Phillidelphia requires bloggers to pay for a License!!
Having been one of the few who doesn’t need to worry about this just yet. I figured I would talk about this and how this will impact every blogger out there. You’re probably thinking this won’t do anything in my neck of the US or for that matter the country. Now I have read several stories about how this might be earning just a few dollars in Philadelphia will need to pay $300 for a Business License. Some of the main concerns for me are obvious in my eye, but you probably don’t see it just yet. So I will go through some of the more problematic in my eyes.
Every City Will start requiring this?
You’ve heard me right, soon every city in the US will probably jump on this band wagon and claim they should be getting some of this internet money. So the problem with this is, those who are just trying to start to make money online will either make or break the blog in question. We can have so much problems with this because of those sites that are new to the business of blogging and will not know how to make money in the first place. I was the same way when I first started blogging, I wanted to make money but didn’t know how to do it. I started to experiment with my blog posts and finally I made a little money here and little money there. I didn’t start making any good money until I learned to review and recommend. That is how I started making any good affiliate sales but what about the new guy who doesn’t know how to monetize their blog?? Will they have to pay for something that never worked in the first place?
Business Plans Change for the blogger!
Yea that is right, the Business of making money online will forever change, it will no longer be a free page. I will have to pay for Hosting, Domains, Domain Privacy, advertising, and then having to pay yearly for a so called business. All this will make it just that harder for anyone to make any money online. I am sure they will start adding even more taxes as we get into even more of a recession. I don’t know if I will like that but I will fight it every step of the way. I am going to contact my Local Government and tell them I don’t like this and that they should make sure it doesn’t happen to other City’s and states.
August 27, 2010international | Posted by Paul Sylvester
I was reading how Gail Garner over at Growmaps.com wants to have a white list and black list they could use. I might not be an expert on spam, but I can see there might be some problems with this idea.
Let’s start off with what I know!
We all get spam in our in box every day, and sometimes more than 3x a day. That isn’t unusual. The problem is that spammers are constantly trying to get your to read their emails. They of course want to convey something to you weather it be free Ipods, or buy Viagra. Spam to me is like a dinner meal, I love it because it just fascinates me on how they will do anything to for profit. That being said, I got a spam email with the title being “Your wife photos attached” and it had a zip file called bagman.zip(See photo). As you can see the spammer has two reasons to doing this. One is the husband is curious about what the wife’s photo is being sent to the husband. The problem with this that no matter how well your marriage is there is always going to be a residual amount of doubt and that comes into play here. The Spammer wants the married males to open this up because they want to sell you Viagra. I’ve already spoke about why you should not buy from online pharmacies, so I won’t go into that part.
What does this have to do with the topic?
Does anyone know about (or have the ability to correct) a WordPress plugin that can be used to whitelist our regular readers and blacklist obvious spam? Specifically, we need to be able to blacklist:
Specific URLs (because spammers leave 100s of comments and that is the one field they have to make accurate or their spam is useless)
Commonly used spam phrases – We need to block specific PHRASES and NOT the words within the phrases.
Now we know Windows isn’t secure and we also Wordpress isn’t 100% secure either. Now that being said, we also have seenwhere hackers have taken over wordpress sites by either a Trojan or just by Phishing. Now I can see where hackers would find a way onto your site just to add there URL onto the whitelist. Depending on how well your protect your WordPress site, that can be quite difficult to avoid. We also have to guess that inorder to use this whitelist we would need it to communicate with other sites and build upon what others have submitted. I don’t know if that would be a wise idea or not but I do see how if enough websites are compromised then yes the spammer could easily add his url to the mix and make it just that much harder for the blog owners to know what is spam and what isn’t.
What is Spam?
There are varying degrees of what spam is. Some have quantified it into anything that looks like and advertisement. I personally think this is a gray area and no one person can say for sure, but I do know what Wikipedia says:
Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, social networking spam, television advertising and file sharing network spam.
I don’t know what we can do about spam but I do want to encourage people to think out side the box. If you create a plugin then you will know just how hard it is to keep it update and why you should in the first place. Spammers will always use an non-updated plugin to their advantage and thus we will always be updating your plugins.
I don’t know what Gail has in mind for her blog but I think my setup for comments are working out quite nicely. There are always going to be people who want to exploit something from you an you always have to ask your question “what do they want to exploit? and why?”.
If you can answer that question then you are far better off than most people.
I spent the weekend installing a few subdomains, by installing WordPress 3 Multisite Network. I will admit this isn’t for those who are new to WordPress but I did learn a lot from the experience. Now before you go start to install a Multisite, you should understand that when WordPress creates more sites these are virtual spaces on a virtual server. In other words there is no real directory for these sites or sub-directory. So you will have to consider about how you will insert the htacess code for each domain. This is where it get tricky. After you’ve set up your domains or sub-domains you will have a Super Admin Panel. What I failed to realize is that for some strange reason my main domain lost the [WWW] from my domain.
How did I fix all my Links to the New Domain Format??
I must admit I was glad to find a Tutorial on how to search and replace in a SQL database. The Author is Lorelle VanFossen and he talks about how to do search and replace anything in content posts. With this tutorial I was able to go through my whole blog and remove any [www] reference from any and all my content. I must agree with the him on this point, before you even consider using this you should make a complete backup of your SQL Database. The nice thing about this is that since my images were broke because of the [www] reference, no one could see any images. So I use that tutorial on all my sites that had the [www] reference and any post broken was fixed. If your unsure, I would have an expert do this stuff for you. That way you know it is done right. Now if your are wanting to update the databases for each site you will need to understand that after you get done installing the new sites each database will have a number like “wp_#_posts” and so on, so if you will need to know this so you know which blog you want to. Whiich it starts of with “wp_posts” for your main site and any extra multisites start off with one and goes up.
Why Can’t I cloak my links??
Basically now since you have more than one site and those sites are virtual there is no way for you to physically edit those htacess websites. I even tried to use WP Htacess Control plugin to see if I could get it to work that way, but that didn’t work. I even emailed the author of the Link Cloaking Pluging, and he said:
The free version of the cloaker plugin doesn’t support Multi Site installs. This is because it relies on .htaccess modification, and its .htaccess rules are no suited for multisite. The paid version should work, however.
I really can’t complain about this because I know he/she wants to make money just like the rest of us struggling blogger, but I believe that if you are going to offer it for free, you should support it for all WordPress platforms. So I knew there was a way to still use that link cloaking plug-in. Although she is right it relies heavily on that .htaccess. I knew there had to be a work around and I found it on WPMU Development Blog, there they showed you how to use this plugin to cloak all your links.
