Blogging is a fun activity, a business, a hobby, and even a way of life for many people. Thankfully, the biggest blogging platform around, WordPress, makes it easy to set up your own blog. Get a domain name, a hosting account, and five minutes later you’re ready to blog. Unfortunately, with great blogging power comes… Continue Reading
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Top WordPress SEO Plugins
When I started working online as a writer over five years ago, I dove in head first into the content mill websites, not having a clue about SEO. I just wanted to earn some extra cash while I was in school for web design, a place where you’d think I would have learned about WordPress.… Continue Reading
Top Gifts for Craft and DIY Bloggers
The holidays are upon us and to tell you the truth, we craft and DIY bloggers started preparing for this weeks ago. In the craft and DIY world we have to start early to give our pals time to gather their supplies and get their projects done. Why? Because handmade gifts take time. Time and… Continue Reading
How To Become a Travel Blogger : Honest Tips and What This “Dream Job” is Really Like
Of course it sounds exciting… You hear about people receiving trips across the globe where they get to explore new cultures, try new food, experience exciting destinations. “I love to travel,” you think, “and I would write about it if someone else would pay for it!” Ahhh, the lure of travel blogging. But what does… Continue Reading
BlogHer ’12: The Aftermath
BlogHer 12 is now over. Many of you probably still need naps and buckets of coffee to recover. It was estimated that over 5,000 bloggers, reps, etc. were in attendance. FIVE THOUSAND. That’s a lotta bloggers! Now even though it’s named BlogHER, I did spot some boys in attendance. Dad Bloggers. Once only thought of as… Continue Reading
10 WordPress Plugins To Keep Your Readers Happy
Have you ever gone to a blog and been blown away by how snazzy it is? You sit there and think that the author is either a tech genius or paid a lot of money to outsource because there are all these neat ways to connect, share, and more. The truth is that you can… Continue Reading
5 Tips For Writing For More Than One Blog
We start with one blog. We fall in love with it. We think of so many other subjects we could blog about. And because it’s so easy to start a blog we just do it. Or we tell 3 or 4 other sites that we will contribute regularly. All of a sudden we end up with multiple… Continue Reading
The Employers Want WHAT?! Edition of News Roundup for Parent Bloggers
This week the internet was abuzz with the news of employers attempting to require their employees to handover personal Facebook log-in credentials in order to retain their employment. Gizmodo reported Facebook’s chief privacy officer responded today by reminding employers that doing so could open them up to lawsuits and is against Facebook’s own Statement of… Continue Reading
How to Access Google Analytic’s Real-Time Features
Accessing the Real-Time feature of Google Analytics may not be perfectly intuitive. Google Analytics recently released Real-Time reporting. While the Real-Time feature is still BETA, but should be available to most if not all Google Analytics users as the roll-out began at the end of September. As with any product still in BETA there may… Continue Reading
Going “Off the Grid” – Planning (and Surviving) a Digital Sabbatical
I’ve often said that blogging and social media saved my life. It literally did. I “found myself” here. A sense of community and belonging. The creative space I’d been craving for many years. Meaningful connections and something to be passionate about. But somewhere along the way, I got lost again. The phrase “in too deep”… Continue Reading
