Author: Barbara Swafford

Did you know you can recycle your used print cartridges, and get a store credit? I found out about recycling used print cartridges, quite by accident. I was in Office Max, and a customer was turning in used print cartridges. She got a store credit, which, in turn, reduced her… read more Recycle Used Print Cartridges – Save Money

If you’ve been blogging for any length of time, you may ask, “What do I do, to revive my older posts”? I see at least three options. 1) Revive older posts in your blog, by rewriting them, concentrating on keyword density, and/or adding more value to the post. I address… read more How To Revive Older Posts On Your Blog

If you’re a newbie to blogging, you’ve probably asked the question, “How often should I post to my blog?” How often you post to your blog, is a decision you should make even before you start to blog. Ask yourself, “What is my objective to blogging?” “How much time do… read more Blogging? How Often Should You Post?

Get a link! I’ve read some articles, where it’s written that bloggers, need to “get a life” Maybe so, but links are great for all of us bloggers. Do you want a link? Read on….. While learning how to blog, I’ve read many “how to” articles on succeeding with blogging…. read more Share The Love In Blogosphere-Get A Link

If you use Google AdSense ads in your blog(s), and are constantly clicking “Google AdSense” to check your account balance, Firefox has an add on that will list your earnings in your status bar. Just go to Firefox, search for “AdSense Notifier”, and download (“install”) the add on. Then, go… read more No Click Google AdSense Reporting

Blogging can be compared to dieting in many ways. In some ways, blogging and dieting are opposite, but in other ways, blogging and dieting are the same. With dieting, you want lower numbers With blogging you want higher numbers With dieting, we may be obsessed with our “numbers”, and “weigh… read more What Do Blogging And Dieting Have In Common?

What is a blog? Technically speaking, a blog is the name for a web log. Take the “b” off of web, add it to “log, and there you have it “blog”. To blog, is easy. If you’ve ever written in a diary or journal, you’ve been “blogging”, without a “blog”…. read more What Is A Blog? Why Do People Blog?

How much time should you expect to spend writing for your blog? That depends on what you’re blogging about, and if you’re writing your own content. If you write a sentence or two, and then reference an article in another blog, or on another site, you could publish a post… read more Time Needed For Blogging

My blog theme doesn’t include a “description” tag line, so I just added HTML code to create a “description” tag line in my sidebar. Since I’m not familiar enough with CSS to start messing with my stylesheet, adding the HTML code to my sidebar was much easier. Since my blog… read more Adding A Description Tag Line To Your Blog

Why did you start a blog? Is blogging meeting your expectations? For me, while I was reading The Secret, I was inspired to start a second “business”. A home based business I could do, in conjunction with our other business. The thought stayed with me, but I wasn’t sure exactly… read more Why Did You Start Blogging?

Are you getting blogging block? Or, would that be “blogk”? Need topics to blog about? In order to sustain a blog, you need an endless supply of blogging topics. The question is, where do you find sources for blogging topics? Here’s a list of 15 ideas to draw from. 1)… read more Blogging Block- Can’t Find Anything To Blog About

If you blog, and have incorporated Google AdSense ads into your pages, optimizing the performance of those AdSense ads to generate income, becomes an issue. On Google’s blog, there’s a great little “Optimization Demo” for AdSense ads. It takes approximately five minutes to watch, and is full of neat little… read more Optimizing Google AdSense

Blogging is easy, once you have your software program in place. Now, blogging got even easier. Last night I was reading Lorelle’s site on WordPress., and came upon a post of hers about a nifty feature that Firefox has as an addon. It’s a split brower, or often called, split… read more Blogging Just Got Easier

Showing your most popular posts, either most viewed, or most commented on, can revive old posts. Showing most popular posts also makes navigating your site easier. How to show your most popular posts can be done by using a plugin. The plugin I’m using is Top Posts by Category by… read more Show Popular Posts on WordPress Blog

The expected stats for a newbie’s blog seems to be a mystery. I’ve done some research on stats for a new blog, but so far only found one newbie blog, where the author listed their stats. I’m curious, are my new blog stats inline with other new blogs? Am I… read more Stats For Newbie Blogs – I’ll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours

