I Do Blogs is all about blog­ging, specif­i­cally Word­Press blog­ging. I’ll say it; I admit it freely. I love Word­Press, and I love blog­ging using this plat­form. It is sim­ple enough for me to write unen­cum­bered by the tech stuff that causes The Muse to stop and go hmm­mmm. There’s also a lot of excite­ment about Word­Press with all of the add ons, themes and plu­g­ins that adds way cool func­tion­al­ity to a blog.

I decided to set up this blog on blog­ging, because I like to share the gems I find online. Look­ing for a new plu­gin or really cool theme? Want to know how to eas­ily write good head­lines? Maybe, you need to know some­thing about the next big thing in mar­ket­ing, affil­i­ate blog­ging or get­ting back­links that really work.

You might be look­ing for a review on a new prod­uct or ser­vice. Those are the kinds of things that you, me and every­one I know who’s addicted to blog­ging look for every day. My blog will share what I find, and through the com­ments, add what you know.

You can also become a guest blog­ger if you like, and talk about all the neat stuff you find. I can’t pay you, but I’ll give you a good back­link with what­ever anchor text you want to use. I Do Fol­low, so you’ll have some link luv for Google.

Let’s talk about the out­lier in this mix — sup­port cli­mate change ini­tia­tives. Why? Well, if we ignore cli­mate change, all the blog­ging cool­ness in the world won’t stop all those weather upheavals that are increas­ing becom­ing appar­ent in the world. So, I added it to my blog just to remind you that what we do in the world does count, and maybe you’ll add it to your blog. We need to raise the aware­ness of the world’s pop­u­la­tion so that we don’t wait so long that we pass the point of no return.

I do have a bit of pol­i­tics thrown in from time to time. I am not a pro­gres­sive, but I’m not a con­ser­v­a­tive either. So, when I hear things that seem share-worthy on the polit­i­cal front, I will. I don’t rant; I just relate inter­est­ing polit­i­cal facts here and there. No big­gie. That’s what blog­ging is all about.

Some of my favorite blogs to read include the following:

Copy­blog­ger — This blog is amaz­ing. If you’re look­ing for lots of free infor­ma­tion on how to write copy cor­rectly, this site will blow your mind … at least I hope it will. He brings so much value to the Inter­net that I always stop by just to see what’s new. Hope­fully, you will, too. One of my favorite pages is the one where he gives you a bunch of tem­plates on how to write head­lines that work.

Problog­ger - This is a combo of a blog at www.problogger.net and a forum at www.problogger.com. For $5.95 a month you can sub­scribe to a really nice forum that shows you all the stuff you want to know about blog­ging pro­fes­sion­ally. Or, just read the blog which is also very good and super informative.

Mar­ket­ingVox — This one is another great resource for break­ing infor­ma­tion about what’s going on in the blo­gos­phere as well the lat­est in every­thing about online mar­ket­ing. It reports on new stuff com­ing from the var­i­ous social media out­fits like Face­book, Twit­ter and the like. If you want to get an overview of what’s going on, this is a nice place to stop.

Boing Boing — This is just a great site to visit from time to time. It’s not about mar­ket­ing or blog­ging, but it’s a really neat site I like.

BloApp - This is where you can turn your blog into an iPhone app! It’s free and gen­er­ates a cool QR code that smart­phones can use to get your app and down­load it.

Jack Humphrey’s Fri­day Traf­fic Report Blog is located here: http://www.fridaytrafficreport.com/blog/

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