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Research. Gig. Wordpress. Add a Favicon to Your Blog | The Secret is in the Sauce. Key Elements to Blog Visibility. In case you haven’t had your finger anywhere near the pulse of the populous lately, let me fill you in on something, this blogging thing is taking off. Like, seriously. One area seeing major growth in its online ranks, is design. I don’t want to say that design blogs are a dime a dozen these days, but that is kind of where I am going with this.

Lets face it, people, the blogosphere is saturated with a seemingly endless RSS stream of design sites all scrapping to capture their piece of the online readership. This begs the question, is there a capacity at which the saturation has a more negative effect on the community overall, than a positive one? Unfortunately, I am of the mind that the answer is indeed in the affirmative, and that we will see a point when there are so many places to turn for design information that the reader will become overwhelmed. So how do you make sure, that you can rise above the multitude of collective voices and sway the online audience the way of your blog? How much should I charge for advertising on my blog | Kaiser Mommy. How to add Social Bookmarks Buttons/Icons after every post in Blogger? At many blogs you have seen the social bookmarking buttons, which by one-click submit your article to the Social Bookmarking sites like - digg , del.icio.us , stumbleupon , yahoo , google , furl , etc.

How does the Social Bookmarking helps ? By adding these social bookmarking buttons/icons, either you or any of your reader can submit your article to these sites. Now when your article is listed here at these sites , there is a chance that you can get some visitors of millions using these social bookmarking sites. So in addition to make your site look beautiful and professional these social bookmarking buttons/icons help you get more traffic to your site. How to add these Social Bookmarking Icons/Buttons to my Blogger Blog after each post ? Here's the step-by-step guide for you - STEP I - Goto = Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML > Expand Widget Templates STEP II - Now find this in your template - STEP III - Just add this after that tag - So that it looks like this - How to Get an Audience Drooling for a Blog That Doesn’t Exist. Do you Charge for your Giveaways? I have been thinking about this a lot lately too.

I currently don't charge anything to do a giveaway. For some smaller giveaway items, I will have the company send me the product to review in addition to the giveaway and then have them ship the winner the item when the giveaway is over so I don't have to deal with shipping. But the amount of work that goes into a giveaway can be crazy! I recently had a Giveaway Bash. It took hours of posting, gathering info, emailing back & forth with sponsors, and then promoting - LOTS of promoting, submitting, etc.

I am not sure if it is protocol to charge something. I would love to hear how some of you are handling your giveaway & sponsoring. Tags: giveaways, sponsoring ▶ Reply to This. Free Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers | Blog.SpoonGraphics. This set of free hand drawn doodle icons includes 14 graphics tailored specifically for bloggers. Including social media graphics for Delicious, Design Float, Digg, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Technorati and Twitter as well as commonly used icons such as RSS, Home, Comments, Contact and WordPress. Download Vector Resources Freebie 823kb | 14 x PNG | 1 x JPG Join the mailing list to have every new post hand delivered to your email inbox.

Every subscriber gets a FREE bundle of 40+ icons, vectors, brushes & textures! Connecting Moms Through Social Media and the Web :: Classy Mommy. Colleen Padilla, the founder and editor of ClassyMommy.com lives in the Philly suburbs and is a full time mom for her 2 children, Mackenzie (7) and Kyle (5). Colleen and the Classy Mommy website have been featured on Fox News, Good Morning America, The New York Times, Parenting Magazine, The New York Post, local Philadelphia ABC, CBS, and NBC programs. Colleen has appeared in a TV special about Alpha Moms on South Korea’s NBC affiliate SBS. She also co-authored The Digital Mom Handbook (HarperCollins).

Today, Classy Mommy is an indispensable website for moms featuring fabulous products that can be easily accessed in one of the largest catalogs of independent baby product reviews on the Web with over 1400 product reviews, fabulous giveaways for readers, and lively videos. Classy Mommy started vlogging product reviews with her children testing out the latest gadgets & gifts in 2006 before vlogging was really in anyone’s vocabulary.

But nothing compares to being a Mom! Product Reviews. A CUP OF JO. Prompts. Royal Pingdom » The blog platforms of choice among the top 100 blogs. Posted in Tech blog on January 15th, 2009 by Pingdom We all know that WordPress is popular among bloggers, and Movable Type as well. But HOW popular? And what other platforms are being used? To find out, we went through the Technorati top 100 blogs and investigated what blog platforms they are using. As a by-product we also found out some interesting things about the more popular blog networks. When you read this article, you might want to keep in mind that we have chosen to make a distinction between blogging services and self-hosted blog software.

By blogging services we mean services like Typepad, WordPress.com and Blogger, where a third-party service is handling the blog software and hosting for you.By blog software we mean the software you use when you set up and host the platform yourself (using WordPress, Movable Type, etc). Now let’s get on to the data. Overall blog platform statistics – the lowdown Blog software (self-hosted) Blogging services WordPress and Movable Type as a whole.

These Mommas Rock! Dashboard. Business Women Bloggers. RSS: Best Design Practices And Icons. Advertisement RSS is extremely simple and yet so powerful. Not only does every weblog need it for content syndication; the number of RSS subscribers is a metric for weblog’s popularity and its success in the blogosphere. However, although millions do use RSS, hundreds of millions don’t. That’s no good news, since RSS offers a bunch of advantages that can boost your productivity and improve your information consumption in a quite elegant and easy-to-use way. In this article we give an overview of what RSS is and present best design and usability-practices for design and placement of RSS-buttons on a web site. Please notice that you can find even more icons, buttons and design templates in our articles 20+ Free And Fresh Icon Sets, Freebies Round-Up: Icons, Buttons and Templates and in our Graphics category.

What is RSS? RSS is basically a family of formats used to publish (not broadcast!) RSS content can be read using feed readers such as Bloglines or aggregators such as Netvibes.