For the final part of my Essential Advice for New Bloggers series we’re talking about how to take your blog to the next level.
Of course I need to start off this post with a BIG, HUGE, GIGANTIC disclaimer in which I tell you that I am still trying to take my blog to the [...]
I got an email that Babies R Us is doing a bottle exchange and called this morning to confirm.
This is a great deal if you’re looking to upgrade your bottles to something that’s absolutely safe and free of yucky toxic stuff. Kudos to Babies R Us for doing this (the bottles haven’t actually been recalled; [...]
As part four of my Essential Advice for New Bloggers series we’re talking about balance. Specifically, how to balance blogging and the rest of your life.
You remember your life, right? Come on, think really hard. Oh yeah, that!
It’s true, blogging has a way of creeping in, taking over, and destroying everything in its path. Sort [...]
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As part three of my Essential Advice for New Bloggers series we’re talking about establishing a readership.
So far we’ve covered networking and basic search engine optimization, which means you’ve got the tricks for getting people to your blog. Now you need to know how to keep them there.
It’s all about the content
The single most important [...]
As part three of my Essential Advice for New Bloggers series we’re talking about establishing a readership.
Last week we talked about networking, and today I’ll cover basic search engine optimization (often referred to as SEO). Stay tuned for next week, when I show you how to convert one-time visitors to repeat readers.
Search engines are in the [...]
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When it comes to blogs, I tend to get pretty focused on the mommy blogs, to the exclusion of everything else. Then something will happen and I realize THERE’S MORE TO LIFE THAN BEING A MOM and I tell myself that I must diversify.
So today I was googling around to find other local blogs, and happened [...]
As part three of my Essential Advice for New Bloggers series we’re talking about establishing a readership.
When it gets right down to it, blogging is all about the readers.
If that wasn’t true, we’d all be madly journaling in our spiral-bound notebooks. But we’re not, are we? Because we want readers!
Which is why the first question [...]
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