Category: Starting A Blog

Blog Redux…..

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Linking to your own post, and bringing some of your past work to the forefront, is good blog practice. When I first began writing I became very attached to my blog and wrote this post:
In fact sometimes I think [...]

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Is "D" A Passing Grade?

When I’m not writing on www.itsWriteNow, I’m reading about writing. Yesterday my friends over at Blog About Your Blog, did a great post about checking the health of your blog.
One of the tools they talk about is Website Grader. Along with their grade of 82, and a brief summary.
I couldn’t resist, so I entered my [...]

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What’s A Sandbox?

 
I’ve always been a huge fan of “The Apprentice”, I recently discovered an online show called, “The Next Internet Millionaire“. In this show, instead of firing the two least valuable contestants. They have to go to the Sandbox.
I also recently found out about a developmental WordPress template that creates a Sandbox, where you can safely [...]

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You Comment I Follow

 
If you look closely, you’ll notice a couple of new additions to my side bar. I actually installed the Do Follow plugin awhile back, but I thought, I would just, let everyone know.
If you would like to join the “U Comment I Follow”, movement, and turn off the No-Follow attribute in WordPress. You can use [...]

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Where’s Emma?

OK, some people may be wondering where I’ve been. Well after posting daily, I realized there were some other areas in my life, and blog, that needed attention.
Blog Improvements:

SEO - I changed my WordPress default to Permalinks, which look much nicer, to me and Google.

Code Validation - In order for Google to crawl my site [...]

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Rewards of Blogging.

After I started blogging, I realized it’s kind of hard. It’s time consuming and there is so much to learn. I’ve come along way, and yet have so far to go.
There are rewards though. Like unsolicited reviews from people you know, who have finally gotten around to checking out your work. I recently got two [...]

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Link Love

 
I recently had a small surge in my traffic. I thought it was my brilliant writing, but I just discovered that I got a little publicity when my favorite newscaster mentioned me in her blog. After this boost, my small traffic surge became a small traffic plummet. From what I could tell people hated the [...]

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Happy Saturday!

Well everyone, today is Saturday and I’m hoping for a little R & R. So I’m going to keep this short and sweet. First off, I would like to thank everyone who has been stopping by and reading my blog. Seeing my stats slightly increase each day is wonderful.
It’s my goal to post every morning [...]

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History, Like Bank Robbing, Repeats Itself

In the 1930s, Bonnie & Clyde  became the FBI’s most wanted, and folk heroes, with people who weren’t actually affected by their violence.
I thought bank robbing was a profession of the past. Then suddenly, I keep reading news of recent bank robberies. These modern day bank robberies don’t consist of machine guns, clever disguises, or [...]

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The Yin and Yang of Blogging.

In Chinese Philosophy Yin and Yang are viewed as complimentary opposites, symbolized, by two opposing, but complementary principles, such as, water and earth for Yin, and fire and wind for Yang. Forces in nature can have Yin/Yang states in movement against each other.
My blogging experience consists of many Yin and Yang states as well. Here [...]

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