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Tell us about another blogger who has influenced your own online journey.

I have written about my friend and mentor, Tilly Bud of the thelaughinghousewife.wordpress.com fame, a few times. She is one of the funniest people that I know, she is also warm and kind. Her blog is really something to look at and once you visit, you will find yourself hooked. She has written quite a few posts sharing tips and advice about building a good blog; getting more traffic, titling your posts better, embedding links and adding pictures. She helped me a lot with these tips and also pointed me toward the right direction by diversifying my blog into two separate blogs, keeping subject matter to each own blog. That helped me enormously in only a matter of weeks, I have now two separate audiences; one for my personal blog and the other for my political blog.

I so recommend visiting http://www.the;aughinghousewife.wordpress.com. You will be happy that you did and I promise that you will leave her blog with a smile on your face.

A parenting forum that I am reblogging

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I thought that this was quite interesting, given that when you are released from the hospital with your newborn and all that they give you is a pamphlet, any forum with thoughts on parenting might be welcome.

Parenting And Stuff

OK, I know, not all of you waited for this moment exactly, but I worked so hard on it, I needed to get your attention, didn’t I? 😉

For those of you who followed my journey, and for those who have no idea what I’m talking about:

I promised (here)

I complained (a lot, here )

And finally I made it!  Here:

 www.parents-space.com

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Some excellent advice

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I am reblogging some excellent advice from my blogging mentor. I am so glad that I found her and I have my writing buddy over at Wee Scoops to thank for my introduction into the wonderful world of Tilly Bud.

The Laughing Housewife

A lot of my subscribers are fairly new bloggers  (which, I suspect, is why they subscribe here – they don’t know any better).

Thank you, new subscribers, for subscribing, however misguided you may be.

Formalities over and naming no names, I have noticed some common errors on my visits to your new blogs, and I thought I would give you some tips that I wish had been given to me early on in my own blogging career:

• Use no more than ten tags, including the category.  Any more than that and search engines think you are spam and put you to the bottom of the list.  Good tags encourage more hits.  Failing that, they garner amusing searches which you can shamelessly turn into their own posts.  Or is that just me?
• Break up paragraphs.  It is difficult to read one huge block of text; people don’t have time to persevere or just can’t be…

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