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[...]I wrote about keyword tools not too long ago and suggest that people do their own research. Here’s my present to all of those Indiana bloggers (and bloggers from everywhere else) — a link to SEO Book’s Keyword Tool.
It’s a beautiful keyword research tool that [...]
Douglas Karr discovers an unpublished Twitter function — Autofollow. He also uses Twitter as his search engine.
I�??m currently following 341 folks on Twitter. I contacted Twitter and asked them to enable �??auto-follow�??. That means that if you follow me, I automatically follow [...]
Want to learn about blogging from the experts and connect with some of the movers and shakers in the Indiana blogosphere? Make sure to check out the Blog Indiana 2008 conference. It’s sponsored by Indiana University’s School of Informatics and will be held in August [...]
Stand up and be counted, Indiana bloggers.
Blog Indiana 2008 is taking an Indiana blog census.
[...]Do you want to know what keywords are bringing traffic to a site?
I know that you do — or are at least a little curious about what brings visitors to various blogs and websites on the net.
Compete.com gives a look at the keywords that make various sites on the internet [...]
The Top 3 pages for the search word “Blogs,” according to Google:
Blogger — a Google property that allows people to write their own blog.
Blog - Wikipedia — Google always loves Wikipedia.
Google Blog Search — another Google property [...]
My recent post asking if E85 prices are set artificially high and Buzzcut’s post about paying $3.50 for E85 are both three and four respectively on Google right now for the keyword “E85 Prices.”
This [...]
There’s no secret to becoming a six-figure blogger. There are plenty of websites out there that tell bloggers how to blog better, what tools to use and how to monetize their blogs.
What the make money blogging writes never say — or I haven’t seen it mentioned — is that it [...]
I read something recently that makes a lot of sense.
People are wired to listen and to respond to stories. Almost every part of our life involves some sort of storytelling. Work, play, religion, politics and every other place or situation where someone tries to teach, inform or persuade involves telling [...]
Looking for photos to add to your blog? Don’t forget to check out Creative Commons licensed photos. Flickr.com is a great source of Creative Commons photos that are licensed for bloggers (and others). Check the license rules — most require that the photo be credited and [...]
The prefix “www” is going the way of the dodo bird. There’s no need to use it to get to most sites on the internet. It’s just a holdover from the early days of the web when people needed the prefix to let them know they’d be visiting a web [...]
Why do you follow the people you follow on Twitter?
I try to follow some “A-Listers” because they have insights. But, if I see someone who has put out an interesting Tweet someplace, I’ll add them to the list. I’ve also been trying to follow people who seem interesting who are [...]
All humans are hardwired genetically with a desire to create.
This creativity takes different forms. Some people work on projects around the house. Others build things. The list of creative activities human beings have devised is endless and stretches back into the furthest reaches of history.
Everyone expresses himself or herself in [...]
Twitter seems to be all the rage these days. Just today there was a post about 31 WordPress people who should be followed on Twitter if you’re really into that blogging software. Other people sending out Tweets are as varied as there are people on the planet. From bloggers to [...]
If you’re using Twitter, you’ve probably noticed that most people use some form of URL redirection to shorten their links because of the limitations presented by Twitter’s 140 character limit.
If you have your own server, you can run your own URL redirection service. Shorty makes it easy. Just [...]
NWI Blogs is back online after a short hiatus.
The site is still brand new, so let me know if you find anything that isn’t working properly. Also, I’m running this via a free hosting plan for the time being while I’m experimenting — if you don’t want to see the [...]
Welcome to NWI Blogs. This is my first post of the latest incarnation of this blog. Please enjoy your visit!
[...][…] should be forwarding in a little while to this page: ChristopherHedges.com/nwi-blogs/ as soon as the new address information is propagated throughout the internet. Share and Enjoy: […]
[...]Google Trends is showing “April Fools” has a medium hotness in search volume today.
Are you planning any April Fools jokes today?
We’ve already had a taste of how April Fools works in the international world of the internet.
Tim Ferriss posted [...]
Does April Fools Day influence your post selections?
Have you written up a gag post for today?
I wrote up several posts over the weekend had them set to automatically appear throughout the week on my other blog. Because April 1st is April Fools Day, I purposely rearranged the order of when [...]
How can an author spend so much time on himself, when he is always blogging? Outsource the blogging to virtual assistants.
