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As you or may not know I also run a site called The People History and I have created a number of A4 size posters which are ideal for a Birthday Present, Anniversary Gift or reunion hand out. Below is an example from 50 years ago in 1959. You can print it or save it to your computer and print it from there. The Years created so far are 1929, 1934, 1939, 1949, 1950, 1954, 19551958, 1959, 1961,

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Major update with over 120 blogs deleted who have not posted in the last 60 days If you know of any blogs we do not have included please use the form at the end of that guide to request inclusion on our bloggers list which means they will be added to our latest posts widgetThis service is free with no advertising and no data collection and is a service for bloggers to keep up with fellow bloggers

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Some time ago Callie posted on her blog about our latest way to save on this winters fuel bills Cumberland Pellet Stove, We were so pleased with it we bought a second stove ( It is an old converted barn with 3 floors and insulation does not exist ) . So now they are both installed and the joy of having a warm home all rooms is a joy and I am sure we will save plenty on our gas bill ( One

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1stQuestion : What Is Blogger In DraftAnswer : It is where Google tries out new features before making them available in full blown bloggerQuestion : How do you get to or Use Blogger In DraftAnswer : Just choose blogger in draft and do your blogging in that environmentQuestion : Will my blog get messed upAnswer : I would guess that the chances are good everything will work fineI thought I would

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Click on the Graphic To See More detailsBloggers who have a specific interest can now meet like minded local bloggers to share a coffee or just interact in the real world.I came across this today and did some checking for some of the communities The Power Guides Covers For examples below are maps they have for Horse Lovers MeetupsHorse Lovers1,843 Members 41 citiesBird Watchers MeetupsBird

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Hi all you WordPress Bloggers just a check you might want to do if you run a Wordpress Blog To Check your blog is not hackedSearch Google for something the name of your blog or distinct description from your blogClick on your blog from Google Search resultsAnd Check it goes to your blogIf you have been hacked it may well redirect to a "mega search" site or another site which could be even

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I created this as I thought it would be pretty cool to share .I have created this to share with the great family of Horse BloggersBut is also ideal forBirdwatchers, Artists, Fishermen, Fashion and Clothes, Food and Cooking etcGet 1 person to create it ( Find It on Slide )then get others in your community to host a copy as well , great way to share within a community. PS I set it up for verify to

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This blog post tries to explain some of the implications for YOUR internet access following the passing of the Cope Act , these are my own opinions and I would be quite happy to be corrected if I have got it wrong.To give it it's full title Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act (Cope Act) 2006.Congress passes the Cope Act by 321-101 votes.What Is the Communications Opportunity

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Important ---- Important Changes to AdSense Terms & ConditionsPrivacy Policy Must now be implemented if running AdsenseOn February 26th Google implemented a new set ofAdSense terms & conditions and program policies.Most times I suspect like most other small publishers I just hit the yes to accept button and thought no more about it.This latest T's & C's are much more important because you must

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A quick guide to how to use Google Presentation to provide easy to show content on your blog, The first presentation provides an overview of what it can achieve , the second presentation is a practical use I used on another blog. One more great advantage to this Software is that if you wish to add or edit a slide you do not have to change the code on your page.Below is an example of using

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Due to the very large number of Equine Now Horse Adds the blog has been removed from The Power Guides Horse Bloggers ListingsIf you wish to keep up with horses for sale below is the Linkhttp://www.equinenow.com/horses.htmThis goes with our overall concept that no blog or RSS feed should dominate our latest posts widget.PS we have also added an additional 30 new horse blogs over the last 2

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The Internet and websites and blogs is still growing exponentially so being realistic on how many visitors your blog or site will attract is a fact of life below are some of the factors that come into play.Age of website, blog or pageThe search engines are inundated with websites and blogs trying to make a fast buck and one of the many ways they deal with it is by looking how long the page has

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Google is still the undisputed king of Search and with many of the companies they have purchased and the additions to the portfolio are becoming the Undisputed King Of The InternetGoogle Search still the best search ( sometimes takes a while to catch up with spammers but does do eventually )Google News ( To search local news but honestly seems to be lacking many great sources ) maybe should be

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I have referred in a few posts to affiliate marketing and thought I would explain how it works best for bloggers.Additional Ways To Earn Money From Your Blog Include Affiliate MarketingDone correctly it can provide a great additional source of income.Most bloggers if they do become involved in an affiliate agreement just sign up with an affiliate company and add a few banners in the side bar ,

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How to monetize a blog like The Power Guides BlogThe Power Guides Blog is a purely informational blog and at some time after putting many hours of work into providing free information , most bloggers would like to make some money for all their hard work .So What are the options for Contextual Advertising1 Contextual AdvertisingTo most webmasters who run websites the most obvious one that comes to