You will need to edit it to your website but once you have and install it on your main Htaccess site, the one where th wordpress is installed in. I will tell you have a 2 other domains, so I had to edit and install it 3 times on my htaccess to get it to work fully. You will need to:
Settings > Link Cloaking
If your like me and installed Subdomains then you will need to change each link prefix to something different so it can know which website it came from. I suggest you use go1 and use numbers just like I did. I am unsure if you will need to do this for your sites that have “/blog1” and “/blog2” and so on. You will probably have to do this if your are using these as sub-directories but one way you will know for sure is to test it out. You will need to edit the htacess with the new link and the site you are using that link. For example, I am using the Prefix [go2] with my http://cheap-electronics.tech-linkblog.com and I put those two into the code. I used [go1] for my http://myshows.tech-linkblog.com and copied the whole code again and edited accordingly. So I have three different “# Link Cloaker Plugin BEGIN” and three different “# Link Cloaker Plugin ENDS” for each website that I either made or have control over. After all this, I am rather pleased that I have found this information. I do hope I have helped others with this little problem and ask that if I helped you to consider buying something from Amazon to show your support. If you have any questions please feel free to email me, I will be happy to try to answer them.
Have a Good Monday, See you Wednesday!!
*Update*
The [WWW] is back and has been fixed, that problem was a DNS cache problem with Godaddy, that has been fixed and now you should be able to visit my site the regular way. I will not worry about adding the [www] back into content posts because they will still be found by WordPress.
I have been hesitant to include the forms to subscribe through email but that was due to the bots. I have recently started to add an email form subscription on the side the blog. You can subscribe to:
Subscribe to All Posts by Email — This is good for Everything from Guest Posts, My Posts, and Amazon’s(Bot) posts about Anything Amazon.
Subscribe to Paul’s Posts by Email — This is of you who like to just get posts from Me the Creator of the blog and no one else except for Guest posts, they will always be included in this feed.
As you c an see that I split these into groups to help those who are interested in one or all. You can subscribe to anyone you might want to read. And there are many benefits for subscribing. You don’t need to watch for your a Tweet, Facebook or Any other social stream that you might of found this blog from.
What are the Benefits?
Some of the useful benefits for subscribing are you get an email each morning at a set time around 7am in the morning. You will not receive any more emails from my site until the next day. So you will at least keep up to date on what is going on with my blog. You can unsubscribe at any time and you will not receive any more emails from my blog. Never miss a blog post again by subscribing through email.
August 2, 2010international | Posted by Paul Sylvester
Why tell you about my Earnings?
This is so I can discuss and give people my input of how I am doing. To make sure people can see what I am earning. This is my attempt to discuss just what people are buying and what people are more interested in. I will discuss which Cell phones people are buying each month. I will also discuss about my other affiliates when I get a commission each month.
What Have I earned?
Now to talk about all the places I have earned money for July 2010:
In Total i made $ 228.46, In July. With the Help of Wp Robot, I have made more money than I would alone! I do know that people who are coming to this site are searching for Unlocked Cell Phones and other such products from Amazon. As you can see people are clicking my affiliate links and buying stuff from Amazon. I would like to say “Thank you for you support“. With your help I have been keeping me above the red line with my website and my Jobless situation. This will help with expenses and such and hopefully in the coming months I will get more earnings in the coming month.
There were some other orders from Amazon so that wasn’t just all of the orders but the ones that I thought people would like to know what was most popular for July 2010. I have to Admit the Unlocked LG EnV2 does look sweet for a phone, maybe later I will buy one and try it out!!
Although Most of the earnings are from Wp Robot, although I have posted some stuff that I am getting from Amazon and Cricket Wireless, I have started to earn money from my posts from Pysch, Doctor Who, and Royal Pains Shows that I would recommend to my friends and family. As you can see, I have been busy with posting what I think people would either like to read about or watch online through Amazon and Itunes. I hope you enjoyed my analysis about my earnings for July, and hope you consider leaving a comment about this analysis of my earnings and tell me what you think. You are more than welcomed to tell me you hate it, liked it, or just didn’t care for it, all comments are welcomed!!
What is a Keyword you might ask? According to Wikipedia:
keyword is a word which occurs in a text more often than we would expect to occur by chance alone. Keywords are calculated by carrying out a statistical test (e.g., loglinear) which compares the word frequencies in a text against their expected frequencies derived in a much larger corpus, which acts as a reference for general language use. AntConc is a freely available text analysis tool capable of calculating keywords
One of the many things that you can do is make sure to have some kind keywords in your post from something like some these according to Google Trends:
If I were to talk about “naacp” or even “innerstart u american girl“, these are what we can consider being Keys which helps a search engine find your post and this would help your post be put on the front with the others that are talking about these. I used the Google Adwords Tools and look into the keyword of “Security Now“. The Global Monthly searches for that term is 22,000 and the local monthly searches are 14,800. As you can see having a good keyword in either the title or the blog post can drive more people to your site by either having something that people are for particular terms. Some of the famous terms can drive traffic to your site, creating that small chance for someone to subscribe to your blog or give you that little bit of commission from your ads on your site.
Watch your site keywords is an important aspect of running a blog. You would need to make sure not to have a negative term such as having Google slap on “Is a scam?” or ” Is a Rip-off” can make blogging even harder to cultivate users or readers. Having Google do something like that can be very detrimental to how your blog is perceived in Public. Some bloggers will use current keywords to make money online. This could make yourself look like spam so you should consider the value of blogging using current keywords and will the make you blog better or will people think you are spamming.
What do you do when you come up with a blog? I would like to hear from you and how you decide what keywords are important to you!!
I know this has been hard on everyone, myself included because of Jobs and how to keep my head above the water. I do however think we should consider how we spend and what we spend. So I wanted to tell how I have been doing this without having much success against anything else.
How am I saving Money?
Buy Food from Aldi’s — Although that help there isn’t much that we can do to save. Every penny counts in our family and that is one way we have survived so far from the economy is to by thrifty and not spend to much. I am sure I am not the only one who does this because I see people in our store more and more trying to find the cheapest food and not worried about name brand.
Bought anUnlocked Phone — This way when the economy does start to get better, I don’t have to worry about buying a new phone. I can use this phone anywhere I want, but for right now I am using it with Cricket Wireless. This way I am saving money left and right. If your looking for a free Cell phone service go check out Safelink Wireless. You still get a phone but for quite less than what you’d have to pay for the minutes.
Buy essentials from Amazon – Yes you guessed it, I can find anything from women supplies to baby supplies. This is a great website to go and get those Health and Beauty supplies, after all you only have to spend $25 to get free shipping.
