I would like to start off by introducing myself. My name is Larry James and I am a web designer from Bowmanville, Ontario. This is my first guest post. It is a big step for me because I have never written a guest post for Blog Engage, or for any other site before. If you have written guest posts before, try to remember how excited you were to write your first article that was to be published on someone else’s blog.
I just joined Blog Engage today, after receiving my free Blog Engage account for publishing an article about Blog Engage. The main reason I decided to join Blog Engage was because it was free! The article I wrote hints to the other reason I join Blog Engage. It is because I wanted to increase the readership of my blog. I blog about web design, and I was having a hard time producing articles because I did not have any readers. I had a little bit of traffic coming to my website daily, but this was all new visitors coming to my site without leaving a comment, or signing up for my newsletter. I installed commentluv, but I was not getting any comments. I wrote an ebook, and offered it as a free download to help build a list, but I was not getting any subscribers. Let me tell you it is very hard to stay motivated when there does not seem to be anyone reading your blog.
I realize that not everyone needs help with putting up a website. WordPress has made the process very simple. I also know that I have skills and knowledge that I could offer local businesses who are just learning how to build a blog.
I discovered Blog Engage on Twitter, and I new that I had something to offer the members of this community. I followed the site and watched as it grew into one the biggest community of bloggers on the web. When I was introduced to Brian Belfitt I took a liking to him right away. I thought this guy is either a very good guy, or a very good marketer….either way I am in.
I am very happy to have joined Blog Engage. I feel that I am on the road to success and I look forward to being a part of this community. I hope to build the readership of my blog, increase the comments on blog, build some backlinks, and most of all, make some friends also the way.
I invite you to leave a comment with some encouragement for me, and tell me how Blog Engage has helped you and your blog.
About Larry James
My name is Larry James, I am a web designer and blogger. I like to write how to articles and produce video tutorials that will help you build your website and develop your blog. If you enjoy my articles you can read more of my articles or add me as a friend larryjam
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bbrian017
September 10th, 2012
Hi Larry, as much as you are happy to be here we are also excited about having you as part of our community. Blog Engage is such a great community to meet new people, engage with other bloggers and build quality backlinks to our blog articles. It’s really great you decided to take a chance on his and join our community. Your efforts to be seen are already starting to show as you are here guest blogging article. Constitutions on putting in the effort and I hope to see more guest posts from you in the future.
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Larry James
September 10th, 2012
Thanks Brian, you are right. Blog Engage is a great community. And thank you for the FREE account, and thanks for the invitation to write a post. I am sure there will be many more guest posting in the future.
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bbrian017
September 10th, 2012
Hey Larry, take a moment and submit the article to the main site. This way some of the member’s on the main site will see your guest post. P.s. I welcome you to guest post here as much as you wish. Also thank you for writing the article about us on your blog, greatly appreciated,
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JenaIsle
October 3rd, 2012
Hello Larry,
You came to the right place. Blog Engage members would surely learn from your articles. Web design is one aspect of blogging that I would like to explore.
I always marvel at blogs/sites with awesome web designs, and now that you’re here, I would surely come to know more about how to design my own blogs/sites.
I’m adding you as a friend now, and would be visiting your site afterwards.
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Abhi Balani
September 10th, 2012
Hello Larry,
Welcome to the community. I hope you know, this little step of your can take you to great height. We have many top bloggers here to interact with. Know them, learn from them.
Blog Engage has a big role in my blogs growth, in terms of backlinks, rankings, traffic and my favorite – MONEY (from a couple of months).
I have written about Blog Engage on my blog many times. You can read my recent article about BE, find the link in CommentLuv.
Good luck with Blog Engage!
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bbrian017
September 10th, 2012
Hi Abhi, I’ve said it so many times and I’ll say it again, I love having you on Blog Engage it truly shows what you can achieve with hard work and determination. You have won guest blog contests, developed new strong online relationships and have made a success of your blog. I’m proud to say your a Blog Engage member.
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Larry James
September 10th, 2012
Thanks for the encouragement Abhi. I am going to take your advice, and I hope to do as well as you have. Any friend of Brian’s is a friend of mine.
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Guppu Boss
September 10th, 2012
Welcome to the blogengage. and congratulation for your first guest post. I was also very excited when i submitted my first guest post for review and i couldn’t wait when it will publish. You have taken a goo step wish you lots of success
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bbrian017
September 10th, 2012
Hi Guppu we would love to see you guest posting more you know? Have you considered doing up another articles and posting it here on Blog Engage? I’m always open to you doing a introductory post like this one as well if you wish.
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Guppu Boss
September 11th, 2012
Bbrian will write a guest post here. May be i will take part in next guest blog contest. and I am not ready for my introduction yet.
