According to Creative Commons, your original content on your blog post is automatically copyrighted. You still might want to make your desires clear to readers who’re interested in using your material. Continue reading “How to Copyright Your Blog Post”
For several years I’ve heard bloggers express concern about duplicate content. I finally found two articles that explain it very well. If you are a blogger and want to guest-post on other blogs or want to use content from other sites, you really should familiarize yourself with the effects of duplicate content for Google searches Continue reading “What to Do about Duplicate Content”
Marketers and eMail services have analyzed tens of millions of eMails to help you know when the best time might be to send your eMails. The time of day is one of the most important factors. Continue reading “When Is the Best Time to Send Your eMail?”
UPDATE (June 3, 2014): Because it’s important not to lose people in a trail of clicks, I made our “Join our team!” tab at the top of our site as a link straight to give.cru.org (Use Appearance / Menus in WordPress) . I still have the two pages I describe below so I can send a potential donor to these for information. Anyone on our site can get to these through a “table of contents” in the right sidebar.
I’ve got an idea for you today that will take less than an hour, but would be a huge positive step to take at the beginning of the year.
Continue reading “Start the new year with an up-to-date giving page on your blog or website”
UPDATE (June 10, 2014): Visit a revision of this post at Cutting Out the Spam: Disguising Your Email Address (and Phone).
If you don’t want spam, don’t post your eAddress on the internet (or your Twitter name with the @ sign).
Spammers use computer software to search for the @ sign so they can harvest your email address. (Because I’m using it in this post, I’ll get more hits.) They might also be searching for the “mailto:” HTML code for your email link.
WordPress.com support recommends you use a contact form on your blog or website for people to reach you, but if you’d like to put your email address on a webpage (or that’s your only option), try one of these work-arounds Continue reading “Don’t Post Your Email Address on the Internet”
I’m sure you’re well aware of Black Friday , Small Business Saturday , and Cyber Monday. Our national holiday to celebrate the goodness of God has become a retail-driven shopping frenzy! There’s a good change in 2012, though.
Several organizations and philanthropists, including Bill Gates, started a national campaign promoting #GivingTuesday, a day to volunteer and/or donate to charitable causes. Continue reading “Today is the First #GivingTuesday”
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