As you can see these are only a few ways that I have used to survive. Even finding a job can be hard but I keep looking for a job from Indeed.com. I am hoping there will be a better job around the corner but until then I am working on my website trying to teach people how to survive. It isn’t enough that we have to endure this but to overcome the problems of the nation and World. Hopefully we will not need to worry but until then all we can do is wait.
We all have had this question asked from others and possibly to ourselves. Do Search Engines put any weight on comment links or do they not use them in the first place? According to one comment and I’ll quote:
Google is well aware of where comments start on a blog, and they have stated that those links are given less weight (if any). Same goes for footer links.
So I have to ask myself does all these search engines work the same or could he be wrong? I don’t know about what some would call spam, but this one blogs does make some good points on the subject. I’ve read blog posts about the DoFollow, which I might start doing to get better comments other than the few that seem dubious as best!!
“Great Post”
“I am subscribing to your blog!”
and On and On!!
These types of comments really bug because I want to start a conversation with my readers and get some value out of posting as well as reading from them. So you can see what others have to say. So I created a poll for this question. If I get enough of a response I will post it later and talk about it later.
Hope you have a good Wednesday, See you Friday
P.s. I am really busy with Vocational Bible School this week so I don’t know if I will post something Friday but be assured it will get back to normal Monday!! Thanks for Understanding!!
I have decided to disable Disqus in the hopes that I will find more people wanting to comment and communicate with others so we can learn from each other. I have also added this new plug call Commentluv, this little plugin will allow you do some really nice things. If you had an account with Disqus for just my blog, go over to Commentluv and make a new account. You will find it will help other in more ways than one.
Why Commentluv??
I’ll be truthful, I haven’t been getting comments like I wanted and I want to give you an incentive to talk about each post in more ways than one. So Let’s talk about what this little plugin does:
This rewards my Readers — If you have a blog or have been thinking about it. You can help others find you blog by commenting on mine. This will allow search engines to find your blog and index and will give you a leg up. In return you make a valuable contribution to my blog by enhancing it so other will enjoy reading and discussing aspects of my blog.
I get Rewards too — I find other sites that are interesting and I can comment and find more people to come to my blog. I can also create a discussion and learn from my discussion on the other blogs. This way I am also enhancing their blog but also bringing in more people to my blog. So it is a WIN-WIN situation. This is a great little tool.
You read more in your Niche area!! — This kinda goes along with the last two observations but it really is more than that. I don’t say that lightly. If you use it the right way you can learn even more about your niche and also come up with ideas to post for your readers to enjoys. I like this little plug-in because of the simplistic view it provides. I also like it because how rewarding it is and who how much easy it is for Search engines to rank me just a little bit higher each time i make a comment.
My Prognosis?
Expect in the coming months to a year to have even more readers reading my blog and comment and giving me ideas that might be nice to talk about on my blog. These are essential writing techniques that I have found to be the best way to blog. I get an idea from a Blog post and run with it, although I run with because I want to create a discussion and pick my readers for stuff they are interesting and want to know more about.
I must say that I am sorry for not posting earlier but with my kids being home for the summer I will probably be posting blog posts when I get and Will still try to keep to on the Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Routines for my discussion posts. It will however mean it will probably be later on the day because that is the only time I can sit back and relax and write my blog posts. I do hope you understand.
I went to the website and told them no thanks. I even did a survey of why I canceled. I told them speed and reliability, the speed. So I wanted to touch base about about Justhost.
Why I went to Justhost, and how you can save!!
I did talk about them and about the coupon codes, if your interested you can check out thecoupon codes on my review. I must say when I first started looking around, I did go searching and found that a few friends recommended Justhost. So I went searching for websites that have been hosted by Justhost and I must say the speed of the response of server.
Have you been looking for a new hosting Provider?
So I wanted to let people know that this site is hosted by Justhost. As you can see the server response has been very positive and I have no regrets. I have been on Just host for nearly 3 months and have not had any major problems. The response has also been really good with Justhost when I have had questions or needed help.
I didn’t know they had a reseller program but I have also told some of my Star Trek friends who have had websites. They might be going to Justhost.
Today marks the end of Godaddy Hosting and the beginning for Justhost.
May 12, 2010international | Posted by Paul Sylvester
As with anything I do, I like to go my own way. This is just how I am, not going to do it any other way. I am sure I am not alone in this because I find myself wondering some questions. I thought I would I share them with you.
How many people use as their primary means of web surfing?
I did some searching and I tried to find the answers. According to a research study, 50% of Americans in 2005 use search as they use the web. Then those who do use search engines use two words phrases when they do search. Then there are some that estimate that 90% of their traffic is from search engines. Some on the discussion stated they’ve read it says 80% use search primarily. I tend to agree with the idea, that most people start off with a search box in their browser when they click to start browsing.
Do you have a homepage other than a Search box??
I say this because I am curious do you have my page as your homepage or do you have a search box. I wanted to know what does your browser do when you start it up? I have my Homepage as what I see when I start up my browser. I wanted to encourage others do the same, have my homepage as your start page. That way you can keep up to date with all that goes on when I post something new.
I have asked this question time and time again, and I keep finding people making post about how to increase your readers and how to blog. It is like people are trying to get you to make you comment on their blog and almost make a comment spam although you are making a relevant comment it can still be a full time job. I have read article and article about this type of blogging and I am one of those ones that if you blog someone will read it!! I sit here watching Stargate – The Ark of Truth, and I find myself wondering how to replicate my blog to where people can find it. I think about this and here is what I have figured out and I like to share it with you.
Blogging for Money, Doesn’t make readers
I say that with some trepidation, because I am sure you have heard that having readers creates revenue but I have found it is not quite right. Just because you have readers doesn’t mean you will have them click your advertisements or even buy something from Amazon. Although this can be true to some, I have found that you need a connection to the readers who read your blog. Without making a connection, the reader doesn’t have any inclination to use your links or even click on your links. This is where some bloggers go wrong. Thinking they have a link on their website will make them money.
Create a doubling effect
If you had a penny, and double it you get two pennies. If you have a reader who recommends to another you have two readers, if you double that every time you get a really big pool of readers. This is simple math, just because you blog doesn’t mean you won’t get any readers. It is basic that you still need to make a connection to the reader who wants to tell people about an article that might help or even help them to understand a little more about themselves. The most useful blogs out their are those that can make a difference in the reader even in a small amount.
Don’t be fooled by other blogs
Even though a blog is busy or even has a lot of comments that doesn’t always mean it is the best blog. I want to have a relevant comment who conversation with my readers and those are my goals. Those who comment on my blog have had a comment that I have liked or started a conversation with. I don’t know how to write a good comment on others blogs because I feel like a stranger or out of place making a comment in another blog. So if you don’t see me on other blogs that is reason, I have tried to make this a friendly community but I am confused on how to make it even better. So if you have any suggestions or comments, you can leave them below.
