Resource for Bloggers Carnival – 13th Edition
Welcome to the 13th edition of Resource for Bloggers Carnival! And the last one! Wow, I didn’t premeditated this, just I don’t have time anymore to hold this carnival, and it seems that many people wants backlinks, but nobody want to do a little work.
Eh well, it was a good carnival, with a lot of good articles and I, as well as you, I hope, have learned a lot from them.
Let’s see the best articles submitted for this edition:
Blogging Trutyhs presents All About Blogs Blogging Blog History Common Blog Terminlogies posted at Making Money Online, saying, “A weblog (the word was coined by Jorn Barger in 1997) is a log or record or collection of stuffs like personal opinions, links to different websites, and written advice.”
Raivyn presents What Are You Offering to Your Subscribers? posted at Idiot’s Guide to Blogging, saying, “Are you having a hard time getting people to subscribe to your blog, just like thousands of other bloggers out there? Here’s something to think about.”
Raivyn presents Make More Money With Multiple Income Streams posted at Idiot’s Guide to Blogging, saying, “Blogging for money has become a popular career choice among many internet users over the past few years, and continues to grow steadily. Unfortunately, only a select few of these bloggers manage to earn a decent income. Why is this?”
Woman Tribune presents ScratchBack: Because the PayPal Donation Button is Ugly posted at Woman Tribune, saying, “Making money for your blogging/website endeavors isn’t new, it’s actually a big reason why so many people are starting their own websites. There are many ways that you can make money blogging including putting a PayPal donation button on your site.”
Nesher presents BlogDesk – free software for Blog writing and publishing posted at Blogging for Good in the Modern World, saying, “BlogDesk is an offline software client for the following blogging platforms: WordPress, MovableType, Drupal, Serendipity, and ExpressionEngine, that assists in writing and publishing new blog posts.”
Kurt Schmitt presents The 9 Myths of Duplicate Content posted at Free Website Traffic Tips, saying, “Do duplicate content penalties exist? There’s a great deal of confusion over this subject, and you need to know how to cut through that confusion if you want to have a successful website. I’d like to share with you some myths and what my take on reality is.”
Kurt Schmitt presents WordPress SEO and Robots.txt posted at Free Website Traffic Tips, saying, “One step in the WordPress SEO process is to properly set up robots.txt so that you avoid indexing duplicate content. I’ve spent the better part of two weeks setting up my blog and ran into some conflicting information on the subject. I decided to test things out, and found some interesting things. I thought I’d share my results.”
Sally Thompson presents 50 Awesome Open Source Resources for Online Writers posted at JobProfiles.org – Job Descriptions and Online Schools to Start Your Career, saying, “With the popularity of blogging and online journals, writers working in the online realm have a growing number of opportunities all the time to practice and refine their craft, and maybe even get paid for it. And if you’re working online, why not take advantage of all the opportunities to get great free and open source resources that can help you to write, edit and organize your work? Here’s a list of fifty open source tools that you can use to make your writing even better.”
Cindy King presents Book Review – Landing Page Optimization posted at Cindy King, saying, “There are a few books out there on landing page optimization.Everyone recommends the Landing Page Report published by MarketingSherpa. But at just under $500 this is too steep for many budgets. Tim Ash’s new book is a very good alternative. In fact, it is probably a good idea to start here.”
Kathleen Gage presents Blogging is so simple virtually anyone can do it posted at Street Smarts Marketing & Promotions, saying, “Blogging is one of the easiest points of entry to Internet Marketing. If you can write a shopping list, if you can journal, if you can write a letter to a friend or business associate, you can blog. The key though is to simply get started. And once you begin, get in the habit of blogging at least three times a week. You can actually schedule time into your day to blog. There are so many incredible benefits to blogging; visibility, credibility; opportunity to express your opinion, opportunity to create a dialogue where none existed; a chance to be heard; you can use a blog to write your next book, and more.”
Robert Phillips presents I’m Not as Bad As Others posted at CYBERCA$HOLOGY, saying, “This is the perfect example of how you can’t please everyone. Many people like the fact that I try to inject some of my personality into my posts and this is part of it…but some people don’t like those posts. I can’t please everyone all the time.”
Anthony presents Powering Up Your Blog With These 26 Power Lists/Rankings posted at Blog Me The Money, saying, “Want to increase your Brand Awareness? Maybe increase your traffic ? Or perhaps you just desire a nice inbound link with some good Page Rank behind it? Whatever your decision may be, (it may very well be you are competative and just like the thrill of competing against others) Blog Power Lists are one sure fire way to help in your quest to increase traffic, better your inbound links count with a quality link, as well as build a Brand Name Awareness for your blog as it climbs the ladder of success.”
Anthony presents 42 Adsense Ready WordPress Themes Optimized For Monetization posted at Blog Me The Money, saying, “When planning and laying out your blog, it is important to think ahead, not only in terms of “look”, “Feel”, and “Seo Optimization”, but also “Adsense Optimization”. But I am sure you already know that, and so do the creators who dreamed up these themes and optimized them for you. The following themes offer distinctive ad placement spots that blend in well with the rest of the theme.”
