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3 Hot Spots on Your Leaf to Drive Traffic
What's your motivation with Zujava? Is there on particular call to action that you are trying to get through to readers? There are certain hot spots on a page that are more "clickable" than others. Let's say that you are promoting your own blog, an Amazon section, or your Zazzle store.
Calling All Feature Requests!
During beta Bill and I were worked hard to fix issues, add new features to the site, and make sure we provided support to you, our writers. Now that we are out of beta we want to ensure that the new features we work on are what the community needs most going forward.
With this in mind we are launching a new tool to track feature requests for the platform: Trello!
Leaf Mission: Write About Your Home Town
There's no place you know better than where you live, and no matter where you live, there's somebody out there that wants to read about your town or city.
Now, try this out. Go to Google and search for your home town. You'll likely find a Wikipedia entry, the official town websites, and some of the most popular businesses in town. Mixed into the results, you may also find some data aggregation sites that list statistics like population, average income, and other stats.
The First Zujava Payment is Here!
Today is a milestone for Zujava and our incredibly talented writers. On the heels of our announcement that we left Beta, today is the first ever payday at Zujava! w00t!
If you made over $5, you will be paid via PayPal. If not, it will be added to your pending money on the earnings report tab on your dashboard. Once you reach $5 in pending earnings, a PayPal payment will be sent your way. Please remember to fill in your proper PayPal email address so that you can be paid.
Interview with Alison M
Ever wonder what your English teacher's advice would be for your leaves? Alison M., one of Zujava's most prolific writers, is an English teacher by day, online writer by night. In today's interview, she shares her online writing experience, what embodies a great leaf (from an English teacher's perspective), and her thoughts on Zujava. Read the interview below:
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Happy Mother's Day from Zujava! Menu Ideas for Mom
Time to give Mom some props! To the mothers of the world, we hope you are enjoying today, whether it's spending time with family, relaxing, doing something for yourself, or honoring other mothers in your life.
To help you to celebrate Mother's Day this year, we've prepared a few ideas to help get something delicious on the table for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or dessert.
In addition, we've featured six Mother's Day worthy leaves on the home page for today. Be sure to check them out!
Leaf Spotlight: Free Photos and Pictures
I remember it like it was yesterday. The first time I published an article online, one of my biggest questions was "how can I use free images on my articles?" I had seen others using images on their articles, but had no idea what licenses I needed to adhere to, how to give credit back, or where to find high quality photos that were free to use. Ladymermaid has done a great job answering that question. Even if you've been publishing online for a while, there are some sites on this list that you should take a look at.
7 Ways to Promote Your Leaves Using Your Author RSS Feed
Last month, we debuted the author RSS feed, which is available on every author profile on Zujava. If you're not familiar with RSS, it's a feed of all of your leaves. It's been dubbed "really simple syndication."
Older entries
- Leaf Spotlight: The History of Cats May 10, 2012
- Meet Christene May 10, 2012
- Why Link Diversity Matters Today May 9, 2012
- Important Changes to Content Formatting May 7, 2012
- Interview with Paz May 7, 2012
- Interview with Seelyon May 5, 2012
- Being Generous with Your Online Content May 4, 2012
- Interview with Pastiche May 3, 2012
- We're Out of Beta! Official Launch! May 1, 2012
- Leaf Spotlight: Will Adults Enjoy the Hunger Games? April 30, 2012
- Leaf Spotlight: Easy Stretches for Desk Workers April 28, 2012
- Leaf Spotlight: Hunger Games Party April 27, 2012
- Interview with Jimmie April 26, 2012
- Dragon Naturally Speaking Contest Winners! April 25, 2012
- Topic Tuesday: Weddings April 24, 2012
- Interview with Mike Keane April 23, 2012
- Interview with Footed Pajamas April 21, 2012
- Interview with Ladymermaid April 20, 2012
- How to Schedule Your Online Promotion with Buffer April 19, 2012
- Interview with Jenn Pipe April 18, 2012
- Topic Tuesday: Video Games April 17, 2012
- Interview with Evelyn Saenz April 16, 2012
- Trello: An Easy Way to Organize Your Writing Ideas and Make an Online to-do List April 14, 2012
- 5 Formatting Errors You Can Easily Fix April 13, 2012
