Diversity…it’s a wondrous thing. 

There are tall people and vertically-challenged people and thin people and width-challenged people and competent parents and "parents from heck whose little monsters could give The Creature from the Black Lagoon a run for the money" and …

People WITH computers

and

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One of the niftiest plugins I’ve come across for Wordpress is Psychic Search.   I’m finding it very useful indeed!

Psychic Search from MaxBlogPress will tell you what people have searched on in your blog during the last 24 hours, 7 days and last 30 days.   This means you can get an idea of what people AREN’T finding on your blog…and then write posts that fulfill those needs.

PS is free, however, to activate the product, you have to opt into their followup mailing list.  As a former Internet marketer myself, I have no problems with this; it’s simply good marketing practice (and I have yet to receive anything from them).  

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Yesterday I had the profound pleasure of reading DailyBlogTips’ Check how Search Engines see your website.  A long-time SEO enthusiast, I used to focus upon this concept years and years ago (anyone remember when Infoseek would index your site in real time back in 1996?).

The years passed and writing SEO-optimized content became second nature to me.    And over the past few months at my FabFitMom Journal (I lost 45 pounds during 2007 and wrote quite a lot of content; it’s now retired and I post my personal insights over at BarbaraLing.com), I found that I could easily get into the first page of SERPs (search engine results) for just about any keyword I wanted that was related to my niche. 

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Spambots.

They’re icky things, they are.  Their sole purpose is to get their owner’s links on your blog via automatic postings that, if left unchecked, can flood your blog and bring it to its knees.

Luckily, there are several wordpress plugins you can add to your blog and decimate the effect of robospammers.  And here they are!

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STOP THE PRESSES!!

Whew!  Thank you.  Now, what was I saying?  Ah yes!

"Are you aware quite how important making your site friendly to iPhone visitors wil be???"

WELL?  Are you??  Huh?  Huh?

Think about it.   More and more people are indulging in mobile surfing!   More and more people are browsing the Internet while on the go…and more and more people are getting a first impression of sites while sitting on trains, idly surfing about online, using the free time miraculuously available to them, seeing what’s new…..

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Ever hear of blogging terms like

• Blog Butterfly
• Audio Blogging
• Meme
• Moblog

etc.

and said to yourself, Golly self, what do those words mean?

Well not to fear anymore, as I’ve started listing all the blog terms across which I’m come online.

Now, it’s true that I’m not the first person to have been seized by this utterly magnificent idea!  You can find other blogging glossaries at:

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One of the wondrous benefits of blogging is that your words can be shared near and far! Joy!

Conversely…..

One of the hells of blogging is that your words can be shared near and far and without attribution! Un-Joy!

‘Tis a sad, lamentable fact indeed, but there DO exist folks out there who will take your content and brutally slash off your credentials, claiming your work as their’s, and profiting from your blood, sweat and tears. It reminds me of Tom Lehrer’s Lobachevsky:

I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky.

In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize!

Plagiarize,
Let no one else’s work evade your eyes,
Remember why the good Lord made your eyes,
So don’t shade your eyes,
But plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize…
Only be sure always to call it please, “research”.

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