Social Publishing
50+ Instagram hashtags for more likes, comments and followers
You can do many things to gain more likes, comments and followers on Instagram. You can indulge in follow-unfollow-scams, which isn't quite smart and may get you reported and blocked as a spammer. You can try liking for likes, but it's not very effective. You can try leaving comments to other people's posts, but forget about leaving generic and thoughtless ones. I have a simple recipe for more comments, but on top of that I utilise lots of hashtags. Hashtags, in the end, are the best way to get your posts in front of other Instagram users, which then leads to more likes, comments and followe...
Moderating comments
I've tried many methods during all these years. Some of them have been more successful than others, some have failed terribly. Fighting comment spam could easily become a full time job. I had been using Mollom for quite a while, and been somewhat happy with it. It wasn't perfect, but it mostly did what it should. Mostly. Then something changed. I still don't know what went wrong, but the service started to break down. My site wasn't connecting with their servers, or there was horrible lag in the connection. I tried modifying the time out settings, which helped for a while and then the proble...
Writing for skimming and writing for reading
Use short paragraphs. Add lists and subtitles. Bold your important points. Make your blog posts skimmable. You've heard all these tips on how to improve your blog posts. Now you may be wondering if your blog posts are really improved, or if people are just jumping in and out without really reading them. To really improve your blogging, I have a question for you. I'm not saying those tips are wrong. There's something to it. Lots of people love to skim blog posts, rather than really read them. Even more never read past the title. I keep seeing people pin stuff on Pinterest, without checking if...
3 tips for better social media
"Be insanely useful! Attend chats, use hashtags, follow more, share more, do this, do that!" At this point you are likely to be familiar with all the best practices of how to use social media to gain more followers, more shares, more likes, more conversions, and more everything. Following all the advice has turned out to be exhausting and pointless. Social media services seem rather dreadful these days. There's lots of noise, spam, misinformation, trolls and worse. So it's easy to feel overwhelmed and lost on social media. Today, I will give you three very simple tips. You can make socia...
My simple recipe for getting more comments on Instagram
With everyone racing to build a huge following and getting tons of likes on Instagram, the quality connections are becoming scarce. Every day someone follows you only to gain a new follower. Every day automated and manual spam comments are made. Every day someone tries to get something from you. Yet every day, my photos get lots of thoughtful comments. Why and how? Since last April, I have been sharing daily selfies on Instagram. There were a few days in June, when I didn't, because I managed to drown my iPhone 4S. But otherwise, I've been onto it every friggin' day. That's a lot of self...
Don't write for your audience
What we call social media works in a sneaky way. It makes you think everything is about you. Whether it's someone else's Facebook update or a like to your Instagram photo, you believe it's somehow related to you. It's not. Everyone for themselves. When someone comments your blog post, she does it for herself. When someone shares your content, he is doing it for selfish reasons. It's personal. Have you heard that very popular advice on how to get online engagement, such as likes, shares and comments? The advice goes something like this: Figure out what your audience wants to read, hear, or se...
Getting back in blogging shape
I took a little blogging break. It wasn't exactly planned, more like it happened. And starting to blog again after a break isn't easy. How am I getting back in blogging shape? To start with blogging again, I recommend checking out my best tips on how to keep on blogging. To follow my own advice, I'm back with my three times a week schedule, I have re-established Shared Spaces series and I've been reading a lot (and a lot). Good, that's done. The next step is to write more again. I haven't been writing that much during my break. Reading, yes. Writing, not so much. Thus I must get my wri...
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