Tim Ferriss, the author of the “4 Hour Work Week,” writes about how he hasn’t written a post for his blog [...]
As I have been and out of the WordPress control panel this weekend, I’ve been looking at the notice that “A new version of WordPress is available!”
WP 2.5 has been officially available for a couple of days now and it looks like a [...]
The South Shore Progressive is back after a hiatus.
I’d like to introduce you to Hoosier Deb who will be helping me out by contributing to SSP.
Last fall, I had to take a second job and recently things have been picking up with [...]
Just as pruning a plant will help it to grow, cutting back on clutter — both physical and mental — can help with personal and professional growth.
Erin Doland of Unclutterer writes a guest post on The Simple Dollar about the [...]
Law blogger Susan Cartier Liebel shares some blogging tips, including how changing her design increased her readership and business by 50%.
You read that correctly, fifty percent. … (W)hen you improve design (properly) clients respond on an unconscious level. It’s a [...]
If you haven’t been over to Google today, check it out. The normally white background found on one of the internet’s most popular search engine Google has gone black in celebration of Earth Hour.
Google’s own blog says that going black might increase energy usage [...]
Everyone has their own blogging style.
Some post just a little, every so often. Others post a whole lot, all the time. Others consistently post one item every day.
Which works the best for you?
Do you set blogging goals, such as having at least one post per day on your blog?
For consistently [...]
NWIblogs.com is back up again! The Blog Carnival is posted over at Christopher Hedges.
Make sure to submit your posts for the next carnival — submit by clicking on the Blog Carnival graphic in the sidebar.
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[...]If you’re a Northwest Indiana blogger and have something to share with the community, please feel free to sign up for a NWIblogs contributor account where you’ll be able to write a post to submit for review.
Northwest Indiana businesses and others who help build up NWI’s quality of life and [...]
This post was submitted by guest contributors and realtors Jeff & Grace Safrin
Northwest Indiana has been referred to as a ” Suburb of Chicago ” because of it’s close proximity to this Big City and the fact that several counties in NW Indiana border the Illinois State Line.
The [...]
One of the best ways to build your blog’s readership is to make sure to read other bloggers’ blogs and make meaningful comments on them. A well-written comment on someone’s blog could lead them right back to your blog so that they can leave a thought-provoking comment on yours.
Blogging shouldn’t [...]
Need to get some traffic to your blog?
Posting about popular culture can always bring in lots of new readers to your blog.
My American Idol posts — basically live blogging while watching the singing competition — have been an easy and enjoyable way to increase readership at Christopher [...]
Everyone wants to make a little — or a lot — of money blogging.
When I go surfing and deactivate Ad Block Plus, I see many bloggers running Adsense ads — one of the most popular and easy to use advertising programs available to information and influence [...]
Welcome to the March 19, 2008 edition of NWI Blog carnival.
Chris Hedges presents Bobby Jindal for VP? posted at Christopher Hedges, saying, “An argument that John McCain would do well to chose Lousiana governor Bobby Jindal to be his VP.”
The NWI Influence and Info Community presents [...]
Don’t forget to submit your posts to the NWI Blog Carnival — entry box is on the right side bar — or else the NWI Blog Carnies might have to go out and find some of your interesting posts on their own.
The deadline is 11 a.m. tomorrow, so make sure [...]
The Drunken Swede conjures images of massive consumptions of gallons and gallons of alcohol. Unfortunately, the only thing drinking alcohol is a vehicle being filled with E85 ethanol flex fuel.
It should be interesting to see how Buzzcut’s E85 experiments turn out. Making it more interesting [...]
Most bloggers are reading blogs the wrong way, especially the larger alpha bloggers who dominate the blogosphere.
If you want to read a blog for entertainment or to keep up with current trends, read it the way it is displayed, usually in chronological order.
If you want to figure out the secrets [...]
Aseem Kishore argues that mimicry is one way to ensure that your blog survives in a world where hundreds of thousands of new blogs come on the scene daily.
A good deal of the success of the blog [...]
Steve Spicer has a portion of his website dedicated to Octave Chanute’s aviation experiments conducted on the Indiana Dunes in Miller, Indiana.
Modern writers of aviation history recognize Chanute’s experiments and their importance to the development of powered flight. Histories of flight, like Dr. Tom Crouch’s [...]
