Tag Archives: Blogging

Being critiqued is hard to do

I recently joined a blogging community called Problogger.com.  This is a group of bloggers that range in experience full time proffesional bloggers to bloggers who are just starting out. There is a section in the Problogger forum to invite fellow bloggers critique your blog, so you … Continue reading

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I learned something new today

I have learned a new lesson related to my craft. Apparently, some websites practice what is called website scraping. This is where they grab your content and then republish it as their own.  Yesterday, I posted “9 ways to keep your … Continue reading

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Google Analytics and Internet Demographics

One of the goals I have for my blog is to be visited by someone from each of the 50 United States.  Tracking this data has been easy with Google Analytics.  My blog has been consistently visited by people from … Continue reading

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An elevator speech for my blog

The first exercise in 31 Days to Build a Better Blog is to write an elevator speech for my blog.  This has been a little challenging for me because I never though of trying to describe my blog to someone in … Continue reading

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Expanding my horizons with 31DBBB

Familiarity breeds contempt – an idiom that basically says, the better you know something, the less you respect it.  A simple example is like when you first learn that knives are sharp, you’re very careful not to cut yourself.  After … Continue reading

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