My Blogger links are a mix of things. Some I started myself. Several I found abandoned from old submissions to dmoz/ Curlie. They are all things which interest me or ideas that sounded good at the time.
Old Cemeteries Society of Ontario
The Canadian Writer's Handbook
The Hand Drawn Map Association of Canada
The Obsolete Society of Ontario
The Old Canadian Recipes Project
This idea (quoted below from Society6) is smarter than it appears on the surface. I would not suggest Facebook as the only (or best) option to place the survey. I would not pay for boosting the post or using Facebook services to create the poll either. You can do it yourself, without spending anything but some of your time.
You get to promote your work, your site and get information from the survey itself. Promotion without feeling like you're selling anything is brilliant and works much better than straight sales promotion people are trained to ignore due to overkill.
What other ways can you create a promotion like this? Contests and giveaways, but those require more organizing and a prize to be sent. Simple is better.
2. Run a very simple survey on Facebook
A quick and easy way to survey is to setup a 4-design block of artwork and ask people to rank them in order of favorite to least favorite. Repeat as many times as necessary and narrow down to the most purchasable artwork. While a quick test of likes & comments is a good indicator of interest, you may discover differences between something people love and something people would actually hang in their homes. You want to lead with compelling work that is also likely to be purchased.
Is this abuse or just stupidity/ carelessness? On the part of the “job” poster, I mean.
I’m not sure about ProBlogger itself. It is possible no one verifies, checks, or cares what gets posted there. I have seen others posting “jobs” which are not jobs at all. Keep in mind, these job postings are paid posts for ProBlogger. Do they just take the money and have no interest in creating a resource for job seekers? ProBlogger is very marketing friendly. User/ reader/ job searcher beware, right?
This isn’t the first fake job post I have seen come up on the boards. I’ve also seen jobs which don’t pay, jobs which are pretty scammy and jobs which ask writers to contribute (work for free) or accept pennies from affiliate links.
Don’t rely on the ProBlogger job boards. Try somewhere else first. Eventually, when the spammers and scammers stop paying for listings, it will just close down and sink like another old shipwreck of the Australian coast.
It is so much easier to fix things on Blogger and import posts from Blogger to WordPress, than to deal with WordPress. I think that’s kind of sad. But, I am pulling this site back together, from assorted parts which are here and there on my hard drive and stashed away online in places like Blogger (blogspot). So far the posts from Blogger are up and loaded with images, intact. I was not expecting it to be so easy.
I still have all the old WordPess back up files which I will have to play around with. WordPress will not like them as they are, they are big. I can export them as big files, but I can not import them back again as big files. Even though, they are the same files.
I am wishing myself luck, and patience.
I have set up new email addresses for some of my domain sites. I'm still going to use my Gmail for almost everything. But, I've been getting attacked by spam emailers, mostly from Subaru USA. So I can use the new addresses for people I actually want to hear from. Which will likely be almost nothing really. Even family email may as well go to the old account. I'm not so likely to check the new accounts often. Unless I set them up to work with something like the email part of SeaMonkey. Tried once and it did not work, but how can you tell when you don't have activity in the account. Yes, I did send myself a test email. Anyway, that is all more to work on.
I'm looking at various ways to keep my niche web resource directories, without WordPress. Everyone seems to suggest WordPress plugins. But they don't understand that all those plugins are dependent on WordPress. WordPress, which says it is standalone software but requires a lot of plugins.
I am trying RSS feeds but, some sites do not use RSS any more. I don't understand why. It is such a simple way to distribute your content and you don't have to do anything. Just put the link up somewhere and forget about it.
Yesterday I was looking at a lot of ways to set up a holiday and event site. Calendar software, address book software, PIM software... No luck so far. Most of the software I find is dated or forgotten/ abandoned. If something isn't popular they don't want to bother with it. Popularity being dictated by Google overall. I am fed up with marketing and that whole mentality. Why do people want to be Google automatons?
I am starting two online shops. One for Ontario Exploration and the other for ASCII Artist. Both of those sites are still on WordPress due to the web resource directory I have built for them. Also, I'm just not feeling the patience to move all the images and figure out this and that to make them work on b2. The image thing on b2 is still bugging me, a lot. Really it shouldn't. It is just a matter of changing the way I create a post, adapting to different software. But, it did seem so much easier to add it while I wrote the post, instead of before or after. I guess I am just letting myself be stubborn about it.
Another change, I allowed Grammarly to attempt to take over my life. It feels that way, even though it just sits in every post window, waiting to boss me around and tell me I should be spelling everything in US spelling, not Canadian. I did not set it all up, registering with the site. If I had it might stop nagging me about every word I spell with Canadian spelling. I don't want to register and give my information to them. So, it will be a battle between trying to catch typos and getting fed up with being corrected.
On the homefront, outside of this computer, I am dealing with hoarding, trying to make myself exercise and other things. Go me.
Happy New Year! Possibly the last time I type that, until the end of this year.