Category: Blogging

If you’re anything like me, how you feel about your blog on any given day can change as much as the weather. The whole reason that blogging tips, blogging conferences and blogging books exist is to help us figure out that dynamic. We want to always love it, be working to improve it, and have…

Sometimes, the best way to learn is from other people’s mistakes. This is definitely true when it comes to running a successful blog. You can’t make money from a blog if you make rookie mistakes. Here are four mistakes that will definitely ruin your blog and destroy readership, before it’s even had a chance to…

Designing a blog is now easier than ever – thanks to all of the free resources available online. Even someone who has no web design experience can quickly and easily set up a blog and change design elements. Although the process of creating a blog itself is not difficult, it can be tricky designing a…

So it’s 2022 and you have decided that you want to start a blog and become an author this year. Congratulations to you! I am so happy to share some of my insights around the process of starting a blog. If you are planning on writing content in 2022 it’s important to keep in mind…

I for one prefer to blog when I have something new to share and avoid jumping on a topic just because it’s trending or because all major bloggers are writing about it. I am not saying that I don´t follow relevant trending topics, but I’m not going to bandwagon jump if I don’t have different…

Well, I guess I’ve “made it” as some would say. I wrote my first piece that elicited hateful comments. In fact there is now an entire comment thread on a popular website devoted to those who hate me. Horrible, evil, hateful comment after comment making absurd assertions about my character, my writing ability, my role…

Note: This advice applies to moving a self-hosted WordPress blog to another WordPress blog on the same host. 1. Purchase and register your new domain. If you are on WordPress.org, you can find out if your hosting companies sell domains. Mine does, but I bought my new one from GoDaddy.com and had to redirect my…

When it comes to free blogging platforms, WordPress is the most popular one. I`m going to be doing a series starting later this week on how to use WordPress effectively and how to customize it to really make it work, but first, let`s take a look at why no one is commenting on your blog…

I’ve never kept a journal or diary, and I’d never say I write for myself. I write to discuss, to share, to connect. So, naturally, I’m tempted to read the comments on my work. After all, isn’t this why I wrote? So others could read, and I could take my turn to listen in the…

The goal of every blog is to gain readership, and this is not something that can be achieved over night. In fact, it takes a lot of effort and time to establish a strong reader base. One way a blog can get more traffic is to encourage reader interaction. This can be done in many…