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What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content

April 10, 2006 – 5:08 am

Having been the target of copyright thieves, and working with writers, authors, and photographers on copyright protection and laws for over 25 years, I thought I’d talk a little about what to do when someone steals your content. First, you noticed that I didn’t say “if” someone steals your content. That was on purpose. With […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in blogging tips, Web Wise, Writing | Comments (886)

What is Your Favorite Article on Lorelle on WordPress?

September 10, 2014 – 4:31 am

I’ve been asked to put together a best-of collection of Lorelle on WordPress articles in an ebook. Do you have a favorite? I’m looking for articles that you’ve bookmarked and returned back to over the years to help you with WordPress and blogging, or articles that helped you understand and embrace a WordPress or blogging […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Announcements, Blogging, WordPress, WordPress Tips | Tags: announcements, blogging tips, favorite articles, Lorelle, web writing tips, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, writing tips | Comments (2)

Blog Exercises: Define Freedom

August 2, 2013 – 4:37 am

In an NPR Radio news story, people submitted their definitions of freedom as related to the recent overthrow or change of government or whatever you wish to call it in Egypt. Two of the definitions caught my attention. Freedom is when you can do whatever you want. Freedom is when you cannot do whatever you […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, Writing | Tags: blog, blog policies, blogging tips, comments, content, copyright, define freedom, freedom, perspective, policies, prompts, publish, site policies, web writing, Writing, writing for the web, writing prompts | Comments (6)

Blog Exercises: Connecting All the Pieces of Your Site Together

July 16, 2013 – 4:16 am

The concept of the World Wide Web is based upon linking, the web of connections that link web pages together like a spider web. There are external links, connecting one site to another, and intrasite links, connecting web pages together within a single site. Today’s blog exercise is focused on the latter, intrasite links. Intrasite […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: backlinks, blog exercises, blog writing, blog writing tips, blogging exercises, blogging tips, community, connectivity, content, copyright, copyright infringement, copyright violations, linking, links, orphan pages, orphans, reference links, search engines, seo, trackbacks, web writing, wordpress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, Writing, writing for the web | Comments (4)

Blog Exercises: Check Your Site Title Tag

March 14, 2013 – 4:40 am

Do you know what the title of your site is? Not the name of your site or the title of your post, but the HTML <title> tag for your site buried in the source code. In HTML, every website is required to have the <title> tag in the <head> of the source code HTML structure. […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, Web Design, WordPress, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercises, blog title, blogging tips, code, html, html title, html title tag, post title, seo, site title, tags, title tag, Web Design, wordpress, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips | Comments (11)

Blog Exercises: Clean Up Your Most Popular Posts

February 21, 2013 – 4:59 am

“It’s dated 2008. It must be useless.” This was the response to an article I tweeted out recently. Yes, the article was dated 2008. Did that mean it wasn’t a valid, timely, and invaluable resource? It was, but that’s not the point. Some people equate old with useless. With the aging population gaining the majority […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, blogging tips, Writing | Tags: blog editing, blog exercises, blog maintenance, clean up old posts, edit, editing, editing posts, maintenance, management, most popular, most popular posts, popular posts, random editing day, site maintenance, site management, statistics, stats, Writing, writing for the web | Comments (13)

Blog Exercises: The Don’ts of Blogging

January 16, 2013 – 4:45 am

Did you know there is a Blogger’s Code of Conduct? It’s on Wikipedia. Initiated by Tim O’Reilly, it is as follows: Take responsibility not just for your own words, but for the comments you allow on your blog. Label your tolerance level for abusive comments. Consider eliminating anonymous comments. Don’t feed the trolls. Take the […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Exercises, Blogging, blogging tips, Writing | Tags: blog exercise, blog exercises, blog guidelines, blog policies, blogger ethics, bloggers code of ethics, blogging ethics, blogging laws, blogging rights, blogging rules, blogging tips, code of ethics, comments, ethics, exercises, freedom, freedom of speech, guidelines, how to blog, interactivity, laws, legal, legal policies, legal rights, moral value, morals, policies, prison, rights, standards, web writing, writing for the web | Comments (17)

Managing Multiple Bloggers: Author Content Management on WordPress

May 23, 2011 – 2:55 pm

In the last article I talked about what’s most important to the author and their readers, covering recognition when it comes to researching and developing a website design to accommodate multiple bloggers. In this article, I want to cover the research you need to consider when it comes to content management, which represents the “Aggregation” […]

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Blog Struggles: How Do You Know When to Stop Writing a Blog Post?

