Archive for the 'Blogging' Category
My Chronic Health Blog posts from week of January 27 - February 2, 2008:
Below are the links to the posts from last week’s entries on Fighting Fatigue. Enjoy!
I am the new blog writer for the American Idolist site on the Webble You Blog Network. Please stop by, bookmark the site and check in often to see what I have posted new on the upcoming American Idol season!
I am excited to have this opportunity to expand my writing to other arenas. I hope you enjoy it! Remember to stop by and leave me a comment!
If you like to blog, but don’t want to participate in the paid-to-post opportunities any longer (Izea, Blogsvertise, LoudLaunch, Smorty) don’t give up! You can still earn some extra money by blogging for the many networks that are available. Depending on which network you look at will determine your pay. Some networks pay on a per post basis, some networks share the ad revenue generated at your blog and some pay a set amount per month.
There are regular blogging jobs posted on the Pro Blogger Job Board. Links are given to the blogs hiring and you can apply through there.
If you are running short on cash because your pagerank is low and your paid-per-post gigs have dried up, here are some blog networks you can apply to:
b5media.com
WebbleYou Blog Network
Hub Pages
Content Quake
451 Press
Weblogs, Inc. Network
To apply for almost all of these networks you will have to supply writing samples, links to any blogs you currently have and any other writing work you’ve done that is posted online. Good luck!
I love blogging and I guess it shows since I have a few blogs! I had a blog called Beautiful You where I focused on discussing beauty and fashion. I decided to change the focus of this blog somewhat and move it to my own domain. I now have the Big Beautiful U website that focuses on the plus-size woman.
The blog features plus-size celebrity profiles, fashion, shopping, beauty, diet and weight loss. Please stop by Big Beautiful U and leave a comment. Tell me you saw the post on The Blog Hog!
If you would like to have some link love from The Blog Hog, just click below to find out how your blog can be featured! I would love to have you!
Link Love From The Blog Hog
I was recently a guest blogger on a blog and I got the idea to start a guest blogging day on The Blog Hog! I am looking for guest bloggers who would like to write about any topic they choose for this blog. No posts containing pornographic and sexual material and no swearing please!
How Will You Benefit?
Guest bloggers can benefit from writing for this blog in different ways. Within each guest post you write, a bio about you will be included. You can promote your website or blog and it will give you a chance to write about something you love! By guest blogging you can gain traffic to your own site.
How To Get Started:
Send an email to me at fighting_fatigue@hotmail.com saying you would like to be a guest blogger. I will email you instructions and the next available date I have open. I will send an email reminder to you a week in advance and all posts are due to me via email three days before your posting date.
Paid blogging work has come to a screeching halt for many of us who blog for IZEA. I spoke to one blogger (that wishes to remain anonymous) who was previously making between $600 - $800 a month before the Google smackdown hit. In the past two to three weeks since this blogger’s page ranks were updated in the IZEA system, the pay hasn’t even reached $200.
A lot of bloggers have taken a huge hit and some are looking for other blogging opportunities, writing work and even jobs outside the home to make up for their lost income.
The anonymous IZEA blogger had this to say:
“I have depended on the money I was making from Payperpost or IZEA to pay for the bills my spouse’s paychecks don’t cover. This income loss has affected our family greatly, especially with the holidays here. I have been forced to look for a job locally even though I wanted to be able to work from home. Many of the die hard IZEA bloggers are determined to stick it out until this new Real Rank system takes hold with advertisers but I don’t have that luxury to wait around. We need the money now.”
I wonder now if paid posting is quickly going to start dying off. This Google hit is scaring many people away from blogging for money.
Google has decided to penalize bloggers who take part in paid to post opportunities with companies such as IZEA(formerly known as Payperpost) by taking away page ranks. Now many bloggers are in a state of panic because they have depended on their paid blogging for their income.
Some bloggers who utilize paid to post opportunities only use these posts as fill-ins or to earn a little extra money. But from some of the reading I have been doing, there are those who depend on this money to pay their monthly bills. That is scary when Google decides to mess with people’s incomes. What is wrong with someone posting for money?
IZEA requires their independent contractors to have disclosure policies on their sites so that people know when reading the site that they are getting paid to post about certain things. Most of us who do paid posting put a lot of time and effort into what we do and we do not just randomly write about something that we haven’t done some research on.
Of course, there will always be exceptions to the rule but it is not fair of Google to mess with people’s livelihoods in this way. IZEA has come up with an alternative to page rank that appears to be starting to catch on for advertisers. For now, paid ops are low for the majority and IZEA and their posties are hoping things pick up again soon. This is a heck of a thing to happen right at Christmas time, too.
Google has continued to show that they don’t care about bloggers in the blogosphere. First, they take page rank away from all of the hard working paid bloggers, now I read an article where they are smacking down on Blogger as well.
I just read a post on Lifecruiser where Blogger (which is owned by Google) is no longer allowing the external linking feature when posting comments. If you do not have a Google/Blogger account, forget being able to put your link in. This is what Lifecruiser had to say:
“Instead of earlier when you could click the “other” option, you can now only give in a nickname option - no link to your blog. Even if you write http://www.lifecruiser.com it won’t turn it into a link, not even if you place the a href code there.
This also means that YOU as a blogger.com blog owner can’t easily follow up your commentors either - as long as we don’t leave you a link in the comment body or is on your blogroll already. I’m only waiting for the day when they try to stop you from linking to us at all…”
Bloggers all over utilize commenting and linking to their blogs via other blogs in order to help improve their page rank and other social networks on the net. It appears as though Google is getting very greedy in what they will and will not allow and in the long run it is only going to hurt them.
Unfortunately, I do have a blog set up on Blogger as a cancer blog for my BIL. It is mainly only read by family and friends and I’m not trying to really advertise it a lot. I feel like moving it now though because of all of this Google/Blogger mess.