Now that you know what spam and Akismet are it’s time to learn a few new terms. Today’s definitions are about the back-end of blogging. Once you learn these, you’ll be able to fake a techie background for about three minutes. URL — It stands for Uniform Resource Locator. A URL is the specific web [...]
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Yesterday we discussed trackbacks, pings and backlinks. Today’s glossary terms are about blog commenting. Spam — There used to be a time when everyone thought of canned meat as soon as they heard the word spam. Not anymore. In the blogosphere spam is an unwanted comment sent over and over again, with the same wording, [...]
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Have you been thinking lately that you could you use a few new ideas for your blog? How about 500 great ideas for your blog? You don’t have to think of them yourself. Take a look at these tips to give your blog a little boost. 50 Can’t-Fail Techniques for Finding Great Blog Topics by [...]
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You may be trying to think of a post idea. You’d rather think of one yourself. You might be desperate. You might not like any of these options, but just reading them could help you think of an even better idea for your next post. 1. Dispute an expert’s opinion This could about politics, [...]
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Take a Look at Yourself Blogging can be very rewarding, and it can also take over your life. It’s a good idea to take a fresh look at what you’ve been doing with your blog, and ask if it is working out the way you’d like. 1. Is there anything I’ve been meaning to change [...]
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Ten Blog Post Ideas Inspiration can strike in a moment and it can leave you just as quickly. If you can’t think of anything to write about, and it’s been too long since your last post, try these tips to get the words flowing again. Question and Answer: Interview yourself as a child or teenager. [...]
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Sorry, Lorraine, you have to actually READ the dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for over 250,000 words. Is it any wonder that we get confused by a few of them? Here are twelve tricky word pairs that even a Rhodes Scholar could get wrong. 1. assent vs. ascent Assent means [...]
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov Blogging About the Storms in Your Life Hurricane. Earthquake. Divorce. A bad diagnosis. The week that changed everything. Some bloggers would jump on the chance to narrate their most traumatic experiences: it’s just more blog material, right? Others [...]
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Should you make a blogging schedule? Bloggers are creative. We may be artists, poets, musicians at heart. We could also be sales reps, teachers, tech geeks, pundits, wiccans, humorists, moms, dads, risk-takers, introverts and class clowns. In addition to our talents and writing skills, a lot of us are also time-stretched, conflicted, uninspired and disorganized. Creating a blogging [...]
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Blogging can be creative, fun, rewarding, demanding and time consuming. Is your blogging income the equivalent of negative umpteen dollars an hour? If you’d like to increase your chances of making money with your blog, keep the following tips in mind. If you aren’t interested in making money from your blog, you and Richie Rich may go for a ride on your [...]
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