I’ve been working on multiple projects lately, especially my high traffic blog, Marlaine’s Musings. Inserting this link is part of an idea I had when I wanted to get all my recipes together for Duelin’ Deals Blog. Duelin’ Deals is devoted to helping people save money and time, sometimes in some very creative ways.
On Duelin’ Deals, I’ve been setting up shop pages for inexpensive herbs, of course, advocating growing your own whenever possible. The herbs I added to the store are the ones that most of us can get – and not at $2k an ounce. Snickering….. I cook as cheap as I can, yet creatively. Often, the dollar store has bigger bottles of herbs that are also often fresher. Since I’ve grown and dried almost every common cooking herb and tried those higher priced bottled ones, I have tasted them all with the tongue test. More expensive does not make them better tasting.
(I highly recommend growing your own chives and parsley. Chop and freeze them in spice bottles to use as desired. You will NEVER EVER want to use dried again! Never mind the money you will save from the over abundance just one crop will give you!) {Chives return every year. Parsley is a bi-annual.}
That inspired another thought – our problem on eHow is that the more our library of articles grow, the harder it is to find anything in our own profiles. How could I make it easier? We, as members, can’t do much on our own profile except to promote our fav articles to whoever we can bother. Sooooo – there is another problem with that. How to NOT become a pain in the rear to all our friends and readers.
Since I had a few of my recipes and Makins & Mixes set up on Duelin’ Deals, I thought – what if I just copy those lists on to this blog as a page, too? Then it just hit me…. just set up a page on this blog for each category that I write articles for and add all pertaining articles to it.
I am also contemplating putting up an additional page on Musings for only the online game articles I write about. A lot of those readers know enough about Runescape not to want pics on their guides and would be happy with the shorter versions I write for eHow. I started writing guides that I do use constantly because they are simple and to the point, then realized other people might like them, too. The XP Chart is an example of a chart I made for myself and realized other people might want to use it. It’s a very, very high traffic page. It’s something to fiddle with anyway. The more I think that over, the less I like it. I have lots of guides on Musings that all have a specific style. I only added a link to my eHow articles to add a bit of traffic from Musings. Whenever I do an article that might appeal to some of my Runescape friends, I talk about it directly in the day’s post.
When I started writing articles for eHow, I just didn’t think I was going to settle into non-fiction writing! I’d been advised by many English teachers that I should go into journalism. The thought of working on the school paper – poo – all that silly gossip or reporting on Homecoming was not for me. Real life was pretty hard for me at the time and I escaped into fiction as often as I could. I still enjoy writing quiet paranormal with a twist or outright ghost stories.
For now, The Master List is coming along nicely! In fact, it’s up and I am working on an article to explain how it’s done. Plus, I’m using it to build more category pages!
Hopefully this will help all of the eHow writers make their articles more findable and searchable. After all, an extra link to your articles can never hurt!
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