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Using Google Docs PresentationI thought this might be interesting for some of those in the blogging community .I have used this on a project of mine where I wanted to include a number of old war time posters in a single easy to run application and to add a small amount of text for each slide you can find my attempt at the end of this post.It could be useful for a blogger who wanted to create a

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Separating the Myths from the realities of earnings from your blogFacts, Fiction, Dreams and Everything In Between on Expectations of earning big money from your blog ( I will quantify that by saying big money ranges from enough to live on upwards )So You Have A Blog and Want To Get Rich QuicklyIs It Going To Happen Sorry To Disappoint you in 90% of cases NON , NO and "In Your Dreams"So what

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One of the weaknesses of Google Blogger is no easy widget in the templates to display your latest 10 posts .You can place the archiving widget in your sidebar but the problem is options are limited and once chosen often can show to many or to few posts.There are a number of widgets available out there and I will go through just a few.1 My Favorite just put your own feed through Google Reader make

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This post is just to explain about one of the settings in the Feeds Settings and to stop giving everything away without visitors ever coming to your blog and just using a feed reader to view your post .This is a difficult call but I have changed the settings on my Feeder SettingsGo To Settings >>>>> Feeder and change from full to short if you want to do this.I may well turn it back on later to

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One of the things I have noticed over the past few months is that the professional bloggers ( those who make a living from blogging ) not all sectors is this possible but some are.They have specific things they do which the ordinary blogger does not.1. Quote each others blogs with links embedded in the post2. They will often review a subject and put links to 2 or 3 other bloggers posts related to

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So far I have concentrated on gaining new visitors , but we can also gain more page views and if we have advertising a better chance of our visitors clicking an advert.When we create a post generally the post is about something we have knowledge about and often we may have posted some more but different information about that subject in an earlier post.There are two distinct advantage to

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I have touched on using Stats Tools to gain more trafficBlog Rolls To Gain More TrafficLatest Posts Widgets to gain more trafficSo I thought I would include some of the other ways to promote your blog,I have listed them in no particular order but all are important and they are all freejust a question of spending time and effortGaining Traffic through involvement in Forums1. The most used forms of

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I am an avid believer that your success in blogging and adding a wider audience is based on your participation in the blogging community.It is not just about you writing great posts about your own specific area of knowledge but taking the time and effort to read and comment on other bloggers posts.So today I wanted to talk about first can be best I am going to use my Food and Cooking latest

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What's In A TitleI was thinking about this today while I was working through some new blogs to add and it struck me The Blog Name, and The Post Title are your advertising slogan for that wonderful post you may have spent an hour writing.I will take some examples of Good Blog Names and Post Titles to try and explainThe Blog Name : In The GardenThe Post Title : Yucca, Another Good Plant for

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Each Blogger Blog comes with the default search in the top left hand corner on the Blogger toolbar ( most people miss it and does not get used that much )Graphic belowThe Best AlternativeIf you have an Adsense account it is easy to create a Google search box to search your blog and even better you can earn money with it , ( Graphic Below ). I am a great believer in this as an option because it

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The Internet continues to evolve and one of the latest innovations is called Pay Per Post using middle man / website. ( Please go to to the end of the page about e-mails coming out of the blue offering to pay you to post about a product or service )What Is Pay Per Post ?Pay Per Post is when one Company / Blogger pays a Blogger to write a post about their products or services .How Does It Work?

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There is a rich vein of traffic to be gained for bloggers and from my checking around blogs over 70% do not tap this great traffic generation tool.So Here are the steps to gaining that traffic1 Insert Image or photo using standard Google add image tool2. Now you have inserted the image find the the following in the code alt=""it is shown in the graphic in yellow highlighter3. Where you see the

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It is so easy to get carried away adding widgets, videos and to many other graphics links to your blog , it makes it look like a fun place to visit with lots to look at BUT Here are few things to rememberWhen you visit a blog or website graphics are often cached on your own computer so the next time you visit the page will load faster ( so you will see a different blog page load time than first

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For most bloggers one of the signs of success is how many visitors comment , it shows they took the time to read your post .So can you increase the number of comments you receive easily an Emphatic YES with just a little thoughtOK lets say you wrote a post about why the bees are dissapearing and did lots of research to create a well informed article explaining some of the reasons , and telling

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The Power of AdvertisingWhat I Have Found Works Over YearsOK check out some earlier posts about gaining free traffic first before you think about spending hard earned money to tell the world about your blog Using You Blog Roll To Gain Traffic What Can I Do When Nobody Is Visiting My BlogHow To Gain More Traffic To Your BlogSo you have checked all those but you are not gaining traffic quickly

