Tag: Blogs

As bloggers, we become very attached to our blogs. Not just to our domain name, but to our theme, and the words we write. We enjoy reading comments from our loyal readers…readers who have become friends. We have our favorite plugins, widgets, and ads. Our blogs are an extension of… read more A New Reality Show – How Not To Blog?

Anyone who watches soap operas or prime time series, knows how each show ends with a “cliff hanger”. It’s so compelling, you mark your calender, and watch the show the next time it airs. Now, that’s not to say, I haven’t landed on a few blogs, that resemble a true… read more Does Your Blog Resemble A Soap Opera

Google’s page rank is an issue that eludes/frustrates most bloggers and webmasters. How it’s calculated, is treated like a “secret sauce” recipe. A few of the ingredients are known, but no one (except Google), knows all of the ingredients. Anyone who could get their hands on the “recipe”, could potentially… read more What if Google Added “This” To Determine Page Rank

I’ve read several books about Feng Shui, (pronounced “fung shway”) and how it can affect the Yin and Yang in your home. For those who haven’t heard of Feng Shui, (literal translation is wind and water) it is an ancient (5000 years old) Chinese philosophy that deals mostly with understanding… read more Can Feng Shui Improve Your Blog

Recently, I noticed that Catherine, had added a new plugin to her great business blog. It is called “Comment Luv” The Comment Luv plugin, when activated, inserts a link to your most recent post, when you leave a comment on a blog that has the CommentLuv plugin activated. Today’s Lesson… read more Comment Luv Plugin Increases Traffic

I’m on a hunt for new bloggers. It doesn’t matter what your call yourselves….newbie bloggers, nubes, first time, infant, virgin, etc….. I have a proposition for you. Here’s my situation: I have a full time job and am blogging, what could be called part time, however, my time spent on… read more Wanted: New Bloggers Who Want More Traffic

If you’re a new blogger, you may start researching blogging, and think to yourself, “I don’t stand a chance”. “There are so many great blogs out there.” “Others write better than I do.” “No one is visiting my blog” “There is so much to learn about blogging, I’ll never totally… read more New Blogger Begins To Feel Like An Abandoned Dog

It wasn’t until I started blogging that I read about “Google’s Sandbox”. Apparently, the terminology was given to some blogs that may be on a “probationary period” with Google. These are blogs that Google is “watching” to see how internet users react to them. Google may be looking to see… read more Google Kicked Me Out Of The Sandbox

I doubt we will ever see headlines like this, but, if you listen close enough, you may begin to hear whispers in cyberspace that there are too many blogs. But, is there? Today’s Lesson Cyberspace reminds me of the small, but growing town, we live in. When we moved here… read more Internet Closes The Door To All New Blogs – Do You Have Yours

When we set up a blog, we usually contemplate who our audience will be. And, based on our subject matter, it’s normally an easy guess. You may picture others, in the same age group, with the same mind set, frequenting your blog. Today’s Lesson Can you imagine, getting a comment,… read more Blog Loses Massive Traffic Due To Profanity

If you blog and are using WordPress, you can use the “post time stamp” and pre-write posts, and have them “publish” while you are enjoying a good nights rest. Todays’ Lesson At this time of year, my full time job keeps me extremely busy. It’s time for quarter and year… read more WP Post Time Stamp – Publish While You Are Sleeping

To continue my readership building series, I am doing a test. Can I provide a reader with an answer, to their search string, within 30 seconds of entering my site? Today’s Lesson Since blog statistics provide tons of information, I check my blog’s stats on a regular basis. If I… read more 0 to 30 Seconds – Can You Answer My Question

You may be asking yourself, how can I meet a loyal blog visitor? In the “personals of blogging”, your may state that you are looking for “A visitor who will visit my blog often, who will share their thoughts, stroke my ego, and who may even be available for a… read more Blog Visitors Can Be Like One Night Stands

It is often written, “Do not try to reinvent the wheel”. In blogging, some will say, find a popular blog, and copy what they are doing, and you have a better chance of becoming successful. Is that true? Or, is there a better way? If you look at inventions, often… read more Copy Successful Blogs/Websites – Or Not

Blogging is often defined as an online journal. It’s a journal that we write, but instead of being private, the whole world can read it. In some instances that could be a scary thought, but in other ways, blogging can be therapeutic. Today’s Lesson Although there are many blogs that… read more Blog Your Way To Mental, Physical and/or Financial Health