- How to Write Product Reviews That Get Traffic April 12, 2012
- Wanted: Cinco de Mayo Leaves - Recipes, Celebrations, and Products April 11, 2012
- Topic Tuesday: Home & Garden April 10, 2012
- Tracking the publication date of articles April 9, 2012
- Happy Easter from Zujava! April 8, 2012
- Zujava Mobile: Adaptive Width, Take a Look! April 7, 2012
- 5 Upcoming Highly Searched Topics for May April 6, 2012
- Claim Google Authorship of Your Zujava Leaves April 5, 2012
- Flagging and Fighting Spam on Zujava April 4, 2012
- Topic Tuesday: Internet April 3, 2012
- Mission: Create One Leaf for a Charity April 2, 2012
- Wait! Backup... Backup Day Was Yesterday... April 1, 2012
- Ten Ways to Create a Home Page Worthy Leaf March 30, 2012
- Pinterest Section Now Live: Add Your Pins! March 29, 2012
- How Did Zujava Get Its Name? March 28, 2012
- Topic Tuesday: Green Living and Environment March 27, 2012
- Important Note About Locked Leaves March 26, 2012
- How to Deep Link to Sections March 24, 2012
- Creating Leaves in a Series March 23, 2012
- Feature Your Leaves on Lensroll.com! March 22, 2012
- 25 Ways to Promote Your Leaf March 21, 2012
- Topic Tuesday: Travel and Places March 20, 2012
- New Features: Author RSS, Twitter Sections March 19, 2012
- Dragon Naturally Speaking Contest March 16, 2012
- All About Octopuses: Leaf Spotlight March 15, 2012
- Leaf Spotlight: Managing Shoulder Pain March 14, 2012
- Lettuce Wraps: Leaf Spotlight March 13, 2012
- The Best Breakfast Ever: French Toast - Leaf Spotlight March 12, 2012
- Stock Photos: Good or Bad? March 11, 2012
- Leaf Spotlight: The Top TV Characters of 2012 March 10, 2012
- Apple TV Contest Winner Announced! March 9, 2012
- Five Reasons Website Owners Should Write For Zujava March 8, 2012
- The Power of Multiple Leaves March 7, 2012
- How to Capture the Reader's Attention in Seconds March 6, 2012
- Promote Your Leaf Using Facebook March 4, 2012
- Zujava Rewind: 5 Tips for Creating Memorable Content March 3, 2012
- How to Beat the Best March 2, 2012
- The Best Way to Get Original Photos: Your Phone March 1, 2012
- Leap Day February 29, 2012
- How to Write a Great Music Leaf February 28, 2012
- Google+ Search Traffic and Huge New Opportunities February 27, 2012
- Images Tutorial: Find Photos to Use and Properly Attribute February 26, 2012
- How to Properly Tag Your Leaf February 25, 2012
- Upcoming Highly Searched Topic Ideas for March-May February 24, 2012
- Zujava is One Month Old! February 23, 2012
- 10 Ways to Create Useful Original Content February 22, 2012
- Amazon Products: Why Less is More February 21, 2012
- Finding a Topic to Write About: Write About What You Know February 20, 2012
- How to Outline Your Leaf February 19, 2012
- 5 Places to Backlink Your Zujava Leaf February 18, 2012
- The "Fix a Hole" Method of Creating a Leaf February 16, 2012
- About Properly Crediting Images February 15, 2012
- Focusing on the Reader (Not You) February 14, 2012
- Finding a Topic to Write About: Broad or Narrow February 13, 2012
- Updates and patches to Zujava.com February 13, 2012
- Important Changes to Comment Notifications February 12, 2012
- Creating a Good User Experience February 11, 2012
- Leaf vs. Blog - What's the Difference? February 10, 2012
- The Importance of Comments February 9, 2012
- 5 Tips for a Tasty Recipe Leaf February 8, 2012
- A New Way to Search and Write: Questions February 7, 2012
- St. Patrick's Day Leaf Ideas February 6, 2012
- Inside Zujava.com: A Technical Overview February 5, 2012
- Making the Default Image in Facebook Better February 4, 2012
- The Four Types of Successful Leaves February 3, 2012
- Win a Free Apple TV Contest! February 3, 2012
- 3 Ways to a Better Introduction Photo February 2, 2012
- Ads are Now Live on Zujava! February 1, 2012
- Help Promote a Local Business January 31, 2012
- Wanted: 7 Leaf Topics We'd Like to See on Zujava January 30, 2012
- 5 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Leaf Right Now January 29, 2012
- Have You Seen Our Referral Program? January 28, 2012
- Ways To Get Help January 27, 2012
- Adding Amazon Products to Your Leaf January 27, 2012
- Thursday's Site Outage January 26, 2012
- 5 Upcoming Highly Searched Topics to Write About on Zujava January 26, 2012
- Enable Google Analytics Tracking on Your Zujava Account January 25, 2012
- Get Featured on the Home Page Contest January 24, 2012
- Payout on Zujava Explained January 24, 2012
- Today is Our Official Launch Day! January 23, 2012
- Signup and Section Saving Issues Fixed January 22, 2012
- And We're Live! January 22, 2012
- Getting Started: Your First Article January 19, 2012
- Ideas for Your First Zujava Leaf (50, Actually) January 16, 2012
- How to Make a Killer Bio Page That Readers Remember January 9, 2012
- Why Duplicate Content Isn't a Good Idea Anywhere January 7, 2012
- The Zujava FAQ January 7, 2012
- Welcome to Zujava! December 4, 2011