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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How to Create a Menu for a WordPress Blog
1. Go to your dashboard and click on Appearance/Menus on the left. 2. Click on Create Menu and name it where it says Menu Name. You are going to place the item you want in your navigation bar under here. In the last post you made a few basic pages. You will find these on […]
How to Set Up Categories in a WordPress Blog
In order for your blog to look organized and to make it easy for your readers to look around and find what they want, you need to set up some categories. I would suggest 5 or 6 perhaps. Not too many or the reader will get confused. You know your topic, so analyse it and […]
