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The Death of Google Friend Connect

November 22, 2011 By

With mommy blogging, it seems, sometimes you jump on the bandwagon, and sometimes you buck the trend.  In the case of Twitter, you can spend time following 19,000 people to build up your “I’ll follow you back” to 20,346- but we’ve not done that.  In the case of Google Friend Connect- we did simply jump [...]

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Facebook Giveaway Promotion Rules change for Mom Blogs

May 12, 2011 By

Just when we were getting used to the rules, things change!  As of yesterday, Facebook put a stop to the promotion of giveaways and contests and sweepstakes from blogs like ours.  You can see the new rules link here. What new Facebook Rules Mean for mommy bloggers What this means for us is that we [...]

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The Middle Matters Blog Hop

March 14, 2011 By

This is Akron Ohio Moms first blog hop. Blog hops are great ways to connect with similar blogs that are active. AkronOhioMoms.com is a co-host of this blog. If you have a blog, no matter what the size, you can add your blog information too. This is great exposure for your blog and a fun [...]

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Edit Images online with a free alternative to Photoshop

February 13, 2011 By

So you’re a mommy blogger, and you don’t have Photoshop- ugh!  That’s not good!  I have to admit that I am a novice at Photoshop, but we’ve got an expert in the family who sits next to me, so, not so bad.  Anyway, if you aren’t able to resize images, change their colors, add overlays, [...]

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Please Help AkronOhioMoms Facebook Problem

January 29, 2011 By

Updated: 1-31-11 This took just a couple days and was fixed! Many Thanks to all of our fans!!! Some of you may have noticed, Facebook recently started refusing links to AOM, meaning that, for a short while, you can’t share any of our articles on your wall. Facebook’s spam prevention systems have falsely identified AOM as [...]

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2011 Mom Blogging Trends

January 2, 2011 By

Although AkronOhioMoms.com has been around for a number of years, 2010 saw it flourish and really take off.  Besides the countless hours put into it, I credit the rise of social media, the LIKE button, and some well thought out SEO activities.  But 2011 is going to be different – and not just for me [...]

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Search Terms that drive people to Akron Ohio Moms website

December 7, 2010 By

Some of you might find my writing a little format sometimes, with lots of repeated headings, and words that people don’t just say in normal conversation.  That’s because, well, I am trying to win visitors to my site from google and the like.  And there’s nothing wrong with that- although some mommy bloggers will scream [...]

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Win! Bloggers- Win a copy of our Countdown Giveaway Widget – plus Promo Code

August 6, 2010 By

This is a special giveaway, in that it is about Giveaways!  AkronOhioMoms.com is a blog that runs on the world famous WordPress engine.  We have written a little bit of custom code that makes managing blogger (read mommy blogger) giveaways easy to use- See it? It’s just to the right of this post- it is [...]

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Akron OhioMoms Blog Statistics, and Roadmap

June 27, 2010 By

2010 has ushered in a whirlwind of changes at AkronOhioMoms.  The blog puttered around in 2008 and 2009 as not much more than a hobby, it has truly taken off this year.  We’ve integrated social networking efforts, have engaged in thousands of dollars in giveaways (and more coming, don’t worry!), added two new authors- Thanks [...]

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Giveaway Countdown Widget is a new tool for Mommy Bloggers running Contests

June 20, 2010 By

We’ve had a lot of fun growing this blog in 2010. We’ve seen a great number of giveaways, added a couple of contributors, and tried to make our blog as clean and as easy to read as possible. There’s of course always room for improvement, but, here in June 2010, its not too shabby. One [...]