Adventures in living a healthy, juicy life
by Cheryl Ragsdale
Two Dangerous Tactics to Avoid
1. What if you woke up one day and found yourself locked out of your twitter account?!
Find out what happened to one unlucky blogger who found himself in this situation. He managed to get himself reinstated, but not without some considerable effort. Check out his post to find out what he did to violate Twitter’s Terms of Service and how he got himself out of hot water.
My Twitter Account Got Suspended: What Now? The dangers of bulk following and unfollowing are revealed.
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2. Choosing a domain name that no one can remember.
As many of you know, I’m a big fan of Yaro Starak from entrepreneur’s journey.
Yaro offers loads of excellent blogging information for free.
When I first started blogging, I downloaded his free e-book called Blog Profits Blueprint.
Each week, I’m focusing on one of Yaro’s expert blogging tips. Let’s look at another one of his recommendations.
If you are serious about blogging, be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog, you need an easily rememberable domain name.
People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that’s the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL.
Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you’ve done a good job!).
Click here to download the Blog Profits Blueprint
Before I started thatgirlisfunny.com, I had another blog for a brief period of time – about 3 months. When I first started getting organized for the old blog, I bought the .com, the .net and the .org – big waste of money!
Once I realized that I didn’t like the direction that first blog was taking, I decided to start fresh with a new one. When the time came to buy the domain name for thatgirlisfunny, I took Yaro’s advice and chose to buy just the .com
What about you? What’s working for you on your blog? What would you like to change or work on next? Please leave comments and let me know what you’re thinking. The comment box is half-way down on the right-hand side of this post.
Why did I call my blog thatgirlisfunny?
Because I am!
What you haven’t noticed that I’m funny?
Click here to read my funny posts.
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Blogging Tips from Expert Bloggers
community
- Florine Church presents 50 Excellent Science Blogs Anyone Can Appreciate posted at Online Colleges.org.
- Jennifer Kingsley presents 50 Free Open Courseware Classes About Every Type of Engineering posted at Online Engineering Programs, saying, “It may seem really easy to lump all engineering into one category. However, the truth is that there are several different types of engineering. If you are interested in learning more about engineering, you can read about the different types of programs available.”
- Hoven Keith presents 9 Pervasive Myths About Biotechnology posted at Masters in Biotechnology, saying, “Biotechnology is a controversial subject, and depending on your point of view, these myths might be dangerous or hold the seeds of truth.”
- Mariana Ashley presents 50 Free Collaboration Tools That Are Awesome for Education posted at AccreditedOnlineColleges.org.
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making money online
- OneMightyWoman presents How to Start a Blog posted at Internet Business at OneMightyWoman.com, saying, “Creating a website begins offline – with goal setting and planning. A good foundation is essential to a strong blog.”
- Simon Townley presents Ideas for blog posts – five sources of inspiration to last a lifetime posted at Write Mindset, saying, “For most writers, finding ideas and inspiration is always a challenge. If you write a blog, then you will likely be trying to come up with a regular stream of posts. These five ideas could give you at least one post a week, every week, for the rest of your blogging career.”
- Madeleine Begun Kane presents Dear Newbie posted at Mad Kane’s Humor Blog.
seo
- KC Ernsting presents The White-Hat Search Engine Optimizers Guide to Article Marketing posted at MetaSpring Blog, saying, “Article marketing makes up a large portion of SEO campaigns as they build links and control anchor texts. This post looks at ways for you to make the most of your time as you market articles.”
- Tammi Kibler presents SEO Tactics: Blog Commenting and Nofollow tags posted at Write More. Write Fast. Write Now., saying, “Misinformation persists about the usefulness of blog commenting to increase a website’s visibility to search engine bots. Are you commenting to boost your site’s rankings? Are you deleting short “Great blog” comments because you feel they are spam?”
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social media
- Baris Goroglu presents Social Networking?Your New Sidekick?! posted at Official Blog of BG Designz, saying, “Blog post about the power of social networking. Twitter, Facebook, MySpace etc. Why its a must to have and why you need it!”
- Sell It on the Web presents My Twitter Account Got Suspended: What Now? posted at Sell It on the Web, saying, “Tips and advice on what to do when your Twitter account gets suspended.”
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traffic
- Joe Revod presents Generating Traffic To Your Website – So Many Advice? Which One Do You Follow? posted at Internet Business Make Money Online With Welly Mulia.
- GreatManagement presents How to Get All the Free Traffic You Want posted at We Build Your Blog, saying, “Traffic – it’s the lifeblood of an internet business.”
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Twitter: patdoyle
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I agree about getting the .com. For my feng shui blog, I got fengshuicrazy.org, because the .com was taken. Often, I myself forget and type in fengshuicrazy.com, so I’m sure my readers do it too!
.-= Pat Doyle´s Last Fabulous Post blog ..Embrace Your Creative Power =-.
Twitter: thatgirlisfunny
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Hi Pat,
Yeah, the dot org just feels like it belongs to the public service or education field. Typing in the wrong word for my website would definitely drive me crazy. I would call that an un-funny moment
.-= Cheryl´s Last Fabulous Post blog ..A Bad Day? Funny Photos to Make You Laugh Out Loud =-.
I totally agree with your point about domain names that are easy to remember. It’s also good to ask for other’s opinions about the one you’re planning to have.
.-= Julius´s Last Fabulous Post blog ..How to Caption Videos in YouTube =-.
Twitter: thatgirlisfunny
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Hi Julius,
The time we spend figuring out what to call our site is really well spent. I agree with you about asking other people’s opinion. I listened to what the name “thatgirlisfunny” sounded like when people said it. I’m still happy with the name I chose. I like the name of your blog too. EvenGrounds is easy to remember and conjures up an image of your purpose as well
.-= Cheryl´s Last Fabulous Post blog ..A Bad Day? Funny Photos to Make You Laugh Out Loud =-.
Twitter: wchingya
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First visit here and quite impressed with your writings, very catchy blog domain by the way, good call.
I read the post you recommended about Twitter acc suspension. I was never a fan of auto-follow/unfollow, the experience proven that to use the app, one needs to have proper monitoring of the quantity.
I will be doing some enhancement work for my blog theme. I have some issues with it therefore ‘am now working on a new ‘home’ for it. For me, content is priority for a blog. I’m trying to maintain that and hopefully it will go as planned.
@wchingya
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.-= Ching Ya@Social Media Blogging´s Last Fabulous Post blog ..How to Improve Facebook Engagement by Decluttering News Feed =-.
Twitter: thatgirlisfunny
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Hello Ching Ya,
Welcome to my blog! I hope you visit often. Thank you for the yes vote on my blog domain name and my content. Much appreciated! I need some help with adjustments to my blog theme. I like it, but there’s a couple of things I’d like to adjust. I’m looking forward to seeing how your blog changes over time. Just followed you on twitter so I can keep up with you
.-= Cheryl´s Last Fabulous Post blog ..A Bad Day? Funny Photos to Make You Laugh Out Loud =-.