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Figuring out Kontera problems

October 26, 2007 by Tricia

Wow in the last couple of hours I’ve had a flurry of emails going back and forth from my Kontera rep. Since August we’ve been trying to figure out why I haven’t been getting as many impression on my blogs as I should have been getting. Seriously … I’ve only been getting 25 to 30% of the amount of impressions that I should have when I compare it to my html based website.

I’m still not sure if it’s due to the Kontera plugin I’ve been using or not. So over the weekend you might see more Kontera ads or perhaps even none at all as I experiment with a different plug and or add the codes manually on my own.

What I like about the plugin that I’ve been using – Lucia’s Kontera Control – is that I can decide exactly when the ads show up in any of my posts or comments. The new plugin that Kontera just created allows the ads to be blocked from certain categories but that’s forever … we don’t necessarily want or need them blocked forever.

Ideally if I could get the plugin that I want to work, to work properly, I’d not have Kontera in any of my new posts for a few days (that was how I had it set up originally) so that my regular readers could be ad free. As it is it’s set to show Kontera in all posts, excluding two categories, right away … but since something isn’t working quite right there aren’t too many ads showing up. So I guess it shouldn’t be too irritating for my regular readers, but it’s still not set up quite the way I want it to be.

Hopefully I’ll get this all figured out over the next week and I’ll soon have more Kontera ads showing up when and where I want them to show up. I hope!





Filed Under: Affiliates, Blogging, Web and Technology, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins Tagged With: blog, blogs, comments, irritating, kontera, new, plugin, post, posts, website, weekend, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugin

Got a ton of work done cleaning up our blogs!

October 26, 2007 by Tricia

Well I’ve managed to keep myself quite busy for the last two days. All of our blogs, and I mean all, had their sidebars tidied up and I completely re-did my husbands blog Guitar Licks. It has a new widgetized them and if I do say so myself it looks a heck of a lot better than it did!

I’d been meaning give that site a new theme for oh … the last 6 months or so! I just didn’t have time! We’ve got 10 blogs that we write in regularly, 6 more being worked on that will be revealed soon, and of course I have my two big websites. That’s a lot of site maintenance to do let alone cleaning up sidebars, changing themes, creating graphics and so on as well as creating posts on all these sites on a regular basis!

I keep saying that this site will have a new look soon and I’ll continue to say that. Hopefully I’ll get to it over the weekend. Certainly the work that I did cleaning up the sidebars of ads and other things that might have been slowing the site down a bit will make it that much easier when I have to transfer all that info over to a new theme. Hopefully I’ll be able to widgetize the them too as that will make any future theme changes so much easier!

Filed Under: Blogging, Web and Technology, Web Design, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins Tagged With: blog, blogs, busy, change, cleaned up sidebars, Graphics, guitar, husband, manage, new, new theme, posts, sidebars, site, sites, slowing down site, website, websites, weekend, widgets

Don’t cry over Spilt Milk – Laugh!

October 19, 2007 by Tricia

I guess I’m having a regular Linky Love fest over here today. I figured that while I was spreading the love I should also tell you about Spilt Milk – the blog.

Spilt Milk is written by Tee, a stay at home mom with two boys. Like Lisa, I know Tee from some of the forums that we both frequent.

Tee’s blog is a great site to visit when you want a laugh or when you feel like reading some inspirational stories like the story about the mother of a soldier who’s currently stationed in Iraq and how he wanted his mom to send him some silly string.

Along with humorous posts, funny videos and images you’ll find some mighty cool links such as the ones in one of her recent posts entitled Cool things to do with Google, the virtual pumpkin carving contest, or perhaps the video of the of the guitar player with no arms. I must show that post to my husband!

I really like her post with Balloon Art photos! Now that’s cool.

Poke around her site for a while. I’m sure you’ll find some things that make you laugh. Oh and as you might do with any site that you enjoy – don’t forget to bookmark her site or subscribe so you won’t miss any posts!

Filed Under: Blogging, Entertainment, Great Reading, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Linky Love, Recreation Tagged With: blog, bookmark, Contest, cool, Entertainment, fun, funny, Humor, images, laugh, Linky Love, mother, posts, read, reading, subscribe, Video

My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings

October 19, 2007 by Tricia

Hey gang, if you like my daily ramblings you might also enjoy my blogging friend Lisa’s blog My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings. I’ve known Lisa through a blogging forum that we both visit regularly for about a year now. Shame on me for not telling you about her site earlier!

Lisa is a work at home mom of two young children. You’d think that a three year old and a four month old would keep her busy enough, but she makes time to write in My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings as well as her other blog Lisa Reviews several times each day! I know life can be hectic with small children to care for so it’s amazing that she can write as much as she does!

Lisa writes about the events in her life such as preparing for the holidays, taking her little girl to the dentist for the first time, the adventures of potty training, and things like how great it would be to be able to have a virtual makeover before getting your hair cut or making a big change in your appearance.

I think I’ll get to meet Lisa in Las Vegas in November as I believe she’ll be going to the blogging conventions too. Should be fun!

So if you’re looking for a new blog to add to your daily reads check out Lisa’s two sites. I think you’ll like them.

Filed Under: Blogging, Home and Lifestyle, Linky Love, Recreation, Web and Technology Tagged With: amazing, blog, Blogging, busy, care, children, friend, holiday, ideas, life, Linky Love, My thoughts ideas and ramblings, parenting, read, sites, visit, young children

Coming out of hiding

October 19, 2007 by Tricia

Some of you know that I’ll be going to a blogging convention in November. I’m going to BlogWorld first and then I’ll be attending P0stieCon.

Some time over the summer I was asked to be part of a panel at P0stiecon. I still don’t really know what this will involve other than I won’t be on stage all by myself.

Well earlier this week one of the folks in charge of P0stiecon got in touch with me and told me that they’d need a photo and a bio for a program pamphlet they were preparing.

Yikes!

A photo?

I’m the one behind the camera – never in front of it! Not to mention the fact that I simply hate having my photo taken.

Well my time ran out and I had to hand in a photo. I still don’t even know if I handed it in, in time or not.

Last night my husband got behind the camera and took a number of photos of me. I mean a lot of photos! I really didn’t like many of them. I haven’t been feeling very well for about two weeks and had in fact been sleeping just before our photo session. My eyes are puffy in a number of the photos. My husband managed to capture me with my eyes closed or my mouth is a strange position a number of times, but if you take enough photos eventually you’ll manage to take a few decent ones.

So I figured since I’ll finally have a chance to meet other bloggers in about three weeks I might as well come out of hiding and give you a little peek.

So here you go. This is me:

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Pleased to me ya!

Filed Under: Blogging, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Web and Technology Tagged With: bio, blog, blogger, bloggers, Blogging, blogging convention, Blogworld, camera, hate, husband, manage, night, November, pamphlet, panel, photo, photos, picture, post, program, puffy eyes, several pictures, sleep, sleeping

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