Profitable Productive Blogging

 Step 1 - First Hand Product Review La Cense Beef has been one of my most successful affiliate program MTD for August. I ran two ads with different keywords and had great success. Right now they are running a special for first time customers. Get 4 free steakburgers with purchase of $75 or more from La Cense Beef when you use the coupon code ATSB75! As with all of my most successful affiliate marketing programs, pay attention this is a key to success, I ordered the product and tried it out. I don't want to just put some ads and links out there about something I have not tried myself. Well, I must report that La Cense steaks are on par with some of the best steaks I have ever had. Grass fed beef tends to be leaner than grain fed and so cooking time becomes a bit more critical. I have to admit the first steak I cooked I overdid it a bit. Hey I was watching the Cubs game :). Well after this first trial and error the results were wonderful. The taste of the steaks and burgers had ...

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Google has made another very nice little improvement to Blogger. You can now access all of the images you've uploaded to Blogger on Picasa Web Albums. Blogger albums are unlisted by default, but you can make them public and even add them to Google Search for Images. Having all of your images pre-sorted by blog is so awesome. It saves so much time when searching for an image and also the trouble or uploading an image twice as you can use the html code from Picasa to embed the image right into your site. You can also pick the size of the image you want so that is nice and comes in very handy. They have also upped the free storage quota to 1GB which is enough for roughly 4000 pics which is more than enough for most bloggers. I haven't used Picasa much in the past and just recently started using this feature in blogger. I like the option very much but again don't understand why Google doesn't just take it one step further and simply make the albums accessible from within th...

I noticed this little tweak early last month sometime. Using the Picture page element from within the Blogger Page Layout you can now optionally link the picture to a URL. Before if you wanted to do this you had to have the image hosted somewhere and do a manual link using in your page code. That was just not something many were comfortable with. This addition is a great and long needed tweak for Blogger. Not really being able to link an image to an outside URL was a hassle and frankly a boneheaded oversight in the first place. I do mean that in the most respectful way. Hey Google, now you just need to add this functionality within the post editor Add Image function. If I want an image in a post to link to a URL I still have to go in and manually edit the href="" tag for images I add through the post editor. Again it is silly not to have that functionality. Over the last several months especially Google has been really working on adding features and upgrading the functionali...

Over the last several months Google's Blogger has been rolling out some great new tools that is putting them closer and closer to WordPad in features. Around the middle of February Google finally rolled out a post scheduling option for Blogger . Late last week Google announced that they have added a Blog List widget to the page elements available in the Layout of Blogger. The big improvement from using the Link List from the past is that Blog List uses RSS feeds instead of a simple link. This allows you to go beyond a simple blog roll and use the feeds to show update times, post titles, and snippets of articles. Here is a basic list of the Blog List features courtesy of Google Link to blogs, web pages, and feeds from your blog’s sidebar, with an optional favicon For pages with RSS and Atom feeds, Blog List can show last updated time, post title, and a snippet of the latest post Sort links alphabetically or by last update time Show all links, or hide some behind a “show all” li...

Some of you may have noticed that right before the page finishes loading and the PPP script is ran two "divider" bars or something are placed at the top. I have contacted PPP about this and gave them the URL for the sight a long with a description of the problem. Hopefully this can be resolved shortly and the sight can back to normal. I know this a short and quick post, but all I have time for at the moment. I am working my way back to a "normal" schedule and hope to be back blogging regularly again very shortly. Thank you all for your prayers, kind emails and inquiries into where I've been and if I am ok. It means a lot. I am doing fine. I have just had TON of other things come up lately and have had to devote much of my time and energy elsewhere. I "think" I am getting back to normal and will get rolling again here very soon. later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to ...

This is some great news for all of you Blogger users out there. Google has finally gotten the message and upgraded the Blogger platform to include post scheduling. Nothing has really changed in the posting interface except that now when you select post options if you enter a future date and time the post is not published immediately (like it illogically was before), but it is instead scheduled to post on the date and time specified. Here are a few pics to show you how to do it and what it looks like. First pic just shows that I entered a future date and time for this post. This second pic shows the posts list after I hit publish for the article. As you can see the post is now shown in the list and is labeled as scheduled. Note also that you can now filter the posts by the scheduled status as well as the usual published and draft. This is a huge added feature to the blogger package and one that so many users have been waiting for. Now if we could just get a real archive page that would ...

