Happy Blogger

About two years ago my middle daughter invited me to join her in a blogging community that she had found. She thought I would like because she knew I had enjoyed writing for several years.

She also enticed to my oldest daughter to join us in the community, so it was a very pleasant experience, not jus with writing my thoughts, but also getting to read their thoughts as well. As my daughters had been grown and gone from home for many years, it was a special joy to get to get up and read what was on their mind on a regular basis.

I had had no experience with blogging prior to that, so I was unsure how I would like having a virtual audience. But the committee was very close knit and we enjoyed the camaraderie developed in the blogging neighborhood. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed reading and commenting on other blogs. I was also surprised at how important it was to me to receive comments and interact with people about things I had written.

Now I have blogged in several different communities and there is seldom a day that goes by without my posting in a blog somewhere, most often several of my blogs receive a post. You can tell, blogging makes me happy. It has come to be one of my favorite activities.

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Peregrine.com

One of my favorite bloggers has moved one of her blogs from blogspot.com to its own domain. Her travel journal is now Peregrine.com. As a result of the migration, the page rank has reverted back to 0. It is a great place to get travel tips and descriptions of intriguing places in the world. I hope this will help you stay in touch with her and keep you in the know about her journeys .

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New Blogging Community

There is a new blog site that has been established that will hopefully recapture the community spirit that was developed on WritingUp.com. The site is called Communati.com. I heard about its establishment from Sharon Hurley Hall. The webmaster is a friend of gracepub. There are only a few bloggers sigend up so far, the two ladies I mentioned, Pinhole and myself, along with the webmaster, marko.

I like the ideas I have read, and the place looks a lot like our old WritingUp home. I hope many of the rest of my old neighbors will find their way to Communati.com. If you decide to sign up, here is my Referral link.

And here is a link to my New Familyfunadfaith blog.

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Reviewing BlogSire.com

When I started blogging, part of the reason was that I was lured by the opportunity to make some extra money by writing. For most of the first year, I was not successful in making money, though I had developed a consistent readership. Recently I began venturing into some other options that have actually made a significant increase in my income. It is just enough to whet my appetite for more and better ways to add to the cash flow.

I recently found a site that is a great example of a writer who is “blogging the money way”. BlogSire.com/myblog is an attractive site, and yet filled with sources of income for the writer, Sire. He has obviously done a lot of work in setting up his blog, which is powered by WordPress. He has posts that offer tips for successful blogging, as well as articles for which he has been paid by a variety of sources. He has added affiliate programs and widgets and Adsense ads.

If you want to see how a blog that makes money looks, go by BlogSire. You will be impressed!

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My New BlogEvolve Blog

In the past couple of days I have established a blog at Blog Evolve. It seems like a small community of bloggers/writers that enjoys interacting with each other. I am going to give it a try as a possible refuge for my Familyfunandfaith blog, in case the doors at Writing Up do actually close. I do not know if the place will be as attractive to others as it is to me, but you might like it too.

It is free to register. If you think you might enjoy the place and want to sign up, I would be pleased if you used this referral link.

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Another Hot Corner Has Been Blog

One of the current ways to improve the value of a blog site is to create links from one blog to another. There are a few bloggers I began blogging with who have decided to spend a little time building a network of links between our sites. We want to all improve our page ranking with Google, which is one indicator of visibility of a particualr blog.

Here is a link to still yet one other of those bloggers. Another Hot Corner Has Been's Blog?

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Erroll Le Vant (Pronounced Irrelevant) Blog!

One of the current ways to improve the value of a blog site is to create links from one blog to another. There are a few bloggers I began blogging with who have decided to spend a little time building a network of links between our sites. We want to all improve our page ranking with Google, which is one indicator of visibility of a particualr blog.

Here is a link to still yet one other of those bloggers. Erroll Le Vant's Blog?

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Silken's Did You Know Blog

One of the current ways to improve the value of a blog site is to create links from one blog to another. There are a few bloggers I began blogging with who have decided to spend a little time building a network of links between our sites. We want to all improve our page ranking with Google, which is one indicator of visibility of a particualr blog.

Here is a link to still one other of those bloggers. Did You Know Blog?

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