What do you do when, for TWO WHOLE MONTHS, you have to deal with a ton of personal issues, including a car in need of more than a thousand dollars worth of repair, a broken vacuum cleaner with a warranty (but the nearest fix-it place is 50 miles away), a broken refrigerator (cost me several hundred dollars), a broken computer (would cost the price of a new computer to fix), no Internet connection (so even with a working computer, what difference would it make), seven blogs that cry for your attention, a ...
Pamela Gifford began writing her blog, Writing For AC, before she "even really knew what (she) was doing on AC." Admitting that she was merely "squeaking by on page views," Pamela had "no clue what SEO was, and was tickled pink if (she) got 100 page views in a day." In Writing For AC, Pamela chronicles her journey from that of an unknown contributor to that of a Featured Contributor (in the Arts Entertainment category). Although she is "not afraid to put (herself) out there" and admits to screwing up no...
Other than spending time with family and friends, two things I enjoy most are writing and crocheting, so I'm always looking at patterns for ideas about how to create my next project. When I came upon Every Day Crochet, my eyes lit up. I no longer have to conduct my own finds, because Marie Anne St. Jean does all the work for me! Does that mean I'm lazy? Possibly, but when you find somebody whose blog is dedicated to crochet and only crochet, why go anywhere else? Also she provides links to various croche...
Where can you find money-saving advice and share free offers with others?Your Home On A Budget!This new blog was begun only within the past month and already it is filled with LOTS OF FREE STUFF you'll want to check out.Jenny Wagner started her blog because she was "looking for a way to share money-saving advice and free offers with others." She thought "a blog was the best way to do just that." Jenny brings more than 20 years of experience from the home improvement industry "and a lifetime of learning h...
How often have you heard the term, back linking? If you write a blog and you want people to read your blog, you know the importance of back linking. And if you don't know it yet, you will eventually learn that you have to have it in order to succeed in the blogging world. According to wikipedia.org, "Search engines often use the number of back links that a website has as one of the most important factors for determining that website's search engine ranking, popularity and importance. Google's description...
Parenting is a tough job. Ask any parent. When Hillary Rodham Clinton repeated the old African proverb, "It takes a village to raise a child," she wasn't kidding. Parents need all the help they can get.And one of the places that offers a plethora of information to help parents raise their children successfully is a web site entitled, Parent Successfully. Parent Successfully offers parents more than just one blog too. As a matter of fact, it offers FOURTEEN blogs.Begun in November 2009 by the mother-daugh...
Article Writer for Hire is one of the most helpful and user-friendly online web sites dedicated to helping fellow writers that I have found.Begun by the eco-friendly mother-daughter team of Lyn Lomasi and Jaipi Sixbear in May of 2008 (the blog began in January of 2009), Article Writer for Hire is one of the most comprehensive informative writing sites around. And the Lomasi-Sixbear writing team is very accessible. You won't find a better informed team willing to help fellow writers than the two of them.W...
As an article and blog writer, I'm always interested in knowing the marketing analytics of promoting my work. Blogs and articles are my "business" and the goal is to get as many people as possible to read my work, which will hopefully increase my chances of making money.Who reads my work? Are Twitter and Facebook the only promotional tools I can use to promote my writings? Are my marketing efforts paying off?Anybody interested in marketing their product, their business, or their web site wants to know wh...
Donald Pennington is a, shall we say, unique individual. Just to give you an example of how unique, I display for your eyes, comments he made to the questions I asked him when I wanted to know a little bit about why he created his divorce blog. Here they are: blah blah something something...blah blah blah something something else...He does have a great sense of humor, and he actually did respond with some useful comments, so for your blogging pleasure, I introduce to to Donald Pennington and his divorce ...
Do You Care About The Way You Look? Enough to post questions about your looks online and get some honest feedback? How many times have you stood in front of your mirror and said, "Hmm, something is not quite right." "Maybe I should do something with my hair." "I wonder how I would look blonde." "Would that red dress look good on me?" "Should I change the shape of my glasses?" Those types of questions prompted the developer of MyLooksOnline to open a web site in search of the...