How To Put Links In Your Blogger Post Title Well this will be short and sweet because the process is extremely simple. You simply put a link in the title. You use the html link format. Here is an example using the title of this article. How & Why to Put <a href="http://www.profitableproductiveblogging.com">Links In Your Blogger Post Title</a> That is exactly what you would put in your title field for your post. What you would end up with when you publish the post would look like this. How & Why To Put Links In Your Blogger Post Title The only difference would be that the words you don't have the link to would still link to the articles permanent URL. So you would have a title where part of it links to the articles permanent URL the other part you defined when you entered the title would link to the URL you chose. Why Put Links In Your Blogger Post Title Now the question is why would you do this? Now I wouldn't do this for every title but it can be ...

The other day I posted an article Your Graphics Are Standing On Two GIMPy Legs . Today I wanted to tell you about a great set of gradients you can download for free. 130 Ultimate Web 2.0 Gradients for Gimp is SGlider12 has taken the time and effort to re-create the original 130 Ultimate Web 2.0 styles from Photoshop by deziner folio to "The Gimp". This is an awesome collection that has taken a lot of time to create. If you download these why don't you stop by SGlider12 's blog and show him a bit of appreciation for his hard work. If you haven't yet been exposed to the wonderful world of "The Gimp" read my article Your Graphics Are Standing On Two GIMPy Legs , check out the sites I recommend, and of course download these gradients. Click on the image below for download information. Thanks to gimp-tutorials.net for the original post about this great collection. later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and produc...

Many times I have found myself in need of a graphic for the site or a landing page. I can't always find what I want on the web and in the past have had to either pay someone to do it or just do without. I had never really found a good robust image software package and am not going to spring for Photoshop. I came across a free gnu program that is in many ways similar to Photoshop. The program is called The GIMP. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the...

Just Say Hi is a site that has a bunch of cool Blog Stuff . They have quizzes widgets and other cool things for you. They have a ton of really funny quizzes you can take. You can't place all of them on your blog but they are really fun. They have ones about how addicted you are to coffee to how much booze would it take to kill you. Now for some cool stuff you can put on your blog. One of my favorites is their countdown timer generator. You can set colors the date and the event you are counting down to. It could be a nice little feature for a contest or something to that effect. Another fun thing they have are blogger awards. You can send fun and serious awards to blogging friends. You can pick from their selection of fun, serious, or just plain weird awards and send them to your favorite (or least favorite) bloggers. Once the award is sent, the recipient will get a nifty medal in their email that they can proudly stick on their blog or website.They also have some very funny blog ...

You Are Fat By that I really mean your blog. You have gorged on so many scripts and widgets that you can't even button the pants. And that belly button ring of a theme you have, while it might look good on some, on you, bottom line, it is still just stuck through a nasty bulging belly. That tattoo you thought was sexy has now grown to 10 times it's normal size like one of these little kid toys you stick in a bucket of water. Go on a diet already. Lose a couple scripts, drop a few widgets, and your blog won't be lying on the couch after three visitors wheezing and sweating profusely from over exertion. You Are Ugly Of course I'm not insulting you personally. Once again I am referencing your blog. Well isn't beauty in the eye of the beholder? Yep and I am beholding your ugly -ss blog. That is not to say you don't think mine is just as homely. I like to think of my blog as if it were a supermodel. Hot as hell, but she has cellulite, wrinkles, a flat -ss, flat ches...

Well okay the chances of that happening are about as good as a snowball's chance in the hot place. Although BloggingZoom is certainly a very viable alternative for bloggers. One thing that has always been my beef with digg is the obvious tech bent to it and it is dominated by a few very unblog like blogs. There a quite a few alternatives out there such as: Reddit, Sphinn, BumpZee, and of course BloggingZoom. Another beef of mine with Digg is that they frown upon submitting your own content. To me this is silly. Many times I know of where a blogger has a great article they would like to get a little more exposure and being able to digg that article themselves would be a great option. I also don't see how it hurts anything. Okay so it might clog up the submissions if everyone submits their own, but they should have enough servers and bandwidth to handle that. Well I think BloggingZoom addresses both of these things. From everything I can tell from their TOS and FAQs there is no ...

There are several inline text ad programs out there but I would have to say that Kontera's Contentlink would have to be about the biggest. There has always been a problem with inline text ads and paid to post programs like PayPerPost . PayPerPost as well as many of the other paid posting programs prohibit any other links in the sponsored post. This policy was not compatible with ContentLink ads. For many the choice was to just not use ContentLink as for the most part more money could be made from the sponsored posts. Now you can have the benefit of both! In each post where you don't want the inline ads just add <span name="KonaFilter"> as the first thing in the post. Now everything that follows that code will not display any ContentLink ads. At the end of the post you close out with </span> to end the filtering. This now opens another income stream for PayPerPost users. later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and...

