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Showing posts with label blogging tips. Show all posts
07 July 2016
5 don'ts for promoting your blog (Reblog)
A look back. Revisiting sites where I found valuable information when I first started my blogging adventures. It is good to know this site still has online content available to the public. Left a comment at this post in 2013. It's 3 years later and the "Don'ts" in this post are still relevant. Interested in becoming a successful blogger? Check out this advice from Suresh Vurity, author and owner of way2earning.com.
09 May 2016
Official Blogger Blog: Keep your readers interested with the AdSense Guide to Audience Engagement (Reblog)
Latest tips and advice from the Google Blogger (Blogspot) Team. Reblogging, sharing and saving this tip. Handy reference.
Official Blogger Blog: Keep your readers interested with the AdSense Guide to Audience Engagement
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26 April 2016
Change Your Blog Name and Tagline
In
a previous post a response was provided to the question:
How Often Do You Update Your Blog Content?
In
that post, I also explained that after joining a blogging community,
BlogJob.com and being allowed to create a blog there, there was the
task of giving the blog a name and a tagline. The blog is not yet a
year old and it has become necessary to make an executive decision.
Decided that the
blog name and tagline needed to be changed. It wasn't difficult to
do since the blog URL remains the same no matter how many times the
name changes.
Also
needed to add an icon. Icon or favicons are an integral part of a
website or blog's online identity.
Took
care of the easiest task first. Went into the theme customizer and
added an icon. Finally decided on the flag of Texas in the shape of
the state of Texas as my icon. Since my plans are for Austin, Texas
to be our final stop. Our family has relocated more than once. But
I'm tired of moving.
Next task.
Changed the name and tagline for my site to something more
“generic”.
OLD
blog name: Cmoneyspinner Keeps on Blogging
NEW
blog name: My Pain, Your Gain
OLD
blog tagline: Let the blogging adventures continue.
NEW
blog tagline: Advice for newbies and others who want to work at home.
Learn from my mistakes.
Hope
you visit at your earliest convenience. :)
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10 March 2016
Blogging Tip : Mix and Burn
Used to write for a website called Squidoo. One of the fews sites where my online income earned was consistent. Seth Godin, the site owner decided to move on to other business adventures and the site was acquired by HUBPages, which is another excellent site for freelance writers, bloggers, work at home moms, and anybody else who wants to be a part of an online writing community and earn residual income.
Make a long story short. Squidoo used to have widgets provided to the users to enable them to enhance their content with additional material. One of my favorite widgets was the “RSS Mashup”. You could take several feeds, combine them and create one feed. Loved it!
HUBPages, for whatever reason, chose to discontinue allowing RSS feeds. So even though Squidoo is now under the HP umbrella, those nifty widgets evidently were not included in the acquisition deal.
Been searching for something similar and … Behold! Seek and Ye Shall Find!
Funny thing is a while back had tested this tool and then forgot about it. But since me and my bookmarks are BFFs (best friends forever), found my old “test mix”. The light bulbs in my brain started going off!
BLOGGING TIP:
Harness the power of two RSS tools:
Step 1: Create the “RSS Mix” ( rssmix.com ). Gather the URLS for the feeds you want to combine together. In my example, it's all of my Tumblr blogs. Just go to the site and follow the extremely simple directions. Put the feed URLs in the box and click Create. No kidding. That's it!
Step 2: Use the URL of the mix feed that is generated and then burn a feed using the Google Feedburner ( feedburner.google.com ). If you have a Google account you have access to this tool. You may have never used it because you didn't know about it. But now you do, so … go for it! For those familiar with this tool, you know that once the feed is burned, there are many different ways to optimize / publicize the content. You choose what to do with it.
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Sharing my “feed mix /feed burn” below as an example.
Blogs I Like ~ Mix and Mash
Make a long story short. Squidoo used to have widgets provided to the users to enable them to enhance their content with additional material. One of my favorite widgets was the “RSS Mashup”. You could take several feeds, combine them and create one feed. Loved it!
HUBPages, for whatever reason, chose to discontinue allowing RSS feeds. So even though Squidoo is now under the HP umbrella, those nifty widgets evidently were not included in the acquisition deal.
Been searching for something similar and … Behold! Seek and Ye Shall Find!
Funny thing is a while back had tested this tool and then forgot about it. But since me and my bookmarks are BFFs (best friends forever), found my old “test mix”. The light bulbs in my brain started going off!
BLOGGING TIP:
Harness the power of two RSS tools:
- RSS Mix ( rssmix.com ) and
- Google Feedburner ( feedburner.google.com )
Step 1: Create the “RSS Mix” ( rssmix.com ). Gather the URLS for the feeds you want to combine together. In my example, it's all of my Tumblr blogs. Just go to the site and follow the extremely simple directions. Put the feed URLs in the box and click Create. No kidding. That's it!
Step 2: Use the URL of the mix feed that is generated and then burn a feed using the Google Feedburner ( feedburner.google.com ). If you have a Google account you have access to this tool. You may have never used it because you didn't know about it. But now you do, so … go for it! For those familiar with this tool, you know that once the feed is burned, there are many different ways to optimize / publicize the content. You choose what to do with it.
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Sharing my “feed mix /feed burn” below as an example.
Blogs I Like ~ Mix and Mash
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23 February 2016
Top Ten Popular Posts at My BlogJob Site
Criss-crossing the reports on my
blogging adventures. (Plan to write a similar report of this blog's
activities for my followers and friends at the other site.)
