Archive for the ‘Blog Related’ Category
Reviews and Giveaways Trending out on Mom Blogs?
The Past
A year ago when I first started out as a blogger, reviews and giveaways were a staple in the community. In fact, many bloggers were publicly ranked depending on the companies they were touting. Needless to say, influence was quite obvious if you were seen giving away a $600 stroller or a $500...
November 6th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
Blogosphere Post of the Day
Goes to this blogger…hit box it to read the whole post…leave her a comment on behalf of women everywhere.
~Trisha
November 4th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
What sites are in your bookmarks?
I was going through my bookmarks and thought I would share which sites are in mine….maybe a few of these will entertain or help someone. At the very least it may give some incite on what I search on the net.
1) the coolest business cards
2) Phokki – your pictures into art
3) Google Keywords
4)...
November 2nd, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
This post goes out to the people that say
“Little girls in bikinis do NOT attract child molesters.”
“It’s OK for kids to wear thongs.”
Some of Today’s Keywords…
girls in thongs
young girls in thongs
17 year old girls in thongs
pictures of girls in thongs showing the front
thongs little girl
little...
November 2nd, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
MomDot VIP (if you are a member, please read)
I installed a new service on the forum that sweeps the memberships for those not logged in in a specific period of time. I believe it may have deleted some VIP memberships as part of that.
If you are subscribed and find your account doesn’t work you have two choices. You can go to your paypal,...
November 1st, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
Free Wordpress themes for Mom Bloggers
Trisha has been hard at work again making some more free Wordpress themes for all the ladies out there! You may use and alter as you see fit as long as you do not remove the links in the footer.
The Writer
No sidebars. Just you and text. Simple and Sweet.
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Demo
The Writer, 1 sidebar
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Demo
The...
October 26th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
How to make a custom Brush for photoshop (PSD)
If you have photoshop you are already aware of the awesome brushes you can use to customize your online work for scrapbooking, templates, and pictures. There are hundreds of sites online with pre-created brushes like:
Brusheezy
Lord of Design
Brush King
But what happens if you want something more personalized...
October 22nd, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
Comment Love Chat at 9:05 central tonight!
Tonight we are having our 3rd Comment Love Chat!
What is comment love chat?
We all meet in the MomDot Chat room. We have 10-15 predesigned blogs to visit. Everyone that meets will visit the blogs in a row and get caught up on that persons blog and leave a comment. We generally get from 2-4 comments per...
October 21st, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
Out of town and some info..
Those of you that are stopping by wondering where the hell the content is….well, I am going out of town in an hour so there is none.
I am heading off to see some layouts of the new house we are building (did i just say layout like I was building a template? I need to get out more) and then to...
October 15th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
Comment Love Chat tonight at 930pm
This first one was such a big hit, tonight we are having our 2nd Comment Love Chat!
What is comment love chat?
We all meet in the MomDot Chat room. We have 10-15 predesigned blogs to visit. Everyone that meets will visit the blogs in a row and get caught up on that persons blog and leave a comment. We...
October 13th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
Free Girly Wordpress Themes
Free Girly Wordpress Themes!
I am adding some of the Free wordpress themes I am creating today for you to download. You may use and alter as you see fit as long as you do not remove the links in the footer.
1) Blogger Butterfly Free Wordpress Theme- 3 columns, left and right sidebars, widgetized, fall...
October 12th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
Free Flower and Butterfly Stock Photos
To add to the free stock photos you may take from my site to use for any of your posts, here are some shots I took at the Seward Farms this weekend.
Please note that you can use any of the pictures to illustrate posts or beautify your site (and I would be flattered if you did) but please toss me a link...
October 12th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
SEO Tips for Bloggers 101
This morning we had our SEO 101 class and I think it went great! We had a lot of material to cover and our 30 minute class went for about an hour (and I even talked fast!).
We covered:
Basic SEO and your site
Importance of Fresh Content
Keywords
No Follow/Do Follow
Image links
Deep Linking
Link Baiting
Article...
October 9th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
Comment Support Night is Tonight!
This is who I have signed up. YOU MUST HAVE A FORUM MEMBERSHIP because our chat room signs you in based on your credentials.
Kristie
Cat
Brittany
The Shopping Mama
Lisa
Shannon
Jacqueline
Stefanie
Faythe
Frantic Holly
Kasandria Reasoner
Trish
Janis @ SneakPeek
Dee
Cheryl
Dee (DeeLan
Brandy
Betsy
Jen
Kasey@All...
October 7th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
Our Community Classes
In response to all the newer bloggers that have been approaching us, starting next week we are hosting a variety of “classes” all month long to help bring support and assistance into our blogging community.