How do you deal with negative or critical comments you receive on your blog? Do you delete negative comments? Do you post negative comments? Or do you mark the negative comments as “spam”? With WordPress, choosing what to do with negative comments is all up to you. Don’t you just… read more WordPress – Dealing With Negative Comments

To blog is easy, but to become a problogger, now that’s a different story. My goal is to become a problogger. As a newbie, I realize I must post often, continue learning (and that includes learning from my mistakes), and essentially “pay my dues”. My favorite problogger site is Problogger…. read more Learn Blogging From The Best

If you’re a newbie to blogging, learning WordPress can be quite confusing. WordPress is one of the best blogging platforms, and with it being free, that makes WordPress even more attractive. The question is, where do you get the best information about how to learn WordPress? Quite obviously, go to… read more How To Learn WordPress

I just installed the “Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form v.2.0” which can be found at Beast-Blog.com or, at Blue Anvil.com. It was written by Mike Cherim and Mike Jolley. To install the Secure and Accessible PHP Contact Form v.2.0, is quite simple. The “Mikes’” have written a very thorough… read more Secure Contact Form For WordPress

What do I Digg? I dig Digg. And, I Digg my posts. I’m my harshest critic, but I’m also well aware that some of my posts are worth Digg-ing. By the way, these aren’t typos. Read on. To Digg your own posts gives them more exposure. If your posts appear… read more Do You Digg “Them”? I Digg “Them”!

I’m not sure what constitutes being a newbie to blogging, but I think I’m still a newbie, as my two blogs are less than three months old. When I first started blogging, I felt overwhelmed by everything I was reading. My head spun for weeks, and the learning curve was… read more Newbie To Blogging?

You blog. You want your blog to rank high on the search engines. The major question is, “How do I get my blog at the top of the search engine results?”. From my experience, getting your blog to the top of search engine results doesn’t happen overnight. This is what… read more How To Rank High On Search Engine Results

Getting inbound links to your blog from highly ranked sites can be difficult. Creating outbound links is much easier. You can link to another blog, link to a story you want to share, or link to a shopping affiliate. I have a few inbound links to my blog, but what… read more How To Create Deep Links In Your Blog

So, you want to change your WordPress theme, but aren’t sure what to do? Switching your WordPress theme is pretty simple. 1) First, locate, download and unzip (extract all files) a WordPress theme that suits your site. Check out my previous post The Best Source For Free WordPress Themes 2)… read more How To Change Your WordPress Theme

I found this WordPress theme, and thought it reminded myself of me. Thinking about life and what I want to blog about each day. The more I have been working with this theme, the more I am getting to like it. Hopefully, you, my readers, will enjoy it too. I… read more New WordPress Theme Activated

Just yesterday I wrote about a free plugin for Meta Tags. Today, I’m writing about a free widget for “recent posts”. I love being able to share the fact that creating and working with a blog, doesn’t have to cost very much. I used the free recent post widget yesterday… read more Free Recent Posts Plugin

I love finding free stuff. From the time I started my blogs, I have been amazed at how much free stuff is online to aid in blogging. First it was WordPress blogging software, then it was tons of plugins and widgets, and now I’m using a free Meta Tag Analyzer… read more Free Meta Tag Analyzer

To change your WordPress theme, is actually quite easy. All you have to do is find one that fits your needs, and also fits the theme of your blog. If you’re not sure where “your blog will take you” (subject wise), I think it would be best to stick to… read more Changing WordPress Themes

I have to say it again, I love WordPress Theme Viewer. Over the past few days, I have been searching on WordPress Theme Viewer for a new theme for my other blog. I love how you can see a thumbnail of the theme, click on “Test Run” and determine whether… read more The Best Source For Free WordPress Themes

Showing related posts on your blog will help to increase what’s called it’s “stickiness”, or the length of time a reader spends on your site. Adding the related posts plugin is quite simple. Earlier today, I added the related posts plugin on both of my blogs, in a matter of… read more Show Related Posts