I love to read books about blogging. There are so many available on Kindle, I download them and consume them like there’s no tomorrow. Even if I don’t learn anything new from them, they keep me inspired to be better with my blog… and hopefully they have helped me to Read more…
When I moved over to WordPress late last year, the first thing I did was begin researching plugins. At first, I downloaded and installed everyone one I came across that looked like it might be helpful. Then I found a lot of them weren’t as helpful as they seemed. And Read more…
These days, you can automatically share and cross-post in so many different ways… but is it worth it? In my experience, yes – but only if you are mindful of what you’re doing – and whether your followers will enjoy seeing your cross-posting efforts. Here are a few examples: Auto-sharing Read more…
When you write a blog, it’s easy to just plod along, writing a few posts here and there. Thousands of people have blogs and are happy to keep them going as they are, and that’s just fine. If you want to step up your blogging though, to gain more traffic Read more…
Yesterday I published a post about how you need to have a Facebook page, rather than a personal account. I know a lot of people prefer to have a personal account as they feel it somehow allows them to bypass Edgerank in some way, and that more people will see Read more…
1. Not making a to-do list It’s all very well making a mental note that you need to finish this, do that, go there, email this person, comment on that post. For me, if I don’t write it down, it ain’t getting done. I had a conversation the other day Read more…
One of my goals for this month is to get to inbox zero. When I first published the post, I kind of felt a bit ashamed, admitting I had over a hundred unread emails; I thought people would be horrified at what a terrible manager of emails I am. Read more…
Anyone who knows me, knows I am a stickler for correct spelling and grammar. I like to think my blog posts are evidence of that, give or take the odd fat fingers-related typo. I think good spelling and grammar can make or break a blog post; you might have Read more…
Are you one of those people who can sit at your laptop for two hours, and come out the other side with half a badly drafted post? Do you wish you could be more productive with the time you have, but find that it just slips away like grains Read more…
Facebook is still the largest social network, with over 1.44 billion active users. If it were a country, it would be larger than the USA. In fact, it would quite possibly be the largest country in the world. This makes it a fantastic way of advertising your blog – even Read more…
Your bounce rate is the percentage of visitors who come to your website and leave without navigating to another page. If you have a low bounce rate, it means the majority of the people who come to your site will have a good old nose around while they’re there. Having Read more…
As part of Salisbury Big Business Event last week, I attended a seminar and workshop run by Thomas Power about social media and online presence. Power refers to Twitter as a giant, online pub and says if you think of it that way, it becomes clear what is and isn’t appropriate. Read more…
Yesterday, I went to a talk by Thomas Power about social media. Before I went, I tweeted that I was going, and excited to see what I could learn. When I arrived at the talk, Thomas told me he had replied to my tweet, so I took a look. He Read more…
Are you having trouble coming up with your next blog post? Do you ever feel like that blinking cursor on your screen is mocking you? I sometimes go for weeks at a time where I feel like I just don’t know what to write about. I have nothing interesting Read more…
Everybody wants more traffic on their blog, right? Here are 15 ideas for how you can increase the traffic to your blog. 1. Follow your fellow bloggers on Twitter and Facebook and interact with them there, as well as on their blog. The more someone feels they “know” you, the Read more…
t A couple of people have asked me lately about product reviews; how you get the product, what you write for the review, etc. So I thought I’d write a little blog post about it. More and more bloggers are being offered products for review these days, or are looking Read more…