Posted in Site News, Woohoo! on Mar 31st, 2007 11 Comments »
Thanks to Nick Ramsey at Nice4Rice.com for posting a review of my blog! I think it’s the first full-fledged site review of MsDanielle.com.
Like me, Nick started his blog in March. Personally, I think he’s done a great job with it in such a short amount of time, running a handful of creative contests and inventing [...]
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The dictionary defines ethics as “a set of principles of right conduct,” or “a theory or a system of moral values.” Attorneys, journalists, doctors, etc, are held to a standard of ethics in order to uphold the integrity of their professions. But as bloggers, do we each follow a general code of ethics, or do [...]
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I’m definitely not anything close to being a webmaster. In fact, if someone paid me right now for being their site webmaster, I’d feel really bad for them. But, I am MsDanielle.com’s webmaster, because this here’s a one-woman-show! In this case, I do need a few tools to check some of my stats, [...]
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Posted in Blog Tips on Mar 27th, 2007 12 Comments »
Share This a useful little plugin by Alex King that I installed a couple days ago. I saw it on Saman’s blog, and thought how it saves so much space, rather than putting all the individual social network icons below each post, or on the sidebar.
This is the little icon you see below the post [...]
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So yesterday I met up with my friends Gary and Derek at Gary’s local Souplantation. I don’t know how many Souplantation locations there are, or if they’re even in other states (and right now, I’m too lazy to look it up), but it’s a soup and salad joint. It’s one of those “you either love [...]
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Posted in Blog Tips on Mar 24th, 2007 13 Comments »
These are three plugins that you should definitely be using if you’re trying to SEO your blog. When I first started my blog, I read an article from Darren Rowse of Problogger.net called Search Engine Optimization for Blogs, which I would recommend to all of you. It outlines the basics of SEO and how to [...]
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I read this article recently that says blogging is now 10 years old. Ten years ago, I was in college, and I barely knew how to turn on a computer, let alone keep a blog. I didn’t know what blogging was, like most people. It wasn’t until very recently that I even became curious about [...]
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If you read a lot of blogs these days, you’re probably seeing a lot of speed-linking. Speed-linking is basically posting a bunch of links into one grouping. Sometimes they have descriptions, and sometimes they don’t. Usually the links are to blogs that you read, or posts you find funny — basically just giving shout-outs to [...]
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Posted in Blog Tips on Mar 19th, 2007 14 Comments »
Here’s a quick tip for all you busy bloggers out there. When you actually find a good chunk of time in your schedule to create your blog posts, take full advantage of that time by creating more than one post and lining them up for future posting. For myself, I work a regular 40-hour week [...]
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This is totally random, and might be old news to some of you, but I had to post it! In commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of Star Wars, the United States Postal Service is wrapping up 400 mailboxes like R2D2 in 200 cities around the US. You can find out in the news article which [...]
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