Christine presents Money Making Blogs and Websites posted at Me, My Kid and Life: An American Single Mom Living in France, saying, “Is it possible to make money online? I must say that I used to be a skeptic. That being said, I wanted to start my own website where I could share information about topics that interest me as well as information I felt could help other single moms and free spirits. The questions were: Would it be a hobby or could it generate an income. Could I create a money making website or a money making blog? If so, how much could I make? A couple hundred bucks a month? Could website monetization support me?”
vjack presents Creating Great Blog Posts: Chasing the Elusive posted at Atheist Revolution, saying, “A good blog post is one that is interesting, informative, or enjoyable to read. But a truly great post goes beyond that and is thought-provoking in an enduring and perhaps unexpected way. It sticks in one’s mind, and inserts itself in one’s thoughts hours to days after one encounters it. These highly elusive posts are like buried treasures in that they are rare but well worth the effort to uncover. So how do we bloggers create more of these treasures?”
Carol Bentley presents Don?t assume all is OK. . . posted at Carol Bentley, saying, “You’ve worked hard to make sure everything is working properly. Whether it’s a process in your administration, in your production, in your marketing or on your website. Now it’s time to relax, safe in the knowledge that everything is running smoothly. Think again!”
Craig presents Internet Business Techniques posted at Craig S. Andrews.com, saying, “The advent of internet has revolutionized the entire world. As a consequence of this, the latest hit among the marketing professionals is the internet marketing or e-marketing. As any other profession, internet marketing too has its own competition. Here are a few internet marketing techniques that would help you perform better with better results.”
Heather Johnson presents Protect Online Reputation posted at Daily Biz Solutions, saying, “One of the newest aspects of running a successful business involves “online reputation management.” While most entrepreneurs and managers understand why it is important to create an official Web site, some don’t realize that their online reputation may already precede them. Have you Googled your company’s name lately? If not, then what you find could be distressing.”
Brian Terry presents 259+ Great Resources for Great Web Design posted at Big Selling Website Design, saying, “Finding useful and informative information for great web design can be a time consuming task. Apart from the time involved you really need to know what you are looking for.”
Tejvan Pettinger presents The Basics of Affiliate Marketing posted at Net Writing, saying, “I have experimented with several affiliate schemes and these are some of the things I have learnt.”
Cindy King presents How To Set Your Computer To Read Foreign Languages posted at Cindy King, saying, “Small businesses, or website owners who do not have the budgets for full fledged website localization, can still market to foreign cultures using little tricks to get around common cultural hurdles. One of these cultural hurdles can simply be related to the different alphabets and “character sets”. How can you communicate with a foreign country if you can’t even type in language?”
aLien presents aLien bake web site with CMS posted at aLien Blog Shop, saying, “Funny way to learn CMS.”
Marcus Hochstadt presents Why I Do Not Use FeedBurner posted at Internet Business Guide, saying, “It seems as if the majority of bloggers use FeedBurner to distribute and track the use of their RSS feeds. Marcus Hochstadt has his reasons for NOT using FeedBurner though.”
Raivyn presents Writing Exercise: Speed Posting posted at Idiot’s Guide to Blogging, saying, “It is not uncommon for bloggers to invest a lot of time into writing their posts. It can take anywhere from ten minutes to ten days (or longer) to create a post, depending on the length, how well you know the subject, distractions, and a number of other factors. The only way to speed this process up is through practice.”
MBB presents How To Get A Free Laptop or Plasma TV posted at Money Blue Book, saying, “If you’ve ever encountered sites on the internet that claimed to offer brand new laptop computers, mp3 players, or even plasma TV’s for free, I’m sure most of you jumped to the immediate conclusion that they must all be scams. What I’m about to share may be time consuming and require almost anal, obsessive compulsive organizational skills, but the potential payoff at the end is quite substantial.”
Carl Ringwall presents Set Up WordPress Pay-Per-Post With iSubscribe posted at Data SystemsPlus, saying, “In a forum post, I explanied how iDevSpot’s iSubscribe could be used to set up a membership site with WordPress. While you can use iSubcribe to protect an entire WordPress installation and have it function as a membership site, it’s also a snap to set up a Pay-Per-Post system with your existing WordPress blog with iSubscribe. In fact, I’m getting some Premium posts ready to use this method myself.”
Traffic2mypage presents Spread Your Word The Viral Way And Boost Your Traffic posted at Traffic2MyPage Blog, saying, “Viral marketing is highly effective in generating giant streams of traffic to your page which requires little effort once you have created it.”
Cindy King presents Book Review – Letting Go Of The Words – Writing Web Content That Works By Janice Redish posted at Cindy King, saying, “Letting Go Of The Words is a must read for anyone involved with a website or blog. This is not about the tools you need or anything technical. This book is about web content and information strategies. It’s about “planning, selecting, organizing, writing, illustrating, reviewing, and testing content”…that gives readers a successful and satisfying web experience.”
Ed Rivis presents Question Time Answers, Part 1. posted at Ed Rivis, saying, “There are some powerful tips in both the answers AND the questions themselves – I hope you’re able to use this information with great effect.”
That concludes this edition. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
Thank you all for participating to all editions of Resource for Bloggers Carnival.
Now it’s time to move on…
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27 comments May 16th, 2008
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