Thank you all so much for doing the tour on such late notice. Since it’s Thanksgiving time and we’re doing a thankful book, I’ll give thanks for something. I’m thankful that this is a picture book and not a 500 page novel on short notice, and I’m thankful for great bloggers who love to promote children’s books.
We have, I think, sixteen bloggers ready to roll on this tour.
Since some of you are new and since there was some confusion during the last tour about when the links need to be posted, I’m glad to go over it here.
Link to Tour Book
Please use the Amazon link I provided on Friday for This is the Feast, at least once each day. Once on Monday, once on Tuesday, and once on Wednesday. If you use a different link for the book, Technorati won’t count it. Also, we need you to link all three days because Technorati only counts links that were posted in the last 24 hours. So if we have 14 bloggers posting the link on different days, 3 on Monday, 6 on Tuesday, and 5 on Wednesday, we aren’t going to make the impact we want to make. If we all post that one link three days in a row then we have a better chance of Technorati finding us and counting our links.
That being said, some of you are Amazon Associates. I am, too. I think we all should be. I don’t even care about making money so much as I love to see that someone came to my site, read a book review I did, clicked over to Amazon, and bought a book. That just tickles me! I love to see that my reviews are making a difference. So I’m all for the Amazon Associates program. There is no rule that you can’t use your Amazon Associate link along with the link I’ve provided. The best way to go about this, I think, is to link with the Technorati link the first time you mention the book in the blog post. Every other mention can be your Associate link. And at the end of the post you can put an Amazon widget or sale box. The book cover picture can also be a link to book using your associate ID. That’s fine. The tour that benefits all of us, bloggers and authors and readers, is what I consider a success.
Links to Participating Bloggers
We’re continuing to have trouble with the links to the bloggers. First of all this: you only have to link to the other bloggers once during each tour. It’s important to link at least once to each blogger on the tour as this helps the other bloggers publicize their blogs and it helps readers find more information on the book we are touring. It’s a service to your reader and to your fellow bloggers to link to them. I know it’s not fun, though, to send your readers clicking on links that lead to blogs where no one has posted. Because of that it might be best to link the other bloggers the second day of the tour, instead of the first. Anyone who doesn’t post on the first day usually has just forgotten and they usually get their posts up by the second day.
You are always welcome to link to the other bloggers all three days. But you aren’t required to. If you wait until day three, though, you are kind of defeating the community feeling we are trying to get going with these tours, so if you can post links to the other bloggers by day 2, I’d appreciate it.
The links are continuing to be broken on several blogs each tour. I’m not sure if that’s been my fault or not. Sorry for the trouble. I spent a couple of hours today making sure I put in the code right but the blog program sometimes changes the code on me. So here is the best way to do the links, I think:
- Copy the code from the box below.
- Paste it into the HTML portion of your blog page.
- Check the links to see if they work.
- If they don’t work, delete them from your blog,
- and copy the code again.
- Open a Word Notepad document.
- Paste the list into the Notepad document.
- Select all and copy.
- Paste it into the HTML portion of your blog page.
When you paste the code into your Notepad document it might strip the code of the curly quotes that are breaking the links, replacing them with straight quotes.
If none of that works, please email me. You can change the curly quotes to straight quotes in your Word program. I’ll tell you how.
For a paragraph listing like this:
the 160acrewoods, A Mom Speaks, All About Children’s Books, Becky’s Book Reviews, Cafe of Dreams, Dolce Bellezza, Homeschool Buzz, KidzBookBuzz.com, Looking Glass Reviews, Maggie Reads, Maw Books Blog, Never Jam Today, Olive Tree, Our Big Earth, Quiverfull Family, Reading is My Superpower, SmallWorld Reads
Use this code:
For a list like this:
the 160acrewoods
A Mom Speaks
All About Children’s Books
Becky’s Book Reviews
Cafe of Dreams
Dolce Bellezza
Homeschool Buzz
KidzBookBuzz.com
Looking Glass Reviews
Maggie Reads
Maw Books Blog
Never Jam Today
Olive Tree
Our Big Earth
Quiverfull Family
Reading is My Superpower
SmallWorld Reads
Use this code:
3 responses so far ↓
1 Natasha @ Maw Books // Nov 16, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Hi Sally,
I noticed I’m not on the list. Can you add me in please? Thanks!
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2 Natasha @ Maw Books // Nov 17, 2008 at 12:49 am
I’ve tried both emails and this is what I get in return:
SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO::
host kidzbookbuzz.com [69.89.31.238]: 550-Message rejected because ip-12-68-137-52.gvodatacenter.com [12.68.137.52]
550 is blacklisted.
So strange . . . thanks for the heads up on IE. I can open it in my IE. Would you mind telling me which version you are operating so I can tell the tech people. I was trying to email to give you a heads up that due to the rescheduling of this tour, I’m double booked with another tour for Monday. I didn’t want you to wonder. Since this is three days and the other just one, I just have to roll with it! I enjoy being on these tours. Much appreciated for all of your hard work!
Natasha @ Maw Books’s last blog post..Is Your Book Club This Fun?
3 Late Arrival // Nov 17, 2008 at 12:51 pm
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