It was a moderately cool winter’s day, I was working for a temporary place looking to get placed permanently. You know the feeling that you get when you they won’t hire you because they only actually want temporary help and don’t want to pay for the insurance. This place I was at kept dragging on. Day’s became weeks, and weeks became months. I kept asking if they were going to hire me and they kept telling me they are looking into it.
It was that month that I decided I wanted to be my own boss. In 2007, I started my own blog over at Blogger. If you don’t know what blogger is, it is a free service for those who want to have your own blog. I’ve read all those stories about how people were getting rich from blogging, and I thought I would give it a shot. At the time it was not even close to a part time deal. I would only give it a few hours a week trying to figure out what I would like to blog about!!
The Past
Before I started blogging, you must understand a few key points that will make you understand where I came from and why I blogged the way I blogged in the beginning. I already talked about my family problem’s including my daughter who had moderate to severe Cerebral Palsy. I went to college to take computer science, but never finished because of my daughters problems after birth. We were young like every other couple and thought we could do college and still have a family. That fell through because of the amount of care we were to spend with CP and Therapy.
I started working anywhere and everywhere I just to make sure the family was fed and we had a roof under our heads. That seemed to work for a time but as we got more and more problems with our daughter we did not have enough time to talk or do anything like a couple could do. So basically that fell through, I won’t go into much details but I will say I have reformed my opinion of what my priorities would be. I am not saying I am perfect far be it for anyone to ever be perfect. I am just an average person on the street, doing what needed to survive.
C grade in High school and College (No English Major).
making a little more than minimum wage.
Worked from Job to Job. Averaged a new Job ever 3 Months.
None of the jobs needed me to wear professional attire.
We Jump into the Tardis, and get transported to now!!
April 2010
Now on this Warm moderate spring day, living in Ohio. (We don’t get any good hot days for another month at least.) 3 Years later and some odd months:
Make a modest living off what I blog about.
Have started to do this full time putting more energy into how the blog looks.
Learned how to review products through trial and error. (Cricket Broadband is my main supporter right now.)
It is certainly not a great start but I feel I have done pretty well with this blog the last few months and I have learned several different things about blogging and others that I am still learning. I had a fairly normal life with my family, I didn’t achieve anything major in High school. I sometimes wanted to do more in High school, but as being the introvert as I was. I didn’t ask girls out that I liked or tell them how I felt about them. Of course I would still hang out with them but I never had the courage to actually tell them. However, I never thought I would be blogging and be doing it for so long!! My average with working on one thing or another is very short sometimes not even a year. This blog is the longest I have done anything and I see the Future calling me with even more blogging!!
Back to the Future!!
Many of the times, I have written something in my blog and no one actually made a comment or emailed me. Then Other days, I wake up wonder what I did right, having an email or two about a blog post. I can not say what it is to be successful blogger, because sometimes I wonder just how well I am doing compared to other bloggers. That on itself would be depressing to some but I am thankful how well I have done just last year alone, Money was tight but it would of been tighter if I hadn’t blogged.
Firstly – I write this because I know I am not the only one who occasionally feels like no one is listening. It feels like I am not making a difference and other days I can see the difference just in how I write.
Secondly – The Main reason I write this was to express to everyone that lately I have been working hard at making a community by building my own Site Tool bar. Although this toolbar is never going to be finished, if I find a really good application for it, I will add it. I am also thinking of either creating my own podcast or becoming a permanent co-host to a podcast.
For me, that is the question that I must ask myself and I am sure I am not alone in this. What else can I do to make this a better community? I keep coming back to the ultimate answer is listen. Although we as bloggers are not known to listen to others because we like to blog about our passions, our hopes, and our dreams. This is how we blog sometimes, with passion about a subject or about how a company did us wrong. Does that mean we are bad listeners? I would have to say no! We sometimes overlook what is right in front of our face due to our passions but that doesn’t mean we don’t look later on down the road!
Keep in mind, this blog is for YOU and it isn’t just for me to blog about anything and everything. I would love to hear any and all comments on how you think I should go whether I should keep this new way of blogging or do you want me to go back to the old blogging technique?
No one is perfect and I do care about my readers. If you have any questions or want to suggest something. My Email is always open and ready to receive the email. I am sure there is something you like or something you don’t like. That is just the nature of the beast when it comes to building a community.
April 28, 2010international | Posted by Paul Sylvester
As you might have just come to my blog recently I thought I should talk about this new template that i found which is called Celestial Aura Theme by dkszone.net.
What is so Special about this Theme??
After doing a lot of looking around and feeling like the old theme was not working for me. I even did a lot of CSS editing on the old theme. This one I don’t have to do a lot with but I had to Add a Leaderboard into the theme. That was really not a hard part, but it did take me a while to figure out how to design the theme. It will need to be ironed out even more but I hope to have it all done by the weekend.
Is that why it took you so long to post something?
I am afraid so, I have been working on the new theme all day today but I am really happy with the new look and hope you will like it to. As you can see the left side is for Advertisements and the right side is for all the blog information that you might need. I also have it randomly changing the advertisements.
What do you think of it??
After all my hard work, I would like to ask you what you think of the new theme? I want the themes to be nice designed and be pleasurable to come to my site. If you have any comments or questions on the new theme you can email me and let me know. I am sure you will like this as much as I do, nothing to bold or no annoying advertisements that are preventing you from coming to my site!
Have a Good Wednesday Night, I will see you Friday!!
When I first started doing this blog, I wanted to create a community. It has nothing but been a therapy for me in many ways. You see my life has been nothing but frustrating in more ways than one. What could be so bad? I have to deal with my wife’s family in conflict over them trying to control what happens to my wife. I would say they have been nothing but an Annoyance. I love my wife but having to hear how much they are mad at me.
I thought of this as a home for myself and wanted to learn and teach about Technology. When I first started this blog, I had so much on my Mind from my oldest daughter who had mild to severeCerebral Palsy. No one who has a normal kid will ever know just how challenging and the struggles that come with raising a child who has CP. The only people who can are those who have a child who has it. She will need Therapy probably all her life, and it pains me to think about that but in the same way that is why Amy’s Family is not happy with me. They think it had to come from my genes to cause my Daughter to have this. I have accepted that I will never see eye to eye with her family. I was however glad to find a Family in Starfleet and the a Local Ship who always cared about the well being of my wife and me. Took us under their wings and befriended us. I must say I have two other children who are a joy.
