This week I asked my Blogging Basics 101 Facebook fans to share their best blogging tip for beginners. They had some good ones! Barbara H.: Blogging is a learning curve. You’ll develop your own vision and writing style over time. It’s okay to make mistakes and learn from them. Linda K. of Travels with Children: Pick a blog [...]
How to Promote Your Blog Posts
April 10, 2013 By 27 Comments
When you first start blogging — and even if you’ve been doing it for a while — it’s hard to find readers for your excellent, engaging content. There are a few key things you can do to help others see your blog posts, though. I found this infographic via my friend Stephanie Schwab of Crackerjack [...]
Protect Your Blog’s Root Access Folder at All Costs!
April 8, 2013 By 4 Comments
My kids have been using computers since they were old enough to figure out a mouse. This was way back before mobile devices like iPhones and iPads. I taught them safe user habits and monitored their use. One day I was sitting with my son and he clicked on a flashing ad that was, to [...]
Avoid the 7 Most Common Blogging Mistakes
March 29, 2013 By 41 Comments
Blogging is more than just a fun activity, it’s also richly rewarding — assuming you know your stuff. Getting paid to do something you enjoy is always great, but new bloggers who think they’re going to start bringing in advertisers and fans right off the bat often make the same blogging mistakes. Following is a [...]
How to Get Started with Google Analytics
March 12, 2013 By 13 Comments
If you haven’t installed Google Analytics on your blog, get ready to meet your new best friend. I’m going to help you register a Google Analytics account, put the tracking code on your blog, then give you some basic insight as to what kind of information you’ll find when you have Google Analytics up and [...]
Tweetdeck is Going Away, Now What?
March 6, 2013 By 21 Comments
Twitter is known for its inadequate user interface. Most people don’t use the Twitter website to keep up with their stream. Instead, they turn to other apps that are easier to use and allow for monitoring specific lists. One of the most popular apps is Tweetdeck (bought by Twitter in 2011), but Twitter announced that [...]
Have You Checked Your Facebook Privacy Settings Lately?
February 8, 2013 By 26 Comments
If you’re not checking your FB privacy settings regularly, you should be. And I have the prime example of why: Any Facebook personal profile status update you post as Public (as opposed to posting to just Friends or another list or custom setting) has always been searchable outside of Facebook. You can turn that feature [...]
Speaking French In Spanish
January 14, 2013 By 6 Comments
This post is utterly off topic, but I just wanted to share a little bit of myself with you today. My family makes me laugh on a regular basis. We’re pretty much introverts with dry humor, but it works for us. The other night on our way home, we were teasing my son about a [...]
One Year Later: Editing a Hyperlocal Collaborative Blog
December 10, 2012 By 3 Comments
It doesn’t seem like it’s been long enough for the collaborative hyperlocal blog I edit, Avant Greensboro, to be one year old. Were we successful? Wildly, in some areas, and not at all, in others. While we were able to attain enviable traffic stats for a local blog while building stellar brand awareness, we didn’t [...]
4+ Pieces of Advice for Non-Native English Bloggers
December 3, 2012 By 5 Comments
This is kind of surprising to some people, but there’s actually a big number of bloggers who write their content in English, yet they are not natives. However, despite this fact they can still get published on top blogs online, and even get nice book deals. How is that possible and what can a new, [...]
