Blogging Tip: Best Blogging Quote of The Year

One of my regular blog reads is Daniel’s Daily Blog Tips … he recently posted a great interview with a wildly popular blogger named Liz Strauss of Successful-Blog and one quote just blared out to me with wisdom.

Giving her advice to fellow bloggers, she said: “Breathe. Know that the Internet has no eraser.”

I nominate it for the best blogging advice of the year … and it’ll probably not be unseated for me all year long.

As she appropriately continues in her quote, “Your children, your grandchildren, your future spouse, your future boss, and your future enemy will see what you write eventually.”

Watch what you say. Even though the web is “virtual,” it’s really not. It’s quite permanent. The web has a memory. It gets indexed in search engines, your stuff gets posted on other sites and blogs … and people will find it.

Good advice, great advice, actually, for Christ-followers seeking to make a difference by using blogs … Thanks, Liz!

February 11, 2007 · Filed Under Blogging, Blogging Tips, Church Marketing

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Blogging Tip: Help People Keep Track of the Conversation

Although I’ve had the Subscribe to Comments plugin installed with WordPress that allows those who comment on posts to get emailed notifications of follow-up comments and such, Nathan pointed me to an updated version of the Subscribe to Comments Plugin, as I had a little trouble with it.

For active commenters on your posts, this is a great way to help your readers keep up with the conversation, including comments you make to theirs.

It’s a simple plug and play plugin.

February 1, 2007 · Filed Under Blogging Tips

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Blogging Tip: Create a Favicon for Your Blog or Those Cute Browser Icons

Art sent me an idea for a blogging tip: How to create a favicon … or those cute little browser icons located just left of the website address in your browser.

Rather than recreate the wheel (or tutorial), I thought I’d give you some links or “favicon generators”:

http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/
http://www.antifavicon.com/

OR … how to create a favicon in Photoshop.

Get some inspiration for your favicon also with this excellent list by Smashing Magazine.

January 31, 2007 · Filed Under Blogging Tips, Church Marketing

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Blogging Tip: Determine Your Post’s Topic or Subject, Then Check Keyword Phrases

Here’s a blogging tip I have been using more and more to enhance my search engine results and rankings …

When thinking about writing a new post, once I’ve determined my topic and the main ideas I’m wanting to talk about in the post, I’ll go over to Google’s AdWords Keyword Tool and check the results to see what it pulls up for keyword phrases popularity.

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January 17, 2007 · Filed Under Blogging Tips, Internet Ministry

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Blogging Tip: Hand Google Your Blog’s Sitemap on a Platter

Google likes me …

I’ve finally gotten into the good graces of Mr. Google (I’m out of the “sandbox”) … now more than half of my traffic is coming from Google search keywords. Amazing. I love it.

THANK YOU GOOGLE!

Anyway, one of the best ways to get listed in Google is to create and submit a sitemap through their Google Webmaster Tools.

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January 16, 2007 · Filed Under Blogging, Blogging Tips, Church Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, WordPress

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How to Use the New Custom Domain Name Feature for Your Blog*Spot Blog: A Tutorial

Although I’ve offered to help you set up your own custom domain name for your Blog*Spot hosted blog, I thought I’d post a tutorial for those of you who want to do it yourself. Before I get to the tutorial though, I thought I’d post some pros and cons with hosting at Blogger. Read more

January 14, 2007 · Filed Under Blogging, Blogging Tips, Church Branding, Web 2.0, WordPress

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