I now know what my dad must of went through when I was growing up. Always trying to teach me and my sisters how to behave was something that was a life long learning process for me. You’d probably not know this but when I was in school, I had a hard time reading and writing because of my Dyslexia. I must say that when I was young I hated going to summer school to learn how to overcome this problem of mine. I never once like it, but my family at least was thinking of me and I must say I am glad they did this. It makes me be thankful of the kind of family I grew up around. Although I was the youngest, I still care for every family member and always try to tell them how much I love them.
The blog is nothing more than an extended family!
When I say that I mean it. I have seen how kind you can be when you were buying from my links and still do. Every time I see someone buy something it makes me smile and feel like this blog is doing some great good. I don’t say that lightly, with economy still having hard times, You see I am only working 2 days out of the week while my wife is working close to 40 hours a week. We would of been in a world of hurt if it wasn’t for the commissions that I have gotten through people buying stuff from my advertising campaigns. With your help we have been able to stay above the red line and still have been fortunate enough to have two other children who are Healthy and who have no physical or mental disabilities.
This blog has let me do something that I have always wanted to do and that is have friends who care for my family just as much I care for them. I am also thankful that my youngest sisters has taken my Oldest daughter and let her live with them so she can get the best physical therapy and to let her get the best possible lifetime outcome. I don’t say that lightly because my area was bad for the therapy and her needs. I will always be thankful for my sister and I definitely am glad she is getting the best possible care up where my sister lives.
My blog is my therapy….
When I write a post, it helps let me get away from day to day problems and gives me a passion to do the best I can for my friends and my community. I can relax and enjoy what I am doing and try to make my blog a better place. I have always enjoyed trying to blog about what is on my mind day to day. If it was for my readers, I would of probably went insane or been dead. That is where I want to say:
Thank You!!!!
I write because of you and you read because of me. I smile every time I see someone coming to my site and know that if I helped you in a small way, than I have done a good job that day. You are what makes Happy and I enjoy blogging.
Find some that needs help today and help them. By doing that you have proven yourself a friend and a reader. You can make a better place for others by telling them Thank you also. One little smile can make a world of difference.
As you know I have a family and we before we got Roku and Netflix, we would just play Scrabble or some other game but now since we can Watch virtually any movie. We’ve changed tactics to include a movie night in our family fun night. We can sit and watch all those old family classics or New Family friendly movies, but yet it is family time. In the summer we go out and have a time to run and play with the kids but in the winter you have to be a conservative. It was that thought that came to me today and I wanted thought this would be a good little discussion for those of use who have families.
What do you do for family fun??
This is a really easy but I suspect that some people will have a hard time explaining their family fun routine. I just thought it would be a good to find other ideas for me and my family and other readers to find ideas on other activities.
I would like you to comment or shot me an email and If I get some good responses I will post that in the coming weeks. If you send me an email and you don’t want me to use your name just say so and I will be more than glad to leave your name out. This will benefit everyone who might want to get more out of Family time.
February 10, 2010international | Posted by Paul Sylvester
I wanted to update all you on what to expect in the coming weeks. I don’t think this will be a big blog post because of all the stuff that I will be reviewing. For Starters I found this great laptop over at Newegg that I will be talking about once I get a chance to sit down and test them out myself:
And last but not the least is Justhost. I will be writing an review on their customer service and how they are doing with as my new Hosting Provider.
This will not be a big blog post but it was just a blog post to wet your pallets for what will be coming. I know these look good and I will go in depth on each of them how well they fair to my other equipment and who should get them and who shouldn’t. Although It has been a snowy week for some US States, I have been busy watching my Kids. So That is why I can’t blog to much today. No school for my kids and no peace and quite for me. We will talk more on Friday.
February 8, 2010podcast | Posted by Paul Sylvester
If you haven’t noticed, I have switched from Godaddy Hosting to Justhost And I do think the load up time on this blog has double or tripled. We all fall in to that little trap where we want to keep our hosting and domains together and then I started hating the slow speed of the page loading. So that is why I decided to switch. Now this is so much faster on my end, and I am sure it is on your end too. While moving this blog, I did learn some things:
No matter how prepared you think you are, it is never enough – I don’t say this lightly. When I started doing the move, I thought I understood how to do it. I now know, I should of been more prepared by testing it on a local drive by using Xamp. If I would of done that, I would of figured out that the backup file was incomplete and would of fixed that but I didn’t. That is why the Site was down for more than 12 hours.
Always make sure you do a complete backup – I thought I did a complete backup but as you can tell, I didn’t. I learned more about phpmyadmin then I have in a long time. I also learned what not to do. This has been an eye opening experience for me!!
Don’t be afraid to ask for help – I called out for help several times with JustHost support, and I find they do a pretty good turn around with helping you out. They do try to help and it was as fast or faster than Godaddy. They both have their flaws but I am still happy to of switched.
Make sure you dedicate several hours to the move – Now I didn’t say this was going to be easy, in fact I do believe this was the hardest thing I have done because of my ill experience with WordPress and hosting. I will say though, most of what went wrong was due to me no following a outline.
Don’t Panic – If nothing goes right, don’t get upset with your computer. This one is a bit of laugh for me because I really didn’t panic to much but I was upset that it didn’t go my way. Although I know I did everything right in the first place, I was still quite upset. I don’t know why I couldn’t get a full backup of my database, but I finally figured out how to!!
Although, I still have a Forum to transfer over here. I plan to do that sometime next week when I can do it with confidence. I will definitely recommend Justhost to anyone who wants to get away from Godaddy hosting. Even after all I had to go through at least now I have a faster load page response.
We all have our special area in life whether it be Life support, computer support, and many other specialties in life. I thought we talk about how do you decide what your will talk about on your blog or website. We all have our own experiences and our own education. No single person can know everything and we all have our flaws and we call all learn from that in one way or another.
How Can I figure out what my blog/website niche is?
You could use keywords to see what the search engines suggest. I say that because if the blog or Website talk about “Making money” or “Computer Repair” or even “Cellular Modems” then you know what you could become even better at your niche. You can find that out by what using Google Analytics to find out what people are searching for to find your blog. This is how your audience finds you by putting in the search in keywords.
Now if you haven’t started a blog or website and you would like to come up with your niche before hand. This is even easier to do. You would need to figure out what you want your blog or website to talk about and then you will want to add them in your posts.
What if I have more than one Niche or Specialty?
So you have more than one area where you either love or know about but you don’t want the audience to be overwhelmed. This is where you should decide at the most 3 or four different niche area’s to talk about whether it be “Science Fiction” or “Cellular Modems” or even “Computer repair”. So not to make it to big for the audience you want to engage them and try to make a community of people who want to share what they know to make everyone be a better person for reading the blog or website. This is sometimes in my mind a fine line, because not everything we write about will go over well with the audience because they will feel like it is something they wanted to read.
