Introducing Barklogs: your very own sports blogs

Yardbarker makes sports blogging easy with Barklogs! Use the same tools our pro athletes and featured bloggers use to start your very own blog (or transfer an existing blog from Blogger or Wordpress). Get promotion by Yardbaker to a built-in sports audience and even earn money if you join the Yardbarker Network!

How do I get started?
Sign in to your Yardbarker account or create an account if you don’t have one. Then click here to create your blog. You’ll be able to name your blog, customize its design, and start posting right away.

What kind of design customization is available?
To get started quickly, you can choose from one of our pre-designed themes. Or if you want to get creative, you can upload your own background and header images and choose colors, fonts, and more. You can also add your own “widgets” to your sidebar such as an “About Me” section, a list of links, YouTube videos, Twitter widgets, and more. For help on customization, please download our instruction booklet.



How can I move my old blog over to Yardbarker?
You can import all your old blog posts and comments from an existing blog. Right now we support importing from Blogger (Blogspot) and Wordpress, but we may add support for other platforms. If you have a blog on another platform you think we should support, please let us know.

When you create your blog, select the checkbox at the bottom for importing. Or if you’ve already created your blog, you can import at any time by visiting the Blog Settings tab from your Blog Dashboard and clicking the Setup link at the top.

How will my posts be promoted?
As soon as you start posting, your posts will appear on our Barklogs pages and if Yardbarkers like your blog, they’ll nominate it to appear on our Nominations page as well. If you tag your posts with relevant sports and teams, your posts will also appear on those relevant Yard pages. When you publish a post, you will be prompted to add relevant tags.

If you have a post you think will be of interest to our general Yardbarker audience or to our partners like FoxSports.com, please email a link to pitch@yardbarker.com for our editors to review. Please note that due to the volume of emails we receive, we don’t usually respond to pitch emails.

How can I make money from my blog?
After blogging for a few months, if you have high quality content and strong traffic, you can apply to be in our affiliate program, the Yardbarker Network (YBN). You’ll be able to earn money by placing our ads on your blog. You can inquire about joining the YBN here. In the meantime, make sure you are tracking your traffic. You can easily add Google Analytics to your blog by signing up for an Analytics account and then adding your Analytics ID to the Blog Settings tab on your Blog Dashboard.

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Your chance to win a $100 gift card

Hey Yardbarkers! Do you want a chance to win a $100 RazorGator gift card that you can use to buy tickets to sports events and concerts? Just take our short survey -- it's six multiple-choice questions about your online habits related to Yardbarker. All answers will be kept anonymous, and you can take the survey without entering an email address if you'd like. If you want to be entered into the random drawing for the $100 gift card, just give us your email address at the end of the survey. The winner will be picked next week.

We're using this survey to collect some simple information about your habits on Yardbarker. If you have ideas, suggestions, or complaints about other things in the Yard, you can always email us at feedback@yardbarker.com.

CLICK HERE FOR THE SURVEY.

Thanks and good luck!
-Yardbarker staff

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We continue to work on the site... let us know your feedback!

We're not perfect, but we're working on it!

Hey Yardbarkers!

Thank you for all of your continued feedback. You've been spotting a lot of bugs and also giving us a lot of valuable feedback about what you like and don't like. Please continue to write to us at feedback@yardbarker.com.

We've been working continually on the site and hopefully you've noticed that a lot of things are improved. Here are a few of the major fixes and improvements from the last two weeks or so, plus some known issues that we are working on:

Fixed bugs:

• Thumbs up/down on comments was fixed.
• Scores for comments now show (note: you should not see thumbs on your own comments, just a +/- score or a double-dash if your score is zero).
• The Favorite Yardbarkers mix-up was resolved (the "Edit Favorite YBs" page now shows users who you are a fan of).
• Attaching photos in comments was fixed.
• The last remaining weird symbols like "'" and """ should now be gone from your news feed.

Added features:

• You can now search for a user name in the Search box. You will be taken to their user page.
• You can now search for the name of a Yardbarker Network site in the Search box.
• Every Yardbarker Network site now has a site page that shows all recent articles from that site.
• You can now remove the "Bark About" comment wall from your user page if you don't want it there (click the "manage" link).

Known issues that need to be fixed:

• Commenting bug: this is a new problem. Sometimes if you press Submit on a comment, it seems like nothing happened, although your comment is in fact posted. If you refresh the page, you should see your comment. We hope to have this fixed later today.
• Athlete blog post email alerts: some people are getting double email alerts or no email alerts at all.
• News feed: we are doing an overhaul of this, so stay tuned for the improved version.

Thanks for your patience while we continue to improve the site!

-Yardbarker Team

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FANARCHY Premiere Featured Brendan Haywood in 'The Yard'

If you didn't catch tonight's premiere episode of FANARCHY on national network VERSUS, don't worry... you can catch it again on Tuesday at 10:30pm, which will be its regular time slot.

But if you did catch it, then you know that Yardbarker's own Brendan Haywood made a special appearance during "The Yard," our weekly segment on the show. Brendan sounded off about Michael Vick. He wants the dude to play!



The rest of the show was filled with rants from seven crazy sports fans filming from their webcams at home. Two of the Fanarchists got booted from the show, which means there's room for two new contestants next week. Yardbarkers, you need to submit your audition videos to the FANARCHY website and get on the show. Why? Because you guys are already repping hard in the Yard, and now we need you repping on TV!

If you submit an audition, let us know in the comments so we can all go view it and support you. And let us know what you thought of the show too!

-AlanaG

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Yardbarkers: Tune in to FANARCHY tonight!

Yardbarkers, in case you haven't heard, there's a new show on VERSUS called FANARCHY and the premiere is tonight at 11 ET. Why should you care? Because there will be a segment on every show called 'The Yard' powered by Yardbarker! For the premiere episode we have a very special guest lined up -- he's one of your favorite Yardbarkers and he's got a real hot topic on his mind. The rest of the show will be very entertaining as well -- it features seven passionate fans arguing with each other about sports topics like the ones you find here on the Yard.

After you see the show, make sure you hop over to the FANARCHY site to check out how you can audition to be on the show yourself. We need some Yardbarkers on TV!

If you miss the show, it will be re-airing on Tuesday at 10:30pm ET, which will be the regular timeslot going forward. If you catch the show, make sure you let us know what you think in the comments.

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