On most blogs, a low bounce rate is crucial. A few, which are designed to give answers fast, wouldn’t be worried about a high one but, for most, a high rate indicates your site needs an overhaul. A viewer is said to have bounced if they land on a page and leave without navigating to […]
How to make ugly food look beautiful in photos
Ugly photos make for an ugly post. There’s no getting around that. All the intriguing, humorous words in the world don’t undo the damage of a dreadful photo. I have already given you all the information you need to take technically good photos in this article. But the technical side is only half the battle. What […]
Where should my Social Media Icons be put on my blog?
I imagine you all have a few social media pages set up by now. If not, get to it. You need at least: Three Places to Put your Social media Icons 1. In your sidebar The social media icons that go here are the ones that take people to your social media pages, not the […]
How to send a free e-book to thank your new subscribers
It’s the big thing in blogging right now. Give away something free to lure readers into subscribing to your blog. The big bloggers say it works so who are you to argue. What should you give away? A dinner for two? A Kitchen Aid blender? A holiday in Monte Carlo? No, that’s really over the […]
A Checklist to Calm your Pre-Publish Post Nerves
Get That Topic Right Don’t choose your topic out of thin air because you think it is time to post something on your blog, or your readers will get bored and abandon you. You might be surprised to know that you don’t even enter the realm of their day-to-day reality until they see your email enter their inbox. […]
How to build your email list with strategically placed optin forms
You love your little blog. It fills your life with hope – the hope that you will be noticed and that one day you will make a living from it. And so you work on it at all hours of the day and night with that hope burning bright, sustaining you when fatigue sets in, […]
Why a Simple Contact Form on Your Site Reduces Your Stress
Are You Paranoid or Optimistic? Like most people, you are probably a blend between paranoid and optimistic where your blog is concerned. Paranoid of all the baddies out there on the web, working their nasty butts off trying to hack our beautiful blogs or SPAM our email inboxes. And optimistic that the majority of people […]
How SEO can save your blog
Several of my readers have asked about a simplified version of using SEO and here it is. I will try not to use any language you won’t understand and if I do, you are welcome to smack my hand in the comments. Let’s go step by step, starting from the beginning. Site Title and Tagline 1. […]
Why decreasing your site load time will get you more traffic
Did you know that even a 1-second increase in site load time will affect your blog negatively? In fact, you will get 11% less page views because people will get fed up and leave. That’s huge! Research shows that people won’t wait longer than 3 seconds for a site to load before departing in disgust. […]
How to create your first post on your WordPress blog
1. Login to your dashboard and click on Posts/Add New on the left. The area here looks very much like the area for creating Pages. 2. Enter the heading of your post where it says Enter title here. 3. Write your post underneath either directly into the editor or you could do it first in […]