Why do I want to know my Niche?
This is a simple because no matter what website you have, you like everyone else wants to make some money from your website. This is call affiliate marketing, if your talking about computer repair or even modems then you should decide on having the right links for your site so you can at least have your readers know where they can go to help support the blog or website. This is often though for those new audience or search audience who are wanting to find out about a certain topic and they come to your site and click on your links or banners to go buy the product or find out more about the product from the link! You more than often get that from your audience if there is a special going on and they want to find out about it!
What good does it have to a niche blog?
Having a niche blog can help bring in the advertiser to your blog and help pay for your blog cost plus it will help make doing a blog just a little more enjoyable. You can earn money whether it be 5 to 10 dollars a week or even a day. It just depends on how popular your blog is in the first place. You will have to take into consideration the popularity of your blog. The more popular your blog or website is the more chance that you will get asked to have a banner or advertisement on your blog and get paid per month or per clicks!
I hope this helps you understand the need to find your Niche and how you can earn a little money or a lot of money when you cater to the niche of your website or blog. You probably heard how people can earn can money and not have to work. I’ve not had that happen yet, I am hopeful but right now it helps pay the bills and keeps my blog a float. In the end, it all comes down to the blog owner and how hard you work on your blog or website.
January 29, 2010international | Posted by Paul Sylvester
Photo By : Ms. Tina's
It can be hard to see the site from the outsider perspective because I have an invested interest and can’t be partial. Trying to make a site pleasing to people can sometimes be a big experiment and I would like to get more people to come to my site. I ask this because I want this site to used more and more. Starting next week I will be publishing Three Articles a week which will be Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and on other occasions when I am feeling like writing more than that. I however started thinking to myself how I can make this better site! So I wanted to ask my readers this.
I ask you to go to my site and turn off your ad blocking software and leave a comment either in comments or you can contact me directly if you feel uncomfortable leaving a message that might be embarrassing. I will say don’t send me emails that are just mean or insensitive, I get those and I will automatically just delete without reading them or even giving them a second thought. I am however wanting to make this site even better for new guests and returning visitors, so that is why I am ask.
Your help is needed.
Please keep the comments to one or two suggestions that you would change on the blog. If someone else suggested the same thing please feel free and suggest yourself. It will only emphasize how important it is to change that part of the blog. If I get a good response from people you can expect this site to change for the better not worse.
On a side note, I did add more to the About me / Contact me page so you can now read a little more about me. I also included a picture of me for those who might have been curious.
Over the weekend I had a chance to talk to my sister who was interested in having setting up her own blog. She didn’t know a thing about setting up her own blog and asked me to walk her step by step. So I thought I would also walk my readers through this whole process and help you set up your own blog to.
This process will take approximately an hour to two hours, each step will be talked about in detail through a series of blog post. This shouldn’t not take long for anyone to do, depending on the speed of your internet. In fact if you follow my directions, it should be really quick and easy. No mess or fuss.
So now with that being said, I would like to talk about domain names. If you want to have your own domain you have to make it unique. It should be something personal and go with what your looking for. Do you know your domain is almost like a brand-name? Just like Nike, Adidas, and McDonald’s people who hear that come back with the knowing that no matter where you are in the world. This also goes for your Domain, before you start this think of a what you will be blogging about and make a list possible domains. This is always the first step into creating a blog. Now I must warn you this process may take long or it might be short. Some or All of those domain names you come up with may be taken or they may not. The Most common name extensions can be seen through Wikipedia.
Now with that said on my next post we will talk about Picking your hosting provider and Setting up your Domain.
Yes you heard me right, lately I’ve been trying to figure out why some of my click were not used in my links. So I went to Google to find the answer. I found the answer to some of this. According to some other websites 40% of affiliate links are stolen or switched with spammers and scammer who are trying to make money. You see the virus writers have been trying to make money with there Fake Antivirus software and they will do anything to earn money. I have also though about how people would boost they have made Millions from Affiliate links and that is where this stilling would happen.
How to make your Affiliate links look like they come from your site:
I decided the easiest way to prevent link theft is create a directory called “go” and then used the program Profit Protector to encrypt and hide my affiliate links. Then all you have to do is upload the created html file to the “go” directory. for Example:
Now all you have to do is change all your links like the example above and you would use the “http://www.mysite.com/go/affiliatesite.html” for your active link. This would help reduce programs from stealing your affiliate links with there own.
Has this help my affiliate links?
I would say a most definately yes. I have been watching the click through rates through my affiliates menu and see a drastic change of people downloading or having a user session with my affiliate links. I also think this will increase my commission pay out because now people can follow through and buy a product without knowing they have left my site.
Now I won’t argue the ethics of this system because I have worked hard at finding the right affiliates for my niche but in the end, I have no regrets. I feel this is what I have to make sure my efforts pay off. After all I’ve done the reviews and that is my payment for doing the reviews. What do you think? Is this something you have to do or have done?
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June 18, 2009international | Posted by Paul Sylvester
I have been using www.GoDaddy.com as my Hosting Company for quite some time and really love the service. As you know they clam to have 99% uptime and I haven’t seen them go down for anything since I started. So Let’s Talk about this even more:
You can become a Reseller for Godaddy if you want, and have a store if you want. This is also makes it even easier for you to make and sell domains for cheap.
SSL Certificates — Keep your website secure and prevent people from getting information they shouldn’t. This is good for businesses who have to sell using a credit card or registration for people information.
This is a good service for bloggers and podcasters who want to blog. I have been using this service from www.GoDaddy.com and have been really impressed. If you looking for a hosting this is the right place to go. Although the support for www.GoDaddy.com is not the best, when I went through them for tech support. They would tell me how to fix it and leave me do it myself but that is a good way to learn how to keep a website going. I still recommend www.GoDaddy.com for people who want a dependable service. Do you like or not like Godaddy? I want to hear from you! Leave a comment and let me know what you think!
All in All, I like the support and friendliness of www.GoDaddy.com to keep me going when something unexpected comes up. You will never know what is around the corner.
This site looks to be another phishing attempt, a poor one at best. I go there and it seems that you get the Facebook Login screen. According to:
If it isn’t showing Http://www.Facebook.com or Https://www.facebook.com then it probably is a a phish site. If you’ve did use your password with this site, I’d strongly suggest changing it. If I find out more I’ll let you know. I know that the site is from Godaddy but if this was done by accident or not I do not know. I don’t make the Name up Niggabook.com is the site and until more things become clear, steer clear of the site for the time being. When I find out more, you’ll be the first to know!!
