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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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The Cost of Self-Hosting WordPress
When I decided to self-host a blog one of the things which convinced me to move over was the idea that I would be paying less. At the time I was paying for a domain, paying to connect the domain to my blog and paying for all sorts of extra features through WordPress. As you can imagine I was quite interested in not paying so much to run my blog and as such moved to a self-hosted blog. However looking back I now realise I hadn’t saved as much money as I thought I would. THE COST OF SELF-HOSTING WORDPRESS The really important thing when running a self-hosted blog is…
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Ghost Shell | Pipdig WordPress Theme Review
Recently I had a little revamp of my blog and as part of it bought a new WordPress theme. I’ve seen so many people on Twitter talk about the Pipdig WordPress themes so that was one of the places I looked at and eventually bought from. I’ve heard so much hype about Pipdig that I’ve actually avoided it because of that. But after buying one of their themes I was pleasantly surprised by how good it turned out to be. PIPDIG WORDPRESS THEME REVIEW Pipdig is a UK based company which creates blog themes for Blogger and WordPress blogs (self-hosted blogs, not WordPress.com). They make nicely designed affordable blog themes.…
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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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How I Edit and Schedule Instagram Photos
As a designer, Instagram is a great way to promote my work. I have a second Instagram account just for my art and design work. Since the new API update, Instagram has allowed business accounts to directly schedule photos rather than manually post them. Today I thought I would share how I edit and schedule Instagram photos for my art account. TAKING PHOTOS I’m still working on my 100-day project so usually, I will wait for a free day so I can take multiple photos at the same time. Setting out a good chunk of time to take a batch of photos works better for me as I actually get…
