Spawned from the Big Sis, Little Blog program, Book Blogging 101 was born. Do you have a question? Leave it in the comments section or email me parajunkee at gmail dot com
Q: Why does everyone have a gmail account?
A: The wonders of Google are immense. Join the googleverse now!
If you don't have a GMAIL account, my suggestion is get one.
Yourblogname@gmail.com
There is a setting in gmail that lets you forward your gmail emails to your actual email account. For example the email account I've had for like 10 years is my cox.net account. I forward my parajunkee at gmail.com to the cox.net account. So people will send me an email to parajunkee and they will get a response most likely from the cox.net account.
To forward you gmail account:
Yourblogname@gmail.com
There is a setting in gmail that lets you forward your gmail emails to your actual email account. For example the email account I've had for like 10 years is my cox.net account. I forward my parajunkee at gmail.com to the cox.net account. So people will send me an email to parajunkee and they will get a response most likely from the cox.net account.
To forward you gmail account:
1. Login to Gmail.
2. Click Settings.
3. Click on the tab: Forwarding and POP/IMAP
4. Click on the radio button next to: Forward a copy of incoming mail to ___________
5. Put your regular email in that text box.
6. Save Changes.
Now on to the fun stuff of Google.
GOOGLE CALENDAR
I lurve the calendar feature. You can set it up for multiple accounts, like I have a personal, Parajunkee's View and a Blog with Bite calendar. Rocks out and other people can see it so I actually have had a MKTG rep from a publisher, check my calendar, see that I was free for a certain date and mention it in an email.
This is a good way to keep track of blog tours, and reviews scheduled. Also they have a gadget in blogger that lets you have a Coming Soon feature that shows your google cal events. Love it, and very easy to use.
GOOGLE DOCSA handy dandy feature that I use mainly for my contests. This makes life easier, especially when you have multiple entries. It takes a bit to get used to but I do have a very LONG tutorial on how to use it on my design site:
http://parajunkeedesign.blogspot.com/2009/12/using-google-docs-for-...
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
A way to track who visits your site. This should be included in your blog. You simply copy and paste a bit of code to the bottom of your blog. They give you a step by step how to on the site. Then you are tracking away. You want to add Google Analytics to your site because it helps with google ranking.
GOOGLE ALERTS
Rock out one of the best features of GOOGLE. A google alert announces to you every time a certain key word is posted on the WWW. They send you an email alert, almost instantaneously when a post goes out with your keyword on it. My suggestion is that you get a google alert for you name and blog name, this way when you win a contest, or someone mention's you, well you know about it in your inbox.
Questions? Leave them in the comment section and I will try to answer it in a timely fashion!
2. Click Settings.
3. Click on the tab: Forwarding and POP/IMAP
4. Click on the radio button next to: Forward a copy of incoming mail to ___________
5. Put your regular email in that text box.
6. Save Changes.
Now on to the fun stuff of Google.
GOOGLE CALENDAR
I lurve the calendar feature. You can set it up for multiple accounts, like I have a personal, Parajunkee's View and a Blog with Bite calendar. Rocks out and other people can see it so I actually have had a MKTG rep from a publisher, check my calendar, see that I was free for a certain date and mention it in an email.
This is a good way to keep track of blog tours, and reviews scheduled. Also they have a gadget in blogger that lets you have a Coming Soon feature that shows your google cal events. Love it, and very easy to use.
GOOGLE DOCSA handy dandy feature that I use mainly for my contests. This makes life easier, especially when you have multiple entries. It takes a bit to get used to but I do have a very LONG tutorial on how to use it on my design site:
http://parajunkeedesign.blogspot.com/2009/12/using-google-docs-for-...
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
A way to track who visits your site. This should be included in your blog. You simply copy and paste a bit of code to the bottom of your blog. They give you a step by step how to on the site. Then you are tracking away. You want to add Google Analytics to your site because it helps with google ranking.
GOOGLE ALERTS
Rock out one of the best features of GOOGLE. A google alert announces to you every time a certain key word is posted on the WWW. They send you an email alert, almost instantaneously when a post goes out with your keyword on it. My suggestion is that you get a google alert for you name and blog name, this way when you win a contest, or someone mention's you, well you know about it in your inbox.
Questions? Leave them in the comment section and I will try to answer it in a timely fashion!
