the recent earthquake, tsunami and nuclear issues. The agency is proposing the country offer 10,000 free round trip tickets to social media users to help promote the country as a safe and exciting holiday destination.

Read More: Japan Giving 10,000 Flights to Social Media Bloggers to Boost Tourism

The focus might still be on Facebook's new Timeline and media partnerships but today the world's largest social network has announced it wil partner with National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and the...

Read More: Facebook to offer tools, resources and $10 million in Facebook Ads to boost U.S businesses

This guest post is by Issy Eyre of Fennel & Fern. I'll let you into a secret. One of the key ways I grew my traffic for my gardening blog Fennel & Fern wasn't through clever SEO campaigns. It wasn't through endless tweeting, or sucking up to other bloggers (although I've been guilty of all [...]

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Rob Fuggetta, Founder & CEO, ZuberanceGuest blogger Rob Fuggetta is founder and CEO of online Word of Mouth marketing company Zuberance. What follows is an excerpt from his soon-to-be-published book, “Energize! How to Turn Fans, Followers, and Enthusiastic Customers into Social Media Marketing Machines.” Join Fuggetta’s conversation on Twitter or reach him by email.If your company sells or makes consumer products like video games, flat panel TVs, computers, clothing, or jewelry, you know how [...]

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Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today's tip—the final in this series—is: 13. Bundle your best posts as an ebook This is a variation on the first post in this series, about creating a product, but for those of you feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of [...]

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Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today's tip is: 12. Create a "Best Seller" list based on Amazon Affiliate reports If you promote products on the Amazon Affiliate program, why not dig into the reports, look at what your readers are buying, and create a "Best [...]

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Bloggers are always happy to link to a resource we think is good, or a product or service with which we're affiliated. But there are other kinds of external links that too few bloggers use: links to sources of information we've found links to creators of content we're citing links to more detailed information on [...]

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Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today's tip is: 11. Link to your hosting or blog theme provider with an affiliate link I spoke with one craft blogger recently who has a medium-sized blog and told me that her third-strongest income stream came from two links [...]

Read More: Boost Your Blog #11: Link to Hosts and Theme Providers with Affiliate Links

Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today's tip is: 10. Create a Hire Me page This won't relate to all bloggers but if you have a skill or service that you can offer your readers, don't just assume that they'll come knocking. Sometimes they need to [...]

Read More: Boost Your Blog #10: Create a Hire Me Page

Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today's tip is: 9. Create a Resources page One page on ProBlogger that has worked well for me is a Blogging Resources page (it is actually a page I need to update further). The page serves as a starting point [...]

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Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today's tip is: 8. Add an incentive to your email opt-in Chris Garrett suggested this one on Google+ when I raised the topic of this post, and he's a guy who has seen real benefit from doing it. Chris offers [...]

Read More: Boost Your Blog #8: Incentivize Your Email Opt-in

Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today's tip is: 7. Interlink your posts Another task that I try to do on a regular basis (not as regularly as I should!) is going back through old posts in my archives and looking for opportunities to interlink them. [...]

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Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today's tip is: 6. Optimize your menus, navigation, and sidebars One task that I think many of us could benefit from on a periodic basis is a critical review of menus and navigation areas on our blogs. I include myself [...]

Read More: Boost Your Blog #6: Optimize Menus and Sidebars

Continuing our discussion of things you could be doing right now to improve your blog, today's tip is: 5. Check your metrics for "hot posts" One of the tasks that I build into my own blogging on a monthly(ish) basis is to dig into Google Analytics. I do a number of things while digging in [...]

Read More: Boost Your Blog #5: Check for Hot Posts

Continuing our discussion of things you could be doing right now to improve your blog, today's tip is: 4. Optimize other key pages Yesterday, we talked about pages on your blog, and it might also be worthwhile looking over some of the other key pages on your blog. For example, the About page is one [...]

Read More: Boost Your Blog #4: Optimize Other Key Pages

Continuing our discussion of things you could be doing right now to improve your blog, today's tip is: 3. Optimize your advertising page When I mentioned I was writing this post on Google+ (connect with me here), Nick Roshon suggested auditing your advertising page. If monetization through selling advertising is part of your business model, [...]

Read More: Boost Your Blog #3: Optimize Your Advertising Page