La vache qui rit proposes Valparaiso annex Chesterton:
The enlightened citizens of the Grand Duchy of Valparaiso propose to annex the barbarian-occupied hinterlands immediately beyond the northern borders of the Grand Duchy. The Duchy would thus extend to Indian Boundary Road, beyond [...]
I deleted my blogroll of NWI Blogs by accident when I was experimenting with a brand new plug in. The plug in didn’t cause the problem, so I’m not going to blame the program for the user’s error.
I should have NWI’s blogs relisted sometime over the weekend.
Another lesson learned — [...]
John M. Willis has a gallery of the 10 worst CAPTCHAs on the internet.
I can never read CAPTCHAs.
Blogger is the worst — I always have to reenter the code.
Too bad spammers ruin everything for us.
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Everyone is feeling the effects of the economy.
Things are slowing down in certain sectors. People are worried about layoffs. Companies are realigning their assets to best prepare for slower times. Gasoline prices and other consumer prices are through the roof — along with taxes — while income lags behind these [...]
Newspaper employees whose primary job description is blogging have been banned by Dallas Maverick’s Mark Cuban. H/T to Marketing Blueprint for spotting Mark Cuban’s ban controversy.
Right now we have a situation where a blogger that works for [...]
Top 10 Blog - Time Management Tips
Keeping up with what is going on is easy using RSS feeds and a feed reader or start page available on various services. I have a Google Reader account that I use to keep up [...]
The newest edition of the NWI Blog Carnival is up over at Steve Dalton’s Northwest Indiana Blogs!
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Check Out The New Blog Carnival Edition
[...]The Post-Tribune has its own blogs on its own newspaper website. That means that you’ll need to update your links to Jerry Davich, John Byrne and all of the other great blogs over at the P-T.
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Darren Rowse tells all about blog promotion in his post “How I’d Promote My Blog If I Were Starting Again.”
Note the use of the anticipation method for ensuring people keep coming back for more.
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Kevin Tracy spots Kentucky cyber bullying legislation that would require bloggers and other website owners to collect names and addresses of contributors and could face a $500 fine if they didn’t do so.
This is a terrible idea and I hope [...]
Just a quick reminder to make sure to get your blog posts submitted to the NWI Blog Carnival. The deadline is this Wednesday at 11 a.m., so don’t delay.
Special thanks to this week’s host — Steve Dalton of Northwest [...]
Looking for a progressive blog with Northwest Indiana roots and topics? Hoosier Deb at the Daily Kos has your fix of “blue” news to keep you up to date.
Deb talks about a big gathering at Purdue Calumet to watch primary [...]
A Valparaiso fashion blog has gotten some attention from the Northwest Indiana Times.
24-7style.com is run by Leslie Rush and Laura Yoder, reports Melanie Csepiga in today’s lifeStyles section. (I’d link to the story, but can’t find it online yet).
Writes Melanie Csepiga:
The two write a blog with fun ideas, [...]
I’ve enabled an option to allow NWIblogs.com users to register for accounts on this blog.
Registering for an account will allow users to write and submit articles for possible posting on NWIblogs.com.
This is a great opportunity to [...]
Get your posts ready because another NWI Blog Carnival is coming to Northwest Indiana.
This upcoming carnival will be hosted by prolific blogger Steve Dalton at Northwest Indiana Blogs.
The deadline is Wednesday, March 12 at 11 a.m. Pick [...]
Welcome to the March 5, 2008 edition of the NWI Blog Carnival and a big thank you to all of the hard working Northwest Indiana Bloggers out there working to stimulate our minds with all of the great content they’re constantly working on day after day.
Some contributions came [...]
It’s the start of a new week and it’s time again for all Northwest Indiana bloggers to submit a post or two (or even three, if you have some good ones) to the NWI Blog Carnival. Three new contributors have already submitted interesting posts!
Gerry from Valpo spots vegetarian eggs in a newspaper advertisement.
This ad for a company called Egg Innovations touts their eggs as cage-free, drug-free, anabolic-free, hormone-free, worry-free, vegetarian, Omega-3 and finally that magic word. ORGANIC.
The only thing they could possibly do to improve on this [...]
Suzanne Falter-Barnes lists the reasons why blogs are better than conventional websites — including the major factors that blogs are easier to maintain and are quickly picked up by search engines as compared to old fashioned websites.
