Fabulous Blogging

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20 Common Blogging Myths – Debunked

Myth: a widely held, but false belief or idea. Think any of them exist in the blogging world? Um, yes. In fact, I would argue that blogging myths travel farther, faster, and wider than other industries because blogging is a mode of digital communication. As a professional in the field, I come up against false […]

Everything You Need to Know About the Blog Comment Debate

Ever since Copyblogger turned off their blog comments, this question has swirled all over the Internet. “If a blog doesn’t have comments, is it even a blog?” There’s a lot changing in the blog/social media world and comments are no exception. As a personal blogger, I’ve chosen to turn mine off, but is it really […]

20 Tips & Tricks For Making Awesome Canva Graphics

If you haven’t taken Canva for a test run yet, you should. It’s a fantastic graphic design tool for bloggers who want to create custom photos, newsletters, buttons, and more. There are over 1,000,000 stock images for $1.00 each plus oodles of free elements. You can sign up for an account and have a graphic […]

14 Blogging Rules I Follow Religiously

Whether you are a beginner or a long time blogging veteran, I like to create simple rules that I can easily remember. Here are the 14 blogging commandments according to Fabulous Blogging!

Survival Of The….?

In science, they call it survival-of-the-fittest. The animals that can outlast their competition, end up passing on strong DNA to their offspring. In the digital world, it’s called survival-of-the-one-who-can-keep-up-with-the-changes-fastest. I’ll work on the name later. This post is for bloggers who’ve been around the block a while. There is a very famous tweet quote… Do not […]

Why Most People Misuse the Famous Rule “Content is King”

Content is king. This is one of the golden rules of blogging. Create compelling, practical, entertaining, and formatted blog posts that your readers will enjoy reading, so much so, they feel compelled to share it. Here’s the problem… People think about the word CONTENT and immediately think of the word BLOG POST. Your content is not […]

Clawing Your Way to an Online Presence: The Difficulty of Building a Brand

Developing an online presence is like building a sandcastle at the water’s edge. Last summer, our family took a trip to a Rhode Island beach. The kids wanted to build a moat to protect our blanket and towels from the rising tide. They set to work, mashing piles of wet sand on top of each […]

The Ultimate Guide to the #Hashtag

It’s time to pay attention to hashtags if you’ve been ignoring them as some quirky “twitter language”. Hashtags are now on every major social media platform (Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, Pinterest, and Instagram). I’m going to break down the hashtag into normal everyday language in hopes that beginners will be able to see the value […]

How To Create an EPIC Sidebar For Your WordPress Clients

The sidebar on a website is prime real estate. For most of us, it holds our newsletter sign up form, our social media buttons, about profile, plus a host of other things like Ads, buttons, awards, etc. It is difficult to fit too much on the sidebar without it scrolling for days past a post […]

How to Use Pinterest if You’re a Blogger

If you’re anything like me, your Pinterest boards are probably a scattered mess of recipes, ideas, crafts you’ll never do, blog posts you love, etc. etc. Today I want to talk about how an organized Pinterest account can make all the difference in your following and traffic! Pinterest is only as good as the way it’s arranged. […]

How to Create an Easy Opt-In Option with MailChimp

If you’ve heard the buzz around the importance of “opt-in” features, but are intimidated at the idea of getting another email service or plugin, you can employ a very simple method of using MailChimp to gain the psychological benefit of an “opt-in”. In laymen’s terms, opt-ins are simply a way to entice people to sign […]

Blogging and Twitter: How to Grow Your Following into the Thousands

I am SO EXCITED (as evidenced by my use of CAPS) for this guest post today. Kate Hall is a good friend, fellow blogger, and master tweeter– and I begged her to share with me her tips and tricks for using Twitter. She’s currently got 8936 followers, earned the good ol’ fashioned way — by following, […]

What the Hell is a Circleshare on Google + and Why Is It So Confusing?

This is a bit of a snarky rendition of cirleshares. Take a shot of whisky and then read it. If you’re on Google Plus, you may have seen shared circle posts on your newsfeed. They look like this: I remember the first time I saw one, I thought, “Hey cool! That nice person is telling […]