Laura’s Blog

Have you considered showcasing some of your best blog posts from 2009?

“Best of…” posts are always popular with readers, and they also help you get more mileage from your archived articles.

I enjoy creating tutorials for beginning social media users; here are 16 of my most-requested ones:

The Blogging Barista’s Best How To-torials of 2009

1. Make a Name for Yourself on Google

2. Write Twitter Teasers that Lure People to Your Archived Blog Posts (Guest article on TwiTip)

3. Set up a Gravatar

4. Create a Hyperlink Inside a Blog Post

5. Market Yourself With Business Cards

6. Make Google Love Your Twitter Profile

7. Create a Hacker-Resistant Password

8. Create a Custom Subject Line for Feedburner E-Mail Updates

9. Avoid Twitter Phishing Scams

10. Link to Your Facebook Business Page From Your Profile

11. Use Google’s Wonder Wheel to Generate Ideas for Blog Posts

12. Create a Branded Facebook Username

13. Connect Your LinkedIn and Twitter Accounts

14. Submit Your Business Site to Yahoo! Local

15. Submit Your Web Site to Bing and Bing Local

16. Market With Word Clouds

Please share a link to your “Best of 2009” post. If you haven’t written it yet, get busy!