We just finished doing our taxes for the year. I really miss the days of when it took about 10 minutes to do (you know, back when I was in college.) I was pretty thrilled to find out that not only had I saved an extra $10,000 for taxes that I didn’t need to pay, […]
Tips & Tricks
Awesome Free Blogging Tools Every Blogger Should Know About
While there are some definite expenses that come with blogging, they are something I try to keep to a minimum. Blogging is a relatively low-cost career (at least in my case), and there are so many awesome free blogging tools out there to help you accomplish your goals. I’ve tried a lot of tools – […]
Target Readers and Increase Revenue with Custom Sidebars
The first hurdle when building your website traffic is getting people to come to your site. The second? To stay on your site and come back again and again. In my post on how to increase blog traffic, I mention several different ways to make your site more sticky. One of the things I addressed […]
5 Ways to Improve Your Blog to Increase Blog Traffic
It’s been over two and a half years since I started Clarks Condensed. I seriously can’t believe it. When I started out blogging (at least on Clarks Condensed – I have blogged on a variety of different sites since 2008), I knew that I wanted to make something of it, but I had NO idea that […]
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. […]
Blogging 101: Everything You Need to Know to Start a Blog
Be sure to check out our Blogging Resources page on The Blog Help for our favorite products and services to get your blog off on the right foot! We’ve been blogging professionally since 2013, and in that time, we’ve made a successful business that has allowed us to work from home and have a fabulously flexible […]
How to Make Money Blogging
A few months ago, my friend Katelyn from What’s Up, Fagans? mentioned on Facebook how she was grateful for the income she was able to bring in from blogging. A few people quickly asked her to tell them what she did to make money blogging. While I’m sure people are generally interested a lot, a lot […]