Help for Chon’s Magazine – Great Looking Blog, Needs Just a little Help
Yesterday I received a request from the author of Chon’s Magazine. Actually at the time the initial email didn’t have the blog url, but I got it today and took a look at the site and liked a lot of what I saw, but did see a couple things that could both help this site.
- A lot of very good effort has gone into this site and it has generated an good result. But the site is running on the blogger platform and will always be limited by that platform both in terms of functionality like communicating and commenting, but also for search engine optimization, SERP results, traffic, and that all means less potential ad revenue, or lower quality ads. Please consider moving to self hosted WordPress!
- If you stay on blogger for another day, week or whatever, please take a look at our blogger favicon tutorial.
- To get approved by Social Spark, you need to install the stats tracking code that they provide, sometimes known as the itk code. This has to be inserted into your template just before the </body> tag, It can take a couple days for approval, so do this right away. I can’t see anything other than this that will hold you back.
- Update – I received a follow up email from this blogger, and it looks like they have actually properly installed the codes ( note, I could not see them in the source code on their blog when I checked, but they sent the following screen shots)
- I looked again at the source code and was able to find the code installed. Its located just after the opening <body> tag as opposed to before the closing </body> tag. It has been my experience that it is better to put this code at the very end, so that nothing on the Izea servers slows down the loading of content or images on your site. I would definitely move this code to increase loading time of the blog, but it should work.
- Next Steps – Its time for a Social Spark Support Ticket! Send in a ticket to support and ask them to review the situation. Sometimes these things get stuck in the system, and just need to be pushed along with a little help from the large staff at Izea.
- Note, you are already starting to get well connected via blogger, you’ve done a lot of things right. Once you get setup with Social Spark and start earning some money for your blogging efforts, you can help point your friends in a similar direction and they can earn some money too. Nothing better than helping a friend earn money. Give a person some rice and they eat for a day, teach them how to grow and cook rice and they can eat for a lifetime.
Tags: Getting Approved, social spark