Personally, I can’t see going back to creating [...]
Want to learn more about blog monetization?
Steve Dalton’s Marketing Blueprint is teaching Northwest Indiana bloggers and others how to make money blogging.
Steve writes that the site is his online diary at what he has learned about earning an online income.
It’ll be fun to watch [...]
The Air Force has banned its members from reading any website with the word “blog” in it’s name, reports Michael Goldfarb in the Weekly Standard.
The Air Force, which needs all the help it can get on the public relations front, has banned access to [...]
Donncha O Caoimah explains how spammers are leaving legitimate comments on your blog while using your comments for keyword link juice on Google.
Think the nofollow tag stops this type of thing? Think again, says Donncha.
You may have noticed legitimate looking [...]
Welcome to the February 27, 2008 edition of the NWI Blog Carnival.
Daltonsbriefs presents A Man for No Seasons posted at Porter County Politics, saying, “Guest author alerts us to terrific article in Times today by Mayor Jon Costas. He suggests that the “no-man” is a [...]
Nichole points out another Northwest Indiana Christianity blog: The Christian Guy. (Thanks Nichole!)
Here’s what The Christian Guy writes about prayer:
Feel like your life as a Christian is dragging? Not quite feeling the [...]
It seems like we just had a Northwest Indiana blog carnival and it’s almost time for another one.
I hope that the NWI Blog Carnival has been instrumental in bringing Northwest Indiana blogs some additional traffic. Blogging in Northwest Indiana is growing every day and this is a way to help [...]
Welcome to the February 20, 2008 edition of the NWI Blog Carnival.
Jean Stevenson presents Game On or Game Over? posted at DripperUnderground.
Susan Killin presents Google & Genealogy posted at Region Roots ~ Northwest Indiana Genealogy.
John Crenshaw presents The Biggest Scam Your Bank Gets [...]
The Lake County Library has another great blog — Region Roots — filled with all sorts of tips to help you track down your genealogical records as well as information about Northwest Indiana genealogy groups.
It’s great to see the local library system adopting blogging to spread the [...]
Submit your posts for the 4th NWI Blog Carnival before Wednesday’s deadline!
It takes about 30 seconds to give your favorite posts some love in the blogosphere.
Submit your post now and share it with the world!
Post [...]
Blogging isn’t just the realm of personal diaries and political punditry.
It’s also a way for businesses to communicate their messages with customers and potential customers.
Northwest Indiana’s First Financial Trust Mortgage has started a Northwest Indiana mortgage blog with the help of Valparaiso blogger and businessman [...]
Photo by Christopher & AmyCate
A blogger writes about spotting an unidentified flying object flying over Schererville, Munster [...]
Northwest Indiana’s religious bloggers have been plugging away.
Check out Devine Spot and Graphoogle to gain some insights into religion and spirituality.
Writes the Devine Family:
Devine Spot exists to encourage our readers to acknowledge our Creator’s Lordship over all areas of life. We write to build marriages, [...]
It seems that Northwest Indiana’s bloggers have mixed feelings about Valentines Day.
Writes Jenuinely:
Valentine’s Day is upon us. The world is vomiting hearts and flowers and cards and candy. Or is that just me wanting to hurl?
Can you tell? I’m not celebrating the lover’s holiday. That’s only because [...]
Welcome to the Great Northwest Indiana Blog Primary 2008.
This is an open primary, so it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat, Republican, Independent, Libertarian or a member of some other party.
Let us know who should be president and why.
I’m always up for some convincing, so sell me on why your [...]
Welcome to the February 13, 2008 edition of the NWI Blog Carnival.
Rob Moshe presents posted at Rob Schaumer, saying, “This is not necessarily a fitting post for your carnival. Once the project starts, each day I will recognize a fellow blogger that “Helped”"
Kimberly Wester presents [...]
Looking for a way to learn more about Indiana’s (and the nation’s) blogosphere in an easy to read format?
Check out Blog Net News.
If you’re a Northwest Indiana blogger, I highly encourage you to submit your blog for inclusion into what is called “the blogosphere’s [...]
Photo by thephotoholic
We have five posts in this week’s Northwest Indiana blog carnival, so far. I’m expecting more as we get closer to tomorrow’s 11 a.m. deadline. (And, if I don’t see some posts, I might [...]
