Social media is an integral part of blogging. Being able to expand your content across various channels, grow various different audiences and promote your work on a large scale. Who wouldn’t want that? Bloggers have varying degrees of success across various channels. But Twitter has always been my most successful and where I get the …
Throughout the entire month of July, I used stock images on my blog. I didn’t advertise it, I kinda just did it as a mini-experiment to see if it would affect anything like views or followers *pssst, it didn’t*. And I’ll let you in to a secret. I hate taking blog photos. Loathe it. Despise …
If you’re a blogger, chances are you’ve heard of a blog DA score before. And if you haven’t and don’t have any idea what I’m talking about, stick with me. It’ll all be clear soon, I promise! I’ve seen quite a few people mention DA on Twitter recently. Either wondering what it is, wondering how …
So… you’ve been blogging a while. You adore creating new content and interacting with your readers. You love social media and sharing things you enjoy. And maybe you’ve even been sent some things to review. But you don’t feel like you’re progressing as much as you’d like or you hoped you’d be. You’re ready to …
With Father’s Day just next month, chances are you’re going to start seeing an influx of gift guides on your feed. Perhaps you’ve already started to spot some, I had my own Father’s Day Gift Guide go live just last week and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed creating gift guides this year, for Valentine’s Day and Mother’s …
I honestly for the life of me couldn’t think of a professional sounding title for this post so you’ll have to make do with this one. We all go through both hectic and quiet periods with our blogs. Some months, right from the get-go, we’ve got emails flying in about collaborations or offers to review …
My favourite type of blog posts to write about those that are about blogging itself. Some might say that I’m hurting my viewership by blogging mostly about blogging related subjects because 100% of my readers aren’t going to be bloggers themselves. And that’s true, they’re not. But the majority of them are and blogging is …
Your content is the heart of your blog. But the online world moves at such a fast pace, it can be difficult to keep up. Over 2 years ago now, I started to actually take my blog seriously. I really knuckled down with my content, what types of posts I was writing and formatting a …
AD | I think we’re all a sucker for a cute layout, pretty graphics and a nice blog design. We’re well past the days of Piczo with flashing images, moving fonts and just general madness when it came to our website design and have learnt the importance of blog design. When you start a blog, …
Graphic design has never been one of my strongest points. In fact, up until this year, everything I’ve tried to design for my blog has been pretty dire. That includes my media kit. Last year when I realised that I probably should have a media kit to hand just in case, I attempted to make …
Working with brands can become a huge part of blogging and can open the door to monetizing your blog, reviewing incredible products or even being sent on press trips. But it’s hard to know where to start in looking for and applying for blogging opportunities if you’re only just dipping your toes in. It may …
#AD Back in October last year, I created and released by very first blogging resource, my Beginner’s Guide to Blogging eBook. I worked incredibly hard on this for a month but I didn’t realise quite how much I’d have to do and consider when it came to creating it. I knew I’d have to write …
If you’ve been in the blogging world for any amount of time, it’s likely that you’ve stumbled across someone talking about or taking part in blogmas or blogtober, a month-long blogging challenge that requires you to post every day for a month (obviously). I’m not quite sure of the technicalities of each one (like if …
Creating content you love is the heart of your blog, the thing that keeps people coming back time and time again and the reason you created your blog in the first place. It’s your way to express yourself, your creative outlet and your gateway into the big wide world of finding like-minded people, inspiring others …
