Today, as bloggers, we need quality over quantity. Most of us have hundreds, if not thousands of posts built up in the recesses of our blogs. And we’re still working our butts off to publish several times a week. And traffic is declining for blogs the world over. Hootsuite said 50% decline in traffic from social media […]
April 2018 Free Downloadable Editorial Calendar
We have a wonderful surprise for you today! With social media constantly changing, it can be difficult to keep up with what holidays and happenings are going on. We have you covered this month with this free editorial printable calendar for April 2018!
Simplify Days’ Journey to Success
Barbara of the wildly successful SimplifyDays.com took some time to answer some questions and compile some advise for those of us starting out! You’ll get a lot out of these gold nuggets whether you’re a new or veteran blogger. 1. Did you start as a blogger or did you know at the start that you […]
2 Tools for Easy Keyword Research
The right keywords are the foundation upon which all SEO efforts stand. If you choose the wrong keyword, all the SEO in the world will not help. One of the best starting points for keyword research is your current site. Which words on your site are already ranking highly in search engines? Search your blog […]
Robots.txt for Bloggers using WordPress
When learning about SEO, the robots.txt file is likely to come up. This is a powerful file that ‘speaks’ directly to Google and Bing (& Other) search engine robots. Is my Robots.txt Correct? It is very important to understand what this file can do. The robots.txt file seems to generate a lot of opinions but […]
2018 Free Printable Blog Content Strategy & Planner
The 2018 Strategy and Blog Content Planner is the same as last year, but prettier! 🙂 I updated a few examples, and of course my personal one is updated with my new goals. The below explanations contain my own personal experience with strategy and the content marketing research that I’ve done during 2017. Will you […]
Realistic SEO for New Blogs
SEO seems to be all the rage over the last few months in the blog community. But can SEO be a realistic focus for a new blogger? I highly recommend figuring out how important SEO is to your blog. It is very easy to get carried away and use your entire marketing budget instead of […]
How to redirect one post to another in WordPress
Have you been in Pinterest drooling over a beautiful recipe only to have the link be broken? Or worse, link to spam? Let’s talk about how to redirect one post to another when you’re moving a post or deleting it.
15 Hours Saved with these 7 Online Tools for Bloggers
Blogging is a busy business. In an effort to be efficient with my time, I spent months going through various tools – I think I looked into every single CRM in 2014! And there are a lot of them! As a result of that search, I came up with a framework to help me find […]