Comments on: Beginner Blogging for Writers: part 3

By: Rod

Rod — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:27:45 +0000

@Mel: if you’ve employed the ‘embedded links’ trick, you could also try searching for who’s linking back to your site, which can be an eye-opener. Simply enter “linkdomain:thecraftywriter.com” into Google (inserting your own domain name as appropriate), or there’s a similar command in Yahoo which is supposedly even more accurate, but the exact syntax escapes me at the moment.

By: Fiona Veitch Smith

Fiona Veitch Smith — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:34:47 +0000

Well I didn’t want to say …

By: Mel Menzies

Mel Menzies — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:14:38 +0000

I can’t say that I’ve done it often, Fiona. Sounds a bit narcissistic doesn’t it.

By: Fiona Veitch Smith

Fiona Veitch Smith — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:31:12 +0000

Never tried that myself, Mel (googling my posts) – will give it a go.

By: Mel Menzies

Mel Menzies — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:24:17 +0000

Hi Rod,

Your comment on spammers and scrapers (Oct, 2008) caught my eye. I had this happen to me quite soon after I started blogging some years ago, and found it infuriating. So – without having seen your advice – I did exactly what you’ve suggested. I started posting some (not all) of my articles with permission to reproduce, subject to a copyright line which links back to my blog. Of course, I have no way of knowing whether people adhere to that. But I’m no worse off. And I like to think that some do. In fact, occasionally, I google some of my posts’ titles to see where they may have been reproduced. Can be quite interesting.

By: Fiona Veitch Smith

Fiona Veitch Smith — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:04:31 +0000

You’re welcome HP. And we’re all learning all the time. With the internet being such an ever-changing environment there will always be new challenges for us.

Fiona

By: HP van Duuren

HP van Duuren — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:08:37 +0000

Thanks for your post Fiona, Although I have been blogging for a while already I still did see some possible new ideas that could improve my blog(s). For people that are interested in Monitizing their blog they might like to have a look at my - Writer's Lifestyle Blog - where you can find info not only about Blogging and The Writers Lifestyle with info about for example Short Story Writing but also for example about things like making money with doing Affiliate Marketing In other words a possibility to basically make money by bringing people to the webshop(s) from already established well known brand name products and make money that way.

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By: Jeremy Day

Jeremy Day — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:46:59 +0000

Oh yes, I see that now. Guess I got to start reading the fine print. Thanks for the heads up.

By: Fiona

Fiona — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:41:33 +0000

Hi Jeremy, I actually commissioned someone else to write this series! Rod Smith from http://www.hippowebsolutions.com I asked him to tailor it specifically to writers and he did so very well. I’ll pass on your compliment. Rod is a guest speaker on my non-fiction writing course that I run in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Fiona