Questions from a New Blogger

Yesterday I got an email from a reader who has recently started a new blog. Her questions are questions frequently asked by new bloggers, so I thought I'd take a post here and answer them, not only for her, but for all the other new bloggers out there. :) Here's her email: Hi Thanks for all the helpful info for bloggers! I just began a free wordpress site and am finding out I can’t do a lot of customizing.  Can I stay with wordpress and do the following? Google adsense, custom … [Read more...]

Commentluv and Keywordluv: What the heck are they?

commentluv

In a recent post I wrote about blog commenting there seemed to be a lot of confusion around how to use commentluv and keywordluv,  so I thought I'd take a post and explain what they are, and how best to use them, both on your site, and in your business. Commentluv and Keywordluv are both wordpress plugins. They are plugins that create links to your site when you comment on someone's blog who has them installed. Keywordluv creates a link to your site that uses your anchor text in the name … [Read more...]

Q and A ~ Reader’s Questions Answered

Lately there have been some questions asked previous topics and I thought I'd go back and answer them. Some have been answered in comments but not everyone subscribes to all the posts so I wanted to put them in a post so people could find the answers if they needed them. Q Re Squidoo: is there a way to get a new module, not at the end of your lens, but between certain lenses. I think some of my lenses would look better if I had certain modules between the text lenses, but I cannot find out if … [Read more...]