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Category Archives: Blogging
Manage Your Comments: Recaptcha In, Akismet Out
Akismet, the native WordPress comment spam protection service, spams a lot of good comments on my blog. I don’t always have the time to check it for false-negatives. As a result, I probably have missed at least some comments from many great writers, friends, and visitors. I’ve suffered with it long enough. Today I deactivated it and now I’m using Recaptcha. In the future I may use them both in concert with one another.
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Measuring The VALUE of Ones Work
A MUST READ! Guest Blogger Chelle comments on the how some authorities are measuring the value of blogs. She gives some great reasons why we shouldn’t get too caught up in it including a great anecdote on why she failed physics.
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A Self-Rating System for My Blog
I made a Blog Self-Ranking system called the CAN. System. In this post I talk about it a little and link out to some interesting related sites. Are you tired of Google telling you your site is worth NOTHING? I am.
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How I Hope to Get my Google PageRank Back
Like many bloggers and webmasters, I was reduced to a PR-0 by Google in their “wisdom.” I’m tired of being that low so I’m trying some things to bring it back.
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Blog Traffic, Publishing, and Money: June 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe via -or- How did I do in June of 2008?
Didn’t quite meet my goals in traffic and money, but publishing was a slam dunk. I think Social Media will save me in July.
Traffic
Goal: Traffic: 3,000 uniques
Actual: 2,554 uniques
I spent time playing and exploring [...]
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SocialSpark is Great for Mommy Bloggers
As some of you know, I’ve begun writing sponsored posts in the past year. They are excellent for making a small bit of cash for writing a post. Ideally, every blog post could make one money but most people like to intersperse them and keep most their blogging unsponsored. If you decided to [...]
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Can You Define the Value of a Blog?
I’m published today in a post at the official FuelMyBlog Blog. The topic there is one you might do well to check out. It could be the cornerstone issue in the future of blogging. Here are some responses to that post on defining blog value over at the the FuelMyBlog Blog:
sylvied said: “You are totally [...]
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Most Favorite Failed Post
This one’s for the bloggers and writers out there. Lorelle on WordPress has a challenge going to her readers to write about their biggest failure of a post. I thought this was a great challenge so I rushed to do it. I actually have many posts I had high hopes for that [...]
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Traffic, Brain Blogger, and Blog Carnivals
I used to be really into doing Blog Carnivals. Through time, they have brought me a lot of traffic. Last week I read an good article that recommended them so I thought I’d get back into it to see what happens. The process is fairly simple: You browse the carnivals looking [...]
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