Blogging has best practices just like every other serious activity, including gardening. You can spend a lot of time and money taking classes from “internet gurus.” Or you can spend time competing in the Comment Luv/Famous Blogger contest that ends July 13th.
Those of you who have been reading my blog since I started it will know that it has changed a lot in the last three weeks. I went from a GoDaddy.com proprietary platform that wasn’t very flexible to a WordPress platform that is very flexible indeed. The colors changed, the sidebars changed, and the comments all got lost in the conversion.
I made such a drastic change after seeing how the big dogs played while participating in the Comment Luv/Famous Blogger contest. I am still learning an incredible amount about blogging, enticing comments from my readers, building community, and doing a good job of giving my audience the information they need. I would like to learn still more.
In order to continue learning, though, I need to continue the conversation I began with other bloggers, and readers, in my post for the contest: How to obtain comments on your blog. This quest for comments means that you are needed to add your two cents to the conversation. It is not only my education that is on the line, but cold, hard cash. The winner gets $750 in money that can be spent on blog improvements, books, and anything else money buys. I want to get a Canon 9000 negative scanner to put 30 years of film negatives into my computer as digital pictures. I also want to buy a better theme for my blog and do some other improvements around the house – both virtual and concrete.
Will you help me? All you have to do is read my post and leave a substantive comment. One liners and vague cut and paste comments don’t count, so please join in our conversation, let us learn from you, and help me win. Thank you.
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Hi Stephanie, this is my first visit here but I’m sure that I’ve seen you leaving comments around the blogosphere in the past. As you can see the first post I clicked on has the word “free” in it. LOL (just kidding) It’s really the ComLuv/FamousBloggers contest that caught my eye. I’ll be sure to check out your post and best wishes to you in the contest!
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Thank you for your gracious comment. Best wishes to you as well.
Best of luck to you in the contest. I am looking around your site, too. I have a black thumb and kill plastic plants, so I’m looking at the gardening stuff for a miracle.
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Hey Stephanie, the blog looks great. What theme are you using anyway? Thesis has a good reputation, but I hear it is not very newbie friendly. have not tried it yet myself.
Loved your posts on FamousBloggers. Remember, every day is a chance to grow and learn. as long as you do that, you are going to be ok. Good Luck
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I use calaphis. It was the best free theme I found.
Thank you for your support. I really appreciate it.
Its pleasant here. nice research. I have been searched this tips for a while. thanks
Social media, when done correctly is a super power these days. The power of facebook and the like button are a great way to increase your trafic and social network.
Good evening, that was pretty thougt provoking read. I love writing too, and I want to learn how to be more effective in affiliate marketing and curious if you can guide me. The plan is to pick up a few affiliate offers from CPA networks, but mainly focus my efforts around campaigns from “pay per deal” networks, as they pay way much more. Then I want to extend my own network of web 2.0 properties. What I don’t understand from the SEO stand point, is to how exactly link juice passes from a site to my main site, how to architect correct links structure, and how to build mininets. Any thoughts on that? May be you can write a new article on it? lol
You can go to GrowMap and get tutorials for those things.
To be honest, I don’t see anything besides building partnerships, to be as vital these days. The most important work that businesses should focus on in the current economy is building channel partnerships. Media buy, advertising, internet promotion, worries about content monetization – it’s all important too, but the advertising budgets are shrinking, therefore I see channel partnerships to be the main focus of any operation – from small start up to a large organization.
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