So I was chatting with my besty Rebekah the other day (as one does) and she hit me with a biggie: “Okay, I think I want to start a blog. Like… for real.” Now, before I launched into a full TED Talk about blogging, I took a beat. Because I’ve been doing this for over …
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There is A LOT of info out there about blogging for "newbies" but all the advanced blogging tips I find seem to be a little flat or lack real substance. I have been blogging since 2008 and have picked up a thing or two about how to promote your posts, write great content that people like to read and especially how to master SEO!
Blogging is amazing and can get around to being a full time job if done right! These are my top tips about how to make your blog brilliant.
They include info about Wordpress, themes and most importantly, how to make the user experience on your blog absolutely awesome. THAT is my passion... figuring out how to make an amazing user experience for each of my blog visitors!
Because honestly, it is not about your blog, but about how your readers benefit from your posts. These are my best advanced blogging tips and techniques, all in one place!
If you’re a blogger who felt the earthquake that was Google’s Helpful Content Update (HCU), you’re not alone. When it dropped in August 2022 (with follow-up rollouts in December 2022, September 2023, and the biggie in March 2024), many of us watched helplessly as our organic traffic did a nosedive. Like, “oh look, there goes …
Let me tell you about a convo I had this week with my marketing besty Rebekah. I’ve always wanted her to start a blog, mainly because, well… passive income, baby! You know how I feel about those sweet, sweet Mediavine ad dollars. But when I brought it up, she hit me with a compelling list …
So here’s the deal: I make money online by crafting. Yes, really! I sit in my cozy craft room, surrounded by glitter, paper, and a mild obsession with glue — and somehow, this little creative corner pays the bills (or at least some of them!) Over the years, I’ve figured out how to turn my …
Let me take you back to 2009. I had just started blogging, wide-eyed and thrilled to share All The Things. Like many newbies, I went with the cheapest hosting I could find (hi GoDaddy!) because, well, budget. And for the first 100 posts or so, that was FINE. I wasn’t swimming in traffic yet, and …
I have been a blogger for over a decade and it is most amazing career of all time! You get to choose things to blog about that make you happy and then show other people those things! Blogging Now I have a friend who is a vegan and she tells everyone that if they haven’t …
As a blogger you might be getting all kinds of emails asking you for paid promotions! Here are some tips and ideas for how these different kinds of promotions work! Why I Wrote This Post I was talking with my friend Barb the other day and told her I just got paid $500 to write …
Finding topics to write about for your blog posts can be challenging! Today I ask an AI (Artificial Intelligence) Expert, Rebekah Welch, to give us a tutorial for how to write Prompts for AI (ChatGPT). Asking An AI Expert I have been a blogger for MANY years (since 2008!) And over the years I have …
As a prolific blogger, I have tons of tips and tricks that allow me to write blog posts that rank in Google faster and easier than you might believe. Today we are going to use plugins and programs to help with SEO and fast writing! My Blogging Journey I have been blogging continually since 2008 …