WordPress Followers, Likes and Stats
Every blogger wants more followers, likes and shares. Attracting readers to your site the first time is only half the battle. Return visitors are important to the success of your blog and that’s why...
View ArticleFacebook and Your Activity Log
Today Facebook began rolling out a new feature that lets you see a history of everything you’ve searched for on the social network. A list of search queries now appears intermingled with all the Likes,...
View ArticleMySpace Fourth Relaunch
Myspace Services are for the personal use of Members and may only be used for direct commercial purposes if they are specifically endorsed or authorized by Myspace. If you are a MySpace member then...
View ArticleWill You Pay Facebook for Traffic?
Have you noticed a drop in blog traffic from Facebook? How about a change in your news feeds? For many Facebook was always a vehicle to drive traffic to their blogs. It’s become less and less valuable...
View ArticleFacebook Deactivation and Deletion
Facebook account deactivation is not the same as account deletion. In the case of the former, all your private information is still in the database and is still available to third party apps providers...
View ArticleGravatars for Global Recognition
Whether you blog under your real name or under a pseudonym you may not be able to register the same username on every site you join. You can make it easy for others to locate you and your connections...
View Article4 Year End Blog Post Ideas
The crush of the holiday season is upon us and if your life is anything like mine you are challenged to create the time to blog in. There are the concerts and pageants and parties to attend. There are...
View ArticleMore Traffic and Backlinks for Your Blog: Guest Blogging
Creating a blog is easy – everyone is doing it! Getting your blog content found is hard because every blogger is seeking more traffic and it’s very “noisy” out there. Backlinks to your content are...
View ArticleFacebook’s New Graph Search and You
It’s no surprise that Facebook, which is arguably among the largest data mines based on voluntary content submission there is online has announced a BETA social search feature ie Graph Search as it’s...
View ArticleContent farming fertilized by Facebook
Facebook has a page spam definition: anything intended “to confuse, mislead, surprise, or defraud users.” But does it go far enough? What is spam and what is misleading? Why doesn’t Facebook...
View ArticleMore Traffic and Backlinks for Your Blog: Pinterest
Pinterest is two year old photo sharing social network connecting people all over the world based on shared tastes and interests. Pinterest just hit 11.7 million unique monthly U.S. visitors, crossing...
View ArticleWeekend Blogging Reads and Resources
This is something new I’m trying out to see how it goes over with you Readers. The idea I have is to publish a brief post every Saturday that contains links to to articles I found to be the best...
View ArticleMore Traffic and Backlinks for Your Blog: Awards and Memes
Trying to describe what an internet meme is to a great grandparent may be a challenge but you definitely know one when when you see one. A blog meme is a viral game wherein baclinks are generated...
View ArticleWeekend Blogging Reads and Resources
We live in an information age that’s best described as the age of digital overwhelm. We all have lives to live and very few make an income from blogging. It’s not surprising that content curation in...
View ArticleWeekend Blogging Reads and Resources
Another week is almost gone and I’m wondering where it went. Here’s my weekly offering for you readers. Blog Log #2: The One Thing I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Started Blogging – When you first...
View ArticleWeekend Blogging Reads and Resources
I had a productive and satisfying week and hope you did too. I kept to my schedule. I completed my month end contracted work 2 days in advance of the deadline. I used that time to clean up my computer...
View ArticleWeekend Blogging Reads and Resources
I had a good work week and hope you readers did too. Most things went as planned and only a couple of things went off the rails. I was able to get things back on track in short order and that gave me...
View ArticleWeekend Blogging Reads and Resources
I won’t bore you readers with a litany of excuses for being late in publishing my weekly blogging reads and resources selections. I will apologize to those who have submitted comments I have yet to...
View ArticleBlogging, Bean Counting and Social Networking
In Late February WordPress.com Staff implemented brilliant little change at the bottom of our posts. They introduced nesting of the gravatars of “like” button clickers behind a link that we bloggers...
View ArticleWeekend Blogging Reads and Resources
I hope you Readers find value these selections. As for me, I’m exhausted and I will be taking a bit of a break this weekend. My friends will be arriving tonight to visit on this last weekend of spring...
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