Ganoksin's Orchid Blog Network

Blogging for jewelers and metalsmiths made easy! (and for those interested in jewelry and gemstones)

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Orchid blogs are now ‘Twitter Tools’ enabled

Jan 29, 2010 9:16pm

Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your Orchid blog and your Twitter account. Twitter Tools integrates with Twitter by giving you the followingfunctionality: * Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 10 minutes) * Create a blog post from each of your tweets * Create a daily or weekly digest...

Add your website to Ganoksin’s Industry Guide

Jun 25, 2009 5:28pm

Here’s a FREE option that may be of interest to you. Do you have a gem & jewelry related website or blog? Do you sell products or services related to jewelry manufacturing? If so, the strategy of reaching 310,000 jewelry-related professionals through social networking sources might be of interest to you. List your product...

Increasing Your Blog’s Popularity With Social Bookmarking

Feb 11, 2009 8:05am

With the latest surge of social networking, new ways of promoting content have emerged. Social networking happens to be a highly efficient way to promote your content. Simply RSS feeding your links over a public network, or posting links in your messages is NOT enough. When it comes to promoting your...

Uploading and inserting images

Nov 9, 2008 5:37pm

Step 1: Open a new post, or the one you want to insert an image or images into. place the cursor where you want to insert the image. Step 2: Click on the “Add media” button at the top right of the editor area. Step 3: Click on the “Choose files to...

Blog Pages, Posts, Categories, and Tags…

Oct 27, 2008 7:31am

Adapted from a post by Michael Martine When should you use a blog page instead of a post? How do you know what should be a category versus a tag? After this post, you will know exactly what to do. Pages vs. Posts Blog pages are timeless permanent content. Blog pages live outside the normal date/time...

Crafting an effective post title

Oct 22, 2008 9:18pm

Crafting an effective title is genuine art as it should aim at two main targets: to increase click-through to achieve higher search engines rankings (reads: Google). Thus writing an effective title can’t be taken lightly; it is really difficult to craft a title that will both “help rankings and work in...

Orchid Blogs are Gravatars enabled

Oct 18, 2008 11:59pm

Orchid Blogs are Gravatars enabled By default Orchid uses “Gravatars” - short for “Globally Recognized Avatars” - for the pictures that show up next to comments. A gravatar is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites....

Announcing the Orchid Blog Network

Oct 16, 2008 11:48pm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - October 17, 2008 Announcing the Orchid Blog Network Blogging-Made-Easy for Jewelers and Metalsmiths, and for those working in the gem and jewelry-related fields. http://ganoksin.com/blogs (Currently Online - 65 blogs) If you have been considering your own Blog, but haven’t yet, the Orchid Blog Network may be perfect for you! We are passionate about empowering...