November 21, 2009 – 10:35 am

As I prepare for my meeting with Alan Dean Foster, one of the world’s most prolific and famous science fiction authors, I’m not the only one inspired by the whole concept of making dreams come true. Robyn Seaton introduced Alan Dean Foster to me after she and I met at WordCamp Phoenix, and PodCamp Arizona […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blog Struggles, blogging tips, Writing | Tags: alan dean foster, blog publishing, blog struggles, blog writing, blogging tips, how to blog, humanx, science fiction, scifi, Writing, writing a blog post | Comments (31)

The Year of Original Content: I’ve Declared War

February 23, 2009 – 12:31 pm

Last week on the Blog Herald, I declared this is to be the “Year of Original Content“. I ranted about my ongoing battle to educate you and protect myself and others from content theft. This isn’t an issue that impacts the few and famous. Everyone is being scraped and having their content stolen. It is […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Blogging News, Writing | Tags: content theft, copyright, copyright violation, year of original content | Comments (18)

The Art of the Fan-Based Blog: Copyrights for You and Your Content Sources

December 18, 2008 – 4:37 am

By DB Ferguson of the No Fact Zone I know I just recommended aggregating news stories from sources outside of your blog in my series on The Art of the Fan-Based Blog, and that search engines were your friend. They are. However, I cannot stress this enough, be extremely mindful of every single word or […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in blogging tips | Tags: blogging tips, content protection, copyright, copyright infringement, db ferguson, fan blog, fan-based blog, protect your rights | Comments (10)

How to Add MyFreeCopyright To Your WordPress Blog

October 15, 2008 – 2:16 pm

404 Tech Support has just published step-by-step instructions on how to addMyFreeCopyright.com to your WordPress.com or WordPress blog. The directions are specific to WordPress.com, but will work for any blog or website. It’s also a prime example of how to use the WordPress Widget to add text to your sidebar. The code used in the […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom, Writing | Tags: copyright, how to use wordpress, myfreecopyright, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com, WordPressDotCom | Comments (20)

Content Theft and WordPress

February 4, 2008 – 4:28 am

I and many WordPress “representatives”, along with the developers and staff of WordPress and Automattic, are getting more and more complaints and requests for help dealing with content theft issues. We all need to clear this up and spread the word about how this works in relationship to WordPress. In order to go after a […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in WordPress, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, WordPressDotCom | Tags: how to use wordpress, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials, wordpress.com | Comments (66)

Weekly Digest: Back on the Farm, Improving Your Blog Series, WordPress Podcast Reporter, and More

December 16, 2007 – 10:59 pm

While the world is rushing around doing holiday activities, I’m in panic mode to finish up some major projects and working very long hours – in between feeding animals and doing farm work. Had a lovely adventure with one of the mini-donkeys, Rocko, who got lose and I found him wandering around in front of […]

By Lorelle VanFossen | Posted in Weekly Digest, WordPress | Tags: hacked, hacking, how to use wordpress, security, security vulnerability, vulnerability, wordpress, wordpress help, WordPress News, WordPress Tips, wordpress tutorials | Comments (1)

Weekly Digest: Floods, Harp Guitars, WordPress 2.4 News, and Improving Your Blog Tips

December 8, 2007 – 4:14 pm

I’ve been back for a week and already have been snowed, hailed, rained, frozen, and flooded. The electricity held but the Internet was down most of four days, so I got a lot of behind the scenes work done, as well as unpacking. I’m playing catch up as fast and furious as I can amidst […]