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Posted on 01-07-2008

Link Back Trail

Filed Under (Blogging Advice) by Randy Bragg

I’ve noticed that there are many sites with link backs in the 100 thousands; this seems to me to be a great challenge to me. So many times I have tried to create an atmosphere that would try to lead new bloggers to a linking exchange. Free links backs and giving away free stuff seems a successful tool, only when used with mass advertisement. This comes only when you have the money to pay for that advertisement, or using the free avenues that allow you to broadcast your new link plan or giveaways. Asking for a link back doesn’t always work if you don’t actually link back to that individual’s site. I have experienced putting a link on my site and not getting a reciprocal link for that sites owner. This is very trying when you are trying to get good link backs to your site.
Getting on MyBlogLog and blasting everyone with all your junk info or new articles that you have is one way, sooner or later they will start to ignore your ramblings, like I have. Then you can try to comment on as many bloggers so that they will at least see your sites name. Go to Google and type in Link Back blogs, you will see that there are a ton of blogs that offer this out stretched hand. It’s time to start going from blog to blog and assuring the blog owner that you have linked back to their site. Then you wait to see if they will follow through with their part of the deal. This is a good way to get some links, just a time consuming way around it.

Then there is sites that offer to put your site on 1000’s of directories to increase your link power. They do for awhile, they just drop off after a few months for more obligation to their site and new sites to submit to…

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Posted on 27-04-2008

Free Writing

Filed Under (Blogging Advice) by Randy Bragg

What is free writing?

Glad you asked. Free writing is a method that is related to brainstorming that some writers use to help them get ideas on what they can write about. Thinking about one

thing for five ot ten minutes on a question that might seem puzzling to them might give them something to write about.

A writer can put down anything they can think about and evaluate it later. This style of

writing does not have a pretty look to it that says I know how to spell and I worry about

sentence structure.

Writers who use this style will go back and reread what they have wrote and highlight or underline what ever is of value. After doing this they are able to start writing and make a

rough draft and finish off their article.

This style of writing has grabbed my attention because I am a pretty fast paced guy. Trying to brainstorm and think of ideas for articles kills my drive to even write about

anything at all. People have said to find something and stick to it, I have not done this, I have been all over the place with my blog.

Bragg’s Writers Guild

Today is the day that I have decided to start writing articles to enjoy the art of writing. That to me seems to like a great way for a blog to go. For the year I have been blogging I have meet many people and I would love to meet many more.

Good Bye To Attacking The Blogging World

The name of my blog is going to be Bragg’s Writers Guild. My support for blogging tools will not go away, so if you are using them keep it up, I will add some blog tips from time to time.

Popularity: 33% [?]

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Posted on 26-04-2008

Boost Your Rank With BraggTags

Filed Under (Blogging Advice) by Randy Bragg

Trust Issues

How many times have you put a link on your site with the promise of a link back from someone who sent you an email? I feel your pain.

Bragg Tags

With Bragg Tags after you paste the list into your article your site will ping back to me. Every day I check my WordPress ping backs and I will see that you have added the Bragg Tags list to your site and I will edit this post ad add your link. There has been some of these link articles that have fallen to the weigh side with no return, my intentions are to be true to who ever spreads the Bragg tag list.

Rules

Please no porn sites.

Copy and paste this into your article and away we go.

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BRAGG TAG LINK TO THE TOP AND BACK DOWN AGAIN

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Remember after I get the ping I will add you to this list. After awhile you will see that your technorati score will get a boost from the links that you will receive after your name gets added to the list.

Popularity: 36% [?]

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Posted on 23-04-2008

Blog Popularity

Filed Under (Blogging Advice, Make Money Online) by Randy Bragg

I’m sure you want to see which sites are doing well and ever if yours is doing well. A cool site to use is http://popuri.us/, this site offers you the opportunity to see how you are doing in most of the ranking systems.

You can add one of their ninety widgets into your site to give your readers an opportunity to see where they are and where you are in the ranking systems. Find out who is linking to you and if you have spread all over the world with what your blog has to offer. If you have any sites or tools that you can turn me on to that would help me in blog mastery I would greatly appreciate it. Put it on the VOB forum, spread the love people….

Popularity: 84% [?]

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Posted on 16-04-2008

Site Meter’s Website Tracking

Filed Under (Blogging Advice) by Randy Bragg

Do I Need Site Meter

Site Meter can give you information on your visitors. It will give you a detailed report on who comes to your site, and how they came to find you. Is this something you need, the question can only be answered if you want to know more about your visitors, maybe what part of the world they come from. There are many questions that will be answered in the reports that are sent straight to your email.

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Popularity: 50% [?]

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Posted on 13-04-2008

Blogging Tips You Don’t Want To Miss

Filed Under (Blogging Advice) by Randy Bragg

Creating Your Blog

Blogger

Blogger hosts and publishes blogs for free. Create your own blog, or explore a new or notable blog.

LiveJournal

Express Yourself, Share Your Life, Connect with Friends Online

You can use LiveJournal in many ways: a private journal, a blog, a discussion forum or a social network.

TypePad

TypePad is the premier blogging service, hosting the world’s leading blogs and small business websites. Whether you’re a first-time blogger or a seasoned pro, TypePad can help you create a great-looking blog in minutes.

