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HerProBlog.COM Project Is On Hold.
I am very sorry for the inactiveness of this website. My hopes were and still are high for this site but due to some family issues I will have to put this project on hold for a while.
The time needed to keep this website updated and active is too much for me right now. My hope is that in a few months things will settle a little in my home life that I can breathe life back into HerProBlog.com. All existing content will remain published.
Please keep HerProBlog.COM in your bookmarks and check back from time to time.
Thanks for your understanding.
HerProBlog Giveaway Gifts
HerProBlog Giveaway Gifts
The festive season is well behind us and it’s time to refocus and plan your direction and projects for the year ahead.
Mona & I would like to thank you for being a valued reader and to start the year off we have some great gifts to share with you to help you achieve online success.
** To Download ……Right click on links for each item & ‘Save Target As’... New to downloads? For detailed instructions => Click here
Project Buzz
This project management software offers the easiest and fastest way to monitor and keep track of the amount of tasks/projects you have on hand. You can list down all your projects/tasks that you need to complete and never have to worry about missing your deadlines. Your very own digital secretary! => Click Here
Blog Buzz
This blog finder software offers the easiest and fastest way to locate related blogs in any niche you choose which does not have the 'nofollow' attribute. This will help you to compile a list of blogs you can leave comments on and build a ton of backlinks instantly! ==> Click Here
Keyword Buzz
This keyword research tool offers the easiest and fastest way to compile a HUGE database of keywords for all of your internet marketing efforts. You can also analyze the amount of competition in any niche market and also uncover hidden and profitable markets within just a few minutes. ==> Click Here
Cloaker Buzz
This affiliate link cloaker allows you to cloak your links in the stealthiest manner to boost your click through rate. ==> Click Here
WebLinker Pro Lite
WebLinker Pro lets you use new web technology to popup images or web pages through text or image links. This means that your visitors don't leave your page - and the popups can't be blocked. ==> Click Here
Wordpress Uncovered Lite
In these 10 videos (over an hour of video tuition), you can learn the basics of setting up a Wordpress blog - such as installing, using "themes", choosing the right settings, and so on. You'll also learn how to protect yourself against "comment spam", how to get your blog indexed in minutes, and how to monetize your blog. ==> Click Here
Wishing You Health, Success & Prosperity for 2009!
Do You Wish To Improve Your Blog?
Have you noticed? Everyone is blogging? Teenagers, moms, dads, grandmas, executives, salesman, preachers, celebrities and the list goes on. Blogging has increased enormously in 2008. With all of the blogs out there how is yours going to get noticed?
Maybe your desire is not to become the next supper blogger but to just have a blog that you can be excited about sharing with others. Maybe your goal is to make an income through your blog or because of it. Whatever place you are with your blog or goal you have for it HerProBlog.COM wants to help you improve.
The new year is a great time to gain focus and resolve to make changes. So lets start making some changes.
Over the next couple of months HerProBlog.COM will be focussing on help you make the changes you feel are necessary for improving your blog. We have some exciting plans to help you improve as a blogger.
We encourage you to subscribe to the site so you don't miss the exciting things coming.
HerProBlog.COM is Still Alive
Have you ever not spoken to a friend for a long time and after a certain amount of time passed it seemed almost awkward to call? This is the way I feel right now about HerProBlog.COM. I feel I have been so disconnected from this site that it feels a bit awkward to post. But the longer you let time pass the more awkward it gets so here I am posting.
It was never my intent to let this site get so far behind in content. It's been a rough couple of months for me. As soon as my kids started school life all of a sudden became really busy. Keeping up content on one blog is a challenge all on it's own but I have 5 blogs.
Gaida and I have been brain storming and thinking of things we can do to revitalize this website. Since the goal of HerProBlog.COM is to help women create and maintain professional quality blogs we have decided to focus on blog reviews, blogger interviews and blog makeovers. We will be holding a contest in January that will allow the winner to get a complete blog makeover. More details coming soon!
So HerProBlog.COM is still alive it's just laid dorment for a little while. I hope you will continue to check back here for updates.
Blogging Research Software Tool – Blog Talk Monitor
Blog Talk Monitor research tool covers…
* Google News, Google Blogs, Technorati & more
* Set time checking
* Share Post eg on Facebook, Stumbleupon etc
* Email posts found to friends
* See comments on posts. This allows you to find what people are interested in
* You can also make comments.
* Allows you to locate new sources of links on the web
* Check site info of these sites – Page Rank, Alexa
This Blogging Research Software Tool… Blog Talk Monitor will help you find the most recent and up-to-date information.
You will no longer be lost for what to blog about with great ideas for posts right at your fingertips. News sources of information on any topic imaginable.
SF Conference Highlights Surge In Women Blogging
Women from around the globe are joining the blogging community and Mike Sugerman went to the 2008 BlogHer Conference in San Francisco to talk with women who are helping build communities online.
Conferences are a great networking tool and to meet new and interesting people from all walks of life as well as keeping up to date with what's happening in the blogging world.
Another great video on the benefits of blogging...
The World Of Blogging
Blogging for many women is about documenting their lives as is shown on this great video interview on the San Antonio Living Show when interviewing Kellan Rhodes. Kellan is the mother of 4 and blogs about surviving the humorous chaos of their everyday lives.
What’s Happening with HerProBlog.COM?
Things have been real slow around here lately but we expect that to change real soon. Gaida and I are working on some new ideas for this site. Things may be a little so for a few weeks as we work on the new phase of HerProBlog.COM. Thanks for your patience.
