Build A Beautiful Blog Week 2011 – Giveaway from BlogAid.net – Consulting Session or Site Review

The BlogAid.net site features a wealth of tips and resources for blog and website owners, along with classes, site consulting, video tutorials, and video site reviews that are specifically for non-geeks who are on a budget.

MaAnna Stephenson’s experience as a web developer, professional engineer, nonfiction author, and artist allow her to draw together the right mix of teaching skills, technical expertise, and online promotion techniques that are best suited to each site owner and their target audience.  She specializes in working with creative folks like authors, artists, and small business owners.

BlogAid.net focuses on training and SEO more than on design.  Even though, design is important, BlogAid uses a method of training first, content second, and design last.  MaAnna’s extensive experience has shown that this will put you on the fast track to become a confident and successful site owner.

By the end of the “Scratch to Published” class you’ll know:

• How to work with Posts, Pages, and formatting.
• How to select your home page and make a blog post.
• How to work with images including optimizing, cropping, and resizing.
• How to place your action items for maximum exposure.
• Secrets to keep viewers on your site longer.
• How to add social networking tools, like share, follow, and icon links.
• How to get the most from using categories and tags.
• How to maximize SEO (Search Engine Optimization) on everything.
• Plugins that secure your site and make it a breeze to manage.
• How to format sidebar widgets with pictures and links.
• How to choose a theme that highlights your content instead of competing with it.
• Elements under the theme’s control and what’s easy to customize.
• How to efficiently manage your online marketing time with help from your site’s features.

Here is an example from the design portfolio of BlogAid.net.

 

Enter here to win a one hour consulting/training session with MaAnna Stephenson of BlogAid.net or a video site review, winner’s choice.

1. Please go to BlogAid.net and leave a comment below telling me something you learned about blogging or about BlogAid.net!

Additional entries

2. Follow Kelly’s Lucky You and Simply Stacie with Google Friend Connect.

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4. Subscribe by email to Simply Stacie and Kelly’s Lucky You – one entry for subscribing to each of us!

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5. Tweet this giveaway (RT 1x per day). Feel free to use this sample:

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7. Add our buttons to your blog sidebar – one entry for each of us!

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8. Add this giveaway to any giveaway linky (unlimited entries). You can use this list!

Leave one comment for each entry. Giveaway will be open for one week, ending on May 30, 2011 at 11:59 pm EST. Entries can be made on both Kelly’s Lucky You and Simply Stacie. The winner will be selected from entries on both blogs using random.org. Winner will be notified by email and will have 48 hours to reply back before a new winner is selected. Note: Prizes are provided by the blog designers and neither Kelly’s Lucky You nor Simply Stacie are responsible for providing prizes. This giveaway is open worldwide. Good luck!

You can enter the giveaways on BOTH sites and get double the chances of winning. We are going to be picking a winner from the combined entries on both blogs at the end of each individual giveaway. So after you enter here, head on over to Simply Stacie and put your entries in there too!

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