Archive for June, 2008

I Can’t Read It, If I Can’t See It

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Monday, June 30th 2008   
Filed In: Archives, Blogging Lessons, Themes, Writing Tips    Tags: ,

I cannot count how many times I’ve landed on a blog, only to click off.
It wasn’t because the blog was laced with profanity, nor was it due to the site sporting too many ads
It was because I couldn’t see the writings.
By seeing the writings, I mean the size of the font.
Today’s Lesson
I’ve changed my [...]

FEFF - How To Get More Hits On Old Posts

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Friday, June 27th 2008   
Filed In: Archives, Free and Easy Finds, Plugins and Widgets    Tags:

It’s Friday, and I’m adding another great freebie to my “Free and Easy Friday Finds”(FEFF)
Last week I found a new plugin called “Random Posts”. It’s quite slick.
Via the use of a plugin (link to follow), you can display posts from the past. What this plugin does is extract random posts which will change [...]

Bloggers Flunk The Reading Assignments

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Thursday, June 26th 2008   
Filed In: Archives, Blogging Lessons    Tags: , , ,

It’s sad but true, many bloggers may not be reading your posts. They scan your words, may (or may not) find something to comment on, and then click off.
Today’s Lesson
If you read the comments to yesterday’s post, Vered mentioned she had read (possibly on Skellie’s blog) that some bloggers are scanning our posts.
It’s true. [...]

Blog Posts - Are We Our Worst Critic?

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Wednesday, June 25th 2008   
Filed In: Archives, Blogging Lessons, Writing Tips    Tags:

On Monday we discussed the importance of your most current post. It was decided our best work may be buried in our archives.
But, how do we know what is our best work?
Is it the post we spent days constructing, editing and reediting until we had it perfect?
Or was it the post we wrote in [...]

NBOTW Needs No Introduction

Posted by Barbara Swafford in Tuesday, June 24th 2008   
Filed In: Archives, New Blog Of The Week    Tags: , ,

If you’re part of the BWAB community, you’ll see her commenting.
If you travel through blogosphere, she’s there too.
She’s small in stature, but has a large presence in social networks, as well
In fact, she’s everywhere.
The name of her blog may produce visions of a “mommy blog”, but she rarely writes stories about her kids. Instead, [...]

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