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This week the lovely Mim who blogs over at Love From Mim asked me how to promote blog posts. So here is my #BlogFixFriday sharing with you how I promote each of my posts every single day. If you have any topics or questions you would like me to cover in #BlogFixFriday then please let me know in the comments …
Back in January I decided to set myself some blog and personal goals. For the first time ever I wanted my blog goals to be quite specific and so I set myself targets in terms of the numbers of social media followers, so I could really focus on growth. For me, it is easy to say keep growing and becoming …
Good photography can make a huge difference to your blog and how it is considered by others. Very few successful bloggers have poor photography skills; In fact, most of the bloggers earning a living from their blogs have a considerable degree of photography skill; some as you will have seen are incredible. Photography is a passion of mine and …
Welcome back to #BlogFixFriday! This week I am talking about Instagram and how to grow your followers. I have grown my followers from 2.3k to 7.6k in around 20 weeks or so. I tell you exactly how I have done it. Excuse the gurning face, YouTube won’t let me upload customised thumbnails! Nightmare! I hope you found that useful! If …
Welcome to the club! Now check your email to confirm your subscription. This post is part of my popular Blog Club series. Make sure you never miss a post by subscribing. No spam, I promise. There was an error submitting your subscription. Please try again. Email Address Subscribe Do you have a newsletter for your blog? Maybe you haven’t got …
A couple of weeks there was a bit of an uproar among Instagram users, when the Facebook owned social network announced a change in their current algorithm. As from yesterday Instagram are showing images in your feed depending on your interests and relationships to the accounts posting in your feed. Gone* is the chronological feed we have come to love from Instagram and …
Bloggers rock! Bloggers are hot property, whether they blog about food, fashion, family, lifestyle or one of the countless other niches, bloggers can now be global influencers. I don’t know about you, but I find that hugely exciting. Many of us started our blogs as a hobby and have watched them develop into something much more than that. Something that in …
A couple of weeks ago I burned the midnight oil to take part in a live webinar by Nathan Chan, founder of Foundr Magazine, hosted by Darren Rowse from ProBlogger (my blogging hero). For any of you who haven’t heard of Foundr magazine, it is a digital mag which Nathan started in 2013 while working full time in another job. Since …
Last week, in the first part of this post I introduced some of you to the term a ‘Sticky blog‘. If you didn’t catch that post you can check it out here. However, in summary a sticky blog is one that retains its readers after they read the initial blog post and turns them into (hopefully) repeat visitors. In that …
I think there is a misconception among some bloggers that using hashtags is not cool and can seem spammy. If you think this, then you’re wrong. If you have a massive following, then your fans will see your images in your feed and you will get likes from these fans. However, if you’re looking to build your likes and followers …
I love being inspired. A gem of information from a blogging friend, reading a blog, looking at a image; there are so many ways in which our creativity can be sparked. Also sometimes that nugget of information gleaned from other blogger will not only inspire us, but can also make our life easier by highlighting a process that could work …
As Bloggers we are so lucky to be able to gain so much inspiration from all around us. Day to day life, conversations, music, television; everything that we come into contact with, has the potential to inspire us in some way and provide blogging inspiration. I wanted to share some of the things that have recently inspired me, or that I …
I started writing my Blog Club posts in October/November 2014 after writing a round up of a blog conference. I have covered a wide range of topics and some of the posts have gone on to become some of my top posts. I have had some wonderful feedback from bloggers who have found them useful, which is reason enough to …
On Saturday I attended the Nuffnang Winter Workshop. I was quite excited as the three speakers that were included in the workshop were; 1. awesome and 2. were covering three topics that I wanted to get into more, perfect! I always have high expectations with events like this. I put so much time and energy into my blog that I really …
Last Saturday I attended my second BlogFest, the annual blogging conference organised by Mumsnet. I love blogging conferences, not least for the opportunity to catch up with my friends and meet new bloggers. After a bleary (5am!) start we arrived at the wonderful venue of Kings Place, near Kings Cross and were all so pleased for the chance to warm up; …
