While researching something else, I came across instructions on how to make the wordpress header clickable written by...drumroll please....the WP Queen.
Zemanta has made some pretty cool changes to their image dashboard.
I'll let them tell you in their own words.
Images get inserted to blinking cursor position:
Inserting an image with Zemanta was pretty limited before. It got inserted to the top right of the page and it was pretty hard to move it around. The new feature includes “Microsoft-Word-like” functionality: the image now gets inserted wherever you put your cursor first.
More than one image:
As you used to insert images, the...
I can't recommend the Zemanta plugin enough. However, if you find it to not be your cup of tea, then perhaps you'll have an interest in the Freebie Images plugin instead.
I joined Triberr.
Why?, you ask.
To increase the traffic to my blogs.
How??, you wonder.
Every time I publish a new post, everyone in my tribe will tweet it to their followers.
What do they get out of it?
They get a tweet from me (and everyone else in the tribe) every time they post.
Instant traffic for their website.
Instant traffic to my webite.
And it is all completely automated (unless I change it to manually approve each tweet).
I would be remiss, however, if I did no...
I took a vacation from blogging and now I am back, refreshed and full of ideas for my main blog, ChatWithKatrina.com.
One idea is to change the name. I looked at names like tidbits.com and morsel.com but they, of course, were taken. Seems as if all of the one word sites are long gone. Meanwhile, I have a few ideas for two word ones that hopefully will not be gone by the time I come up with the scratch to buy it.
Another goal is to be in the top 10 of the Adgitize Leaderboard. I'm just curious...
In the New Year, I decided to give myself a small marketing budget to increase the number of followers on each of my blogs.
From dismal numbers probably totaling all together 100 followers, let’s look at my numbers now.
For now, we are going to look at my Facebook Followers although my Google Plus Numbers are increasing as well!
The Giveaway Car now has 867
The Good Buy has 548.
Sass Class has 66.
Amablogger has 30.
Earness has 27.
VoucherList has 23.
Singed Wings has 19.
MoneyTrina has 19.
My Spoiled Self has 15.
What increased my numbers so exponentially on TheGiveAwayCar and TheGoodBuy.net.
GiveAways!
A giveaway that I sponsored myself for a mere $10 Paypal saw my first leaps in followers once I started marketing the giveaway on various contest sites.
For another $20, I entered my blogs into giveaways being hosted on other blogs.
As soon as those giveaways launched, another flood of followers came into play.
At first, I was sending them to TheGoodBuy, which is why the numbers on there are so high, and a few went to SassClass.
But then I decided to switch to sending them to TheGiveAwayCar because clearly the people entering the giveaways liked to enter giveaways.
And The Give Away Car is all about giveaways.
And most of the giveaways on The GiveAwayCar will also have options to follow my other blogs for exta entries.
So, I am feeding them back to all of my blogs…more bang for the buck!
Did I lose you? I hope not…makes sense in my head?
If I did, just leave a comment asking me to make it more clear and I will work on that.
I am always impressed with the generosity of the ladies at Affiliate ABCs Affiliate ABCs.
This time they have released transcripts of a podcast on how to run a coupon site entitled Best Practices For Coupon Sites on NightFire Publications.
It is a round table discussion featuring Affiliate ABCs hosts Deborah Carney and Vinny O’Hare joined Kim Salvino, Amy Ely, and Jeannine Crooks of buy.at
They released this podcast because of the influx of coupon sites using standardized scripts and wordpress plugins (guilty! gulp!) and all of these our coupon sites are looking quite cookie cutter.
They discussion ranged from making sure that your sales and coupons are up to date and merchant approved.
They even make mention of a coupon aggregate that pulls all of the dead coupons for you!
They also discuss the value and methods of contacting a merchant directly to see if you can get a discount code the is very specific for your website (as well as issue cautions on “borrowing” a code from another site unless you truly do like handing your competition a commission.
Do you know how a Click To Reveal works and how to use it effectively?
Have you heard of Offer Central or know what it does?
I received one or more of the products mentioned above for free using Tomoson.com. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers.
Stop! Don’t buy a domain name until you read this book first.
Ok, so that was a little melodramatic…lol…but this is a good, quick eBook on how to jump start your thinking on the perfect domain name for yourself, your business, or the business of a client.
The $7.95 Marketing Plan by Jim F. Kukral is a vehicle that will teach you how to build your brand for less than the cost of a pizza.
After all, besides having an already known brand name such as Pepsi.com or McDonalds.com, there are ways to make even the domain of your website memorable.
So… What’s In The $7.95 Marketing Plan?
Well, not an actual marketing plan for one.
Instead, the author discusses the value of a good domain name, how to come up with a memorable name, gives examples of domain names that you can’t forget as well as just plain fun domain names, and domain names that make money.
And this blog itself is a good example of the amount of thought that I put into a domain name before clicking the Buy Button.
Want to hear my thought process?
Ok…
“You are sooo the opposite of a problogger…so what should you name your blog.”
“Hm. AmateurBlogger.com is already taken. Darn it!”
“Ama is three letters. Pro is three letters. I may have something here.”
“Oooh. AmaBlogger could mean AmateurBlogger and I Am a Blogger. Score.”
This website checked my speed on all modems from the old 14.4k to the supersonic T1′s 1.44Mbps.
In addition it told me that I am doing excellent work with the total number of HTML files on each page (Ok, no clue what that means but thanks! lol.) but gave me a warning that I have to many “objects” and images per page. But I like images….~whine~…lol.
All in all I had six big red Warnings, one yellow Caution, and four green Congratulations.
Guess that means that I have some work to do…~sigh~….
A plugin that I have on most of my wordpress blogs but that I am kind of confused on the purpose of is Keyword Luv.
Image via Wikipedia
Yeah, so I just basically jumped on the bandwagon without really knowing where it was heading.Lol.
As far as my limited reasoning can tell, the purpose of keyword luv is to give anchored text backlink.
Anchored text is important for seo because it tells the search bots what your blog is about.
For example, the blog is about blogging.
It is not about amablogger.
Amablogger is the title of the blog but it means less to nothing.
How many people are really searching for the term “amablogger”, right?
According to Google Keyword tools that would be a big fat zero..nada…zilch! Lol.
But a cool one million people are searching for “blogging” monthly.
Still don’t get it either?
Me neither. Lol.
But a really nice advantage of having Keyword Luv is that your commentors will leave their name rather than the name of their blog.
Would you rather I leave a comment with Amablogger or a comment that reads Katrina from Amablogger.
It is just more personal, you know…
So, even if you do not completely understand all of the backlink stuff (me neither!), it is worth it to make the comments on your blog more reader friendly.
If I haven’t given you enough information on keyword luv or I have given you so much that your mind is blown and you have some follow up questions, feel free to leave them below.
I recently had the opportunity to review The BackLink Syndication System by Danial Tan and I was very impressed with just how fast a 1000s of back-links can be built.
Often within 2 – 3 weeks of following the system.
And the instructions are so simple that you will be surprised.
Now, per the terms of the review, I am not allowed to tell you exactly what you need to do to get the top of Google’s pagerank but I will taking this for a test run during the beginning of 2012.
Just drop me a comment to remind me to let you in on the results.
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