ALL SESSIONS ARE FREE, however we do require that you are part of our forums in order...
October 5th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
Free stock photos for your Blog
We all know I love to take pictures. I am going to add posts periodically with free stock photos and if you would like to take use for your blog, you may do so. All I ask is that you give me a tiny credit link back to MomDot in your post or on your blog in exchange.
You may alter the photos for your...
October 5th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
Has social networking killed the mother?
Actually, let me rephrase. Has social networking killed the the mother, the teenager, the neighborhood block parties, and family dinners? There is no doubt with the onslaught of social sites like Facebook, Ning, microblogging twitter, Myspace, WP, Blogger, Stickam and of course promotion sites like...
October 1st, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
I just added one of those post view things
on the blog posts. Unfortunately it obviously cannot back count, so I have posts that say “2 views” with 150 comments. It’s going to look like my site skipped 4th grade math. Kinda like I skipped 4th grade grammar (don’t all nod at once here).
I think it adds to the imperfection...
September 29th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
Top 20 reasons you Need “Bloggers Anonymous” Award
You may need Bloggers Anonymous if you
1)You start referring to your blogging buddies in conversations with your RL friends and assume they know who you are talking about “Oh, let me tell you what Tena said today” “Kim did the funniest thing”
2)You tweet, kirtsy, stumble upon,...
September 29th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
PR Professionalism: Double Standard?
During Type A mom there was a luncheon/speaker session. This description was taken from the Type A Mom website regarding the topic:
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Working with Companies
Companies want to work with bloggers, and most bloggers want to work with companies. From reviews...
September 29th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
Top 10 Wordpress Plugins for Mom Blogs
As a mom blogger my needs vary differently than many online sites and there are plugins out there that can be extremely useful to make sure you are functioning at the highest capacity.
Here are the plugins that truly assist my Mom Blog site on a daily basis:
1) Akismet: Come on, this one was a given....
September 28th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
So You’re a newbie blogger
It happens every day. You hear of a mom blogger that you never knew existed and she is now everywhere and you wonder, now how do I do that?
What does she have that I don’t have?
Marketing online can be quite scary in a sea of thousands upon thousands of blogs and finding where you belong can seem...
September 23rd, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
How to get a sponsorship to a convention
With BlogHer just folding up and new tickets already for sale, TypeAMomCon just around the corner and the upcoming Mom 2 Summit, bloggers are all abuzz about sponsorships, scholarships, and partnerships with companies to help pave the costly way.
I wanted to bring in a few ways to work with Public Relations...
September 22nd, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
Do you have a BRAG?
Alright, have at it…lets hear every bragging moment from the small to the tall that you have to brag about recently.
Get a great review? Have record numbers on your blog? Get a promotion at work? Kids learning to walk? Its ALL important here!
It can be about your blog, your family, your kids and...
September 21st, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
Who is going to BlogHer?
All three MomDot Admins will be there and we are throwing an exclusive dinner party. All of our spots are filled except one. That being said, is anyone interested in taking our last spot?
Its on Thursday at 8:30 and will be easy to get to. If your interested in filling our final spot, please let me...
June 3rd, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
Braggity, Brag, Brag, Brag
Alright, have at it…lets hear every bragging moment from the small to the tall that you have to brag about recently. Since linky is down, I cant ask for links for boutiques or blogs, so instead I’m asking you tell me everything great going on in your life.
It can be about your blog, your...
June 1st, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
Top 50 Most Influential Bloggers and Online Moms
In response to the incomplete work that Nielson did last week, leaving out some of the best of the best (hello, any list that leaves out 5M4M and My Charming Kids did little, if no, research) we are putting out our response and creating the Top 50 most Influential Bloggers and Women Online we feel...
May 12th, 2009 | Blog Related, Features | Read More
How to Find a Web Hosting Provider
How to Find a Web Hosting Provider for How to Thursday
(ok, so we missed it on Tuesday):
In addition to being a partner here at MomDot, I have my own Mom and baby product review blog over at The Not-So-Blog. Honestly, I began my blogging journey as a way to enter contests and win free stuff (Trisha...
May 7th, 2009 | Blog Related | Read More
Are companies taking advantage of Bloggers?
Dear General Mills,
I am not sure I would make statements like this anymore:
Overall, the program resulted in 5 million total impressions and over 8,000 comments with no media costs. (General Mills does not buy ads on blogs, Witt said.)
1) First off, Mr. Witt (Can I call you Dimwitt? Oh, your used to...
May 5th, 2009 | Blog Related, Questions And Controversy | Read More
















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