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Is Your Blog Empty Content?

February 3, 2012

Ben posted his list of WordPress plugins, in 3 parts. In the last post he mentioned a plugin for putting your writer profile/ bio at the end of each post (which I do) or keeping it at the footer of your blog, not in the sidebar. I disagree with this. Yes, there may be other [...]

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Plain Text Formatting

January 26, 2012

I’m working on a blog to display my ASCII art and the art from other artists which I have collected and gathering electronic dust bunnies on my hard drive. I had a struggle to get the ASCII art to display in plain text without warping to the left. Then I found the Preserve Code Formatting [...]

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Thinking of my Archives at the End of the Old Year

December 31, 2011

“Blog archives are the heart and history of your blog.” Quoted from About Blogging Guide (Twitter link), Susan Gunelius. This is how I feel about my blog archives and the very reason I keep them rather than weeding through or deleting them as some popular bloggers recommend. This blog is almost 6 years old (anniversary January 2, [...]

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Avoid the Daily Post Burnout

December 18, 2011

Avoid burnout. If you want to stick to daily posts on your site you have options. Write the posts a week ahead and then schedule them to appear daily. Instead of writing a long post with many points divide it up. Use each point as an individual post and turn them all into a series, [...]

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Is Your Own Comment Moderation Hurting You?

December 8, 2011

Do you delete comments because the commenter didn’t have enough to say (in your opinion)? I read a forum, there was a post by someone who felt discouraged about their writing. They weren’t getting enough comments. In the comments from this post, someone said they delete comments based on their value. For instance, they delete [...]

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For Men Only?

December 2, 2011

Read & Trust- is committed to gathering together the best independent writers available – the ones recommended by the writers you read and trust. It’s all men. Yet, there are endless women writing online. Maybe we still aren’t taken all that seriously? I thought we had outgrown the time when all women bloggers were seen [...]

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Formatting Matters!

November 29, 2011

I started reading this and liked the rhymes. I would have read more, probably right to the end, but the formatting (a block of solid text) put me off. I skipped down and read some lines from the middle and then around the end. What a shame the writer didn’t take the time to format [...]

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Turn Your Words into Link Bait

November 24, 2011

It’s all about offering extras, those little things that make one blog stand out from another. Give people something extra. Take the information you want to write about and present it in a unique and interesting way. Use a quiz as part of your post. Highlight information and confirm your message. Give a widget with [...]

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Twitter Profile of the Month

November 11, 2011

rebekahELLE (rebekahelle) on Twitter. I get tired of the focus on celebrities too. I’m always curious about how the world works and I’m passionate about the things that matter to me. I hope everyone is!  

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Looking at Men’s Style Blogs and What Makes or Breaks a Great Blog

November 8, 2011

I started Men’s Style on Scoop.it, mostly as an excuse to look at men in suits. I don’t mind admitting how nice it is to look at men dressed up and looking good. As I began looking at content (it’s a curated content blog sort of site), I realized how many fashion blogs there are [...]

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Do you Have a Secret Desire to be a Fashion Blogger?

November 6, 2011

Glamorous, exciting and stylish… isn’t that how a good fashion blog feels when you open it? Those high heels, the just-right dress you wish you could fit into (some of you may, not me). I never wanted to be a model, a clothes horse. But… I have a secret lust to be a fashion blogger. [...]

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Microwriting: Copywriting for Microblogging

November 2, 2011

Really glad to see someone else thinking of Twitter as a social network rather than a marketing platform. Copywriting.com: Copywriting for Twitter Twitter has a strict limit of just 140 characters and that requires you to be concise… there’s no room for fluff or hype! So the real question should be: How do you use [...]

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Microwriting: Copywriting for Microblogging

November 2, 2011

Really glad to see someone else thinking of Twitter as a social network rather than a marketing platform. Copywriting.com: Copywriting for Twitter Twitter has a strict limit of just 140 characters and that requires you to be concise… there’s no room for fluff or hype! So the real question should be: How do you use [...]

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30 Day Challenge

October 24, 2011

This is a 30 day blogging challenge. Mainly for personal bloggers as the questions are all about you – who you are, what you like and what you are like. Here is the list of the each day if you’d like to try it yourself! Day 1-Introduce yourself and give 15 interesting facts Day 2-Meaning [...]

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Twitter Profile of the Month

October 22, 2011

I wanted to interview Andrea and ask about her visual art with text art on Twitter. But, I just have not had time to pull it together.  I picked her for the Twitter Profile this month because she is someone I’d like to know more about. What is her “language beneath the language”?

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Keep an Image in your Sidebar

October 11, 2011

Even if you don’t use an image with each post you should have some kind of image on your site that represents you (and your site). I’ve been working on Scoop.It (and lately on Snip.It too) as a content curator for a few topics. One thing I have noticed is how often I can’t get [...]

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Do You Use Captions?

October 5, 2011

4. Use deep captions. Studies have shown that image captions are consistently some of the most-read copy on a page. Try pairing a strong image with a “deep caption.” Deep captions are two to three sentences long. That’s long enough to intrigue your reader to dig in to your whole article. via 8 Incredibly Simple [...]

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