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Productive Blogging: 8 Tips To Become More EfficientNovember 24

It’s been 5 months now since the summer’s day back in late June when I purchased PiggyBankPie. During that time I’ve had to become a lot more time-efficient as staying up-to-date with all the developments in internet marketing, running a couple of other sites, blogging, and holding down a permanent job during the week does take time… too much time when you’re not completely organized.

I’ve made quite a few changes to how I work over the past few months, with the aim being to become more productive, so I thought the time had come to share them here.

Here are 8 ways in which I’ve become more productive:

1) iGoogle - for anyone who doesn’t use iGoogle it’s effectively a Google homepage which you can customize, allowing you to add links to all the websites which you use most

Bringing our Guest Blogging Posts TogetherNovember 17

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PiggyBankPie started back in 2007 with a specific focus on guest blogging and during the past year we’ve covered numerous topics on the subject, with highlights including:

However, there was no place which we could refer to as a guest blogging resource, a place where all our articles were linked to. Therefore we�

It’s Official: The 10 Most Irritating PhrasesNovember 12

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At the end of the day when it comes to writing I personally think, with all due respect, that people should be able to write absolutely whatever they want, as long as it’s fairly unique.

Was that sentence irritating? It should be! It contains five of the most annoying phrases according to researchers at the University of Oxford.

The top 10 most irritating phrases are:

1) At the end of the day
2) Fairly unique
3) I personally
4) At this moment in time
5) With all due respect
6) Absolutely
7) It’s a nightmare
8 ) Shouldn’t of
9) 24/7
10) It’s not rocket science

What other phrases do you think are worth avoiding?

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Keyword Questions & SEM Rush: Two New Keyword Research ToolsNovember 10

In the past week two new and very promising keyword tools have been released - Wordtracker’s Keyword Questions tool and SEM Rush, a competitor research tool.

Keyword Questions

Wordtracker’s new Keyword Questions tool takes an interesting new angle on keyword research, moving it into the realms of customer research.

Businesses always want to know what their customers are thinking and frequently send out questionnaires which people are notoriously against filling out. This tool potentially removes the need for these types of questionnaires in many instances, answering questions such as:

Have you ever wondered what readers in your niche are most interested in?
What concerns or queries do your customers / users have?
What would your customers most like you to provide?
Are you considering putting together a resource section for your site? What should you focus on covering?
How can you make sure that your content receives the most visibility

32 High Quality DoFollow BlogsNovember 3

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Writing comments on DoFollow blogs is one of the most effective, yet under-rated, blog comment strategies.

When building links to your website or blog ideally the links will have the following characteristics:

Be from a high PageRank site
DoFollow rather than NoFollow
Contain keyword-rich anchor text
Be from relevant sites
Located within the main page content

Apart from the fifth characteristic DoFollow blog comments tick all the boxes when it comes to the perfect incoming link. You get to select the blogs, write the comment, select the destination page on your site along with the anchor text. It’s especially effective at generating deep links to pages on your site which would otherwise struggle to attract links naturally.

What’s more, when you contribute insightful comments you can also build up a relationship with the recipient blogger. Bloggers benefit from repeat traffic and useful comments which enh