PIMPING OUT YOUR BLOG ASSIGNMENT:
Nifty Tools to Increase Site Traffic & Blog Readership
CREATE A BLOG TOOLS ASSIGNMENT PAGE ON YOUR WEBSITE. DO ALL THE FOLLOWING ASSIGNED TASKS AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS MARKED IN RED ON YOUR ASSIGNMENT PAGE.
DEADLINE: FRIDAY, MAY 4, 6 PM
We are going to continue to build out our websites this week. You need to do all the following tasks for your website in addition to the items in red! Your website will be graded as part of this course!
1. What are content feeds?
b. What are 2 kinds?
c. Why are feeds a good thing for creators, subscribers, & advertisers?
d. Name 3 sites you can subscribe by content feeds (give web addressess)
e. How do you read feeds?
f. Name 3 popular feed readers.
g. Find one interesting article on using Feeds. Give a brief description of it and the title. Give the online address. Tell us something interesting you learned from the article.
2. What are other ways to subscribe to a blog. (Look at major sites or other popular blogs for subscription options.)
3. Find three new blogs or websites related to your own interest for a blog topic/s you find worthwhile and that can help you with your own blog posting.
Subscribe to each of them using one of the subscription options.
Post three (3) blog posts talking about each site and post an image on each post that relates to your post.
4. Create a CONTACT page. Make it the last tab on your site. Now drag a CONTACT Form for your Weebly site, dragging the Contact Form icon to your site page found under MORE in the Weebly menu and link it to an email account you use. I will test your form and you will need to check your messages and reply to me.
5. Join Flickr, post an image/s and post a Flickr badge to your blog.
http://www.flickr.com
6. Join Twitter, send a tweet and post a Twitter Badge on your blog.
http://www.twitter.com .
7. Join Linked In, post a bio and a photo. Do a search of groups related to an interest of yours. Send a request to join a group.
http://www.linkedin.com
Post a LInkedIn Button on your blog.
8. Last week you were to drag the Feed icon under Blog Sidebar to your site and to publish it. You were to sign up. Then click on your published RSS feed button, paste in your weebly feed address that shows up in the browser window in the BURN A FEED RIGHT THIS INSTANT field on Feedburner’s page. It will look like this :
feed://yoursitename.weebly.com/…./feed
Now confirm your feed’s validity.
Log into your GMAIL account. Click on MORE at top menu. Select READER. Click on ADD A SUBSCRIPTION. Paste in your Weebly Feed address (found in browser window when you click on the RSS feed icon on your PUBLISHED Weebly blog page). A copy of your blog posts should now be showing on your Gmail page.
A screen capture is a picture you take of your computer window or a portion of your computer screen. I have used screen captures to give you visual examples of sites. Below is a screen capture of my twitter page:
Make a Screen Capture of your gmail page that shows your blog posts on your gmail page. Drag an image icon to your assignment page and include the screen page image on your assignment page.