Tuesday, April 22, 2008

How Much is your Blog worth? 'Blog Worth Calulator'

Since this is a new blog I asked permission to Emotional Abuse and Your Faith if I might use her blog. She has been existance for over 7 years, and it might very well give us a more exciting MONEY number! 'Blog Worth Calulator' is a neat tool to promote yourself!


My blog is worth $6,209.94.
How much is your blog worth?



Get the TOOL so you could use to show your authority!

Thank you Dane Carlson! Go and Grab your OWN!

Monday, April 21, 2008

Free Online Website Grader!

Website Grader is a neat tool to use to improve your rating, and see how well you are doing....lol or NOT doing!

Access My Blog Did a neat write up about it!

You can't beat FREE, and you dont have to sign up for a service to get your results!

It will show you all kinds of information!

Rating, Meta Tags, Description, incoming Links, etc.




Disney Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore Collectable Ceramic Toothbrush Holder

This Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore Collectable Ceramic toothbrush Holder is about 6.5 Inches Wide by 4.25 Inches tall.

It has a part number of AJ9303, and UPC Code of 076657298374. The label states it is hand painted, and has the Disney named molded on the bottom.

SPRINGS made in China is also present. The manufacturer of this item is "C.S. BROOKS". This would be very pretty for your bath or collectable shelve! Children and adults alike would enjoy it!

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Google Suggest Tool - Use to Help Your Traffic!

Google has a tool that could very help for both your store, and your blog in giving you words and phrases that people are searching for!

'Google Suggest Tool' helps you with keywords or key phrases that people USE to find information!

Here is an item in my store: Spring/Fall Zero Posur girls Jacket with 4 Velcro Pockets 6X

I used the brand name, and nothing really came up! So I went for the type of jacket I'm selling.




Do you see how the 'google suggest url' is giving me ideas on phrases to use for my store ad? Use this to have 'google suggest keyword' for you, or of course 'google suggest keywords' for you!

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Most Read Posts For Blogger Widget!

While I was over at Wordpress I really enjoyed a widget that listed my most popular posts, and it updated it automatically. I could find nothing on blogger, and I have say I missed it!

Since this blog is pretty new since I moved it over I don't presently have the widget I'm about to show you. Emotional Abuse and Your Faith did use the process, and I asked for some feedback on her experience!

First I pointed her to instructions I found online from Access my Blog.

She had mentioned the directions were very easy, and you didn't need to be member to use the service. Towards the bottom of the directions they mention you can enter your blog address, or the code that it gave you once you placed a widget on blogger itself. She mentioned you only need to use the actual code number itself, and NOT the actual html code for the second step. She also mentioned that she had to place the new html code into its own widget, and then later you she placed original code into the box where the data will appear in time. It will take time for the date to appear in the box.

The directions were very clear with pictures and everything! Thank you Assess my blog, and Web Weaver World for your input on SpotPlex!

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Google Analytics: How the heck to you use it?

I have Google analytics on this site, but it took some doing to understand some of the reports. I'm sure I still have something to learn. I just wanted to start with the basics here today.

Lets look at a couple of sections today.

Search Engine Keywords - are the words that drew them to your site. They are clicking on those to read you content.

Referring Sites - those are other sites that have links to your site, and content within your site.

Visitor type - What number of your visitors are NEW, and what number are returning to read your content!

These are important starting points to understanding analytics. One thing that is nice is you don't have to have that counter on the bottom of your page any longer! There is not need for it anymore.

Visits: Number of times somebody came to your site in the week.

Pages/Visit: Measures number of pages read on average to show you how "engaged" your readers are with your content.

Avg. Time on Site: Measures the length of the typical visit to your site. In general, the higher quality your content is, the longer the average visit.

% New Visits: This one is a little confusing. Basically, measures what percent of visits are made by visitors who have never been to your site before. In general, you want to see this number drop as more and more visitors return to your site because they are enjoying your thoughts, concepts and information you provide.

Bounce Rate: NOT what I thought it was! Bounce Rate is the percentage of visits to your site that result in only one page being visited. For most types of sites the lower bounce rates are better.

Here are some basics for you for Google Analytics! Use those reports to realize what content is getting you traffic, what keywords are important for one! Then continue to find ways of writing content that people will enjoy reading, and content that sells YOU and your product!

What has anyone else learned about this program that you use for your site?

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Jazz up your RSS icon or button FREE



2 create a website is offering some neat RSS icons and buttons for free!

Getting more readers increases your odds of traffic and income! If you need something to jazz it up a bit in your store, website, blog grab one of these neat graphics to catch that attention!

She has more on the link above......CHECK THEM OUT!

Monday, March 24, 2008

Grab more attention using Video!

CamStudio - Free Streaming Video Desktop Recording Software

Are you writing that article on your blog, and things are getting frustrating, because you aren't really sure you are getting your point across in words?

Would a visual help along with some dialog?

This free program is a great way of doing just that!

CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs).

You can use it to create video-based information products you can sell!

You can even use it to record new tricks and techniques you discover on your favourite software program, before you forget them !

It sounds like a neat program, and one I will be checking out myself real soon!

Friday, March 21, 2008

4 Social Media Marketing Tips for Bloggers

Problogger has a good article on social marketing, and he includes a video.

To summarize - I share 4 simple tips on marketing your blog with social media sites.

1. Be an Active Participant
2. Have a Consistent Presence on Different Social Media Sites
3. Add Value to the Wider Community
4. Let Others Sell You

Another good article I found recently was from 2 create a website, and she wrote about increasing your blog traffic!

