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BlogPaws 2013 Is Over... Now What?

Guest post by Blog Manager Robbi Hess

For everyone who attended BlogPaws, I imagine it was a whirlwind of networking, knowledge-filled sessions from great speakes, meeting new friends, reconnecting with old friends and pawtying until all hours! But now you're back home, the luggage is unpacked, the swag is being distributed to your furiends and you have a stack of business cards in your hand. What do you do now? 

Here are my best tips for making the most of those connections, keeping in touch and building on the momentum started by your attendance at BlogPaws 2013: 

• Follow up. If you received a business card, send an email as a quick way to touch base. Use the subject line to remind them where you met. If you remember what you'd talked about, bring that up in the email. If you have a product or service to sell, don't do that in your initial email... use that first email contact as a way to build the relationship. 

How to Get More Blog Traffic with Email Marketing

If you blog, what is one thing you forever wish for and we all could really use on a regular basis? Readers, right?

Crystal Gouldey of Perkasie (about an hour from Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, knows a thing or two about how to get more readers. Through the magic of email marketing, she will be showing folks at BlogPaws how this tool can work in their favor as well.

Here's what Crystal shared with BlogPaws in advance of her session at BlogPaws' sold out conference:

You Started a Blog and Now What

Who amongst us hasn't felt that way? You start a blog, know that you have a passion and/or desire to write about pets in some capacity, but where to start? The way social media changes, is it any wonder so many o us just don't know how or where to start?

Jodi Stone does.

Jodi is a blogger who has been there, done that, and is coming to the BlogPaws 2013 Conference to show others where to get started and things that worked for here. Here's the inside scoop with Jodi:

Harnessing The Power of SEO For Your Local Pet Blogging Efforts

It may seem like a no-brainer -- if you're writing a blog post about a local event or shelter in your area, you'd put in the location, right? As Pam Foster, owner of PetCopywriter.com and Managing Editor of Content & Communications at LifeLearn, Inc. points out in this blog post, it is a critical SEO step that many bloggers miss.

You can learn from Pam's and hear about her speciality: optimizing blogs to attract more readers via search engines, blending helpful or entertaining blog posts with strategic keyword use throughout... leading to more readers at BlogPaws 2013. It's right around the corner! 

Here is a great post from Pam on ways to optimize your local pet blogging efforts. 

How to Get Ahead in Search with Pro Level SEO

Three letters than pack so much punch: SEO. Otherwise known as "Search Engine Optimization." I, too, love to write, and if you blog you are probably echoing that same sentiment.

However, writing so that search engines find you and doing so the right way is a completely different undertaking. If you blog, you want to be seen/read, correct? Matt Beswick concurs, which is why he is flying from the United Kingdom to Salt Lake City to speak about SEO to our conference attendees.

Matt is based between Milton Keynes and London, UK and here's what you can expect from his pro level class (which is open to all attendees):