Currently publishing a blog as a part of a global blogging social
community. It was free to join. Members can participate in forums,
groups, make friends, create multiple sites, etc. Found a review of
this site dated May 2014 which supplies a really good description of
how the community works.
"The site integrates a social aspect with blogs. It provides all the tools to setup any type of blog using WordPress compatible widgets and themes. … It's an amalgamation of social networking and blogging with a twist; the ability to earn points. BlogJob isn't the type of site where you'll earn a living, but it's an innovative idea, fun and completely free. ..." - See more at: *UPDATE* Let's review a freelance writing site: BlogJob
Blog Title: Cmoneyspinner Keeps on Blogging
Tagline: Let the blogging adventures continue.
User name: @cmoneyspinner
Post Archive Dates: Sep 2015 – Feb 2016
Total Number of Posts: 55
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22 January 2016
What is a Subscriber?
See the little chicklet with the red heart? I use the Google FeedBurner tool to burn feeds for my various blogs. There are several ways to get people to subscribe to your blog feed. This little chicklet is just one of them.
I'm okay with the chicklet and I really really love the Feedburner. But I noticed something interesting about "My Feeds" almost right from the very start. The Subscriber count.
Yeah. (???) The number looks ... questionable? ... unreasonable? ... mysterious?
I'm going to settle on the word "squirrelly". Even though my spellchecker indicates that it's not a word.
The numbers don't make sense! So I'm thinking, they must be some sort of secret code and I've always had my theory about Rocky and Bullwinkle. So that's why I decided "squirrelly" was the best way to describe my subscriber count.
Anyway I found the answer to my puzzle, as to why the numbers look unreal.
I am so glad that I read the response, because it clarifies everything!!
Love the Feedburner tool. It is a valuable helpful tool and I will continue to use it until Google tells me it's no longer free or for whatever reason or for no reason at all, I just won't be allowed to use it. It's theirs. They own it. They can tell me to take a hike!
But I don't think I'm going to rely on the number of subscribers who supposedly hold their breath and wake up each morning checking their eMail messages or waiting to receive notifications that I've published another blog post!!
WHY? Because based on the response I read.
I'm okay with the chicklet and I really really love the Feedburner. But I noticed something interesting about "My Feeds" almost right from the very start. The Subscriber count.
Yeah. (???) The number looks ... questionable? ... unreasonable? ... mysterious?
I'm going to settle on the word "squirrelly". Even though my spellchecker indicates that it's not a word.
The numbers don't make sense! So I'm thinking, they must be some sort of secret code and I've always had my theory about Rocky and Bullwinkle. So that's why I decided "squirrelly" was the best way to describe my subscriber count.
Anyway I found the answer to my puzzle, as to why the numbers look unreal.
- This is the Google Support Team's explanation to: What is a Subscriber? How does FeedBurner tally them?
I am so glad that I read the response, because it clarifies everything!!
Love the Feedburner tool. It is a valuable helpful tool and I will continue to use it until Google tells me it's no longer free or for whatever reason or for no reason at all, I just won't be allowed to use it. It's theirs. They own it. They can tell me to take a hike!
But I don't think I'm going to rely on the number of subscribers who supposedly hold their breath and wake up each morning checking their eMail messages or waiting to receive notifications that I've published another blog post!!
WHY? Because based on the response I read.
THE NUMBER IS BOGUS!!
15 January 2016
Cmoneyspinner Keeps on Blogging - blogjob.com (Updated Mar 2020)
Hello! Glad you're here. We apologize for the inconvenience. This content now appears at My Blogging World. Hope it proves helpful. Thanks for visiting.
21 September 2015
Blogjob.com - Can First Impressions Be Trusted?
Don't know if you will trust my judgment on this but my first impression of Blogjob.com is: “Oh yeah! I can work like this!”
Blog Cloud clip art
Some of the features that make me want to use this site:
* Zemanta TIP: When you selected Related Articles to share, check the link and make sure the post still exists. Sometimes the database does not update and posts that appear with thumbnails, are no longer pubished. Important blogging tip! Posts you share should enhance your content and not contaminate it with links to nowhere!
Have only been there for about a month, but the experience has been positive. The blog I created at this site is called: Cmoneyspinner Keeps on Blogging. (Hope you subscribe.)
Blog Cloud clip art
Some of the features that make me want to use this site:
- Free blogging platform (uses Wordpress)
Reward and Points system (earn rewards or points then redeem for cash or other)~ Cash incentives program discontinued.
- Google Ads allowed (revenue-sharing 25%; 1 out of 4 times your ads show, and three times, ads belonging to the site owners show. It's fair! They bear the expense of maintaining the site.)
- Affiliate referrals and advertisements allowed. No revenue share. What you earn from affiliate marketing is 100% yours.
- Zemanta plugin works (can pull in related content from around the web)*
- Learn a lot of tips and tricks via forum discussions
- Nice management or staff support and nice community of members
* Zemanta TIP: When you selected Related Articles to share, check the link and make sure the post still exists. Sometimes the database does not update and posts that appear with thumbnails, are no longer pubished. Important blogging tip! Posts you share should enhance your content and not contaminate it with links to nowhere!
Have only been there for about a month, but the experience has been positive. The blog I created at this site is called: Cmoneyspinner Keeps on Blogging. (Hope you subscribe.)
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03 March 2015
FUFISM, SEO & your social media marketing strategy (Reblog)
Reblogging (or sharing) this link and info found via Google Plus stream. Wanted to understand “rel=author” and “rel=publisher” and its impact on article writing and blog promotion. Found additional info about the use of G+ Circles, SEO strategy and more. Marking this for further research and reference.
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