Have you ever written an article and when you were finished you just were not happy with how it ended up? What do you do with it? My article writing might be a bit different than yours so let me explain how I write my articles. I usually write most of my main articles in one sitting. Throughout the week as I come up with topics to write about I will clip articles and pages and save them into a draft for the article. When I finally sit down to write out my articles I will usually have 4-5 drafts and a lot of different articles, pictures and pages clipped. I will then build off of that and flesh out the article. Many times when I am done I will go back over each article and read it checking for spelling and grammar. The next day I will read them all again to hopefully find things I missed on the first go around. After this second proof reading I will then schedule the articles for the week. Almost without fail there will be at least one or two articles that I just am not happy with and ...

pay per click Since Blogger doesn't limit the number of blogs you can have start by creating a new blog specially for hosting images. Now create and publish a post and upload your image to the post. Now view the post and click on the picture to get an enlarged version of the image. On the page containing the enlarged photo, in the menu bar, click VIEW > PAGE SOURCE to get the source code for the page. Almost at the end of the codes, you will see src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/..... http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FuL2VMybFkw/RkDEwCxQfpI/AAAAAAAAAA8/ IeHTwTjKZiU/s1600/header2.jpg This should be the photo URL you should use for the profile photo, for inclusion in the img src="photo URL" tag or wherever you need the image url.

I am all about making the most money and making that money work for me and make me the most money. The less I have to do and the more my money can do for me the better. That is my approach to credit cards Credit cards if used properly are a very useful, and sometimes, necessary part of life. Credit has become so easily attainable that it has become a large problem for a large amount of people, we are seeing the results of that in the mortgage market now. What do I mean by that? Don't carry a balance! Unless there is a legit emergency you should never carry an interest accruing balance on your credit card. Don't throw money down the drain, which is essentially what you are doing if you are paying interest on your gas, food, gadgets, or whatever else you put on there. If you don't have the money don't charge it. If you must charge it don't charge so much that you can't pay it off. If you won't be able to pay it off don't buy it, again unless it is a legit ...

Welcome to Day 5 of my series Tools & Tips for Profitable Productive Blogging . Today I simply want to talk about motivation and what it means to me to write passionately. Read what I have to say and then leave your opinion. This is something that I have struggled and I believe that this post will help you avoid some of the pitfalls I and other bloggers have fallen into. Write Passionately How many times have I read that. I have read this on blogs from Kathmandu to Kalamazoo, which is actually where I went to college, sorry tangent. Well I struggled with this advice from the beginning of my blogging career. What exactly does writing passionately mean. Am I to stroke each post affectionately while telling it how beautiful I think it is? Does each post have to be top flight Pulitzer worthy content that I pour my heart and soul into? Can I ever just post about what I came across that day, week, or month? Finally after discussions with many bloggers I came to this conclusion about what...

Welcome to Day 4 of my series Tools & Tips for Profitable Productive Blogging. Today I am going to talk about posting and a few ways to post in a more productive manner. This is something that I have struggled and I believe that the tips and tools in this post will help you avoid some of the pitfalls I and other bloggers have fallen into. I have talked with quite a few bloggers over the course of the last several weeks and asked them lots of questions on their posting practices. I have tried to take some of the knowledge gleaned from these "pro" bloggers and meld it with my own practices. Here are my tips on how be productive in posting. I have implemented these practices and it has been a tremendous help. Have A Specific Time For Writing & A Specific Output Goal This is very key to being productive in your posting. I know when I started blogging, and really up until recently, I just posted whenever the time presented itself. I would find myself interrupted many time...

Welcome to Day 3 of my series Tools & Tips for Profitable Productive Blogging . Today I am bringing you some great Browser Add-ons that will make your blogging life much easier. I have given a brief explanation of each program below. Once again none of these are affiliate links! I personally use all of these add-ons(except the IE ones) and really like how much easier they make blogging. What are some add-ons that you use? Do you use ones that are not on this list that you feel should be? Share your experiences, good or bad, with these or any other add-ons. Well without further ado here they are.... Use FireFox Add-ons ScribeFire ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog. This is one of my favorite add-ons and what I use to write and publish most of my articles. ClipMarks I love this add-on. It allows you to sele...