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A Media Kit is a document which outlines the key facts and statistics about your blog. It’s a quick way to show your value, your skills, interests and experience. You can send your Media Kit to PR companies, potential brand partners or potential advertisers. There’s often debate around whether bloggers need a media kit. If you want to monetise your …
When you’ve been blogging a while, you start to get asked the same questions over and over again. Most people want to know how to make money from their blog, but one of the other main questions I get asked a lot is ‘How do you grow your blog’? Everyone wants more traffic, a bigger audience and more return …
Want to get more twitter followers? Who doesn’t?! Twitter has always been my strongest social network in terms of number of followers. Ironically, it’s the platform that I’ve spent less time trying to grow it over the years. After 4 years I’ve increased my followers to almost 24k. Not too shabby considering the lack of focused attention on growth. So here …
WordPress plugins for blogs Ooh I love a good plugin! I get a geeky buzz when someone gives me the heads up about a plugin I haven’t used before. Especially, when I know that it will either, save me time or make my life easier. THAT, I love! I love WordPress, however the basic platform lacks some functionality and so …
Which are the best blogging apps? There always seems to be a new app in the market, something that will save us time or make our pictures look better or one of the other benefits from these technical genies. However, like it or not we rely on apps so much in our daily lives and as bloggers we *probably* couldn’t …
Like many people who work for themselves and juggle the demands of work and children, I work hard. Sometimes in the past I’ve felt that, although I put in a large number of hours, I wasn’t always focused and using my time as effectively as I could. I would feel my focus dissipating and the window flicking would begin. I felt …
10 Mistakes Bloggers Are Making Right Now When you start blogging there’s no test you must pass before you publish your first post. Consequently the learning curve is pretty steep! I learn things every single day and also spot things that other could be doing better. We all have our own little bug-bears don’t we?! So in the spirit of …
A blogger linky is a fabulous way to get involved in the community and to gain exposure for your blog. I’ve previously written a post explaining the differences between linkys, a blog hops and blog carnivals. If you’re a little further into your blogging journey and fancy setting up your own linky, here are my top tips on running a successful linky. …
87 awesome post ideas to rock your content calendar As bloggers we often feel a pressure to come up with new content. Whether you post daily or weekly, sometimes we can be left lacking a little in inspiration. When this happens, it’s good to have a back up of possible ideas, which might just spark some great post ideas …
I often hear bloggers talking about suffering from Blogger’s block; they have no clear ideas for topics and the pressure is building for them to write about something! I haven’t really suffered with blogger’s block, but there have been times when I am stuck a little for a specific angle within the theme I know I am going to write …
This week I want to talk about blog images. One of my blogging dislikes (just me personally, no offence meant to anyone) is no images in posts or small images. As you can imagine this is quite a large topic, but I wanted to pull all the relevant information together in one place so you don’t have to go searching; it …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
I love finding new blogs and spend quite some time perusing people’s sidebars to check out the blogs they love. There are many different types of blogs, that can evoke different emotions in the reader. You may find that you read a blog when you are in a certain mood, visit one for a dose of sentiment or one to get your …
Last Saturday I joined with an army of other bloggers and headed to London for BlogFest. I love blogging get together’s, as blogging can sometimes feel like a solitary pursuit. So it is great to have an opportunity to see your blogging friends, to learn, swap ideas, have a good gossip with lots of laughs. I met up with various friends …