More coming soon!
Don’t Quit Poem
People from around the world have been inspired by these words...hope you also find inspiration in these special words of encouragement.
Don't Quit Poem
by Anonymous
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, 
When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest! if you must; but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don't give up, though the pace seems slow;
You might succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor's cup.
And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit;
It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit.
Code You Can Use: Copyright Notice
In a recent post at Problogger a guest post by Mark Patterson brought up some important legal issues for bloggers: Intellectual Property Law Tips for Bloggers.
I highly recommend all bloggers, even people just thinking about blogging, to read this post. I imagine some of it will be over your head (some of it went way over my head anyway!) and may not be relevant to you right now - but you may very well need it at some point in the future. You can always skim through it now, make a mental note of what's in it and bookmark it for sometime in the
future.
Copyright
One of the topics discussed in the post was copyright. Anything you create you own the copyright to, but you should really include a copyright notice on you blog also. Mark noted:
I know that I don't really display my copyright properly on my blogs - I should really be using my full name, but to keep a little bit of privacy, I usually just use my first name or a nickname. The copyright notice should include either the copyright symbol or the word 'copyright' and also include the year the content was first published or the range or years.
The code I use
I used to hand edit my year range to include the present year sometime around the first of each year. But it is easy to forget to change it, and I've seen many, many sites of others where they have apparently forgotten to update theirs too.
Rather than hand editing it each year you can use PHP code to display the current year. My copyright notice is written like this:
& copy; 2003 - < ?php echo date("Y") ?> ideasforwomen.com
The ampersand and the word 'copy' with the semicolon after it will give you the copyright symbol (©)- but and this is important - you need to get rid of the space between the ampersand and the word 'copy' - I had to put the space in here so you could see how I did it. The first year I had my site was in 2003, so that is listed first. Then the code within the php tags should give you the current year. And, like I mentioned above, you should really use your first and last name if at all possible, instead of your domain name like I do.
If you use this code on your blog, you don't ever have to worry again about changing the current year to January by hand!
How do you make use of it?
Within the WordPress theme you are using, find the footer file and at the bottom right before the closing body and html - place the code. And that's it! I hope it makes your like easier, as it has mine!
Blogging Tools
While blogging doesn't require a whole lot of extra tools and things to do it - in addition to your browser and either a account at a site for a hosted blog or your own WordPress blog - there are some tools that can be very useful to a blogger.
Graphics or photo editing software
It can be very helpful to have software to either make or modify your own graphics or edit photos. If you can't afford to pay someone you can make your own logo for your blog if you have some graphics software. You may also want to make other graphics to go with certain posts or pages. If you take photos for your blog, you may want to edit parts out for privacy, etc. I have been using Photoshop for a very long time, but I know it is too expensive for many people (I use a really old version!). There are also many inexpensive or free alternatives available.
Pencil and Paper
Using pencil and paper as a tool for blogging may seem silly for something you do on a computer, but actually I find I turn to them quite often. Sometimes if I having a difficult time writing, it is easier to get my ideas out initially on paper and then finish up on my computer. You never know when a good idea might pop in your head when your computer is not nearby either.
I get my best ideas while lying in bed - so keeping a piece of paper and pencil by your bed can be very helpful. I also get good ideas while in the shower - but paper and pencil don't work too well there! I also make sure I bring paper and pencil whenever I leave the house too - when waiting in a doctor's office or walking around in a grocery store I sometimes get good ideas too! And I've learned from past mistakes that if I don't write something down right away I usually forget it!
Dictionary and Thesaurus
A dictionary and thesaurus are really almost necessary tools for blogging. Of course, you don't have to use a printed one - unless you prefer a paper one - but it can be a good idea to keep a dictionary and thesaurus site that you like bookmarked so they are handy when you need them.
HTML editing software
Sometimes you may want to edit a plugin, some other script or even the WordPress theme you are using. There is software available that isn't too expensive and also some free alternatives for editing HTML, PHP, CSS or other code. You can also use Notepad for editing code - but you shouldn't use MSWord - it can add in characters that will mess up your code.
Statistics
At some point you will want to have some way of knowing how many people are visiting your blog, how they found it, who is linking to you, etc. Google Analytics is a great - and free! - service which works pretty well. You may also want to consider a log analysis software to get even more and more accurate information about your blog and visitors.
Feed Reader
If you are reading this and have a blog you probably already use a feedreader - but if you don't you should know that they are a great way to keep track of and read other blogs. I can't imagine how I could keep up with as many blogs as I do if I didn't use one. They are really necessary if you want to keep up with what is happening in the blogosphere, your friends blogs, your competitors, etc.
So - there's a few tools that can be really useful - even necessary for bloggers. Darren Rowse lists more here
and here.
What other tools do you use? Or what would you add to this list?
HerProBlog.COM Is Almost Three Months Old!
HerProBlog.COM will be three months old this month. A lot has happend these past three months that have been exciting for me. There has been a lot of great articles contributed by our co-authors.
Though I am thrilled with the progress thus far I am also a little disappointed that things have slowed down a bit. When we first started three months ago we had seven authors. All but three authors still write for us. Needless to say the content for this site has reduced considerably.
Though some may see these things as setbacks I see them as opportunities for learning how to improve. The vision behind HerProBlog.COM is to help women bloggers train to become professional bloggers through content and design. We plan on sticking with it until our services are no longer needed.
So get ready ladies and gentleman. We are in the process of reevaluating and planning new ways to help women bloggers.
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