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Unbelievable Amount of Spam

Rebecca — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:57:35 +0000

I am so sick of the spam!!! Spam in my email, spam on my landline phone, spam on my cell phone, spam in my voicemail, spam in my blog comments!!! I checked in to my blog three days ago, after not having signed in for three days. My eyes nearly popped out when I saw [...]

Cities Forcing Bloggers to Pay Licensing Fees!

Rebecca — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:39:35 +0000

Did you guys hear about this?? The city of Philadelphia is requiring bloggers to pay a business license fee, even if the bloggers do not make a profit. Unbelievable! According to the news story, the city government is charging bloggers a $300 licensing fee, on top of a bunch of other fees: a business privilege [...]

For the Uber-Creative Soul

Rebecca — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 13:57:29 +0000

When it comes to blogging, are you uber-creative? About your template? I have visited some absolutely phenomenal blogs, with absorbing narrative and eye-popping photography… but a really lousy template. In the blogging world, we have these unwritten rules about blog and website templates: no auto-play videos or music, no black or dark backgrounds, no bandwidth-sucking [...]

Give Your Region a Little Boost

Rebecca — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:52:12 +0000

I am tinkering more with Twitter these days. I recently discovered that, with Tweetdeck, I can follow people who tweet a certain word or phrase. This is totally cool! So I monitor people who tweet about my local area. It’s been quite an eye-opener- I’ve widened my Twitter friends to include a whole bunch of [...]

Another Blog Analytics Tool

Rebecca — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:39:50 +0000

I’m a pro-blogger (I make money by blogging about certain things in certain posts, such as this one), so I like to monitor my traffic, create posts that are helpful and will get “up there” in the search engine results. I am not, however, a MANIACAL pro-blogger. I have not dissected my blogs into little [...]