Hey Linky Tools Blog friends, I have a way for you to get a LOT of people seeing you and your blog…. As you’ve probably guessed by the infrequency of my posting, I’m so busying providing support for Linky Tools and building new tools, that I’m neglecting the blog. I don’t like that. It’s a wasted opportunity for us both. Linky Tools exists to help bloggers, and the Linky Tools Blog exists to extend that...

Here’s a question from a reader: I’m trying to figure out the best and most cost efficient way to upload pics to my blog.  I was using Blogger but apparently the pics I have on Picasa Web Album are taking up too much space and now I don’t have space to upload using Blogger. I am learning about Flickr.  I would like to get your recommendations on how to best store pics and the best software to use to upload pics to my...

While we are gone on  Abby’s Make A Wish trip, I still want to post on the blog but I’ll do short posts instead of long ones. I would love to answer some questions for you since they are usually great for short quick posts. What questions do you have about blogs, blogging, writing, photos, graphics, online business, Internet, technology or chocolate chip cookies? You would be doing me a big favor if you could leave question or...

No matter how good your content is, if it is not laid out in an easy to read format, you risk losing your readers, and sacrificing valuable exposure in search engines. Ask yourself: does a quick scan down my page give a new reader irrefutable evidence of what the content is all about? You typically have one shot as a reader scans your post title and section headers which will quickly answer, “this blog post is about xxxxxx, I think I’ll...

Actually, it is the most important thing you can ask about anything you think, you do or you want. If such an important question exists, why won’t most readers have a clue what this question is? I think it is because we are not taught to ask tough questions about what we do, what we want, or in this case as a blogger, what we write. It is ingrained in our culture that we simply follow our impulses without stopping to ask this very...