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Do you still blog as hard as you did the first day you started?

Karen — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:13:07 +0000

A few days ago I posted the question over at the BloggerLuv community, just to see if bloggers do indeed work as hard on their blogs as they did when they first started blogging.

Suffice to say there were some really good responses and it does seem that fellow bloggers are still working hard on their blogs and enjoying every moment of it, which is great to see, as with blogging you have to stick to it to make it work and the majority of bloggers that I know are hard workers, anyhoo here re just some of the answers I received:

Peter Pelliccia Are you kidding, I blog harder now than when I first started, and I enjoy it a whole lot more too.
Ms. Ileane Speaks In a perfect world it should be easier now than it was in the beginning!But I agree with Peter, I work harder now. As I learn more about blogging and social networking, I find there’s more to do! Before I learned how to get traffic through networking I would publish a post and be happy if I could convince my daughter and my friend Kissie to read it. So if I got 2 hits a day I was a happy camper!
John Sullivan NO
I still take 3 mins to write a post
I don’t waste time doing what doesn’t work
I don’t run around trying to make a bunch of fake friends and try to connect with people that don’t connect
I try to look out for my friends
It’s ALOT easier now
I’m just as passionate just not as disillusioned like I was so that saves ALOT of time
Don’t Chase GHOSTS
HART I’m spending as much time as I did in the early years, but I feel I am more productive at least, in that most everything I do I try to make it HAVE A PURPOSE (#HART-Empire) in a long-term approach. I can’t remember the last time I did NOT see a “99″ on my stumble toolbar count .. I occasionally do stumble, but not from requests anymore as that was the biggest time waster for me.But .. am I a better blogger than before? Do I blog just as hard as I did before?5 out 7 days a week I don’t even feel I am a blogger at all actually .. and think that term will die out by the end of 2010.

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But don’t let it stop there, I’d love to hear your answer to the question, so please let us all know, Do you still blog as hard as you did the first day you started?

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What Blogging Platform Are You Using and Why?

Karen — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:30:47 +0000

Those of you that have visited my blog over the last week or so, may of noticed a few polls that I have run in the sidebar, it’s a little experiment to find out about blogging platform that my readers use and what they use the most such as [intlink id="109" type="category"]Twitter[/intlink], Facebook etc.

So if you haven’t voted in any of these polls, then now is your chance to take part, I’ve added the polls to this post so you can easily vote on them, also if you are up to it and I’m hoping you are, leave a comment letting me know what you voted for and why you chose that option..

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WordPress Plugins I find useful for Blog Posting

Karen — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:10:07 +0000

When it comes to WordPress plugins for posting on my blog, I use several which I couldn’t do without and find extremely useful for several reasons when producing blog posts or controlling posts from guest bloggers.

So after my post about the WordPress Plugins used for my Weekly and Monthly Stats I thought I would bring you some blogging tips and show you just some of the WordPress plugins that I use and fine helpful in my blog. You can get all these plugins via the links from this blog or you can use the “add new” option in your WordPress dashboard under plugins.

Broken Link Checker – This is great when you have made posts with links and over time these links may become broken, this plugin allows you to find them and edit them via your dashboard.

Dashboard: Scheduled Posts – If you have posts scheduled then this plugin will display them on your main dashboard, so you can easily see what posts are scheduled.

Insights – Adds a search box with options on your posting page to search your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, then add links and images to your post.

No Self Pings – There is nothing worse than posting on your blog with a link to an earlier post and getting a pingback from your own site, this plugin stops this.

Pending Post Indicator – This is ideal when you have guest bloggers, it will tell you on the main dashboard if you have any pending posts from a user waiting for review, enabling you to post guest posts quickly.

Post Template – If you are posting weekly updates or a post which has a similar layout each week, then this plugin will enable you to save a template and use them to quickly create a posts with similar layouts.

Search & Replace – I find this plugin very useful, it will allow you to search your database and replace anything you want, example: if you change your twitter name, you could search for the address and change all occurrences of the old address to the updated one.

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