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The Downside of Self-Hosting WordPress
As I’ve mentioned a few times before I’ve had a self-hosted WordPress blog for about a year and though there were good reasons as to why I chose to make the move. I’ve had a number of problems with self-hosting WordPress which have got so annoying I genuinely considered moving to some other blogging platform. MY PROBLEMS WITH SELF-HOSTING WORDPRESS As I’ve mentioned before my problems with WordPress started right away while transferring over to my new host. As far as I could tell this problem was caused more by my host than the actual WordPress software but it was still an annoyance. The thing is that since you’re self-hosting…
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My Experience With Moving To A Self-Hosted Blog
I’ve had a self-hosted blog for just under a year now. At the time I wrote a post about some of the reasons why I moved to a self hosted blog. But today I thought I would share my experience of actually moving over. I had originally assumed the whole process was going to be quite confusing, especially since most people I know have paid for a Guided Transfer which will do everything for you. But apart from a few hiccups, it ended up being a pretty simple process. MOVING TO A SELF-HOSTED BLOG I didn’t just decide to move to a self-hosted blog on a whim. It was something…
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Celebrating Five Years Of Blogging
The 31st of December 2017 marks my blog’s fifth birthday. Technically it is quite a bit older than that, my original WordPress account was made around 2010. Since I’m no longer blogging on WordPress.com I don’t count that as a real anniversary. Anyway my blog turned 5 and I’m genuinely amazed that I’ve managed to reach this milestone. The last 5 years haven’t been easy, I originally made this blog at the start of 2013 to go along with my YouTube channel. I enjoyed posting occasionally but that was it. At that time of my life I didn’t really know what I wanted to do with myself. I was working…
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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…
