I’ve written about this issue before, but since it’s continually showing up in my inbox, I figured I’d dedicate a whole post to this very annoying problem. Whether you are manually copying and pasting a link to Facebook, or you are using share buttons, sometimes Facebook pulls a random image that is NOT the one […]
How to Get More Followers on Social Media
Without a doubt, the most effective way to increase your following on social is to find and follow people in your niche. This has a two-fold goal: It helps you keep a pulse on what other people in your niche are sharing, and it invites them to follow back. Commenting, engagement, and sharing relevant content are […]
Promoting Your Clients Content
One of the main jobs of a social media manager is to promote your client’s content or even come up with ideas for awesome content? Imagine you’re preparing a steak dinner – it’s going to be much harder to eat it if you plunk down a giant roast at a table and hand all your […]
Tell Your Story on Social Media {in a Way That Doesn’t Annoy Your Followers}
It’s never intentional. A blogger or small businessperson starts up a website and quickly realizes that the way to bring traffic to their writing or business is through social media. Within a few weeks, this person is on all platforms, sharing links everywhere, and hoping that the “spray and pray” method will work. I’m going […]
Discovering Your Niche, Even if You’ve Been Blogging Forever
Whether you’ve been blogging for a month or a decade, sometimes taking inventory of your blog and its niche, is necessary. Take a moment and answer the following questions: What do you want to be known for? What kind of person loves your blog? If you had to write a one sentence mission statement for […]
How to Setup Google Ads on Your Blog
As part of the blog series “Making Money on Your Blog” for beginners, today I’m going to walk through how to set up Google Adsense on your site. There are other companies besides Google AdSense that you can use. BlogHer, Sovrn, Gourmet Ads, Q1Media are just a few that work similarly to AdSense. The basic setup […]
How to Begin Making Money with Your Blog
With a title like that, I should prepare you for a very long post ahead! But I want to break it down so the blog to business jump doesn’t seem so overwhelming. This post is primarily for bloggers who are not making any money yet. Zilch. Zero. Zadda. And you are overwhelmed at the process […]
Differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org (and the relationship too!)
Despite having written about this topic other times, it never fails — one of the most confusing aspects of WordPress is the relationship between WordPress.com and WordPress.org. People think they are the same, and don’t realize that once you have a WordPress.org blog, you still can have a relationship with WordPress.com. So today’s post is […]
Blogger Blogs are now Censored | Why it’s Time to Go to WordPress
Regardless of your stance on Internet censorship, the recent news that Google will ban any Blogger blog containing sexually explicit photos or videos reminds us all that blogs hosted on free platforms like Blogger and WordPress.com are not really ours. At any point, either one of these companies can ban, censor, take down, or eliminate […]
How to Increase Social Sharing of Your Blog Posts
As a blogger, there are two primary ways to get traffic to your blog — Google search engines and social engagement. With SEO traffic, you are working to outshine other blog content so that Google will push your post up to the first page of search results. Social sharing is a bit more fickle, but can […]
20 Ways a Blogger Can Fail and Still Recover (Part Two)
This is the second half of my marathon post about how you can fail as a blogger and still recover. If you feel like your blog and/or social media accounts are a mess, it’s never too late to turn things around. I know this because I’ve made a ton of mistakes throughout the years, and […]
20 Ways a Blogger Can Fail and Still Recover (Part One)
I have good news today. If you feel like your blog and/or social media accounts are a mess, it’s never too late to turn things around. I know this because I’ve made a ton of mistakes throughout the years, and here I am – with two thriving blogs and 22,000 + followers in various places. […]
The Most Epic MailChimp Tutorial Ever!
If you’re a blogger, you know that with the start of 2015 comes the unfortunate reality that Facebook will be showing your posts to no one unless you pay. As experts like Neil Patel and others have reiterated over and over, email subscribers are the best and most efficient way to get and keep readers. […]
Get Your Blog Ready for the New Year
The end of the year is a great time to do some blog housekeeping before the new year begins! Here’s what’s on my to-do list over the holiday break. Delete posts that are just…bad Maybe you wrote them the first day you started your blog and they suck. Or they are no longer applicable. Whatever the […]
Creating an Epic 404 Page for A WordPress Site
What is a 404 Page? A 404 Page is an HTTP standard response when a page cannot be found on a server. We’ve all seen them. They’re especially evident when you follow a link that takes you to a page that’s been removed. The standard 404 page just tells you there was an error and […]
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