Many of you are probably aware that I have several blogs as well as a plan to begin a new blog to launch the first of the year. I will fill you in on details on that blog soon. As for now, I am going to begin publishing a new post on this blog only once a week — probably on Thursdays, rather than a daily post. I want to be able to continue to provide valuable information in all my posts. I will try to continue to post blogging tips and information on free stuff you may want to try. It takes more time than I ever realized to post something worthwhile and beneficial every single day. If I find that I have additional information to share, I will add an additional post. With that being said, I will miss posting daily but I hope you will continue to visit or visit one of my other blogs.
More Blogs by Sandy
Born To Rome Travel, a travel blog sharing features of our travel website, a monthly sweepstakes, group cruise options, and an online shopping mall with cash back on your purchases. You will also find benefits of owning a travel website as well as travel tips, videos, and more.
Meditations of My Heart is a blog to share tips on a grace-based approach to weight loss, the sermon of the week feature, a hymn, a prayer, a scripture, or even an inspirational video.
Sandy Reynolds Oline is a my main blog where you will find motivational tips and videos, favorite links, teacher inspiration and appreciation, favorite recipes, and more.
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Just what is a domain name? It is a name owned by a person or organization and consisting of an alphabetical or alphanumeric sequence followed by a suffix indicating the top-level domain. It is used as an Internet address to identify the location of particular Web pages. An example would be meditations of my heart.com.
When you are creating your own blog and you want to attract readers to it, I highly recommend having a domain name for the blog. It is not absolutely necessary, but if you are promoting a business or selling a product, it make your blog appear to be more focused and business oriented. Also, it makes it much easier to enter the web address or url to reach the blog or website.
Web hosting is when another company provides the storage of files and hosts your blog. Web hosting is necessary on some blogging platforms such as WordPress.org. However, WordPress.com provides free hosting for the blog. You must be careful and follow the policies and guidelines when using a platform that provides free hosting. If you are promoting a business opportunity or product, be sure to follow the guidelines or your blog may be deleted. When using a blogging platfrom such as WordPress.org, that is not an issue.
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]]>This is a self-esteem building exercise where parent and child works together in writing designed to fight injustice in the world. Super hero powers are discussed and how super heroes help those in their communities. Children become super heroes and write their stories and draw pictures on how they would use their super hero power.
This super hero program was designed for kid friendly organizations, libraries, after school programs, and children’s enrichment and literacy programs. For additional information on the Super Hero program, view the video.
]]>When beginning a blog, Darren says that it is crucial to determine the content and topic as well as the need that it is going to fulfill. Is the purpose to educate others, or to covers news, or bring a group of people together?
Listen to Darren share his thoughts on micro-blogging and the future of blogging, the newspapers reaction to blogging as they begin to experiment with blogging. Is blogging a threat to the newspaper?
Darren share that his best reward for blogging has been to make a full time living as well as meeting and interacting with others, as well as teaching and connecting with people.
]]>I recommend downloading and installing the Alexa Toolbar. The toolbar is FREE and it is customizable! It literally installs in seconds! Besides showing the Alexa traffic rank of the website you are visiting, you can find other links that are similar to the website you are visiting and more.
Visit Sandy Reynolds Online for the complete article about Alexa and the Alexa Toolbar.
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]]>As I think back about my online writing and my venturing into blogging, I look back and realize how far I have come in such a short while. Each step that I took was part of the learning process for me. I began my online writing on eHow in late July 2009 to share my thoughts and ideas about school, weight loss, marriage, and other areas. In August I began my first blog on WordPress.com basically to get the feel for blogging and to continue sharing my thoughts and ideas especially about a grace-based approach to lasting weight loss.
It wasn’t long before I decided I wanted to make my blogging worthwhile my monetizing it in some way. In order to monetize my blog I knew that I should use WordPress.org instead of WordPress.com. For some reason I had preconceived ideas about WordPress.org and was fearful of beginning there. However, once I took the leap and began, I found that my fears were not substantiated in any way.
I joined a local meet-up group for blogging. We have some knowledgeable individuals who have been willing to share their knowledge with us. I love to share the knowledge that has been shared with me. We all share our thoughts and ideas or information that we have read. I have been following the page rank of my blog since beginning this group. My blog has consistently moved up in its page rank on a regular basis. With over 200 million websites, I thought there was never a chance for my blog to be noticed in the online world. Knowing the number of websites is rather intimidating, however, you must persevere and keep pursuing your dream. With persistence and endurance, it can happen. My main blog is currently in the top 600,000.
The main focus of this blogging group is to monetize a blog. A couple individuals in the group shared the “Thirty Day Challenge“ with us. This challenge takes you step by step through the process. You will be amazed at the knowledge that will be shared during this challenge. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in monetizing their blog. Although I know I have a long way to go, I look back at how far I have already come and I know that achieving this task is also possible. With persistence and endurance it can be done.
Good luck in your blogging endeavors!
]]>If you are like me, I was terrified to begin WordPress.org because I knew that it had to be downloaded and installed. I kept hearing how simple it was with the one click download although not available with all webhosts. So, I went to WordPress.com initially until I finally decided that it couldn’t be that difficult. Well, needless to say, it was not that difficult to install and set up. If you are looking for a webhost with a 1-click install, please visit this link. This is our affiliate link — Total Web Hosting Concept.
In this video, Elliott will show you how to install WordPress if you are not using the 1-click install available on some hosting websites.
]]>Steven with Affiliate Marketing Diary takes you step by step through the process of creating a graphical image for your header. He guides you though creating the header from scratch all the way through uploading the new image to yor Blogger account.
]]>As the students begin drafting their own stories and work on their own. The teacher helps others who need help revising and editing. Literature is armed with beautiful examples to help students learn to be more creative in their writing. For additional information, visit “Reading Rockets.”
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