Sonya's Biztalk posts

CreLoaded software setup - oh man...yikes!

Ok, I need someone to set up a shopping cart for me using CreLoaded. I have it started but not complete. It's php-based so I'm assuming any fabulous php type person with a little ecommerce shopping cart set-up experience could help????

Ecommerce Solution

Can anyone recommend a good ecommerce shopping cart solution or script? I'm checking out using wordpress with the ecommerce plugin but it seems really glitchy and complicated. So, I'm wondering if anyone else has some recommendations. I want something very SEO friendly and not too complicated to manage on the backend.

I'm getting ready to launch a new web site called bestecostuff.com - an idea I've had rambling around in my brian for about 2 years now :-)

Just curious if anyone else has had either good or bad experiences and with which carts...

Thanks!

Biznik Graphic on Blog

Got a quick question about the biznik graphic on my blog - http://www.trulytwistedmarketing.com. I think it used to point to my member page (not 100% sure but think so) and since the launch of the new site I can't find the graphic anywhere to check the link code and point it to the correct place. Any ideas?

blog url vs web site url

I have a blog question I'm hoping someone will have an answer to!

I'm setting up a blog to go with an established web site. I'd like to integrate it closely with the site for SEO purposes. Ideally, love to use the seo juice from trackbacks and links from other blogs and sites to build up the actual web site url. What I want to do is set it up as if it's a page within the site: www.specialtyliving.com/blog and not blog.specialtyliving.com which is basically a different url altogether.

The problem is typepad won’t redirect or map to specialtyliving.com/blog. So, my question is, CAN you actually set up a blog as a folder within the site and if not, what would you recommend?

Where Are the Women Bloggers?

I posted an article in my blog asking for women bloggers to, um, well...unite! :) I latched onto the idea when I realized there are minimal places online for women bloggers to congregate and network. Here's the link to the article as it ran on TrulyTwistedMarketing.com. If you don't want to click over, I posted the article below without links. Love to know what other biznik members think about the idea.

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Ok. Where are they?

This blog is owned and operated by a woman – yes, that would be me. I know there are tons of other blogs by women but where are they?

The reason I’m asking this question is simply that I was thinking the other day about women and that we, as a group, don't really have a place online or enough places online that are just for us.

Okay, guys, no eyeball rolling please.

And to take it one step further, I don't really see women-owned blogs at the top of the heap. My line of thinking…which (I have to warn you) tends to run rampant once I latch on to an idea…really got started by doing a Google search on women bloggers.

Go ahead. Try it.

<blockquote>#1 womenbloggers - web ring (directory) but still a great place to get a link from and good information.

#2 blogher - cool conferences, good information

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While the blogs I found were interesting and offered up valuable information. They still didn’t quite answer my questions. I wanted to know who those other women were and what they were blogging about - work, family, kids, parents, hobbies? Are they on Technorati, Squidoo, or using social networking in any way? Women tend to be relational by nature. They talk and share -a lot. So, why am I not hearing those voices? Is it because I’m not listening? Is ANYONE really listening?

I think it’s time to turn up the volume.

I saw an article last week posted in the Reuters Second Life bureau where one of the top Technorati bloggers, Arianna Huffington was interviewed on her new book. There were two things that struck me:

<blockquote>First, she a grown-up, successful businesswoman, author, radio personality and she has an avatar in Second Life (Arianna Hera). Don’t know about you, but for some reason, I just hadn’t thought about the two going together but it makes sense when you realize she has a grasp of technology and definitely knows how to use it.
</blockquote><blockquote>Second, she’s not afraid to be bold, put herself out there and create controversy - thus her new book on being fearless.
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Interesting.

So, here’s my challenge. If you are a woman and you are a blogger – leave me a comment or send me an email about your blog, about you. You can be brief and add your links. I’ll post the responses (links and all) and let’s see what kind of conversations we can get started.

Here’s an example format to follow:
Name:
Blog:
Description About You and/or Your Blog (3-4 sentences):
Your Biggest Challenge in Blogging (feel free to dish!):

Women of the blogosphere….UNITE!
(um, just couldn’t resist that one)

Switching A Static Site to a Blog - Anyone Know the Pros and Cons?

I love blogging and my TrulyTwistedMarketing.com blog is set up on wordpress.

What I'm thinking about doing is changing one of my older static web sites from html(css) and setting it up in wordpress. The web site actually has a nice page rank, good links coming in and the domain has been around for awhile.

I'm rewriting all the copy and redesigning the site. So, I had this idea that, while I was at it, I might as well switch it to wordpress. What I'm wondering about is the impact it might have (either positive or negative) SEO-wise and curious if anyone else has done this before.

Thanks!