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Helpful Blogging Links: E-Book Covers, Small Biz Social Media Summit, Choosing Your Blog Niche

Every day I share links to all the tech articles I love on the Blogging Basics 101 Tumblr blog! Subscribe to the Tumblr blog and never miss another article. Tutorial: How to Create an E-Book Cover with Photoshop via Standout Blogger. I always wondered how to do this and now I know. Beware, though, the [...]

Blissdom Recap: SEO & Counting What Counts (Pt. 2)

Yesterday I shared some of the main tips from the Blissdom Wisdom Workshop SEO & Counting What Counts presented by Kelby Carr and Angela England. Today I want to give you the rest of the tips they shared, but it won’t be quite as detailed as yesterday’s recap. I love bulleted lists and this is [...]

Blissdom Recap: SEO & Counting What Counts (Pt. 1)

Panel Name: SEO & Counting What Counts by Kelby Carr & Angela England I attended Blissdom ’10 in early February and loved that the event offered Wisdom Workshops a day before the real conference began. These workshops were offered in four tracks: Business, Writing, Creative, and Geek. As you can imagine, I stayed in the [...]

SEO: What Are NoFollow and DoFollow Links?

Linking, whether you’re linking to another site or your site is being linked to, is an important part of SEO (search engine optimization). How a site treats links is important because it can determine how search engines treat those links as well. Specifically, I’m talking about whether a site uses NoFollow tagging within its links. [...]

Helpful Blogging Links: Blissdom Recaps, Women in Public Speaking, Create a Sliding Button

photo credit: mrhayata Every day I share links to all the tech articles I love on the Blogging Basics 101 Tumblr blog! Subscribe to the Tumblr blog and never miss another article. Crafty Love by Arianne at To Think Is To Create. Arianne was part of a panel on writing well. She (along with Megan [...]

Google Buzz: Is It a Privacy #FAIL or The Next Best Social Media Tool?

In the past few months Google has been trying to secure their spot not just as the go-to search engine of choice, but a real player in social media. Google Wave and the Google Nexus One phone were cool options to the norm and just last week Google unveiled yet another new social media tool: [...]

What is the difference between blog categories and blog tags?

When I talk to beginning bloggers, I’m asked all sorts of questions. One I received this week was what is the difference between tags and categories? The obvious way to answer this is to define both, of course, but beyond that, I want to explain why you need both, how to name them, and how [...]

Helpful Blogging Links: WordPress Themes, iPhone apps for blog stats, Facebook Guide

14 Fantastic Free WordPress Themes via Mashable Stat Geeks Take Note: 4 iPhone Apps to Analyze Blog Health via Blogging Pro Context is King: How Videos are Found and Consumed Online via TechCrunch The Facebook Guide via Mashable Unleashing the Power of Website Analytics via Six Revisions I share links to all the tech articles [...]

Blissdom ’10 Highlights: Friends, Bloggers, and Harry Connick, Jr.

I’ve attended three blogging conferences since October, 2009. I’ve had every intention of blogging recaps of each. Unfortunately, I’m a thinker; I like to mull my experiences over before I share them with others. However, I think I’ve gone beyond the normal reflection stage and passed into the procrastination stage. In an effort to remedy [...]