After a Long day at work, you sometimes feel like there isn’t much you want to talk about. Then this idea comes to me? Why do people blog and why do people talk about security?
I’ve come to realize something, I’m not one who was grew up understanding bits from bytes. I grew up as any family does fighting with my siblings.
Having been blogging the past few years, it seems like only yesterday that I started blogging. Cliche I know but still very much true. Most blogs do what they know, I aim to learn and teach each day I blog. Like days like this when the world is pretty much quite and the remnants of the conficker worm dies to a rumble.
After a day long battle with my wife’s system, I grow to wonder if there is something I should do differently with how to prevent Viruses and Worms on her system. So I’ve groomed my Knowledge base and come up with 5 good points when it comes to locking down your Windows Machines:
Lock down your Router/Modem — Some people don’t know that having an insecure router with weak passwords is a way to get on another system. This can easily be prevented if the users takes some steps to prevent. it. Although if a hacker wants to break your encryption and find your Signal there is really nothing you can do but try to prevent that.
Firewall and Anti-virus – Although I know people think I am a broken record this will always be something I encourage for everyone who reads my blogs. I will never stop beating people over the head with this. Seeing the Conficker map tells me there are quite a few without an Anti-virus or a Firewall, which might of given someone a heads up find out if they do or not!!
Disabling AutoRun – This can prevent a USB stick from installing software it shouldn’t. Remember Microsoft has issued an statement on how to disable it for sure. Although I must say The Security Now episode 187 seems to talk about this really well and how to make sure you do disable it the right way.
Make sure it is a Limited user account – Most people always run as administrator when in fact that sometimes makes you more vulnerable to viruses, worms, and trojans. Any software you install as an administrator will automatically be given Administrator rights. That can be very bad when it comes to virus and such.
Keep your System up to date — This is essental for people who to prevent exploits to be used against you. Although if your like me and you want to make sure your software is up to date some of that can be done with APPSNAP.
With These tips, your system can be a little more safer. Just remember there is no perfect way to protect your systems 100% only some of the time. The rest depends on you, because your the last layer of defense. Also it isn’t a bad idea to back up your system from time to time.
March 12, 2009international | Posted by Paul Sylvester
As you know We had a big problem Monday Night and All day Tuesday. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you would of noticed either a 503 or lag. It was due to an article that I released late Monday night about the PIFTS.EXE and the so call conspiracy.
At the time, I was wondering and quite disturbed about what Norton Symantec was doing to the forums. So I blogged about this and wouldn’t you know my site was Held Hostage by Google. I kid you not, I had so many people come to my site in under an hour it wasn’t even funny.
So I sit here, asking a really good question is Google the News? I don’t know exactly when but according to Wikipedia Google was formed in 1998. The Google Motto is Don’t Be Evil, and I guess it makes them look like a news source. When did they get past the news site? I would hazard a guess that it was in late 2004 they started when they when Google gave people the first chance to own the stock on August 19, 2004, when Google became a publicly held company.
I got hit hard by Slashdot, Reddit.com, and Google. In truthfulness, It was more of searches and people coming from Google than anywhere else. I would say Google was the 90% and and Slashdot and Redidit was 8% and the rest was from other websites for this one article. Now don’t get me wrong the 2% of people was my normal amount of people for the day. So you can imagine how many people actually came to my site over this fiasco.
I call this a fiasco because basically it was one that really made me worry about the server going down. People seemed to try to find out about this program and some of them didn’t even do any more research than to come to my site? Although I do know a little, I have always considered myself to be a BLUE COLLAR Tech Blogger. So you can just call me “The Blue Collar Tech Blogger” when it comes to things like this. I will never proclaim I know everything and I am still learning every day I blog I learn something new.
So this leaves me with a question on how did Blogs become the news also? Did we step into the roll of news? I know there are many blogs out there that are telling the news and are almost as if they are the news. Is that where this has become Web 2.0? I throw these questions out to see what type of comment. I just thought this was a good topic for today to talk about.
December 28, 2008podcast | Posted by Paul Sylvester
This weekend the blogosphere flared up over twitter having “authority” search functions. I say this is totally not going to work because some factors. I am not saying they have the right idea but I do see a really major downfall. Loic wants to be able to search for content that has more “authority” and because he is looking for good content. I understand where he is coming from because he wants to look for content for his Seesmic Company. I can see he wants to find the best videos to offer to his users for his company. I totally understand and really appreciate that he wants to work for his company.
Now being that Arrington talked about this on Techcrunch, and agreeing with Loic over this. I have to wonder why he wants to agree. You see he is also into content and understand that if the “authority” for searches in twitter from his blog post means people will flock to his site and he gets more pageviews. I say this is the wrong for him to agree because there is nothing going to stop people finding his content. Also that would mean his blog post would have more “authority” then the common person who might not like this blog post and you wouldn’t see that until you get to the next page or even a few pages back. So we have these two wanting more “authority” and more content.
Then we have Scoble and his blog post. Now let’s talk about this from where scoble says it’s a bad idea. Scoble talks about gaming the system, and if you think back to Digg killing all the high number of members because they were using scripts. Here we are again with regards to twitter. Now if we have authority people are going to game the system because no matter how hard we try it will be a competition.
We have botnets and we have bots on twitter. It really isn’t hard to have a bot on twitter, and that is where we have a problem. You see if we have “authority” and we want to game the system. We just have bots with authority and by having other bots subscribe to each other. There lies the problem. People will easily be able to game te system and create even more trouble finding the content they are so dearly looking for. Now I don’t usually get into the whole “he’s right and he wrong” disputes but this one has to be brought to people attentions.
I say this when did “Authority” stop people from talking about the really important stuff happening in the world. We have people from Friendfeed talking about this and we have people from twitter talking about this als. Loic and Arrington need to learn content isn’t hard to find, it will always be there. You just have to open your eyes to see. The way I see it, we have a coin and we have the good and bad. We should just keep the bad out of there and keep the good stuff we already have. This goes in the bad idea bin for the time.
Those who knows someone who has a blog, also knows what the dream of a blogger is. On this case I will go into 5 areas where most bloggers should improve on. Although these aren’t going to be major, you to can create a good blog and encourage users to come back to you all the time. Having dreams isn’t a bad thought or a bad wish. Sometimes having been blogging the way I have been. I see the challenges of coming up with content for the blog. I’ve figured out some important points in making content and full filling the dreams that you have.
Sometimes, I think, bloggers get the bad wrap. They are considered undesirables to the big magazines and the popular medias. You see, in the mind of the big companies, they don’t understand the small guy and how they impact the big companies. A bloggers dream is to impact there inspiration to write something with content.