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I am continuing to tune this blog for SEO so thought I would share some of tuning I have done in the last couple of days1. Changing Archive Widget Settings One of the problems with not displaying the full archive Hierarchy is that is not easy to see all the latest posts ( As you can see I chose flat list as my option with Months ) but if you are a daily poster and using the full full archive

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I can take no credit for this hack , I found it here I consider it a Good Blogger Optimization Tip Let me explain on an earlier post I discussed the amount of unique content on a page and that the more unique content the better , but we all like to add things to help our visitors understand what our blog is aboutOr in the case I am using you will find the two below listed on the homepage but not

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The number and complexity of differing criteria for measuring a pages right to be listed on the first page include The content on the page including the Words being searched for . Is the content Unique ( Does Search Engine have the exact same paragraphs in store already ) from your site or did somebody else publish it firstSemantics difficult to explain but if your page was about cars the search

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How Long Should Your Posts Be?It depends but one very important factor is how the search engines will see your post ( and if seen as unique content ) and the big problem with most blogging platforms is the amount of other stuff on the page which all counts as words when the search engine goes to index your page.It is thought most Search Engines are looking for between 30% and 60% of unique

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The biggest problem for new blogs is getting discouraged because no one is visiting or leaving comments .So here are a few things to think about forget about who visits, use your blog as a form of relaxation and even if you are creating an information guide ( do not be discouraged ) as they say Rome wasn't built in a day.I know it can be discouraging to take the time and effort to write with no

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The last post was all about tuning your blog by managing the amount of outgoing links ( Including Blog Rolls ) now lets look at this in more depth why all links are not equal both in and outWhat are considered good links out by Search EnginesWell Search Engines look for links out to authority sites on a similar subject I will give examples after all the rabbiting I will doWhat are considered good

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I have a good friend who is thinking about starting a new blog that she wants to use as an informational blog and this is the reason I decided to write this post.Tuning Your Blog To help With Search Engine RankingSearch Engines and the way they decide on what to put at the top of the results can only be called a mystery black box and Nobody Knows Exactly All The Criteria Search Engines use for

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I touched on going out to other blogs and leaving comments in an earlier post, hopefully they will come back to visit youBut this time I thought I would include an additional piece of information , when you post comments it does not matter where you started from as your url / or blogger profile will provide a way to find out about you .Now lets look at using your Blog Roll to gain traffic .The

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Sometimes when you start research it seems impossible that you will find new suitable blogs to include , Our Farming Bloggers guide was a good example .I had lots of RSS feeds for agriculture information from Government departments including state and federal but the actual number farming blogs was very weak , so I spent 2 days looking and searching because I knew there must be more out there and

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Ideas and using to Create Blog Posts To Post at Later DateIf you sit down with a blank sheet of Paper ( Or In our Case ) To Write A New Post it is often difficult to think of anything to write about so here are a few tipsWell if you have been a good blogger as we talked about in earlier posts when your surfing around I am sure you must see posts that remind you of some thing from your experience

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Sorry The Power Guides Down Time the Shared Hosting with Hostway seems to be up and down today more down than up and this seems to have been getting worse over the last few days , may well need to look for alternative hosting if no suitable answer comes back from Hostway ( ticket placed 8:00 ) and no update yetsorry for about The Power Guides Down , you can still get through to the maps on Google

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This is a hard subject but it depends on if you are blogging to keep a journal of your family and life or if you want a large number of people to visit your blog and maybe even make a little money through Adsense or something similarI am a firm believer in running one blog where you can post anything and everything about life , family, and the world we live in , but the disadvantage to this is

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Applying good manners and protecting yourself while blogging which for the sake of this post I have called Blog Etiquette and Rules Of Engagement .1. When posting remember that your words may well be read by anybody and everybody and if you say things you may regret later they will still be available even if you delete them ( there are archiving tools which keep old copies of your page ) if your

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This is a follow on from my last postYou Wrote A Post About your Border CollieSo you wrote this great post about your Border Collie how Intelligent, Cute, Loving and just the best dog in the world and you have included some cute picture ( What makes you think I love Border Collies Myself and have one ).So now what do we just sit and wait for somebody to visit us ( not going to happen ) but you

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Hmm well now comes the decisionsWho Is The blog for ?1 Do You want to keep it as a personal journal similar to old fashioned hand writen diary or journalIf so just choose in settings permission just blog author2 Do you just want family or close friendsIf so Just choose in settings permission only those I inviteBy default Blogger defaults to everyoneThe choices above are designed for journal self

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Google has a large raft of some of the best in class products includingGmail, Google Maps, Google Reader, Google Search, Google Custom Search, Picasa, Google Docs, Google Scholar, Google News, Google Video / Youtube, Google IM / Talk, Google 411 some very little known about and some becoming the standard which others follow, and the list goes on. I also have a few weak Google Apps to talk about.

