Etsy Sellers Who Blog V2
{Ring Info | Ring Rules | How to Add Ring Code}
The Etsy Sellers Who Blog ring was created by übercherry and is now run by Lis and Jennifer.
The purpose of the ring is to link together the hundreds of blogs on the Internet run by Etsy sellers.
Here’s how it works: each blog in the ring is linked to two other blogs, through the previous and next links in the ring code (see illustration).
This allows you to travel the entire ring by clicking on the next link, and you will eventually end up back at your own blog (or you can travel the ring backwards by clicking the previous link).
1. You must be an Etsy seller.
2. You must have a blog, LiveJournal, TypePad, Wordpress, etc. that will support the ring code (sadly, MySpace and Yahoo360 blogs don’t allow the ring code to be added). Only blogs can be added to the ring. Etsy shops cannot.
3. You must have an EASY-TO-FIND link to your Etsy shop somewhere on your blog.
4. Please ensure that you enter the ring code into your blog template right away. Your blog will not be approved until that code is there.
5. Please place your code somewhere that is easy to find so people can continue making the ring rounds with ease - the preferred placement is in your left or right sidebar. You WILL NOT be approved if the code is merely entered into a blog post. It must be entered into your template.
6. PLEASE NOTE that having the ring code in your blog does not mean that it will be immediately activated. You must first be approved to join, so please allow at least one week for the code to become functional.
7. Please only submit one blog per Etsy shop. Do not submit mirror sites.
*Adapted from ubercherry’s Etsy Sellers Who Blog ring rules.
Here are instructions for adding the ring code to Blogger and Livejournal blogs. I hope to add instructions for more types of blogs soon.
BLOGGER
1. Sign in to your blog.
2. Under “Manage Your Blogs” click the Layout link. This will open the Page Elements tab of your blog template.
3. Click on the “Add a Page Element” link. This will open a new window.
4. Scroll through the list and find “HTML/JavaScript” and click the “Add to Blog” button below it. This will open the “Configure HTML/JavaScript” form.
5. Open the email containing the ring code html. Highlight the html code and copy it (go to Edit/Copy on your browser’s file menu).
6. Go back to the “Configure HTML/JavaScript” form. Click your cursor into the content field, and go to Edit/Paste on your browser window (or click in there and hold down the ctrl key and hit the V key to paste).
7. Click the “Save Changes” button. The window will close.
8. On the Page Elements screen, click the “Save” button on the upper right hand side of the screen.
LIVEJOURNAL
1. When you sign up for the ring, you must put the URL of your Livejournal profile as your site URL (e.g. http://yourname.livejournal.com/profile), *not* your journal homepage.
2. Copy the ring code html from the confirmation page or from the welcome email.
3. In your Livejournal account, go to Profile / Edit Profile.
4. Paste the ring code into the Bio section of your profile.
5. Click “save changes”
TYPEPAD
Follow the TypePad instructions for adding the ring html code (site code) to your sidebar.
