PageRank Update

There has been some amount of speculation today as to whether or not Google was performing a PageRank update. I chose not to say anything and instead, just watch and wait.
Because I was just hoping around my blog, doing a little research for another blog post I realized it was time to say something about [...]

IzeaRanks Is Finally Here!

Since Google took away PageRank from bloggers, and then made us beg to get our PageRank back, millions of bloggers have been asking and begging for a different system to rank our blogs.
Izea, the company behind PayPerPost, Zookoda, Blogger’s Choice Awards, and many more today launched its newest spin-off…IzeaRanks!
Going head to head with Google and [...]

Reason to Blog

All right, I admit it, I’m fascinated with blogging. Suddenly, anyone that chooses to use their voice has a place to stand up and be seen by simply creating a blog and talking. Each day, new blogs spring up out of no where and it won’t be long before you discover that new blog.
But with [...]

Personal Branding

Last night, when I came across a discussion on BlogCatalog titled “Your profile picture is an advertisement,” I couldn’t help but to read what others were saying.
The guy who started the discussion linked to his own blog post where he discusses what should be used as avatars on your social networking site. His own avatar [...]

Evaluating Social Bookmarks

On January 1st, my post Back Up Your Website OFTEN! was stumbled several times. In return, I received a great deal of traffic from StumbleUpon.
When I logged into my stats on the 2nd, the only thing that could come from my mouth was “HOLY _ _ _ _!” (You fill in the blank).
Quite the traffic [...]

List of Sites to Ping

A comment today on my blog post from August of last year, Blogs + Pings reminded me that I was going to make an additional post regarding pining after reading Blog Oh! Blog’s eBook on SEO for WordPress users.
Clearly, in my vast plan of other blog posts I had forgotten to make the post so [...]

Importance of Design

Since turning I’m Blogging That into something other than my personal blog, I’ve wanted to reinvent myself with personal blogging and naturally my source to do that was at Raise It, Clean It, Blog it where I initially thought that I would just blog about my daughter’s daily life.
To reinvent myself there as a personal [...]

Blog Love #1

If you take a step back and look around you’ll realize that the entire blogosphere is a community.
Like each other or hate each other… we’re part of the same community regardless of your status, writing ability, or earnings.
With that idea in mind, I appreciated Ciao 9 to 5’s blog post today passing a little link [...]