When you start blogging it’s tricky to get to grips with all the terminology! So, I thought I’d help by creating an A-Z of Blogging. I hope it helps! A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P …
One topic that comes up a lot is ‘Linkys’; how to join in, what the benefits are, how you find out about them and when they are on. You may or may not know that I have a sizeable document that features lots of linkys ( Join my mailing list & get my Linky List as your welcome gift!). This list details …
Blog Camp Vibe focused on business; aimed at bloggers who want to grow their blogs and their blog’s earning power. Sponsored by Vibe Israel, most of the speakers were successful business owners from Israel. Instagram success We heard from @Roco_Runs who have grown their following from 4 in 2013 to over 63k today. A group of friends (ladies) who run …
Last weekend I, along with many of my blogging friends, attended Blog On Win; a blogging conference in Winchester. Luckily for me, Winchester is 30 minutes down the road, which was great. Blog On is the baby of Laura, who has organised these conferences in three different cities/towns, with the flagship being Blog On Mosi, in Manchester. A couple of …
So, let’s start with the basics. What is your Klout score? Your Klout score is a measure of your social media influence. If you are on any one of the main social networks, then you might not know it, but you will have a Klout score. Klout collects 400 signals from eight different networks to update your Klout Score every single …
Last weekend I attended the biggest parent blogger conference in the UK and it was amazing. I wanted to use my #BlogClub post today to share some of the top blogging tips from the sessions I went to for those of you who didn’t attend or who went to different sessions to me. Pitches to profit – Emily Leary (A Mummy Too) Stand …
I was tagged by the lovely Kat over at Beau Twins, a few months ago to share ‘What’s In My Bag’ and I never got round to posting, sorry Kat! So I thought I would change it up a little and share what’s in my BritMums Live bag. Canon 100d – Last year I didn’t take my big camera, but constant …
Last Friday I set off to London to attend Blogtacular, a conference I have never been to before. Last year, I had studied the social media feeds and decided it was somewhere I needed to go. I had arranged to share a room with the lovely Cathy from My Sweet Things, who I had never met before but as soon …
I recently dipped my toe into the vlogging world and I must admit I really like it! My teenage kids have been telling me for ages to get myself on to YouTube, but I’d been hesitant until now. My first ever to-camera vlog was after Aby had tagged me in the ‘Vogue’s 73 questions’ which was the perfect opportunity to vlog my …
Your blog is like your home or your car and needs to be maintained in order to run smoothly. This maintenance isn’t difficult and can make a huge difference to your blog in terms of blog loading speed, appearance and whether the users of your blog find visiting a pleasurable experience. If your blog is slow to fully load, then …
Welcome back to the second part of my Blog Camp highlights. With the lovely Louise and Katy. Photo courtesy of Louise. I will start with a few notes I took in the Fashion Blogging session, which was taken by Kat from Kat got the Cream and Christina from Kitkeen. Key points to remember; Embrace your uniqueness Create a hit list of brands you would love to …
Last Saturday saw many bloggers flock to Birmingham for the Tots100 blogging conference BlogCamp. As a bit of a blog geek, these things are right up my street and I was so excited to see lots of bloggers, who have become very close friends. left to right – top to bottom. Waiting for the train / with one of my …
If you want to be a successful blogger, then you need a social media strategy. There’s no point in writing away and posting like fury, if no-one knows you’re there. With so many platforms it can so be overwhelming to learn how to use them at all. Let alone learning how to use them effectively. In the first 18 months …
Welcome back to my new series, ‘5 Things’. This week I am sharing; I have learned from Blogging People you ‘meet’ online really can turn out to be true, genuine friends. In fact, sometimes you have more in common with them, than friends you have known for a long time. You understand a world that takes so much of your …
SEO for Bloggers So you spend hours writing your fabulous blog post, photographing the perfect image; you publish it and you sit waiting for the people to flock to your blog to read it. You wait, and wait and the brilliant post is seemingly left undiscovered, at least by the masses. Sound familiar? While you might think you blog for you, …
