Blogging - Year One - Lesson Two

When you first start blogging, you really don’t know if someone hears/reads your words.
You write and write, but no one shows up. Your statistics are improving, but no one is commenting.
You borrow the line from the movie Field of Dreams , and think, “If I build it, they will come”.
But then you start asking, [...]

NBOTW Credits Energizers For His Success

We often see ads with the pink “Energizer Bunny”, but this week’s new blog of week (NBOTW) credits his success to associating with”energizers”, e.g. positive people. People who are undoubtedly operating with a full charge.
I never looked at it that way, but it’s true. If you hang around negative individuals, soon you [...]

Blogging - Year One - Lesson One

Recently I celebrated my first anniversary of blogging. As I contemplate where I am today, I’m reflecting back to those first days. The days before I had a blog, and why I started blogging.
Today’s Lesson
Before you even start a blog, it’s important to ask yourself, “Why do I want to start a blog?”
If [...]

Why Pay For It, You Can Get It For Free

When I started blogging, I put up a “donation” page. I did because I had seen them on many of the blogs I frequented.
Although I still have mixed feelings about donations on blogs. my “donate” page sits quietly in my header.
Close to my one year anniversary of blogging, I received my first donation, which, [...]

Control Your Comments - Gain Readers

We eventually become acquainted with other bloggers.
We read each other’s posts, leave comments, and often become cyberspace friends.
Small communities form in comment sections of blogs.
Today’s Lesson
Not so much different than in real life, with blogging, like minded people are attracted to each other. That often become evident in comment sections.
If the blog [...]

Social Networking Can Kill Your Passion

Blogging is a hobby by most definitions. That is, unless you are a problogger (a professional blogger who blogs for a living)
Today’s Lesson
The further you get into blogging, the more you learn about social networks and how, by joining, they can help promote your blog, i.e. gain exposure.
Join all social networking sites [...]

NBOTW- We Have A Doctor in The House

Does an apple a day, keep the doctor away?
Soon we may know the truth.
As bloggers, we often read posts on how to manage our time, run our business, and/or learn how to improve on our blogging skills, but we often forget about our health.
We could make tens of thousands of dollars from blogging, engage in [...]

Beach Blogging In Belize

Is it a movement, or is it becoming a new way of life?
You sell your home or move out of your apartment, grab your labtop and head to a sunny location and blog remotely.
Today’s Lesson
As I travel through cyberspace I read blogging articles/comments about those who are in pursuit of working less, playing more, and/or [...]

Google AdSense - Arrows For More Ads

If you use Google AdSense, you may have noticed arrows on the ad unit.
Today’s Lesson
Just recently Google added two small arrows to their AdSense ads units.
What this does, is gives the potential ad clicker, more advertising options.
Whether a reader on a blog will notice these arrows is another question, so all may be for [...]

Blogs To Be Subjected To Parental Ratings

It will happen.
Just like lyrics, sooner or later, blogs and websites will include a parental rating.
It may not be a placard, so to speak, but may be a meta tag inserted “behind the scenes”.
Major search engines could easily be reprogrammed to “read” these ratings in an attempt to give readers results that best match their [...]

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