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Book Review: Dog Cancer Survival Guide

Guest Post by Blog Manager Robbi Hess

The Dog Cancer Survival Guide by Dr. Demian Dressler, DVM and Dr. Susan Ettinger, DVM, dip. ACVIM (ongology) was provided to me to review and it was certainly not light reading -- in either material contained within or in sheer heft. It was, however, a comprehensive guide on not only what to do to help your dog -- and your family -- cope with this devestating diagnosis. 

The book is divided into five sections: 

1. My Dog Has Cancer, Now What?
2. What You Shoudl Know About Dog Cancer
3. Full Spectrum Cancer Care
4. Making Confident Choices
5. From The Oncologist 

Avoid These Home Remedies

From The Editor's Desk:

Saw this information online the other day and wanted to pass it along. 

I spent four hours one day last week trying to clean motor oil off a patient whose owner had tried to use the slick substance to kill mange. It was a fundamentally bad idea - and not just because motor oil is probably more dangerous to dogs than it is to mange mites. Turns out the poor dog wasn't even infected with mange in the first place. Read the rest here.

Do you ever use home remedies?

What to do about Content Copycats?

By Tom Collins

This post grew out of a lively discussion over in the BlogPaws Community Blog Talk group over what to do when you discover another blog or website is republishing your content (group created by Dawn Miklich, afFURmation blogger). It started with Stephanie Hulett of The Shelter Shack blog asking for advice after she found her latest post copied verbatim (including images) on another site.

A few key points that emerged from the discussion and my follow-up with Stephanie:

Friday Freebies for your Blog: Music from Kevin MacLeod

By Tom Collins

If you're looking for free music to add to that cool video or slideshow you're working on, the first place to check should be Kevin MacLeod's site: Incompetech.com.

Kevin is a prolific composer, music score producer, and a big believer in the Creative Commons "By" license. He makes his creations available for free download, asking for credit on your production and allowing for voluntary donations. He provides an FAQ page, with details about the extensive uses he allows for free (including most commercial uses), instructions for giving him proper credit, along with the few wrinkles and exceptions.

Wordless Wednesday - Snow

Submitted by Scrappy @Yorkie Tails

 

Submitted by Melissa McDaniel

 

Submitted by Veronica Robertson

 

The rules are super simple: Show us your pets! Leave a link directly to your Wordless Wednesday Post Visit other blogs and say hello (don't forget! This is the part that is the most fun!)

Remember to leave a comment to let everyone know you stopped by for a visit. Share the link up with your readers so they can join the community and link up as well. You can grab the code and place it on your blog or you can refer your readers right back to the Wordless Wednesday post of the week.

If you would like your pet’s picture featured as our Wordless Wednesday picture of the week, please join the BlogPaws Community Center. Pictures you post there have a chance of making it to our Wordless Wednesday. You can post as many pictures as you want in our community - we encourage it! We never get tired of looking at all your pet pictures!

PS. Please make sure to upload full size pictures that are good quality so they can be used for the Wordless Wednesday post.

 

 

Upping your blog traffic

by Yvonne DiVita

With a head's up to The Daily SEO Blog for their 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic, I wanted to share a few of my thoughts and encourage you to add yours in our comments section.

More blog traffic is a key wish for many of our bloggers. I'd say "all" but some of us aren't as concerned about more traffic as we are with great traffic. They are not the same thing.

More traffic is increasing your monthly pageviews - from 10,000 to 50,000 for instance. That involves getting more eyeballs to your blog via search engines, referrals, and other means (sharing on Facebook or Twitter, for instance).

So Much Social Media, So Little Time

Guest post by Blog Manager Robbi Hess

I was at a Chamber of Commerce meeting today and Anthony Kirlew did a 10-minute presentation on social media. One of the questions raised was, "How do I keep up with ALL of the social media sites that are out there?" Good question, right? 

Unless you have unlimited amounts of time, you can't possibly keep up with it all. I swear that at least once every couple of weeks I am being invited to yet another social media site. I have my pet blog community of which I am a member, then my professional sites (LinkedIn) and Google+ in addition to Facebook. Add to the mix, a Baby Boomer site that invited me, Pinterest, Branch Out, my PoolInfo Site community, Twitter... the list goes on. Sure you can get yourself a HootSuite account and schedule all of your updates automatically rather than going to each site individually. I am not a fan of pre-scheduling, but it does have its place. 

Friday Freebies for your Blog: Photos from the U.S. Army's Photostream on Flickr

By Tom Collins

This week's resource is a BIG one that I'll come back to often for specific examples and links: images created by the government.

The photo here comes from The U.S. Army's Photostream on Flickr, with the caption, "Homeless dogs help healing troops." When you click through to the individual image, they've provided a nice little summary of the story behind the photo:

Blogging For Beginners: Editorial Calendars

Guest post by Blog Manager Robbi Hess

In my last Blogging For Beginners post, I posed five questions you needed to ponder before adding your voice to the blogging conversation. If you hadn't answered those questions, you should pop over, take a look at them now and jot the information down. 

To truly be a success in blogging -- or as a writer in general, in any medium -- you should have a notebook or document on your computer in which you answer these questions and use that notebook/doc as a gathering point for all Blogging for Beginners-related info. 

I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that you've answered the five questions posed and now you're wondering... now what!? Well, the "now what" is to start blogging. Okay, you aren't confident enough to do that so you should at least make yourself an editorial calendar. Yes, you heard me right, an editorial calendar. 

Wordless Wednesday - Friends

J.L Smith

 

AmyJo Casner

 

Jahnna Randall

Julie Pruitt

 

Mary O'Brien

 

Each week BlogPaws is going to create a link up for the community for you to add a link directly to your Wordless Wednesday Post. That way we can all share and enjoy each others pets. The rules are super simple: Show us your pets! Leave a link directly to your Wordless Wednesday Post Visit other blogs and say hello (don't forget! This is the part that is the most fun!)

Remember to leave a comment to let everyone know you stopped by for a visit. Share the link up with your readers so they can join the community and link up as well. You can grab the code and place it on your blog or you can refer your readers right back to the Wordless Wednesday post of the week.

If you would like your pet’s picture featured as our Wordless Wednesday picture of the week, please join the BlogPaws Community Center. Pictures you post there have a chance of making it to our Wordless Wednesday. You can post as many pictures as you want in our community - we encourage it! We never get tired of looking at all your pet pictures!

PS. Please make sure to upload full size pictures that are good quality so they can be used for the Wordless Wednesday post.