Use Links to Show You Care

This morning I received an email from my Google Calender informing me to post a new blog post. So this week why not focus on Google and Family Friend Poems. We have a bit of a relationship. We serve their ads on some of our pages, this blog post is actually being written using Google Blogger, and today 60% of our visitors were introduced to us through Google Search, a fact I know thanks to Google Analytics.

A recent article on the Official Google Webmaster Blog, about Duplicate Content caught my attention.

You see we have an issue on this website. Visitors are posting content from our website on their personal profile pages on MySpace and other social networking sites. This can create problems for us because then Google and other search engines don't know whose content it is. This means they don't know which page to show in the search results. Your MySpace page or the original FamilyFriendPoems.com page.

Here is an example from our introduction to Friend Forever Poems, the introduction was written by Shlomo, one our editors and a talented writer. A rather unique phrase from this short pharagraph is "How is it that people can talk so casually about a concept that we cannot even wrap our minds around" At first, when I search for it on Google there are 3 results Now click on repeat the search with the omitted results included and what do you know 76 Results!

Please enjoy our content, just don't post it on the your Profile or Blog. Instead place a link to your favorite pages on FamilyFriendPoems.com on your Profile Page. There are tools, such as Gigya, Add This and other features throughout our website to help you do just that.

For more discussion on this topic please visit the FFP Poetry Forums Marketing your Poetry - Unintentional Marketing and Plagiarism. Is it wrong?

Publish Your Poetry - What does it Take

The FFP Poetry Forum is sporting a different look with three new moderators and a new forum called, "Getting Your Poems Published".

Ted, one of our brand new Moderators, whose enthusiasm has lit a spark in the Forums of late, has volunteered to lead this new forum.

To jump start the new forum, Ted has contributed Eight articles packed with information, resources and interesting tidbits from his own forays into the always fascinating world of Poetry Publishing.

Here's a sneak peak at What's in a Title?

What's in a title? Sometimes everything. ..... If a title sparks the editor's interest, he/she will likely read your poem, and that is the single most important step toward getting published (except for mailing the poem to the editor in the first place!). Stay true to the body content of your poem, but do take the time to invent a dramatic and eyecatching title. This will pay off for you, big time!....

And from Personal Touch

I do not care how young or old you may be, nor whether you have studied the masters or not - if you have a poetic nature, you can get your poems published. Please give me your comments and suggestions about what we have covered in this article. If you find something which needs answering, please ask. You have read this far. The obvious next step is to get you published!

Well.... go ahead....comments and suggest.

FFP Poetry Forums

The FFP Poetry Forums is back up and running at full speed! After a frustrating month of June, the Website and Forum are back up. In addition we have moved to our very own Dedicated Server and are now able to add many new and exciting features to both the website and forum. Stop by the forum and take a look!

On the top right of each page, you can now subscribe to a RSS feed of all the latest posts on the forum. Next to it you can subscribe to receive once a day a digest of all posts via email. This is different then regular subscriptions on the forum which will now be limited to subscriptions to topics only (see the FAQ: Topic Wide Subscription for more on that).

If you are subscribed to the forum, and receiving emails in your spam box, (Especially for Yahoo Email Users) please mark them as Not Spam. If you no longer wish to subscribe just visit the Manage your subscriptions page. Please do not mark emails from us as spam. Contact us if you are receiving unwanted emails.

Also, private messaging is now enabled on the forum. Enjoy and please report any concerns.
Cheers! Don,
Forum Admin

P.S.
If you haven't visited the forum recently, we have had hundreds of new comments added. Please stop by to read what our members though of your poetry.

Forum Status

Please bear with us as we move to our own Dedicated Server, we will then get our Forum back up and running.


I know that many member of the forum have been worried about poems they posted and I just want to reassure you that your work is in our database and it will be put back up as soon as we move the website to a dedicated web server.


I hope to have this done by the beginning of July.

Website is back up

Please bear with us as we wade through the mess and get our website back up and running. This morning our web host has put the website back up. I hope they will not take us a down again.

I am honestly not sure why we they took us down. I have received many different reasons. I suspect the real reason is we are a victim of our own success and our web hosting company was unwilling to host us because we were using up too much of their resources.

I have therefore removed many features until we can move the website to a dedicated web server. The most obvious is that the forum is not running.

I know that many member of the forum have been worried about poems they posted and I just want to reassure you that your work is in our database and it will be put back up as soon as it is safe to do so.

I am truly sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. I am working hard to get us back and running. As I have more information I will post it here.

Thank you for your patience.

Fathers Day 2008

Well it's June, so what is exciting in June, you ask? Fathers Day, of course. Fathers Day is Sunday, June 15th and with that in mind here are some absolutely essential links for filling all your Fathers Day Poetry needs.

We have your standard Fathers Day Poems of course, but, the tour has just begun. You see, here at Family Friend Poems, one day for Dad just isn't enough, we talk about Fathers the whole year.

Are you in the market for a really special Dad, don't fret, we have a section just for you. Head on over to our Father Child Poems pages for some real tear jerkers, then check out our Best Father Poems .

Are you still here? What is it that you fancy? Are you a Wife looking for a bit of poetry for your Husband? Or is it your Grandfather whom you wish to toast on his special day?

We hope you enjoy our fine selection and please, stop by and visit again.

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A Special Gift for your Special Mother

Mothers Day is today!

If you have not yet purchased a gift for mom perhaps you had better get a move on. Or you could write a Mothers Day Poems.

What better gift for your mother then a gift straight from your heart. A gift which took you time to write. A creation of your own, designed specifically for your mother.

So check out our Mother Poems for inspiration and start writing your own unique poem for your own special mother.

A Mothers Day gift that will not be forgotten!

Mothers Day

Here at Family Friend Poems, Mothers day is always a big deal. Our preparations for the holiday include sprucing up the website for the influx of expected guests, as well as making sure that all of our Poetry suitable for Mothers Day is easily accessible.

As you browse our website you will find links to suitable Mothers Day sections posted liberally throughout the site. Some highlights include Mothers Day Poems, as well as Mother Poems, Poems between Mothers and Children, Mother Daughter Poems, Poetry between Husbands and Wives, Grandmother Poems, and even some Great Grandmother Poems.

Please make use of our Poems Search Box for more detailed searches.

As a reminder, all Poems posted on Family Friend Poems are copyright and belong to their respective Authors. Please only use the poetry here as inspiration for your own unique Poem for your Mother and don't plagiarize.

About our Editor

Marcy has a bachelor's in psychology from Towson University , and an MSW from University of Maryland, School of Social Work . She currently splits her time between taking care of her one year old son, and editing poetry. She enjoys reading and writing poetry as a hobby, and has been Editor of Family Friend Poems for about a year.

When asked what she thinks makes a good poem, she replied with one of her favorite quotes about poetry. "A poem must not mean, but be". "A poem is a work of art", she explained, "Every element of the poem must work to create an image".

Marcy feels privileged to have a job in which she can enjoy poetry from some of the worlds up and coming poets. She thanks these poets for the stellar work that she has been privileged to enjoy.