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The Power Guides is not a Blog / Website directory in the traditional sense , we do not require a link back for a blog to be included but if bloggers do it is appreciated .Would you like to display any or all of these latest blog posts or Bloggers Maps on your blog or website or add your blog to our guides please Click HereOur Guides are not designed to give an outgoing link as all links are

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A series of Guides I originally posted on Google Blogger Groups My Groups ID end of articlesGetting visitors to your blog and getting the Links needed for people to find your blog are getting harder and harder to find, But here are A few tips The most important quickest and cheapest way to gain traffic to your blog is to take the time to go out to other blogs and take the time and effort to make

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Social networking has taken off beyond any expectations with blogs, and social networking sites including Myspace, Orknut, Friendster, Facebook and many others there are so many. Now with a little thought and work you can create your own social network that you friends and family can use and share for free from Google.Steps needed to create your own family and friends social networkingCreate a

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Clicking any of the graphics will make them larger and easier to view1. Open Google Maps and choose My Maps2 Fill In the name of your map and some detail and also click the privacy settings so your map will not be found in Google SearchesNow enter an address or Town, City, State Country for your first entry as you can see a small downward green arrow shows that location.Next there is a little

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It is difficult sometimes to make hard decisions but as The Power Guides continues to grow with close to 360 additional blogs added this week , the pruning also continues with any blogs not posted since 31st January not removed from blog roll.I have looked at it as if I check feeds everyday if I have a subscribed feed that has not posted in over a month should I include in the feeds I subscribe

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We are now creating maps to go with each Bloggers Guide when applicable the first to come on line are Bird Watchers, Horse Lovers and Gardeners check them out still loads of blogs to add but pretty cool to find bloggers interested in the same subject near youFind Top Gardening Bloggers On Google MapsFind Top Horse Bloggers On Google MapsOur New Bird Watcher Blogs On Google MapsFollowing a

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We monitor Blogs for the following three criteria before removing1 Content not match Category ( sometimes from visitor feedback and sometimes when we pop out to monitor blog posts ) Thanks Daffy for helping with this2 If a blog has been dormant for longer than 4 months we will delete so we have just deleted and with last post in October ( this week 18 deleted for this reason )3 If a blog posts on

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Inclusion In The Power Guides1 Blog must post between 5 and 120 posts per month ( From 1 post every 6 days to a maximum of 4 posts per day )2 Blog must be 75% focused on a specific subject3 Blog Must be user friendly without popups - popunders etc.4 Blog must contribute something different not just rehash of other blogs5 Blog must have been online for over two months and have enough good content

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How We Maintain The Power Guides Using Google ReaderSteps to Managing Feeds Google Reader ( Need a Google E-Mail Account to Start ) is a great tool for keeping up with the blogosphere and is easy and quick to use , because of some of the tools included maintenance and organization is easy. Some of the tools included, uses and advantages are listed below.Add Subscription Simple and easy to use

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Blogging SEO Tips To Gain More Traffic And Making Your Blog SEO Friendly To Gain More TrafficSimple Way To Gain More Page Views Working With Other Bloggers To Gain More Traffic Other Free Ways To Promote Your Blog Self Promotion Using Your Photos In Blogs to gain extra traffic Page Load Time Correlation to Visitor Numbers Adwords Advertising For Your Blog Continueing The Tuning Process On This

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The News sections on each Guide are being removed due to the work monitoring posts and problems with creating to many new posts each day to keep up with.This is a shame in some ways as we were putting blogs or forums that posted over 10 posts per day in these sections and they can not go in with other latest posts from smaller blogs because they would swamp the smaller blogs and the same problems

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This is a new site and a new concept designed for the end user to find the newest blog posts from around the world .Unlike many blog directories we do not require bloggers to provide a link back to be included and criteria for inclusion is based purely on merit.Tell us how we can improve our offerings or additional specific categories we should include.We hope you like The Power Guides and what

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Would you like one of the widgets you see for your blog or website just fill in the form and hey presto, you can add something interesting to your blog or siteChoose the Guide You like and under the latest posts fill in the form with your requestSteveThe Power Guides

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The Power Guides was built because of the frustration caused by two issues1. My wife is a keen blogger and understands that if she wanted people to visit and comment on her blog she needed to go out to other bloggers and comment on their latest posts , but she would spend 75% of her time going to blogs where the blogger was busy, sick or just had nothing to say for a few days , so over a period

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