PAULA NEAL MOONEY

by Paula Neal Mooney I was afraid of your alcohol breath I was afraid of your complete disregard for me I was afraid of your temper I was afraid of handles being flown off I was afraid of holes being punched into walls I was afraid of your tes...tos...te...rone... ...I was afraid for my own bones... There's a reason why "Sympathetic Character" off her Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie CD is my second-favorite Alanis Morissette song. It comes in hard on the tail of "You Oughta Know," the song that put Alanis on the map when she blazed her trail in the world releasing Jagged Little Pill . I've been thru that! Alanis' lyrics ring so true to me -- as do they to many of her other fans. I, too, have had a "sympathetic character" or two in my life. Because of former maltreatment, I grew to hate anger being directed at me. My coping skills included "making nice" and holding back my true feelings as a means to protect "my own bones....

by Paula Neal Mooney His name is Paul . He whooshed into my cyberworld like a hurricane. He fawned over me with gushing compliments, saying we'd make beautiful biracial babies. He emailed. He commented. He wants to have text. Hey, hey Paul... In actuality, all the cyber-attention from BlogPaul -- tech, tattoos, talk -- has felt nice. 'specially on days when I blog and wonder: "Is there anybody out there?" Paul is there . And so is his new WordPress blog , after he gave up on Blogger after seven long years. I didn't even know Blogger was around that long! "Life is 95% Jesus Christ…the other 5 for me is tech, tattoos and talk" says Paul's about page , warming my (and his heaven-bound) soul. I like the things you do for me... I cried out for link love . Paul posted his "Brown. Racist. Blog Starlet." piece, as irreverent and spicy as his strong personality. The image in BlogPaul's header is to die for. Wish I could paste it here but I do...

March 14, 2007 Update: No more free link love! Please see my sidebar to order a review from this blog from this day forth. Thank you all for participating! by Paula Neal Mooney Link love is important. I'm all about the link love. Getting links from other blogs back to your blog gives your blog more authority. Giving links to other blogs that don't have as much authority as your blog is also good will. Here are a couple of ways to give and get link love: 1 - Review John Chow's blog. John Chow is a cool and popular blogger who's not shy about giving and getting the link love. He's got a blog review thing going that you might want to join, since he's ranked 259 on Technorati as of this writing. John's gonna crack the Top 100 real soon, I predict. Check out the details from John's latest post . 2 - Review Paula Mooney's blog. Okay, so I'm not at John's rankings yet, but today -- thank you, Father in heaven -- my blog is ranked 3,041 on Techn...

by Paula Neal Mooney Today I was cruising TechCrunch's post about Explode! and in the comments section I saw a guy pitching something called the Million Dollar Avatar . I headed on over to the Million Dollar Avatar , and was as happy as a pig in slop when they approved my quick application and my big face made it on the Million Dollar Avatar's front page. After I joined the Million Dollar Avatar and started surfing the site, I found this in the Million Dollar Avatar's FAQs page : How do I become a member? Becoming a Million Dollar Avatar member is very easy. First, walk-thru the 2 step registration process to register your profile and pay the $10/yr membership fee.... Whoa! Hold the phone Million Dollar Avatar maker! Who said anything on the Million Dollar Avatar's terms and conditions about money? (Not that I read those things anyway. But I did just select all and try to find a dollar sign -- no dice.) Neither could I find out how to win a free membership as stated...

by Paula Neal Mooney Looks like the big news today is that PayPerPost.com is going to start paying us posties to video-blog about specific products in a different manner than before . Woo hoo! What's interesting is that Eric Berlin writes that PayPerPost will pay for "new video ad products, targeted channels, and payment based upon traffic rankings from Alexa, Google, and Technorati." Man am I thanking God today for all the tips received from Bonnie Calhoun about joining Bloggin' Chicks (see my blogroll in the sidebar and click on that for more info) and that I posted those 2000 Bloggers Projects pics on my blog (don't click that link unless you have a fast connection, cause as Bonnie correctly warned, this can truly slow down your dial-up traffic). My already rising Technorati ranking is 8,400-ish right now! Praying my Google Pagerank will rise as well... Sure, Ted Murphy is targeting the Top 100 bloggers, but let's hope and pray the PayPerPost bigger o...

by Paula Neal Mooney In my New Year's Day post I logged the Technorati ranking of this blog, which was 78,722 at that point. This morning, a mere 12 days later, my Technorati ranking has been raised to 24,238. How'd that happen besides a whole lotta God's favor? Here are some practical ways to raise your Technorati ranking, especially if you were ranked 1 million plus like I was when I first claimed this blog: * Join a nice blogroll network. I know Andy Beard says this will hurt my Google Pagerank, I'm waiting to see if my Google Pagerank will in fact increase from 3 (to 5, at least, please Lord?) when Google re-evaluates the pageranks, which should be happening right now. (I still love Andy Beard's blog full of great stuff -- congrats on being highly linked for your MyBlogLog meme! -- for his tip about getting favored on Technorati.) * But my friend Bonnie Calhoun (PageRank 5) told me about Blogging Chicks. (See the blogroll way at the bottom of this blog and...

Make a Real Living off Your Blog in 2007 by Paula Neal Mooney Blogging is "hot ta death," as the kids would say. So this New Year's Day 2007 has me ruminating over ways to increase my blogging-from-home (or wherever) business goals to reach my ultimate goal: making a real living and drawing a six-figure-plus salary from blogging in 2007. Funny how some people laugh at that goal or write "good luck!" as if making a living off your blog is some kind of impossible dream. But I know that God is no respecter of persons, and if Darren Rowse and Michael Arrington can do it, so can I thru Christ. So here goes with my blogging goals and visions for 2007, which all will intrinsically help to increase my revenue by driving blog traffic and the like. Hope they help you quit the job you hate -- that you're so stressed over you get sick in the parking lot upon arrival -- and make all your money doing the blogging thing you love: Subscribe to more blogs, leave more com...