Unless you absolutely loved your nine to five job, then chances are, one of your favourite places to be was your break room. There was just something about the break room wasn’t there? From the smell of coffee, the buzz of office gossip and your favourite chair (we all had one), it was a great … [Read more…]
Pinterest is another social network I have only joined recently. Well actually, I tell a lie. I joined ages ago, I just didn’t actually use it. I didn’t follow anyone and I didn’t pin a single thing. When I decided to start actively using Pinterest, I just changed my name on that profile to my … [Read more…]
What can you say about Twitter? With no facts whatsoever to back this up, I would say it’s the most popular social network of them all. Twitter is fast paced, fun and engaging. When I first started my blog, I stupidly thought I would write posts and people would magically know they existed. Wrong – … [Read more…]
Instagram is one of those sites that everyone is always talking about to the point that it feels like not having an IG account is social suicide. Still, I managed to resist until recently. It’s honestly not a social network I thought I would be for me. I’m not really into photography. Obviously I take … [Read more…]
Bloggers. We are so different, yet so similar to each other. Whatever our niche, topic or the size of our blogs, there are some things we all do. Things that may seem crazy to non bloggers, but to us seem like normal things to do. They are the signs you are a blogger at heart. … [Read more…]
Blogging takes time. There’s no getting away from that. I think you can still have a fab blog, even if you don’t have a lot of time. It’s all about putting your time to good use. The first thing is to work out how much time you have to use on your blog, and work … [Read more…]
In yesterday’s post, (which you can read here) I talked about general promoting of your blog and how to use Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest. I promised a post on Twitter today because I feel it is far and away the best site to promote your blog effectively and it would have made a very long … [Read more…]
Welcome to the It’s A Blogger’s Life interview series. As you may have seen, I posted a list of some of my favourite blogs at the start of the month, and what it is I love about them. Check it out here, you will definitely find some amazing new blogs to follow if you missed it first time … [Read more…]
Assuming your blog is older than a week or two, you will by now have discovered that writing amazing content and taking stunning photos isn’t enough. Here’s the good news though – if you have nailed the content and the images, you’ve done the hard part. Now it’s just a matter of letting people know … [Read more…]
I’m not going to pretend to be an SEO genius here. What I am going to do is share with you a few simple ways to improve your SEO. Before using these few simple techniques, my traffic from Google searches was around 3% of my visits. It’s now around 20%. It’s not a huge leap, … [Read more…]