Dec 21st 2007GreenBucksBlogging101 & Photos
Cookie, Chateau, TeacherJulie, Myrna, Rowena and Dine at one of the Blogger Meet-Ups a few months ago.
It is important for a blogger to attend blogger meet-ups for several reasons. Continue reading here.
Dec 17th 2007GreenBucksBlogging101 & File and data management & Web Tools
Installing a spam catcher on your blog is a great step. Why? It catches spam that would otherwise be caught in your comments section which you have to delete one after the other.
Before a spam catcher was installed, TeacherJulie.com blog had to swim through a lot of spam emails/comments that go through my posts’ comments and select/approve those that are legit comments.
Why is a Spam Catcher important? Continue reading here.
Dec 15th 2007GreenBucksBlogging101 & Making Money Online
I do sponsored posts. I must say that I have earned quite a bit but not really as much as some who do these paid posts. The extra money has been helpful to me in more ways than one.
So, how am i able to write these posts without seemingly compromising my niche? Continue reading here.
Dec 12th 2007GreenBucksBlogging101
Giving comments is a way for bloggers to connect with each other, besides doing link love via memetags and other blog-related tasks that link blogs together.
Commenting in blogs can be done even if the person writing down a comment does not have a blog.
Having comments is what makes blogging special, for these are feedbacks, which can be immediate or even if it is not so immediate, that makes the blogger feel that he/she was able to reach out, whether positively or negatively.
Are there rules when it comes to writing down comments? These are unwritten rules, if I may say so, depending upon the commenter’s set of real-life values and online behavior.
For me, these are some of the rules I observe whenever I write a comment to other blogs or reply to comments sent to my blog. Click here to continue reading.
Dec 10th 2007GreenBucksBlogging101 & Memetag
A memetag is a blog tag in a blog post that is comprised of tasks including answering random or associated questions. If a memetag asks the tagged bloggers, meaning the bloggers who were sent the tasks, to “Name your top five pet peeves” then that is what the blogger would do. After doing the task, the blogger would then recognize where the memetag came from by including the link of the blogger who tagged him/her.
It is important to include and recognize the blogger who invited the other blogger to participate in the task. It is also important to recognize the initial creator of the meme. Why? Because the initial creator of a particular memetag has a purpose in creating the meme and he/she should be able to track how the meme has grown and recognized, and how many players participated.
So how would the initial creator would be able to do that? By participants linking their posts back to the blogger who asked them to do the memetag and participants linking back to the blog of the initial creator.
Sadly, the initial creator somehow gets lost along the way because a lot of bloggers do not follow the particular rules included in the memetag.
Some tips on how to do memetags can be read here.
Dec 5th 2007GreenBucksBlogging101 & File and data management
Tagging.
A tag is a relevant keyword that is associated with information like a blog entry, video, map and/or photo. Tagging is used to be able to classify keyword-based search of information.
One of the more popular indexing is creating tags to categorize contents according to the key words. More often tag clouds are used to be able to visualize the content in a certain site, specifically that of a personal blog. Tagging makes it easy to have posts found by other people who either made thee posts or found by people looking for these key words. So finding related content is now easier.
Continue reading here.
