Blogging Tips

5 Lesser-Known Sources for Free, Legal Content

The desire for free content is an understandable one. Sometimes bloggers don’t want to or don’t have the time to hammer out a post or need images to go along with one already written.

Though most bloggers are aware of Creative Commons Licenses and know they can search for CC images on Flickr. Others are well aware of the StockXchng as a good free stock photo library as well as sites like Articlesbase for free posts for your site. But these are far from the only means of finding free content for your blog.

There are many different sources for Creative Commons, public domain and appropriately-licensed material if you know where to look. With that in mind, here are five examples of sites you can find free stuff for your blog that are a bit off the beaten path.

Written by Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today
Posted on February 25th, 2010 and filed under Blogging
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How To Get Your Blogging Mojo Back

Has blogging been feeling a bit blah lately? Have you lost the excitement that kept your blog at the forefront of your mind every day? When you’ve been blogging for a while, it’s normal to go through a slump but you don’t want to lose your readers might you recover. Here are some tips for getting your mojo back and keeping that blog going.

Get some help

One of the best ways to keep your blog going while you regain your focus is to get guest bloggers. It’s a good time to invite your readers to make their contribution to your blog. You’ve got a couple of options here: you could issue an open invitation or you could contact a few bloggers who have left thoughtful or useful comments and ask them to write something for the blog. If your blog is making lots of money, then consider hiring someone to …

Written by Sharon Hurley Hall from Get Paid To Write Online
Posted on February 25th, 2010 and filed under Blogging
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Staying Motivated

You’ve started off with a bang, your sizzle has turned to fizzle–what do you do? You get motivated!

Most people start a new project on cloud nine and spend as much time as possible working on the new project, but soon the new-ness and glory begin to fade causing you to lose hope perhaps–it’s just not as fun or as appealing as it once was. It doesn’t mean you’ve lost your passion–it just means you need to get pumped up again.

It doesn’t matter what kind of project or work you’re doing–it can be freelance writing, fiction writing, blogging, building an online business, playing piano, learning chess–it can be anything. Eventually you will have times that you just aren’t as motivated as you were in the beginning.

What do you do? You get motivated!

Zig Ziglar said, “People often say that motivation …

Written by Patti Stafford from Patti Stafford
Posted on February 24th, 2010 and filed under Writing
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Colorful Premium Themes from Wobzy

If you want to stand out from the crowd, you’ll want your WordPress blog to feature an eye-catching and visually-appealing theme. There are many different templates out there on the Internet, but some of the most attractive are those offered by Wobzy.com. There is no shortage of style here.

Browsing through the Library

Unlike some other sites that may only feature one or two premium themes, Wobzy has quite the large collection of premium WordPress themes for you to consider via the online store. These themes are broken down into one of three categories: business themes, magazine themes, and personal themes. Alternatively, you can browse through the page with all of their themes to find what you need.

From the Wobzy catalog, you can view the name of each theme, a small screenshot, and a …

Written by Michael Kwan from Beyond the Rhetoric
Posted on February 24th, 2010 and filed under Reviews, WordPress Themes
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Kidblogger Carl Ocab Offers Ultimate Blogging Theme

One of the most successful bloggers on the Internet today also happens to be one of the youngest. Known widely as Kidblogger, Carl Ocab developed what he believes to be one of the most amazing Wordpress themes too.

The Ultimate Blogging Theme caters specifically to people aiming to blog as a profession, maximizing their advertising revenue while optimizing the site for search engines.

According to Carl, the goal of the Ultimate Blogging Theme was to encompass four main criteria: a Google-friendly design, optimal advertising placements, easy navigation, and an eye-grabbing look. The layout is clean, but it is filled with many notable design features.

The navigation is laid out at the top for ease of use, there is a dedicated slot in the header for a 468×60 pixel ad banner, there are four slots for 125×125 sidebar …

Written by Michael Kwan from Beyond the Rhetoric
Posted on February 23rd, 2010 and filed under WordPress Themes
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Oh, God, It’s Snowing Again!

Surprise! It’s snowing again. Or should I say still?
I live in Eastern Ohio, where cold snowy winters aren’t exactly unheard of. I mean, this is a nice place to live and our weather usually doesn’t go to too many extremes. In the summer, we have thunderstorms but no tornadoes.

In the spring, it rains a lot but it usually doesn’t flood.
And in the winter, it snows, but we’re not snowed in.

That is, until the snows started about two weeks ago. The first night, it was kind of fun. It was a Friday night, so we all holed in with our beers, our movies and plenty of milk, bread and toilet paper to keep any families happy.

One foot of snow later, thousands of us were sitting in the dark. The rest of us didn’t have cable television that worked. We’re not hardy people here in Ohio, and we’ve got short attention spans. …

Written by Sandy Fitzgerald from sandy43935
Posted on February 23rd, 2010 and filed under Around The Blogosphere, Blogger, Blogging, Reviews, Writing
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Take a Minute to Fix your TweetMeme, Now.

TweetMeme is a hugely popular plug-in because it is so easy to use. It is easy for you to install and easy for your readers to use to retweet your posts. It may be too easy because so many people just install it and never look at the options available to them.

Here is the Issue

When you simply install TweetMeme and you don’t get into the settings then every RT will show up as “RT @tweetmeme… your blog post and link“. So, when someone re-tweets your post you don’t get the mention in the twitter stream. So their followers don’t know that you were the one who wrote the post. If you want the credit then you need to change the attribution field in the TweetMeme settings to your twitter id. That way when someone clicks the TweetMeme Retweet button you see “RT @BenSpark… my post and link“.

Edit your TweetMeme Options

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Written by BenSpark from BenSpark.com
Posted on February 22nd, 2010 and filed under Blogger, WordPress Plugins
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