Did you ever notice that it seems that Google may be avoiding your blog? Its true! You want to get noticed by Google, not be avoided, right? Have you ever looked at your stats and wondered why you are not getting much traffic from search engines, or your traffic is sporadic at best? These simple things that you could be doing, will have google avoiding your blog like the plague! I was doing a few things wrong, but once I fixed them, I ...
Archives for March 2015
How to schedule social media posts all at once (don’t spend all day online!)
I want to share a few ways that I stay connected without actually being online. I like to try to jump on every day, a few times, but some days (like Saturdays) when I am spending time with my family, I just can't be online. FACEBOOK: Did you know that Facebook frowns upon using outside services to schedule Facebook posts? For this reason, I schedule my Facebook Posts all at once, right from my Facebook Fan Page. Just now, I went onto ...
Learning To Recognize Awesome
One thing I see a lot of bloggers struggling with is their ability to recognize awesome. Not awesomeness in others, but the immense amount of success and awesome they are achieving themselves. I get how hard it is. It is virtually impossible not to compare our blogs to others. You can't help but notice when that other blogger who hasn't been around quite as long surpasses you in pageviews or facebook likes. It's hard to view it all as a ...
How to Monetize Your Blog with Physical Products
Monetization always seems to be a hot topic with blogging these days. Today, I’d like to talk to you about physical products. For good reasons, many consider it one of the more difficult ways to monetize your blog, but for some sites I think they are a natural fit. I’d like to walk you through some questions and considerations to help you decide if physical products are right for you, either right now or in your blogging future. I have used ...
How to make a Facebook blogging tribe
Hi! If you read our post on the importance of a Blogging Best Friend, then you are probably ready to find out how to find yours…. Did you see our intro on DAY 1? If not- start there. If you are ready to move on, read below… Today I want to talk to you about how you can use Facebook to find your blogging tribe (a close group of bloggers that support each other)… a Facebook blogging tribe.I'm guessing that by now you are in several big ...
Social media rules you can never break (& you totally have to break them!)
Today, I was finding some great things to share on my YMF Facebook page and I came across a few articles that were quite contradictory, but I think that I have gotten them figured out: (& since you are bloggers, I knew you would love them as much as I did!) 1). Don't take selfies, unless they are cute, funny, make a point or are pointless (therefore… funny!) 2). Don't take pictures of your food, unless you like it, hate it or are ...
Where to Get Blogging Advice
There is so much Blogging advice floating around the internet. From blogging pros who have been doing it since the beginning of the internet, to a mom at home who just opened up a blogspot site two weeks ago, it seems every one has some advice for fellow bloggers. So how do you decide which advice to implement and which to ignore? There are a lot of posts with gorgeous images and scientific looking info graphics that are circulating poor ...