Life is going along in the flow. Paid work is coming in. Prayers are being answered. Whack! Suddenly an email appears from Google with a warning. Google Penalty: no get out of jail free card! As a blogger online for years with minimal negative experience of the Google changing algorithms, even seeing the phrase, Unnatural outbound links, can momentarily raise the normal … [Read more...] about Google Penalty: No get out of Jail Free card
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Your invitation to a #BlogHop of writing passion
What a pleasant surprise to receive an invitation to Blog Hop! When I first heard the term a couple of years ago I thought, "Wow, that sounds fun. I wonder if it's like one of my favorite childhood games, hop scotch?" Enjoy "hopping" to the different blogs featured here. Broaden your contact sphere. My invitation to blog hop, came from one of my long time blogging … [Read more...] about Your invitation to a #BlogHop of writing passion
Contest for 8 Best Blog Posts about Hashtagify #Hashtag Secrets
Hashtags, words we use to label and search social media, are like keywords. If you are still work only with keywords, then it’s time to understand what is more typical in many social media users hands and that is hashtags. Most of the major social media platforms use hashtags: Twitter, Google+, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube are a few where the use of hashtags can help … [Read more...] about Contest for 8 Best Blog Posts about Hashtagify #Hashtag Secrets
Planning Your Blog around the Holidays
December again, and that means the holidays are back! It’s time to deck the halls, light the candles and join in the spirit of the time of year. Between getting and giving presents, attending parties and finishing up the rest of 2013’s work ‘stuff’, probably the last thing on your mind is managing your blog. After all, this extremely social time of year can be physically and … [Read more...] about Planning Your Blog around the Holidays
Make Your List: People Who Lead Introvert Conversations on Twitter
Often when I blog or write a chapter for a book, I use lists. On Twitter one of the lists I created and follow is named, innie-talk, , of people who lead introvert conversations on Twitter. For the most part, people love to use and write lists. On occasion as you may know I have used List.ly to create various lists like: Quotations and funny sayings to make any introvert … [Read more...] about Make Your List: People Who Lead Introvert Conversations on Twitter
How to Write and Submit Guest Blog Posts that Get Results
In the early days of hosting my blog, when I would occasionally yet blindly accept guest blog posts, both the writer and I deserved what we got: dismal results. How to write and submit guest blog posts that get results points to some mistakes we want to avoid. When I started thinking about some top points, it came to me that being a welcome guest blogger follows some of the … [Read more...] about How to Write and Submit Guest Blog Posts that Get Results