She speaks about how people in general don't write good content, and does have a link to an article that may be of help to you if you are struggling with that aspect.

How NOT to get carried away with pluggins, and how the graphic appeal is also important. There are many helpful hints, and she has a nice writing style as well!

Check it out!

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Backing up your blog!

We have all heard about how we need to backup computers, make sure you save your files as you work on them. What happens when you blog goes south?



Is a service worth looking at! They do have different levels of service, and you need to decide what level works best for your application. The first level is free of charge, but the paid levels are definately worth looking at!

BlogBackupOnline is designed to backup and restore your content. This includes posts, comments, categories, and tags.

Here are a couple of the options below! They also have a blog to keep you up to date with things. Its a easy process, and not hard to figure out at all!

Monday, March 17, 2008

Website FUN goodies!

I wanted to throw in a fun site today!

It has some free templates if that is what you are looking for, but I wanted to have some fun with graphics today!

You do have to be careful using them, but on the other hand they can also be very handy when you are trying to make a point.

Website Goodies!

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Here are two for you!

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Scheduled blog posts on blogger

I'm slowing tranferring this blog from wordpress to blogger as you can tell. Some of the items I wanted to write about I really couldn't do to the restrictions that wordpress had. I didn't want to 'buy' software from wordpress an able to do this. I have a number of friends that blog here, and they have had much success. Java was another biggie that isn't allowed on the 'free' wordpress, and I'm sorry I like to use java on occasion!

One of the issues I do miss from wordpress is scheduling posts to go out when I want them to. Personally, the blogger format can be misleading when you can place some date on your blog post - only to find out it posts right away.

I like to schedule blog posts because some days I'm in the writing mood, and other days WELL......lol forget it! I just don't have the drive! Its better to concentrate on other areas. Its much better when you blog on a regular basis, but I also have to remember to go back and unrelease a draft instead of it going live when I want it to.

Blogger has released "Blogger In Draft" now.

They commented:

We’ve often heard that sometimes you’d like to write a post now and have it automatically published at some time in the future. We listened, and are pleased to say that this feature is ready for you to try out on Blogger in draft.

Publishing a post in the future is pretty simple: in the post editor, reveal the Date and Time fields using the “Post Options” toggle and enter a post date and time that is in the future. When you then click the “Publish” button, your post will become “scheduled.” When the date and time of the post arrive, your post will be automatically published to your blog.

Your scheduled posts appear in your Edit Posts list alongside your drafts and published posts. To un-schedule a post, simply save it as a draft any time before it gets published.

Remember: Like all features described on this blog, Scheduled Posts only work when you’ve logged in to http://draft.blogger.com/.

Leave your feedback in the comments!

Additional Notes:


We know that some bloggers currently use future post dates in order to keep one post at the top of their blog for a while. Though we recommend that you use a Text page element for this, you can still get this old behavior with just one additional step. First, publish your post with the current date and time. This will publish it to your blog. Then, once it’s published, edit the post to change the date to the future and publish it again. We don’t re-schedule posts that are already published, so the post will stay on your blog but sort to the very top.

As with published posts, the post editor does not autosave scheduled posts if you go back and edit them. You wouldn’t want the post to publish while you’re in the middle of editing it! You can save the scheduled post as a draft to remove the scheduling and this will turn autosave back on.

In some testing we’ve found that schedule posting is not working for some FTP blogs. If you run across this, please let us know in the comments so we can try to track it down.


Winnie the Pooh and Piglet Collectable Ceramic Soap Holder




This Winnie the Pooh and Piglet Collectable Ceramic soap Holder is about 6.5 Inches Wide by 5 Inches tall.

It has a part number of AJ9301, and UPC Code of 076657298350. The label states it is hand painted, and has the Disney named molded on the bottom.

SPRINGS made in China is also present. The manufacturer of this item is "C.S. BROOKS". This would be very pretty for your bath or collectable shelve! Children and adults alike would enjoy it!

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Make Money by Blogging

MadWAHM.com has a very entertaining and informative site worth looking at.

I'm sure there are some creative writers out there, and you may even have a blog you are already creating! She has a very extensive list of places you can visit, and make some money just by writing on your blog. You can opt in or out of the material that advertisers are offering you to write about. They paid you per post. Remember blogging helps traffic to your store, and you may find products or services that complement your items.

As always check out the terms of each company, and if this is something for YOU apply at more than one!

P.S. On a personal note I loved this website owners's 'about me'!

Disney Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore Collectable Ceramic Toothbrush Holder



This Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore Collectable Ceramic toothbrush Holder is about 6.5 Inches Wide by 4.25 Inches tall.

It has a part number of AJ9303, and UPC Code of 076657298374. The label states it is hand painted, and has the Disney named molded on the bottom.

SPRINGS made in China is also present. The manufacturer of this item is "C.S. BROOKS". This would be very pretty for your bath or collectable shelve! Children and adults alike would enjoy it!

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Boycotting Ebay?

Ebay is at it again, and this time it may be a bit more serious. I'm sure they feel it will just blow over, but you have to kind of wonder. I know a number of people that are partcipating in the boycotting of Ebay, and places like Ecrater are seeing more stores opening everyday!

Diary of a Broken Vessel has a very opinion about what is happening.

The fact that paypal wants to hold onto your money for 21 days is a another huge source of hurt! Can you imagine shipping something out, and having to wait 21 days to see if you get paid?



I'm glad I sold some items earlier, because it sure looks like you aren't going to be making any money there anymore.

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