Archives for Beginners
April 9, 2010in Beginners, Latest Posts by KimmyTags: giveaways, reviews
People ask all the time how to get involved in product reviews and giveaways on their blogs.
Below I made a brief list of some basic steps you can take to get started.
Make a contact page and/or about page that indicates that you are PR friendly. Companies and PR reps will often find you.
Review stuff you [...]
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March 31, 2010in Beginners, Latest Posts, Tech Tips by adminTags: ftp wordpress, how to use ftp, what is ftp
I first learned about FTP many years ago. Ill admit, I was very scared of it. What if I messed it up, what if I deleted something, even… what is it? I am someone that learns by doing so I downloaded a few FTP clients for free just to see what they were. From changing [...]
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March 14, 2010in Beginners, Growth, Latest Posts by KimmyTags: Joomla install, Joomla setup, PHPBB install, PHPBB setup, SMF install, SMF setup, VBulletin install, VBulletin setup, wordpress install, Wordpress MU install, Wordpress MU setup, wordpress setup
In an effort to help you all become Top Mom Bloggers, we have added a line of paid services to our free tips and advice we offer weekly on the blog.
Not everyone has the time or ability to be able to do the things they want to do to grow their blogs, and we wanted [...]
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March 12, 2010in Beginners, Latest Posts, Making Money by guest-authorTags: freebies, Making Money
With my MomDot interview, I introduced a few of my blogs. Free Sample Deals is a free sample site that I manage. It earned about $50 in it’s first month. It now earns over $1500 a month in just over a year.
Some asked the questioned how that was achieved. Some of it was done with [...]
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March 5, 2010in Beginners, Growth, Latest Posts by KimmyTags: blogger, comments
I have spent the last week visiting blogs.
Returning the favor of some great bloggers who bothered to stop by MY blog and leave a comment. I generally don’t find the time to go blog hopping, but this week I felt like paying it forward.
Now I have a headache.
And now is where I offend some of [...]
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March 1, 2010in Beginners, Latest Posts, Tech Tips by adminTags: blogger, blogspot, which blog platform to use, wordpress
I admit it, I’m partial to wordpress. But there are so many other blogging platforms out there that it can make a bloggers head spin to decide which is the best way to create a blog that you love. One of the first things you need to decide, is what is the goal of your [...]
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February 21, 2010in Beginners, Growth, Latest Posts by adminTags: mom bloggers, newbie tips
It happens every day. You hear of a mom blogger that you never knew existed and she is now everywhere and you wonder, now how do I do that?
What does she have that I don’t have?
Marketing online can be quite scary in a sea of thousands upon thousands of blogs and finding where you belong [...]
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February 5, 2010in Beginners, Growth, Latest Posts, Making Money by KimmyTags: affiliate networks, affiliates, Amazon Associates, Linkshare, review blogging
Review & giveaway bloggers you are leaving money on the table….
You work so hard to test, photograph and write about products, and you are proud and relieved when you finally hit publish on that review. But you are leaving out something that could potentially earn you residual income for the life of your blog, and [...]
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February 4, 2010in Beginners, Growth, Latest Posts by adminTags: blogger coventions, how to get a sponsorship to a convention, sponsorships
With Blissdom and Mom2Summit in session, BlogPaws in April, TypeAMom in the fall and grandmommy of conventions BlogHer on its way later this year, bloggers are all abuzz about sponsorships, scholarships, and partnerships with companies to help pave the costly way.
I wanted to bring in a few ways to work with Public Relations and companies [...]
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February 1, 2010in Beginners, Latest Posts, Tech Tips by KimmyTags: cPanel, Hostgator, hosting, subdomain, wordpress
In a previous post about how to edit your Wordpress theme, I suggested that in order to learn how Wordpress themes work, that you setup a subdomain on your site with a separate Wordpress install so you can tinker to your hearts content without having to put your main site in maintenance mode or worse, [...]
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