About Tia Peterson

Tia Peterson is a blog developer, consultant, and creator of BizChickBlogs, a practical blogging guide for successful and effective blogging. She also writes about personal development at Living Legacy.

Nov
11

Defining the Who in Who Cares About Your Blog

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Figuring out your target audience is so crucial to making any content marketing strategy – especially blogging – successful. If your messaging is ambiguous, misdirected, or just completely wrong for your audience, all of your hard work will be wasted.

Sep
29

8 Things to Do Before Starting a Business Blog

Business bloggers face a few different challenges than other bloggers. Business blogs often have specific objectives – the blog is usually a marketing or community building tool – and the blog, once public, becomes a public display of life for a company.

Sep
22

Complete Guide to Easy Blog SEO for Busy Bloggers

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The life of a busy blogger is all play and no fun.  Wait – is that right? More like all blogging and no SEO! Optimizing each post for proper search engine indexing and better search engine ranking can be annoying and time consuming. Some bloggers have written it off altogether. Woah, there!

Sep
08

Success – You Already Know How to Get There

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Some things cannot be presented in a simple, step-by-step guide.

Sep
01

Break It Up: Using Headers and Sections Effectively

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Writing for the web – successfully – involves many things, but in this post let’s just concentrate on two: breaking up the text on a page and adding headers, sectioning off the page in a logical, legible way. This is part of better blog writing and will improve the look of your blog as well.

Aug
25

Guest Blogging for SEO: Are There Unspoken Rules?

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I’ve now had two different experiences with guest post pitches – ones that are from regular bloggers hoping to get natural links and exposure for themselves, and ones that are from SEO consultants looking to get natural links for their clients. Why is it that the second one doesn’t sit so well with me?

Aug
18

How to Become a Better Listener

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Listening as a blogger is just as crucial to growth as listening out in your every day, away-from-the-computer life. We have to learn to listen as children, as parents, as students, as teachers, as friends, as spouses, and in every other role we play throughout life. When we listen, we grow. When we listen to…
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Aug
11

There Is No Substitute for Natural Link Building

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Who doesn’t want to have a million inbound links to their blog? After all, you’ve put hard work into your content! You’re ready to see some action now. We know that the more high-quality links we get, the better our blogs get ranked in search engine results. And we also know that this leads to…
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Aug
04

10 Great DoFollow Resources for Bloggers

Where do you find great one-way dofollow links? I’ve created a list below of 10 great dofollow resources that are suitable for bloggers. All carry high page rank and get a lot of traffic, so not only will your links get counted and credited quickly, but you are likely to get some new visitors from…
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Jul
28

3 Ways to Turn Recommended Reading Lists into Cash

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One of the common pages found on business blogs is a Recommended Reading page. In theory, it’s a great idea, and many consultants and business owners are on the right path when they ask for advice on how to monetize those lists. My advice is to think beyond Amazon affiliate links. Creating a huge list…
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Jul
21

5 Tips on Using Categories and Category Pages Effectively

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Categories are the table of contents for your blog. On the surface, your list of categories says to readers, “This is the sum of what this blog is about.”