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Best 5 Brilliant Things You Can Do with an Inactive Blog
This showed up on my Twitter feed and caught my interest because, like so many others, I have a couple of inactive blogs. I had always thought of them as sort of a waste of time and was considering option 5 (delete the blog) on this list, but I'm beginning to rethink this position.
I'm also beginning to rethink my position on removing this blog.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
� Google Plus One 1 Button Tutorial for Your Blog - Erica Says
For all of you folks (that'd be me) who are new to Google Plus and wondering just how to deal with the thing, here's a quick and easy reference.
� Google Plus One 1 Button Tutorial for Your Blog - Erica Says
� Google Plus One 1 Button Tutorial for Your Blog - Erica Says
� How to Create a Favicon for your Site - Erica Says
� How to Create a Favicon for your Site - Erica Says
This should be noted for Friends In business and possibly the blog as well.
This should be noted for Friends In business and possibly the blog as well.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Setting up an Amazon store
"Get an Amazon Store." That was some advice I'd gotten when I said, "I'm an artist and writer and I'm trying to make a living online." The trouble is, that advice came from one of those "internet marketing experts."
Man, the store setup was a pain, and because I don't lurk over on Amazon (except when I want to buy something) it turned out to be much more bewildering than I thought it might be. I'd like it to be set up with my free (and cheap) ebooks (the reprints of the Coyote ashcans... those things are good advertising but I can't see charging folks for them in ebook format) and links to the books where I have been published all in one neat package. And maybe some of my favorites for recommendations.
This was a mess. Will get it in SOME sort of shape before Fencon. I swears I will.
http://astore.amazon.com/friendsinbizblog-20
Man, the store setup was a pain, and because I don't lurk over on Amazon (except when I want to buy something) it turned out to be much more bewildering than I thought it might be. I'd like it to be set up with my free (and cheap) ebooks (the reprints of the Coyote ashcans... those things are good advertising but I can't see charging folks for them in ebook format) and links to the books where I have been published all in one neat package. And maybe some of my favorites for recommendations.
This was a mess. Will get it in SOME sort of shape before Fencon. I swears I will.
http://astore.amazon.com/friendsinbizblog-20
Do Follow Blog List | DoFollow Blogs
Blog exchanges are one idea suggested for authors who want to widen their audience, and blog commenting is also recommended. An interesting idea that I came across was to comment in "do follow blogs." These are blogs that allow posting in comments and allow posting links to your site as part of your name --AND-- when the search engine hits this site, it is permitted to "backtrack" the commenters to their home page.
What this does is sort of "spreads the word" and makes your book (or art) and your name easier to find. The advice ALSO said to set YOUR blog to "do follow."
I see both good and bad ideas running here. On the good side, this may increase your visitors. On the bad side, many of them are spammers and they're just coming to ad links to their sites and make themselves look important.
There are lists out there of "do follow" blogs, but some investigation showed that many of them look like sales sites and not true blogs and are likely to get taken down as spam sites. I think some sort of middle ground here is needed -- and the answer might lie in the "blog roll." Of course, the problem then is getting onto someone's blogroll. But that's something for another time.
Do Follow Blog List | DoFollow Blogs
What this does is sort of "spreads the word" and makes your book (or art) and your name easier to find. The advice ALSO said to set YOUR blog to "do follow."
I see both good and bad ideas running here. On the good side, this may increase your visitors. On the bad side, many of them are spammers and they're just coming to ad links to their sites and make themselves look important.
There are lists out there of "do follow" blogs, but some investigation showed that many of them look like sales sites and not true blogs and are likely to get taken down as spam sites. I think some sort of middle ground here is needed -- and the answer might lie in the "blog roll." Of course, the problem then is getting onto someone's blogroll. But that's something for another time.
Do Follow Blog List | DoFollow Blogs
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