WordPress.com

WordPress.com is a community and conversations continue from one blog post to another and through the comments. Our tag surfer feature makes it easy for you to find like minded bloggers interested in the same topics as you and connect with them.

Movable Type

Movable Type just got a whole lot easier to install for Debian users thanks to newly available Debian packages.

ExpressionEngine

ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich content management system that empowers thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies around the world to easily manage their website.

TextPattern

A flexible, elegant and easy-to-use content management system. Textpattern is both free and open source.

Typical Features

Create posts. creating posts should be quick and easy.
Upload pictures and multimedia. include photos, video, or audio.
Display posts to visitors. make it easy for readers to view your posts and to comment on them.
Moderate. different platforms provide varying levels of help to weed out inappropriate contributions.
Publish RSS feeds. RSS feeds allow users to subscribe to your blog.
Configure the appearance and layout. Tools allow you to configure your blog, and the methods they offer to do this.
Find support. forums will give you answers to your questions.
Get stats on your blog. Reporting features will help you see how many people are visiting your blog, and which posts are most popular.

Configuring Your Layout

1.Customization

2.Layout updates

3.Widgets

4.Domain

5.Fonts and colors

6.Sidebars

7.Templates

For more tips and tricks please go to Voice Of Bragg’s Blogging Tools and Tips and Tricks pages, thanks for ready I hope this will help you with your blog.

Popularity: 40% [?]

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Posted on 04-04-2008

A Review Of Article Specialist

Filed Under (Blogging Advice, Reviews) by Randy Bragg

Content

Are you a blogger looking for blogtemplates, blog secrets, marketing blog tips, or where you would like to host a blog? Trust is a huge issue in the blogging world, let me tell you. You can try to get to know people and even the people you thought you knew and you thought since they were having great success in the blogging world that they would help you, you need to think twice. You might get lucky and have a friend that is cool enough to share his talents and then there is the other way, figure it out on your own. This site has a wide range of blogging tools to choose from.

Why you should or shouldn’t read this blog.

Blog’s Physical Look

There is a problem with the way it was loading at 1440 x 900 screen resolution, most people don’t use this, you have to think of these things when you create a blog though. The blog is not cluttered but seems to have some sidebar navigation links to far to the bottom left. When a reader comes they will want to see some archive info and blog RSS sign up right away.

Suggestion

There needs to be some navigation at the top, people need to be able to go to any of the interesting spots on the site without having to fish for links.

VOB To The Point

Over all this site has a lot of good articles and has potential to shot to higher places. With some better advertising and some touch up on the layout, the Article Specialist will hit a better PR (page rank) in no time.

Popularity: 21% [?]

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Posted on 31-03-2008

Download WordPress 2.5

Filed Under (Blogging Advice) by Randy Bragg

Are you up for the latest update from WordPress?

If you have any problems with the update please leave some comments, or go to the VOB Forum and lets try to work out the bugs together.

Popularity: 20% [?]

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Posted on 29-03-2008

A Review of FatherlYours.com

Filed Under (Blogging Advice, Reviews) by Randy Bragg

Content

Here we have Ramon, a 49 year old Father to 5 healthy Son’s and Daughter’s. This blog is to share his experiences, frustrations, happiness, and success.

Here are few of his most recent post;

Many a day I have sat and read a post from Ramon and thought that this guy really must be a good father, he has great knowledge of many things. Could he pull it off the net, sure, you can tell the difference between someone pulling and someone giving you a part of what they truly think and feel.

Blog’s Physical Look

Ramon I love you brother, but the blog has a few things that I think, and let me say that again, that I think could use some touching up.

Needs more color.
Navigation could be better.
The load time was good.
I did like that it was not cluttered with advertisements.
I could not find anywhere to sign up for the feed.

Suggestion

Put your feed where people can get to it, and make it easy for people to sign up. Spice up the layout, put some color and some navigation to you hot spots at the top.

VOB To The Point

Don’t get me wrong, I love this site. Ramon has great insite from raising children to home health advice. Please drop by and read some of his posts, you will not regret it. FatherlYours

Popularity: 22% [?]

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Posted on 21-03-2008

Want more PageViews for your blog?

Filed Under (Blogging Advice) by Randy Bragg

1. Your articles need to say something to the reader.

You need to write articles that say something to the reader everyday and it will link your articles together. This will allow your reader to get something from all the articles they read by linking them all together.

2. Put your articles highlight.

Highlighting your titles will draw them to your articles.

3. Give them your RSS (this will send them your articles via email) to access easily.

Page View can be increased sharply through the use of RSS by having them read your articles when they open up their mail. When users register this service, your can send them the updated articles daily.

4. Put the good stuff up front.

Put the articles that you think are the most well written in a well placed area of your blog.

5. Have your archive area look inviting.

People will go here to look at what you have done and see if it will be worth while to come back from past articles.

6. Have some articles that have the more to come, or read tomorrow for chapter two look to it.

Readers will come back if they want to see if the more to come is the missing link…

7. Look at your front page

Does it say it all or do you need to lead people to another page to read more, maybe a click here to view the rest of the story might drive more traffic.