Archive for the "Site Tools + Tips" category

 

MVPs for Friday December 1st

 

This needs to be a quickie post because tonight I will have 10 giggling 12 year old girls in my basement for my daughter’s sleepover. I bet you envy me! /not!/
If you need some inspiration today check out this YouTube video about a wonderful kid who is blind, yet can see almost better than you […]

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Want a Traffic Boost for your Blog?

 

It has been a while since I blogged about the BlogJolt. The project has been going strong and we are still doing weekly Jolts: we pick one group member, and all of the other group members link to and comment on her blog.
Since there are a lot of new faces around here in the last […]

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Do I Have Any Readers Interested in Making Money??

 

Silly question, I know.
I’m working on launching my Productivity Program - group coaching for anyone who wants to make some New Years’ Resolutions for their business, and to ensure that those resolutions actually happen! More on this to come SOON.
I’m curious if any of you would be interested in promoting the program to […]

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Free Stuff for Improving your Blog!

 

HUH? Yes, I am still working to entice you to send me your testimonials and feedback on  the free 10 Days to a Better Blog eCourse. I have only a couple of books left. In case you missed the first announcement, I am giving away 5 copies of Andy Wibbels’ BlogWild book for those of […]

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eMoms Blogging Forum :: Coming Soon or I’m out $1720!

 

As many of my readers know, I’ve been running the BlogJolt project now for several weeks. It’s been quite successful, and we now have nearly 90 members and are “jolting” 2 blogs a week. For those of you who don’t know what the BlogJolt is, in a nutshell we choose a target blog and all […]

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Nifty Free Site Tools (I would pay for these!!)

 

I came across a couple of really valuable tools this last weekend.
If you are a Firefox user, you may notice that now I have a pretty little icon in the address bar (it appears in Bloglines even in IE). I created the icon in Photoshop, then went to HTML-Kit, uploaded the image, and it automatically […]

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Jolting the Traffic of eMom Bloggers Everywhere!

 

Have you heard yet about the eMoms BlogJolt?
eMoms at Home is running a big link-building project to help mom bloggers - and bloggers who write about topics of interest to moms (yes, that does include a lot of GUY bloggers too!!).
The BlogJolt process is simple.
One Blog. One Week. Lots ‘o Traffic.
We pick one blog each […]

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I [Heart] FeedBurner :: Grab My Feed!

 

It’s been drama week for the hungry consumers of the eMoms Feed this week!
First a feed plugin brought my whole blog to it’s knees.
Then another plugin broke my feeds that weren’t directed to FeedBurner
Then I requested permission to edit my htaccess file from my hosting provider to fix my feeds. They told me no. :’(
So […]

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Database Scare and Tracking Feeds

 

Today I added a WordPress plugin to enable me to direct all of my feeds to FeedBurner, because I like them so darn much. WordPress was generating 3 feeds, but FeedBurner was only tracking one of them. I was getting a lot more hits on the other feeds - so the good news is that […]

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I am so Damn Proud of Myself (Read: I just requested an inbound link from a stranger!)

 

Wow. THANK God for my Mastermind Group. Let me give you the quick history before I launch into my accomplishment for the week.
In my Mastermind Group, we meet weekly to discuss our goals and progress, keep each other on track and offer coaching when appropriate. We come in with weekly commitments, and if they aren’t […]

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