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How To Post Consistently On Your Blog
I have been blogging for over five years now. And for a good part of that time, I have been posting consistently multiple times per week. Today I thought I would share a few tips so you can figure out a posting schedule that works for you and how it can help you to post consistently. HOW TO POST CONSISTENTLY Get A Schedule That Works For You Having a regular posting schedule is great. So long as you can stick to it. From an SEO point of view updating your blog regularly helps. People will say you should be posting 3 or 4 times a week. But there is no…
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4 Advantages Of A Self-Hosted Blog
While I was blogging at WordPress.com I saw a self-hosted blog as the end goal. Like that was the point which proved that I had a really good blog because I had total control over it. I know from certain circles having a self-hosted blog is the thing to do if you want to be seen as a “proper” blogger. So I moved away from WordPress.com and though now I realise that may not have been the best decision. There were also some very good reasons as to why I wanted a self-hosted blog. 4 ADVANTAGES OF A SELF-HOSTED BLOG AD REVENUE While blogging on WordPress.com I had to play…
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My Experience With Stumbleupon Ads
A little while ago I wrote a post about how to use Stumbleupon. In a very short time Stumbleupon has become one of my top referrals for traffic on my blog. This is in part due to adding pages. But I have also begun using Paid Discovery, essentially advertising my blog on StumbleUpon. Paid Discovery is separate from StumbleUpon so if you already have a SU account you need to make another. Creating a campaign is very similar to the process of adding a page on the regular SU. First you choose a page to promote, then you choose who you want to see the page. Normally I narrow down…
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A Beginner’s Guide To SEO
If you’re a blogger there is a good chance you’ve heard of SEO. Or search engine optimisation. If you’re anything like me you probably know about SEO but have no idea where or how to get started with implementing it on your blog. Today I am going to share a few simple ways I have improved the overall SEO on my blog. WHAT IS SEO SEO (search engine optimisation) is the process of gaining organic traffic from search engines. So say someone searched for Muji Planner review found my link and ended up on my blog. That was the result of SEO. Search engine rankings are quite complicated but essentially…
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The Problem With Posting On A Schedule
I have a posting schedule. You probably have a posting schedule. Probably every blogger and their mum has a posting schedule. If you’re a total newbie blogger and don’t know what I’m talking about a posting schedule is essentially just a plan where you set out to post consistently on certain days of the week. It’s pretty much accepted now that posting consistently will create more traffic going to your blog and in turn make it grow. SHOULD YOU HAVE A POSTING SCHEDULE? I’ve been blogging for almost five years now and I’ve had a consistent posting schedule for most of that. While I’ve found that posting regularly did help…