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Larry James
September 10th, 2012
Thanks Guppu Boss. I have heard all the top bloggers tell me that “Guest Posting” is a great way to build traffic. I thought it was only for the bloggers who had a big audience. Thanks to Brian for encouraging me. I am so glad I did it.
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Becca
September 10th, 2012
He is really an inspiring for every newbie. I’ve been working online but haven’t tried yet
guest post. I have soon I’ll be able to join Blogengage.
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bbrian017
September 10th, 2012
Hi Becca , if money is an issue for joining Blog Engage we offer a free way to join, if you see my comment luv link and click it you will see how you can earn your very own free 19.99 standard account. Also if you ever want to guest post here please sign up it’s free.
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Larry James
September 10th, 2012
Becca you don’t have to wait. I joined for free, and I am glad I did. It was easy. There is a link in Brian’s comment below. Follow the instructions and you can get a free standard account.
shenoyjoseph
September 10th, 2012
the main reason i was joined in blog engage community is in order to get knowledge from other bloggers around the world. Each blogger has unique strategy in blogging to rank high in search engine. By seeing all those strategies my knowledge was increased a lot right now i m earning huge amount from my blogs.
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bbrian017
September 10th, 2012
Hi shenoyjoseph, that’s a great reason to join Blog Engage. I learn something new everyday here watching our members. I think ti’s amazing how much you can learn from sitting back and watching what others in your niche are doing and you know Blog Engage is the best place to do this with success.
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Larry James
September 10th, 2012
You are right shenoyjoseph, the Blog Engage community has come very successful bloggers. I too will be learning from them.
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Rashmi Sinha
September 10th, 2012
It is so nice to see such posts. I mean it, people pointing out what they found interesting and what cause them to join a community is always nice feedback for both the operators and other users.
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bbrian017
September 10th, 2012
Hi Rashmi your right, it’s been a lot of fun as the owner of Blog Engage to sit here and engage with our members. The community is starting to get so big it’s hard to remember everyone. Have you ever considered joining us and submitting your blog articles?
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Lennart Heleander
September 11th, 2012
Hey Larry, welcome aboard to the Blog Engage, you will find lots of good information and advice about everything within blogging here. (and alot of new friends)
Larry James
September 12th, 2012
Thank you Lennart, I am loving it here so far.
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Sudha
September 11th, 2012
hello Larry, wish you a lot of luck for your future endeavours. welcome to blogengage, for you will find what you are looking for.
Larry James
September 12th, 2012
Thank You Sudha, I appreciate you taking the time to welcome me.
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erda
September 12th, 2012
Hey Larry, welcome aboard to the Blog Engage.This last one is such a great community to meet new people, engage with other bloggers and build quality backlinks to our blog articles.On Blog Engage you will find lots of good information and advice about everything within blogging here.
Larry James
September 12th, 2012
Thanks for helping to make me feel welcome erda. I tried to checkout your blog but I got a coming soon page that said you are working on it. I will try to check it out later.
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JenaIsle
October 3rd, 2012
I learned something from your Bulk Rename Utility post. Now, I would have to label all my images and pictures properly. Will visit again later to read more. Thanks for that vital input.
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erda
October 10th, 2012
Ok Larry ,thanks to you for checkout my blog. There you will find lots of good information,I hope!
Lisa
November 3rd, 2012
Welcome to the community here Larry. Best wishes and enjoy! I’ll have to check your blog out on the images.
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Larry James
November 3rd, 2012
Thank You Lisa, I have had a look at your blog, and I like it. I will try to share some of your stuff
Wade
November 3rd, 2012
Larry, you have captured the essence of why I joined as well. The traffic is nice, but the connections are even better!
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Larry James
November 3rd, 2012
You are right Wade. I love the community. I just can’t stop making friends. I can’t help it.
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JenaIsle
November 4th, 2012
Larry, thanks for your support. I hope you’ll continue enjoying your stay here. I’m still looking for themes. I’ll give myself up to the end of November.
What do you recommend with regards to SEO friendly themes? Thanks.
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Larry James
November 4th, 2012
Hi Jena, The StudioPress themes built on the Genesis Framework are the very best themes for WordPress that I have come across. Not only are they beautiful themes that are easy to customize, They are very well coded and are very good for SEO.
Genesis themes have there own SEO settings that and it is better than most SEO plugins, it let you customize the titles and descriptions of your posts and pages, However it is compatible with Yoast WordPress SEO plugin, when you install Yoasts plugin, Genesis disables all of its SEO settings and lets WordPress SEO plugin take over.
bachelor thesis
December 22nd, 2012
As specialized content management systems, weblog applications support the authoring, editing, and publishing of blog posts and comments, with special functions for image management, web syndication, and post and comment moderation. Thanks.