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Any Blogroll Experts out there?

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I need help!

Yes I know, you probably already guessed that I need help, but I mean I need assistance in helping some of the people that are signing up for my blogrolls.

I’m managing four different blogrolls that people are welcome to join.

The trouble is- I’m having a problem helping some of the people that are signing up for my blogrolls. Some of the people are using:

  • Free WordPress.com
  • Typepad
  • LiveJournal (I don’t think this one hasn’t come up yet, but I bet it will)
  • Blogger

I think I’ve got the blogger instructions mostly figured out – ie make a post, put the blogroll on that, then link to it in your sidebar. But the others? It seems impossible to put blogroll code on Free WordPress.com. Has anyone done this correctly?

If anyone can help out by sending me some simple easy to understand instructions on how to add the blogroll code to a Typepad, wordpress.com, livejournal and or Blogger blog I’d really appreciate it. What I’d like to do, if and when all of these are figured out is create an “Adding a Blogroll to your blog” FAQ, that in the end will be beneficial to everyone.

Please help?





Leave me a comment and get a link!

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I added a new feature to my site. Did you notice what it is yet?

If you look near the bottom of this post you will see a link to the people who have commented on this post- well if anyone leaves a comment. If there’s no comment yet look at the post before this one. You see the links?

I must thank Debbie from Blossoming Heart Capture for sending me the wordpress plugin – Comment-plugger.

The plugin is set up so that whenever someone leaves me a comment their name will show underneath the post they commented on, and if they have a website and left the link their name will be linked to their site. Cool huh?

I’m still tinkering with the set up. When I first installed it, the plugin was listing the commenters name in a long list. That took up too much space so I played with it a bit. Right now it’s set to show the links for the first 10 people that comment but I think I can raise that amount.

If anyone that’s reading this post also uses comment plugger and knows how to customize it even more, please write to me and give me some tips.

Anyway, I think this plugin is mutually beneficial for me and for my readers. Hopefully more lurkers will leave comments since they’ll automatically get a link; and I’ll get a few more comments. Plus Plus.

If the comment links don’t look right – misaligned, messing up the posts or whatever, would you please be kind and let me know? I’ve viewed my site in IE, Netscape, and Firefox and it seems to be working fine in each browser, but if it’s not working for you let me know, and tell me what browser you are using too. Thanks!

WordPress haunted?

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Have any other wordpress users had odd things happen when they were writing a post lately?

I have four blogs, and I use both WordPress 2.03 (on three of them) and WordPress 2.04 and I’ve noticed something funny lately when I’m typing out a post.

You know those tabs on the right hand side and at the bottom of the post? Discussion, Post slug, categories, optional excerpt? Well mine have been moving around on their own lately.

Yeah it’s true. So how could that happen?

I’ll be writing away and notice that, for example, the post time stamp tab is at the top of the list on the right. I’ll click on the post to save and continue editing and then the edit time stamp will be in the middle or at the bottom and categories will be at the top. This happens on both my laptop and desktop computer so I don’t think it’s a virus, and if it is it’s a pretty strange one.

Has anyone else had this problem? Well, not really that much of a problem, but irritating inconvenience perhaps?

SEO consulting services

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I found another interesting business that a few of my readers might find interesting.

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There are definite advantages to using a SEO consulting service when you are trying to promote your company. Some of the advantages of using SEO Position’s services are content management system (CMS) optimization, on-page optimization consulting, and Social Media Optimization (SMO).

Visit the SEO Position website and look over their site. They offer a number of wonderful services and marketing tools.

Busy week buzzing around the Internet

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Thirteen Things about My internet activities this week

1. I’ve been having some fun visiting some of my favorite bloggers this week. Over at Doctor Mom’s I’ve been voting on her idiot of the week postings, and since I’m a regular poster there she’s going to give me a lot on her cul de sac (a permanent space in her side bar) if I’m the top commenter over there this week!

2. I’ve also been hanging out over at Zed’s this week too. Yesterday she had a Canadian day party. Blog parties are a lot of fun. I might have even had the most fun since I was the only Canadian there for the longest time!

3. Then there’s my visits to Pointless Drivel. A few of us seem to compete to be the first person to leave a comment when he puts his latest post up, then we banter back and forth. It’s kind of fun and it’s always interesting to see what Mr. Fab has to say about it when he posts his comments.

4. One of my favorite bloggers Shelli from Shelli’s Sentiments is on a Florida vacation this week. She got to swim with a dolphin on Monday! Lucky girl.

5. Today I spent some time trying to break up a fight that broke out on one of the mailing lists I run – The uromastyx Mailing list. Yeah, the lizard people were fighting! Go figure!

6. I made Mrs. Lifecruisers very special A-Team list! I’m so proud and that bribe I gave her certainly came in handy!

7. I’ve also spent some time in the past week promoting the FOUR blogrolls that I started. Mr. Fab and Mrs. lifecruiser also helped me with this task.

8. I might as well tell you about the blogrolls – since I’m sure you’ll ask about them if I don’t. You would wouldn’t you?

9. One of the blogrolls that I started asks for weekly participation. Anyone who has nice nature photos – be it landscape, garden, garden plants – flowers and greenery – that they are willing to post each Sunday is welcome to join Green Thumb Sunday.

10. The other blogrolls that I started don’t require any participation other than keeping your blog up to date by posting 3 or 4 times a week. One of those blogrolls is for photobloggers and it’s called Fabulous Photoblogs. I’m looking for true photoblogs to join this blogroll.

11. Another blogroll that I run is the I am Canadian blogroll. Other than posting regularly the only other requirement is that you are Canadian, whether you currently live in Canada or not.

12. The last blogroll is a little more specific. I’m looking for bloggers from the Toronto area (the GTA – If you are from the GTA you’ll know what that means) to join the Toronto Bloggers blogroll.

13. I’ve been pretty busy on the internet this week. Leaving comments all over the place and working on my little projects. I need a break!

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