Quick Update, Useful Blogroll Tip, and Excited Squee

Written by Susan on December 12th, 2008

This is a quickie update, folks, as the momentum is building with the Alex Jeffrey’s group of students at the moment. I am in the process of tweaking this blog’s design goofs, trying to upload some links, signing up for Aweber, getting a marketing domain name, looking into Adwords, partnering with those who are in this process with me, reading the how-to info on Alex’s website, taking notes of all I do to put into a how-to eBook of my own soon, responding to comments and questions…

All this while trying to remove my head from my anal orifice! Shoot, I may post video of THAT, if I ever get around to learning how to upload vids.

So I necessary am pressed for time. But fear not, Reader, I will have a post very soon that tells you in excruciating detail what I’ve been doing to keep up with my fellow students in this astonishing Internet Income training program (including posting links you can follow to learn even more). I also intend to give away some of the how-to’s I’ve managed to pick up from helpful students along the way that I see others are also struggling with.

Are you wondering how to get a blogroll list of names on your site quickly? Others have explained how to add to your list one-by-one by going into your Wordpress dashboard, choosing Manage – Links, and clicking on Add New. But if you want your blogroll up fast, and you see that others already have a long list on their sites and want to save yourselves some time, I can send you an .xml file I have of about 70 names or so. Just comment on this blog and I’ll email that file to you, along with the instructions on how to upload them all in an instant (thanks to the great help from Austin Delaney - you’re on my Christmas card list, man!)

If you know how to create an .xml file of your own, I’ll put the instructions here:

First, go into “Widgets” in your Wordpress dashboard and make sure that your Links are added, so it shows up on your sidebar.

Then, follow these steps:

In your WP dashboard:
1. Manage
2. Links
3. Click ‘Add New’
4. Over on the right, under ‘Related’ you see 3 links: Manage All Links, Manage All Link Categories, Import Links. Chose ‘Import Links.’
5. A page comes up that says “Import your blogroll from another system”. Go to the Browse button under “Or choose from your local disk.”
6. Find where you’ve saved the links.xml file
7. Make sure the category selected at the bottom is ‘Blogroll’ (there’s a dropdown list if it isn’t already listed as the default)
8. Click ‘Import OPML File’ button at the bottom.

Since my name doesn’t happen to be on this list, could you do me the favor of adding me manually? That’s Susan Livingstone (with an ‘e’ at the end!), and the address to this blog, of course, is http://susanlivingstone.com.

That should do it – I’d love to hear from you if it works (or even if it doesn’t – we can brainstorm our way out of the mess, if necessary).

Finally, want to mention Garry Parke’s “Get A Slice of the $1 MILLION Up For Grabs!” post – get there (from here), read it, follow the directions, and you can get your name and a link to your blog in Alex’s new eBook wherein he describes the case study he’s making of this, his first training program (and all the successful student’s he created from it – THIS MEANS US!).

More later, folks – must go and see if I can increase the circulation to my butt, now.