Cleaning up my blogs

Today I've been spending a lot of time cleaning up my blogs and making them to where they don't take forever to load the page. I find it very frustrating to go to someones page and then my computer either takes forever to load or freezes up on me. Having a little to much advertising, moving, motional ads or blog posts make it difficult to review the blog, my blogs were actually driving me crazy, so I cleaned up my blogs a little to make it easier for all of you to view and then maybe you'll all come back soon...lol..
Be careful about what you are presenting to your readers. Present a more professional appearance, its not a bad thing. This is not accomplished by adding another widget. If there is something you can live without on your page, then do. Dump it.


MY OTHER BLOGS;
1. Across this bridge
2. Marketing myself
3. Struggling parents
4. When life become a book
5. Read Between the Lines
6. Internet Lifestyle
7. The Sleeping Turtle Art Gallery

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Blog popularity

Here is a list of some very creative ways which can help you make your blog popular. If not popular, at least it will give you some ideas of what to post on your blog if you are running out of topics to write about.

1. Start a controversy. Just remember not to cross the line.
2. Start a contest. Make sure to end it too.
3. Give away free goodies. People love them.
4. Write about other bloggers to interest their visitors to read your blog. Keep it positive.
5. Dress up your blog often (By dress-up I mean tweaking the design)
6. Interview other bloggers and post the interview.
7. Write about your personal life sometimes.
8. Ask questions to your visitors.
9. Share some secrets.
10. Celebrate your birthday with your visitors. Think of innovative ways for doing this.
11. Celebrate your blog’s birthday too.
12. Write something funny or disgusting. (Don’t make it a habit)
13. Make a bumper sticker with your blog’s name and stick it on your car. (Just make sure you drive often)
14. Write an e-book and distribute it to your visitors for free.
15. Introduce a commission based affiliate program.
16. Tell your visitors about your latest fad or obsession.
17. Post interesting pictures of your pets.
18. Congratulate the top commentators occasionally.
19. Encourage sharing of opinions.
20. Donate for a cause or become a volunteer for a non-profit organization. Ask your visitors to join you.
21. Put your blog’s ad in the local newspaper or the yellow pages.
22. Hold blog competitions.
23. Create polls.
24. Hold an auction and let people bid for something useful (For example, advertising space on your blog).
25. Write about your blog achievements.

My other Blogs;
1. Across this bridge
2. Marketing myself
3. Struggling parents
4. When life become a book
5. Read Between the Lines
6. Internet Lifestyle
7. The Sleeping Turtle Art Gallery

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Reviewing a great blog

I was reviewing this blog called RemarkaBlogger. 25 Reason why your business blog sucks...lol

1. It’s duct-taped and stapled onto your existing site with no thought to how to integrate blog and web site or an overall redesign
2. It’s on Blogger, which makes you look cheap and/or like a spammer and nobody likes Blogger’s commenting system
3. It’s on TypePad, which means it’s probably ugly and because it’s hosted someplace else from your main site, you have a very fractured idea about its visitor analytics combined with your business site
4. You have comments turned off — turning off comments means turning off your customers
5. You write posts that sound like commercials instead of a real person having a conversation (see comments above)
6. You never link to anything, either because somebody misinformed you that would be a bad idea or because you simply don’t know how (note to self: write a post explaining the basic skills and knowledge needed to blog)
7. You hired a black hat scam artist passing himself off as a search marketer to spam blog comments from here to kingdom-come
8. You have no idea how your blog is supposed to support business objectives and therefor you have no content strategy
9. You have no idea who your ideal customer is and therefor you don’t know how to write for that person
10. Instead of providing useful business blog content to both existing and future customers, your blog is full of dry, boring crap
11. You never comment on anybody else’s blogs
12. You think of your blog as a “marketing channel” which is a euphemism for corporate propaganda
13. You don’t know how to tell a story or you’re too cheap to hire someone who does
14. You only post three times a month
15. You used an off-the-shelf template and didn’t even bother to at least put your logo at the top or remove the sponsored ads
16. The last time you posted was back before the winter of last year, and everybody knows it because unknown to you, more people land on your blog than your main site
17. You write your posts in Word and hand them over to someone else to post (in other words, you are so disconnected from what blogging is really about that there’s no way in hell you are writing anything worth anybody else’s time)
18. You think the blog is about you and your business, instead of the success of your customers
19. You think blogging is just another form of internet advertising that you don’t understand
20. The lawyers have to approve every post
21. You have a giant “Protected by Copyscape” badge on the blog, which makes you look silly because it’s highly doubtful that you’ve written anything so compelling that anybody would want to steal it–and it won’t stop them, anyway
22. You have a big legal disclaimer on the blog about something… anything (put that stuff in another page and link to it)
23. You keep referring to posts as “blogs”
24. You think the IT department should run it
25. And finally… your business blog sucks because it isn’t doing ANYTHING for your business

1. Across this bridge
2. Marketing myself
3. Struggling parents
4. When life become a book
5. Read Between the Lines
6. Internet Lifestyle
7. The Sleeping Turtle Art Gallery

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