Trying to figure out how to increase traffic to your blog, can be mind boggling. You know you write great posts, but visitors are few, and far between. You have created a professional looking homepage, but what good is it, if no one visits? Today’s Lesson On a regular basis,… read more How To Increase Traffic To Your Blog

UPDATE: As of today, 1/24/08, BlueHost customers can update to WordPress 2.3.2 using Fantastico. WordPress has announced another update. The new version is 2.3.2. Today’s Lesson Apparently, the WordPress 2.3.2 update, will fix a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts, plus limits and stops some information… read more Updating To WordPress 2.3.2 Using Fantastico On BlueHost

For some time now, there has been a debate going on about Google decreasing the page rank of a website or blog, if it has “paid links”. Today’s Lesson So, what are paid links? Not knowing for sure which links Google considers as “paid links”, I decided to go right… read more What Are Paid Links

Christmas is my favorite time of the year. I spend weeks preparing. I’m a nut for Christmas lights. I put tons of lights outside, and add pieces of yard decor. When darkness comes, I flip the switch, and the whole yard lights up. It’s beautiful. I also love to wrap… read more Celebrate Blogging

If I look back at some of my early posts, I laugh. I made up goofy definitions for some of the blogging terminology I was learning. In several posts, I was “beating my head against the wall” (I did that a lot back then), and others had obvious typos. Three… read more Baby Stepping Into Blogosphere

Are you a new blogger, or as some of you call yourselves, “newbie blogger”, “nube”, “novice blogger”, “infant blogger, etc? Are you disheartened by the low visitor counts your blog is experiencing? Are you looking for help? When you hit the “publish” button, do you wonder if your post actually… read more Help For New Bloggers With Low Traffic

In my last post, I wrote about what can cause spikes in your visitor counts. By studying what caused these spikes, you may be able to convert some of that “spikey” traffic, to regular readers. Today’s Lesson First of all, remember, spikey traffic, can be fickle traffic. Some of those… read more Learn From Spikes In Visitor Counts

Starting, and maintaining, a blog, is like learning how to sell real estate. How? You ask. I will start with a short story. Today’s Lesson Years ago, a friend was starting a new real estate business. She had sold real estate in the past, but now wanted to have her… read more Does Your Blog Sell Itself

Anyone who blogs, and researches “about blogging”, will run into the terminology “meta tags”. Today’s Lesson Meta tags, are “hidden”, HTML tags in your blog. Search engines can “see” these tags, however, they are not seen by your visitors. Meta tags can help with your SEO (search engine optimization), as… read more Meta Tags May Increase Your SEO

Yesterday I wrote about How to Prepare For Uncreative Blogging Days Today, I will piggy back on that post, and discuss how to determine if your post should be divided up, into more than one post. By dividing a single post, into more than one post, will not only increase… read more Fine Tuning Your Posts

If you have been blogging for any length of time, you may have found that some days, you don’t feel very creative. In fact, you don’t even feel like writing. And, the harder you try to write a post that contains value for your readers, the bigger the writer’s block… read more Prepare For Uncreative Blogging Days

From time to time, I like to have fun with my blog. Today’s Lesson In the past I found enjoyment in writing two poems about blogging. One is titled: ” I Love To Blog”, and the other is: “Creativity Strikes Blogger At 3 a.m.” To kick off this lesson, and… read more Blogging Poetry – An Assignment

Over the past two days, I have been writing about duplicate content. As discussed earlier, WordPress blogs are notorious for duplicate content. Duplicate content can confuse search engines, and can get you penalized by Google. Today’s Lesson While researching on Google’s website (webmaster tools), Google suggests using a robots.txt file… read more How Important Is A Robots txt. File

Over the past week, I have been spending time on Google’s website researching how search engines may see our blogs. Today’s Lesson One issue that caught my eye, is duplicate content in blogs. With WordPress, we have duplicate content throughout our blogs. One post can be “recorded” in many different… read more Duplicate Content – Should You Worry

Links to and from other sites, are great for increasing the popularity of your blog. When I first started this blog, I decided to provide a link to all individuals (who had blogs or websites) who commented on, or linked to my blogs. That is when my “Blogging Buddies” page… read more My “Blogging Buddies” Update