“Oh, you’re a blogger? That’s nice.” Whenever I tell someone that I blog, most people seem to have no idea what it is I do. Sometimes they know someone who has a blog, and often it is a family update blog with pictures of that’s person’s home and family. Others know blogs because they pin […]
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The Best Blogging Advice I Ever Heard
About a month or two after I started blogging I received the best blogging advice I’ve ever received. This was during a time when I was consuming blogging advice the same way I consume Wheat Thins: rapidly and without constraint. I pinned every pin that had anything to do with increasing traffic or followers or making money. […]
How I Monetize Our Blog – The Details
I’m in a lot of Facebook groups for bloggers, and these groups have varying levels of bloggers. There are people who are just getting interested in blogging, and there are others who make six (and even seven) figures from blogging. There’s definitely a huge range! Something that I find most valuable in this group is […]
How to Create a Killer and Compelling Blog Headline
I am not a blog headline expert. I really wish I was. I wish that every title I created exuded a sense of urgency to be read, but that’s just not the case. But, as I continue to blog professionally, I realize more and more that having a killer blog headline is often the key to growth, […]
5 Simple Steps to Start a Blog
Despite what you might think, starting a blog isn’t really that hard. Maintaining a blog, growing your readership, and monetizing your blog? Now, that’s a little more difficult. However, starting one? Pretty simple. But before any great blog becomes a great blog, it has to be created. And there are just a few simple […]
How to Grow a Successful Blog
I love blogging. Absolutely love it. It’s so much fun to write about things that resonate with people, help them better manage their homes, educate them about great new products, and speak to their souls. I love all the comments and shares I receive and am grateful, and humbled, for every single one. And I […]
Why Your Traffic May Have Dropped After Moving from Blogger to WordPress
Did you recently switch from Blogger to WordPress and see a huge drop in stats? Here’s a few reasons why that may have happened (and how to remedy it.) Not a day goes by that I don’t see someone on Facebook talking about how their traffic plummeted after they were moved from Blogger to WordPress. […]
Visual Post Editor not Working after WordPress Update? Try this.
If there’s one thing I tell people, it’s to not update WordPress right when the update comes out. WordPress is notorious for having major bugs and conflicts with new versions. Typically they have to do with a plugin that hasn’t been updated to work with the new version of WordPress, but sometimes, the issue goes […]