I wanted to take a moment to Thank Everyone who voted for my guest post 3 Must Have Basic Elements for More User-Friendly Blog. If you haven’t read and/or tweeted my post, please take a moment to do so. I would appreciate all the support I can get, think of it as a inexpensive, but very appreciated Birthday gift to me. The contest has been extended so please let all your friends and have them Tweet it, Stumble, and DIGG IT too or feel free to link to it! Better yet, do all of the above.

Famous Bloggers Contest Extended

For those who may not realize it yet, the Guest Blogging contest has been extended until April 7th. In a nutshell, the contest was such a hit, that they could not publish all the contest posts by the end of March, so check back frequently to see the other guest posts and show them some luv too. Just show me more luv

Well, I did it. Never knew I could or would, but I did. I finally wrote a post for another blog: Famous Bloggers. I discovered this blog through a couple different sites: Dennis Edell (Personal Direct Sales Marketing Mentor to the New and Struggling) and My Guest Blog (Community of Guests Bloggers).

Never Knew I Could

Now, I think I’m  a very good writer.  I’ve been making my living from my writing for more years than I care to mention   I’m good at what I do and enjoy writing. I can write for a lot of different genres and a wide array of industries. Until this opportunity presented itself, I never thought I could write for another blog that was not “mine” in some way.

Well, it is Feburary isn’t it? Valentines day just makes the luv juices flow. I think in light of that that it was appropiate to send some of my Luv out to 2 of my favorite plugins:  KeywordLuv and CommentLuv.

KeywordLuv

KeywordLuv is a really neat plugin that allows you to share the luv to people that leave comments on your site. For example, instead of just putting you name in the name field you get to put you name in the name field and a little word or two about what you do. That word(s) (notoriously known as Keywords) then translates to a link and that link then links back to your site.

HEADLINE: Video killed technical writing aka “Video killed the Radio Star.” Well, not really, I mean we still have our favorite singers and we still find them mostly through some sort of radio station, be it local, or satellite, or streaming Internet.

The same goes with text and blogging sites. I follow a few bloggers religiously and one day I stumbled across post about using Google to find keywords. Now this post starts out innocently enough with text, but then ends up in a video to explain the meat and potatoes.

I have nothing against videos so don’t get me wrong, however, on this particular day I was reading through the blogs I follow in a Panera Bread on a laptop that has a sound card that doesn’t work. So as you can imagine, the video was a show stopper for me.