WordPress Plugins and Themes: Sometimes You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

Don't Know About Your WordPress Plugins and Theme

I can’t tell you how many times I have heard one of these two things from clients: “Someone told me I should have the XXX plugin because it will help with [fill in the blank.]. Do you think I need that? Can you install it for me?” or “I would love it if my theme [...]

How to Use Studies and Statistics to Increase Your Blog’s Credibility

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If you have been blogging for over 6 months then you will have looked at some form of blog monetisation. As  you start to explore the ways that your carefully crafted content can deliver money, you’ll also start to notice that you need to do more to build trust among your readers and boost your [...]

3 Ways to Repurpose Old Content to Make Money From Your Blog

Parables of Business

One of the biggest questions many bloggers ask is how to monetize their blog. Search for that on Google, for example, and you’ll get almost three million results. From having advertisements on your blog to selling affiliate links (or your own product), it’s clear that bloggers want to be able to make money from blogging – [...]

4 Old School Ways to Promote a Brand New Blog

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Starting a brand new blog can be a daunting task. It is filled with things like: Discovering your passion Researching a niche Designing the site Writing content Finding your voice Implementing Search Engine Optimization Promotion That’s a lot to think about and do. Here’s a tip right off the bat. All of the topics I [...]

How To Totally Screw Up Your About Page

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It’s easy to write blog post after blog post about your chosen field of interest (Well, not easy, but just go with me here). You could sit down at your keyboard and probably crank out a post about gardening/car repair/marketing tactics/(Your Interest) pretty damn easily. You might not even have given a second thought to [...]

Excuse Me: Can I Get a WordPress Menu?

Can I Get a WordPress Menu

We all use them, menus in our navigation bar, whether it’s for categories, pages, or a mix of both. Sometimes our themes even allow us two navigation bars. And then there is the sidebar, with its nice little custom menus. So how do we use the menu feature? Back a couple of versions ago, WordPress [...]

Pinterest for Bloggers: The FBBB Ultimate Guide

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We’ve heard the stats: More traffic referred than LinkedIn, You Tube and Google Plus combined and we’ve  all headed over to Pinterest like the hordes of  Khan, descending upon the Steppe. The regular users of Pinterest must be thrilled at all these marketers descending upon them telling them how to use the site and use it [...]

If You Want A-Lister Traffic You Need to Blog With an A-Lister Mindset

A-List Blogger

A quick disclaimer – I’m not a huge fan of the term A-Lister, at least not as a generic one, because I’m a firm believer that everyone is an A-Lister to someone. However, I also recognize the fact the bloggers can become defined as an A-Lister for a number of reasons – quality of content, [...]

For Bloggers By Bloggers Weekly Review

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Hi, and welcome to our weekly round up of posts. If you missed anything from this week on For Bloggers by Bloggers, you can catch up with it here. To make sure you never miss a post when it’s published, choose your preferred subscription option from the sidebar to the right (email, RSS feed, or social network). [...]