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Blogging Tips: Where is Your Traffic Coming From? Analyzing Your Statistics

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If you are blogging in the hopes that people will read you, take an interest in what you are saying and come back for more, you will want to add some form of statistical counter to your website. These counters, when added to your website, can provide you with valuable information on your readers. Depending Continue reading →

#BlogWest 2012 Conference: Edmonton, Alberta Mar 8 – 10, 2012 @BlogWest2012

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For the past couple of years I have wanted to attend a blogging conference. These conferences have finally come to Canada, and now, there is even one in my backyard. BlogWest 2012 will be in Edmonton from March 8 – 10, 2012 at the Delta Edmonton Centre Suite Hotel and there are already many fantastic Continue reading →

Learn to Code Your Way Through 2012

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My husband said to me today “I think that internet thing is not going to go away. It is not a fad like Prince once declared.” Funny guy. I predict that by the time our girls graduate, people will be thinking and dreaming in code. So if you want to keep up with the technical Continue reading →

Are You on a Spam Blacklist?

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Lat year, I found out that my email, and therefore I, was considered a spammer. If you are sharing an IP address at all, you may be at risk too! And by sharing an IP address, I mean if you have the basic host plan package through any hosting provider. Just because you have your Continue reading →

Social Networking Buttons and What They Mean

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When you land on most blogs, you will usually see some social network buttons. Social buttons usually serve one of two purposes: To link you to our personal social networking accounts (like my buttons in my header that take you to MY profile on each network) To ask that you share what you are reading Continue reading →

Copyright Infringement: How to Protect Your Content Online

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It happens every day online. Content is copied and stolen and passed off as belonging to someone else. Sometimes it is an image, a paragraph or a whole post. People see a post and think that they probably would have written something like that anyway, so what is the harm, right? The truth is, if Continue reading →

It’s Time for Change.

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  “Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self” ~ Cyril Connolly I feel like I’m about to go on a blind date. Tomorrow, I (and you) will be introduced to my new website. I decided to have my life online redesigned and I’m Continue reading →