Photo by Samuelalove
For Vocalo.org:
I’m Chris Hedges with the Northwest Indiana blogs you should take a moment to check out.
This edition focuses on bloggers with Gary, Indiana on their mind.
All of the links can [...]
Photo by Obbino
Are you blogging about issues affecting Northwest Indiana or are living in the Region?
Submit your posts to the NWI Blog Carnival before Wednesday at 11 a.m. for [...]
City Castle, Photo by samuelalove.
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NWI Photos: City Castle by Samuelalove
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18th & Broadway, by Samuelalove
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NWI Photos: 18th & Broadway by Samuelalove
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Photo by Martin Heigan
Peter Clemens shares everything he knows about blogging in a well-written post at I Will Change Your Life.
While I don’t claim to be a blogging [...]
It’s time again for another NWI Blog Carnival!
Submit your posts today for inclusion in the third edition of the Northwest Indiana [...]
The Post-Tribune’s Jerry Davich has a blog post about his experiences as a blogging journalist.
Writes Jerry Davich:
A lot of reader comments I receive via cyberspace never make it to print or into this blog.
They’re either too inflammatory for public consumption, too [...]
Just a quick note that I’m planning to record a Vocalo segment highlighting several Northwest Indiana blogs and what they’re working on — probably featuring the bloggers focusing on Gary, Indiana since Vocalo is aimed at reaching the urban audience of Northwest Indiana and South Chicago.
I’ll post the script here [...]
Brad Phillips writes about his new teaching job at Gary’s School of the Dunes.
I started Tuesday and things have been going wonderfully. Kids who are normally very confrontational and volatile have not given me a problem. The kids are about as under control as that of a [...]
Jen at Say My Name writes about the history of Gary, Indiana in her post, “Not Louisiana, Paris, France, New York or Rome.”
For me, Gary can best be described by a statement my grandmother Posie always said–”It’s holiness or hell.” On [...]
J in the UK write some thoughts about Gary, Indiana from her vantage point of having grown up in the area and now living overseas in the United Kingdom. Even though she’s overseas, she still stands up for Gary, Indiana.
GOP4Hammond says to keep your eyes open in the midst of all the financial confusion for opportunities of a lifetime.
Ugly, ugly, ugly. Keep your powder dry, the investment opportunity of a life time is somewhere down the road.
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Confusion Brings Opportunities
[...]Steve Dalton at Dalton’s Briefs has the scoop on changes in the Porter County Council.
A good friend and ally in the Costas Reformation process, Karen Conover, was selected by caucus to replace Matt Murphy on the County Council. Matt Murphy was [...]
Great Lakes Guy writes that Gary, Indiana is missing out on the prosperity touted by Gov. Mitch Daniels in his recent State of the State speech.
Gov. Daniels wasn’t brave enough to talk about Gary, the black eye of Lake Michigan. [...]
GI Operation has some quotes to feed your mind today.
Here’s one from Eckhart Tolle your edification:
“Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change [...]
Joe Kaminski, Jr. — the author of Region Rats — is working on two books set in Northwest Indiana.
If anyone has some ideas or thoughts about the Region and living here or a story about the area. Let me know. I’ll be glad to [...]
Mark Sprengrel of Mark My Words says staying home this November is not an option for Republicans who are disappointed about their party’s potential nominees.
Seems to me, that no matter how loathsome the Republican Presidential ticket may turn out to be, [...]
I’ve noticed nice traffic increases on ChristopherHedges.com since submitting posts to the NWI Blog Carnival.
The NWI Blog Carnival’s reach goes far beyond Northwest Indiana’s blogosphere, as well. The listing is posted for a couple of [...]
Ron Paul supporters are mobilizing in Northwest Indiana at nwiRonPaul.com.
This is a work in progress to get all the local Meet-ups and Volunteers in NW Indiana to combine work with and coordinate the local activates to get Ron Paul elected as President.
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Homelandcolors writes on Chesterton’s Vocalo.org that it is time for a new type of African-American leader.
Today, the burden of Black empowerment is on the African American community. We have likely reached the limits of what mainstream America is willing to do [...]
There’s a lot of pessimism about the future of the Republican Party in NWI’s blogosphere:
Writes Matt Saliga: Republicans Doomed?
Writes Buzzcut: Republicans Are Doomed in November.
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