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Get Paid To Blog By Guest Blogging
Blogging Guest posting is a good way to get your blog and your skills noticed, but it’s even better if you can land a regular, paid blogging gig. Not everyone pays for guest posts, of course, but many do. Here are some techniques for attracting their attention and making sure you get past that first post. Let Them Know You’re Available No-one’s going to hire you as a blogger unless they know this is something that you do. Include the ...
Continue readingWhat Makes The Perfect Theme?
WordPress Themes I recently confessed to being a theme-a-holic, and I’m not the only one. For theme-a-holics, it’s not simply the lure of shiny new web stuff that makes us change themes regularly. It’s also the never-ending quest for the perfect theme. But what exactly makes the perfect theme? Here are my WordPress theme must-haves. Easy To Use Ease of use is at the top of my list and over the years I have seen WordPress themes improve in this ...
Continue readingIn Search Of A Storytlr Replacement
Blogging As a professional blogger, I’m always looking for good ways to aggregate my lifestream, especially so that I can collate posts from all the different places that I blog. One tool that I really liked was Storytlr because of its ability to aggregate historical posts (in my case going back to 2006) and beautiful profile themes. But now its founders have decided to mothball the service. They say: “The reason is simple: our lives have ...
Continue readingConfessions Of A Theme-A-Holic
Personal My name is Sharon and I am a theme-a-holic. It’s been about a week since my last theme change. My addiction to shiny new web stuff also applies to WordPress themes. In the last month I have: searched Google, Twitter and Friendfeed a couple of times a week for the latest WordPress theme news downloaded about five themes although I have no idea where I’m going to use them changed themes on my two main WordPress blogs twice I know that ...
Continue readingFour More Twitter Account Cleaners
Social Media Last week, I started looking at tools for managing Twitter followers and keeping your Twitter account spam free. Here are the last four tools I tested. Twerpscan Twerpscan quickly scanned my follower list and presented them in a neat table, with stars next to those I was following. To unfollow, you just click on a star or click on a star outline to follow a Twitter user. Before making your decision click on a user to see more information, ...
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Social Media Twitter is great, but if you automatically follow everyone who follows you, you soon end up with a lot of questionable material in your timeline. To keep things clean and keep Twitter useful, you need to clean up your followers and get rid of Twitter spam. Here are four tools that help you to do just that. The Twitter Tools TweetBuddy Prune TweetBuddy Prune takes a couple of minutes to segment your Twitter followers. You can then see those you ...
Continue readingIs Tweetvisor A Brizzly Beater?
Social Media Tweetvisor is a Twitter client that I somehow missed the first time round, but it’s come back to the fore because it now supports lists. Brizzly, which Charnita Fance reviewed back in August) has been my favorite web based Twitter client for a couple of months now – a long time in the Twitterverse – but Tweetvisor has a few great features that just might make it a Brizzly beater. Wide View Of Twitter One of the things I love ...
Continue readingBlogging For Revenue Share – Pros And Cons
Blogging A couple of years ago, on another blog, I wrote: “I am a professional blogger and writer, so pay me in cash.” The statement summed up my feelings about the ad revenue share blogging model. However, sites based on this model continue to spring up and many of them are popular with the people who use them, so I thought I’d try to look at the issue again. Advantages of blogging for ad revenue Many of these sites make it easy for ...
Continue readingThe Case Of The Disappearing Blog
Blogging Last weekend I nearly lost my entire blog and it was my own fault. I’ve been in a decluttering phase, so I went to my Bluehost account and decided to delete an old WordPress test install that I wasn’t using anymore. I didn’t think it would be a problem. I’d deleted WordPress installations in the past and the process had always left the database intact. This time it was different and I didn’t realise that till it was ...
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Why I Went Back To Basics With WordPress Comments
Blogging If you’ve been reading my posts, you know that I’ve had an experiment running for a couple of months to dress up the comments on my WordPress blog by adding a bit of extra functionality. I have now declared that experiment a failure and have gone back to basics. Here’s why. Almost, But Not Quite After I switched from Echo to IntenseDebate, I must admit that I was happy for a while. IntenseDebate did a lot of things right and ...
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