This is the July 11, 2008, edition of the Blogger’s Guide Carnival! The posts below were written on other blogs and were submitted by their authors at BlogCarnival.com.
Have you ever walked into a room and felt like you were wearing a sign that said, “I Don’t Belong Here.”? Has your stomach ever knotted up because you know someone will figure out you’re faking it? This happened to me last weekend when my mom and I attended a retreat sponsored by the network marketing company she’s a part of. She loves The Product, and I love The Product, too, but I am adamantly against network marketing as a career for myself.
Which is funny because I’m a blogger, and I hope that blogging will supplement my household income someday. More on that later…
This is the inaugural edition of the Blogger’s Guide Carnival! The posts below were written on other blogs and were submitted by their authors at BlogCarnival.com. For more information about the Blogger’s Guide Carnival, check out our Carnival page.
This is the inaugural post for my new weekly series Blogs for Bloggers! I am always on the prowl for new blogging blogs, and once I find one I like, I want to share the wealth, so this BloggersGuide.net “column” will review a different blogging-related blog every Wednesday. If you want me to consider reviewing your blog, use the Contact page to send me the URL.
First of all, if you’re one of the many people who’ve subscribed to BloggersGuide.net in the past few weeks, let me say, “Thank you.” You have no idea how much I appreciate your support! Let’s get down to business.
If you haven’t been by in a while, be sure to check out the new pages I’ve written: About Sarah and Contact. You also don’t want to miss the new template I’ve chosen for this blog. For now, it’s straight out of the box, but I’ll be customizing it in the next month or so.
If you’ve been on the blogosphere for a while, chances are you’ve heard the term “The Long Tail.” I won’t give you a dissertation-length explanation because other people already have, so here’s the gist of The Long Tail: Keywords. The longer your search term, the narrower the niche, the longer the tail; the shorter you search term, the broader your niche, the shorter the tail.
What does that mean for you?
Ask any blogger, and they’ll tell you one way to promote your blog is by commenting on other like-minded blogs. As BloggersGuide.net grows, I’m increasing my commenting on other blogging blogs, and in the past week or so, I’ve made a few observations about the kinds of comments I’ve been seeing. Commenters can be generalized [...]
I read a lot of blogs: local blogs, family blogs, friend blogs, professional blogs, fitness blogs. I could go on, but you get the picture. I’m of the opinion that there’s a place on the Web for everyone, and the blogosphere is a great place to start; specifically, here are ten people who need to have their own blogs:
When it comes to blogging, nothing is more difficult for me than design, and when it comes to design, nothing is more difficult for me than picking a color scheme. Thankfully, though, I am married to a designer who is little by little teaching me to think like a designer. In the not-so-distant past, I decided to mix up the colors on my personal blog, and Chris used the opportunity to teach me the method he uses for generating a color scheme. Very little color theory was involved, which I was thankful for because I tried reading his color theory textbook, and I couldn’t get past page two. If you’re a blogger who isn’t a designer, I can imagine you have a hard time picking color schemes, too, so let’s use my personal blog as a case study and walk through his process.
We’ve been blogging with lists for the last few weeks, and we’ve already learned how to determine when it’s appropriate to use a list and how to write a list; we learned those week one. Last week, we learned how to use, code, and style ordered and unordered lists. This week, we’re discussing definition and nested lists.