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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
I wanted to give you a little Blogging 101 lesson because a lot of people are asking about plugins for SEO. If you are wondering how to use SEO plugin in wordpress - this will help you. There are a few to choose from, but I have personally found that YOAST seems to be the easiest to use. It gives me a "green light" when it is ready to go. I love that because I am a visual person. I use it on Your Modern Family & on here. I ...
How to revamp old blog posts has become a must in my current blogging arsenal. I had good ideas back at the beginning of my blogging career, but I had no idea how to present them. Some of biggest traffic driving posts have come from posts that I have reworked. Today I want to give you the tools for breathing new life into old posts. When I started out in blogging I knew nothing. Nothing. I did not read any blogs. I was unaware of the number of ...
I recently did something new with my secret Pinterest boards that has already really helped me in promoting my old blog posts on Pinterest and across other sites. I scrolled to the bottom of my Pinterest profile and created six new secret boards. Then, I went through all of my posts from the "my blog posts" board and divided them between the six new boards. I was sure to put a good variety on each board so that they all have a good mix of ...
