I’ll Pay You $100 Cash For Your Idea

We live in small town of a couple of thousand people in rural Oklahoma – about 15 minutes from Norman, OK and about 30 minutes from Oklahoma City. In the surrounding rural areas, there are probably 15,000 or so folks. Several hundred kids go to the high school in our town from surrounding areas. The [...]

Badmouthing, Criticism and Half Truths From the Competition & Free Users

Many of you are concerned about a certain other “linky” service out there who is all over the blogosphere and their own site spreading criticism and half-truth’s about Linky Tools. Let me see if I can sum up my response very succinctly: I COULD CARE LESS. Negative campaigning and criticism will get you a few [...]

Super Bowl – Declaration of Independence

Many of you probably saw the reading of the Declaration of Independence on the Super Bowl show. Good for them. There are two problems: 1) most Americans, sadly, could care less about the monumental documents that provide the bedrock of our Republic, and 2) most people cannot understand the vocabulary anymore. I can’t do much [...]

How & Why Some Great Bloggers Use Linky Tools

Last week, I had to make the decision to go to subscriptions on Linky Tools because the cost of supporting 16,000 users had just gotten out of hand.  Of course, many folks criticized my decision, some even saying I was “extorting” people. Huh? Linky Tools is a great service. You can read the testimonials and [...]

What Is An RSS Feed and Why Should You Even Care?

A reader asked: What exactly is an RSS feed?And how does it work? Seriously computer un-skilled! Be kind… – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – - First, here is a definition from www.whatisrss.com: RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web [...]

What Are Some Of the Biggest Mistakes People Make With Their Blog?

This was the first question asked when I put out a request for questions about SIX WEEKS AGO. So let me state clearly what Mistake #1 is: not writing regularly and putting up fresh content. GUILTY! I will say in my defense, it’s not simple laziness or neglect or not caring. However, I’ve put myself [...]

Here’s Your Chance

I’m in a kind of Catch 22… I answer all sorts of emails every day about blogging, traffic, online business etc.  And yet, because I’m so busy improving Linky Tools and adding new features (along with an exciting new service that I haven’t mentioned yet), I haven’t found time to blog much here at Linky [...]

Question: How Can I Build Traffic For My Blog?

A reader asked me yesterday how they could get people to start coming to their blog. Their blog was less than a week old. Here are some suggestions I gave: To build traffic, here’s some good things to do: Visit other blogs. Leave comments and tactfully mention your own blog. Don’t blatantly promote yourself in [...]

Linky Tools & SeriousLife Magazine

We are bringing about over 1000 new users to Linky Tools each month so many of you will not know about the magazine we publish called SeriousLife Magazine. It is a family-friend, fun, informative and inspiring collection of stories, articles, blog posts, photos and other content. We just published a new issue of SeriousLife Magazine! [...]

Photo Enhancement Lesson Finally

Wow, I really dropped the ball on getting this done. My apologies.  A grand conspiracy was afloat. Anyway, instead of making it private I’m just going to put it up here for everyone. If you have questions, would like to see something else demonstrated, have feedback or criticism or suggestions, don’t  hesitate to write me. [...]

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