Content is the Key – Having seen content grow my blog from nothing to something means a lot. It means having content draws people to the small guy. You see not all the Honey comes from the big guys, but by the small guys. You will need to figure out where you want to go with your content. Understand this, content alone will not draw people to your blog and keep them.
Create Loyalty – Unlike content, if you don’t have loyal readers, you do not reach others with your ideas and understanding. Finding out how to make readers become loyal to your content has to be frustrating to some but I found it rather easy. You have to come up with Loyalty by giving people the chance to comment and creating a way for people to discuss there believes. Having loyal readers isn’t all that is cracked up to be, you do from time to time have the reader who wants to protest or complain. That is normal, because you will never have what that one reader wants, and sooner or later you will replace that one with someone who enjoys reading your content.
Bloggers want Advertising – Not just bloggers but podcasts want advertisement because it offsets the cost of buy web space and the effort of making content. Some would say it makes people run from your blog. I say different because having a dream is having people click your ads to support their blogs. Bloggers want you to make there dream your dream.
Plan for the Future –Having an idea of how the future will effect your count and content. Gives you a better edge for the future and a understanding of the past will better help you get the most out of your blogging experience.
Although this isn’t all or even 10% of the whole picture for blogging. You have to work through the fine details of getting people to come to your site. It will however start you off in the right direction. Finding inspiration is sometimes the hardest part of blogging because there are times when writing isn’t easy. In another post of mine in the future I’ll talk about how hard it is sometimes to come up with content.
July 31, 2008international | Posted by Paul Sylvester
Lately in the past few weeks, I’ve had several Advertisers come to me wanting to advertise for there clients. I’d thought I share you some of my experiences, in the hopes, that you too can get advertisers to come to you so I’d come up with some steps to better help you;
Don’t use Blogger.com — Yep that’s right, after recently moving from blogger to WordPress. I’ve found that after the move, I’d start getting more people coming to my site. I don’t know if it was something I did or if it was the platform that got me more business. I think most advertisers think blogger is for amatuers or people who aren’t interested in revenues.
Content is the Key — Having spent the last few months thinking how I can get people to come to my blog. I’ve found this out. If you make content that is specific to your area and not try to repeat what everyone else is saying you can get a high volume of people to come to you site. I’ve also learned that Google is your friend and you need to use it to you fullest abilities.
Social Media is the Key — That’s right find sites that are social media and use them for the fullest. Some of my favorites are: Friendfeed, Disqus, Seesmic, Furl, Technorati, Twitter, Youtube, Tumblr, Plurk, and Facebook. Although this isn’t the complete list this is quite a few and you will need to socialize as much as possible to get people to come to you site.
Don’t be afraid to get your own ads– Yes your are correct you don’t have to wait for them to come to do you. You can go to them. Find some ad-services that will work for you and sign up. Some of the ones I’ve checked out are Google Adsense, Crispads, and Commission Junction. Having ads are your site lets advertisers know you are interested in having ads.
Have an About me Page – Although this seems the simplest of them all. Having that will have them be able to get a hold of you if they would like to offer some sort of advertisement on your site. It does not have to be complete. It does however, have to have a way for advertisers to contact you in case they are wanting to communicate with you.
There ofcourse is more to the story but this will begin your journey into the world of ad revenues. It is to be expected to have some bumps in the road, however hard or soft. If you can get past the first few months with your newly created blog, and you start creating content, you will start to get ads coming your way. If you have other suggestions on how to get ad revenues please feel free in leaving a comment and I’ll check it out.
I’ve had so many people talk about why blog? I’ve seen articles about blogging being dead. I say that’s not going to happen, it is the heart of a blogger to talk about what they want to talk about. It comes from the idea that they have the understanding of the what a blogger is!
What’s a blogger?
It’s in the wikapedia as this : “A blog (a contraction of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.” So what does that say about me? Well let us talk about this in terms we can understand. Having been blogging for the last few months or I should say year(s). I’ve got some things to say about this. Not all bloggers are bad and not all bloggers are professional. I hate to say this but it is the truth some bloggers have never went to school for writing class or other such education. We saw this as a way to talk about what we are passionate about and want to educate others. It comes from a desire to socialize with people who have the same interest and to be part of a greater plan.
How do you find a good blogger?
Looking for good service is essential to finding the bloggers that have the best content. They want you to return to there site to see what else is going on. They want you to tell people to go check this site out. They post regularly and have a conversation with the readers. Having been thinking to myself, how to better make my blog accessibility is the hardest thing with an aging blog. It’s really hard for us to ask for help. Sometimes a blog goes in the wrong direction and we as readers need to tell the blog author what you think by leaving a comment.
Why comment on a blog entry?
It’s not that a comment makes or breaks a blog. It’s the communication from the reader to the author of the blog. You can tell the blog owner or author what you think when it comes to a particular idea or particular way of thinking. Sometimes it is good to say you liked the blog entry or say where we missed it. It’s the idea of washing the feet of the blogger. Yes you sometimes have to wash the feet of the blogger because if he is dirty, you can clean the feet of the blogger. By doing this you make it possible for the blogger to become better on his blog entries.
How to not hurt the blogger feelings!
Even though you’ve not seen a blogger, they do have feelings and want to keep blogging. You can hurt the blogger’s feelings by saying mean comments on the blog or talking bad about a blogger’s website. Most blogs want to make money and I also know how hard it is to keep my blog going. I am playing 2nd Fiddle with my blog and others blog. I want it to be that way to better help my readers.
Is playing 2nd Fiddle as good as 1st Fiddle?
I wonder how many of you play 2nd Fiddle to produce harmony with blogging. I want my blog to be an outlet to better harmonize with other blogs that I read or help out. I am sacrificing a lot to better create a blog that people will come to my site. How have you created harmony with other bloggers? Most of the time we want to be better than others. Guess what? Being 2nd is better than being first in the blog, in my opinion. I can do more and say more than being on top. I don’t have to try to make come up with the hard articles or the ones that are Hot Topics articles. I can say it’s good being 2nd Fiddle and love it from time to time.
You can’t be an executive blogger without first learning to blog!
You have to learn to become a blogger before you can have a successful blog. It’s teaching a child they can do anything they want with-in reason. That’s like a newly created blog, they can do anything if they put there mind to it. That’s why I’ve decided to talk about this topic. I want the bloggers who read this to come back with even more questions or suggest ideas. I find sometimes having questions is sometimes the way to make my blogger better. I throw out questions to get my juices flowing per say. I want to be a better blog and I need you to direct me and encourage me. So I throw this out at you, you want more stuff like this, please feel free to comment. If you want to see something on my blog, Leave a comment.
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