There are gagillions of awesome WordPress plugins that can help your website succeed (and I have tried hundreds of them over the years!) With that in mind I thought I would let you know the 9 favorites I am using on my website right now. I have included some affiliate links in this post. If …
Blogging
When you are doing advanced blogging it can seem like an un-overcomable challenge to segregate your audiences when you have a multi niche website. At least it seemed that way to me. I have a number of distinct different audiences (Writers, Realtors and Ecommerce or Etsy Sellers) as well as a number of key topics …
I fought using a blog planner for years. I thought I could keep a list (somewhere) or use the drafts in my WordPress (loser) and not have to be tied down to just a few blog posts that I HAD to write. Then I made my own blog planner and wah, wah, everything became wonderful in my blogging …
As a social media dweeb, I see lot of Pinterest Marketing Fails, but the one that hurts my heart is when bloggers deliberately make their posts “unpinnable” by having tiny little pictures. There are many hard core bloggers out there who are rocking the SEO world. They are writing long, thoughtful posts and doing a …
Once you have done SEO for a while you can kind of, sort of figure out what keywords to use for a blog post. Now, don’t get me wrong, for important posts I make sure to check the Google Keyword Planner tool to make sure that I have the best version of a keyword to …
Today’s post is about advanced blogging and how to make a roundup post that is super sharable on social media sites. If you are thinking about kicking your blogging up to the the advanced level (like a post a day), the first thing that comes to mind is, “how I am going to produce all …
If you have been blogging for any length of time you know that one of the things that we all struggle with is either too many posts you want to write or writers block where you sit down to type something and seize up without a smart thought in your head. When you have an amazing …
A lifestyle blog is all about writing, taking pictures and videoing what you know. That is maybe the neatest thing, that you are just really doing what you do anyways and then documenting it. Here are my top tips and ideas for starting your lifestyle blog. I have started doing a lifestyle blog over at …
So I had a very dear client who was getting A LOT of requests to have guest posts, to “swap links” and the like. It is because his real estate investing website is getting a great following! But how do you know which ones you should do and which ones you should stay FAR away …