On a free WordPress plan, or a cheap one for that matter, you don’t have a ton of storage space to work with. Here are a few tips to manage your images so you can make the most out of your media storage. Find out what sizes your theme allows Your theme will have certain …
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I’ve been rather irritable lately, and as a result, I’ve fired off a couple of snarky emails in response to annoying blogger outreach emails from marketers. So I thought I’d write about it. What blogger outreach is Links matter to Google, and as a result, links matter to people who want attention from Google. Links …
Rory of A Guy Called Bloke alluded to this recently, and I wanted to talk a little more about the psychological phenomenon called social proof, and how it applies to blogging. First off, what is social proof? It’s a cognitive bias that means when we’re in a situation where the action we should take is …
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A fellow blogger recently mentioned that moist is the most hated word in the English language and I felt the need to go exploring to learn more about gross words. It turns out word aversion is the fancy way of referring to words that are just plain icky—not what the words are describing, but the …
WordPress gives us the option of picking one or more categories for blog posts (or it will just pick the default for you), and you can also use tags. But what exactly are tags and categories, and how should we be using them? Let’s chat about that. Categories Categories form part of the structure of …
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If you aren’t trying to grow your blog out there in the world, this post will be completely irrelevant. This is a newer version/compilation of a couple of posts I’ve done before on building backlinks to your blog and domain authority. What is domain authority? Domain authority (DA) is a scoring system that was developed …
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Every so often I see bloggers expressing some apprehension about stepping out of their blogging niche, so I thought it was worth chatting about. The business-focused blogs If the main purpose is to make money, niche matters. According to blogging guru Brandon Gaille, the blogging niches that make the most money are (in descending order) …
As bloggers, we play with words. Some of them are more fun quirky than others. Here are a few of the interesting ways we use words. The pond that separates us Despite speaking the same language, there are a lot of differences between British-speak and American-speaking, with Canadian-speak thrown in there somewhere in between. Blogging …
While we’re mostly interested in the human visitors to our blogs, it can be fascinating to see what some of the non-human visitors are getting up to, including an assortment of bad bots. What a 404 error is Before we get to the main part of this post, I need to quickly explain what a …
I suspect we’ve all got them—those nagging little blogging insecurities that chatter at you from the back of your mind every once in a while (or more regularly). While we probably all have them, none of us talk about them. After all, they’re not the kind of thing that’s very pretty. But maybe we should …
