An old friend from my elementary school days let her Facebook friends know that she’d started a blog recently. She’s completely new to blogging, so after I helped her figure out a little technical detail, she asked if I could help her navigate the world of blogging. I told her I would write a post on Blogging 101 just for her. This isn’t that post. But it is a precursor to that post,...
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Someone recently commented on a post that its topic was not “just for bloggers”. The implication was that I had posted the information just to bloggers, when in actuality I had not. I can only conclude that the commenter thinks of me as a blogger, and by extension, assumes that what I write about is “for bloggers”.
Unless I specifically say that a post is “for bloggers”,...
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You know by now that I’ve entered the FamousBloggers Comluv contest. What you may not know is that I have a sweet spot for the whole CommentLuv concept. And no, it’s not for any SEO value. Forget about SEO for a minute. Forget about dofollow and nofollow. (BTW, CommentLuv DOESN’T turn your comment links into dofollow links, although many people who use the CommentLuv plugin often ALSO use...
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Thanks to the FamousBloggers ComLuv Contest, I’ve been introduced to several bloggers and resources that weren’t already on my radar because they are generous sponsors of the contest. Discovering these new bloggers and resources is like finding money in a parking lot – it’s just a neat little surprise. So today, I’m focusing on introducing you to the ones that I was...
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UPDATE: The contest is over, and I finished in 2nd place! Thanks to everyone for all your support and hard work.
I’ve been noticing all the hubbub lately for the FamousBloggers ComLuv contest, but I’ve been so busy that I hadn’t had a chance to really check it out until a week or so ago. Once I did, I realized that this was a great opportunity for me to share my thoughts on blog...
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Think blogging and participating in online communities cannot bring about powerful change? Think again! After reading one short forum thread post, a blogger was able to pick up a big story, tell his readers about it, thereby causing a cascade effect that changed the way, not one, but TWO huge companies practiced business.
For quite some time now, registrars were required to allow a 5 day grace period, in...
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You’ve made it through the first seven steps of the series, “How To Make a Living in Your Pajamas”, and now you finally have all of that setup stuff out of the way. You are ready to begin adding content to your site, in the form of blog posts. A blog post is simply an entry, a piece of content. Your goal is to post an entry at least several times a week, but my preference is once a day...
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