If you’ve been blogging for a few years, you’ve probably noticed that traffic to your blog will sometimes drop off for no apparent reason. It can be easy to personalize these ebbs and flows, especially if you’re new-ish to blogging, so I think it’s good to chat about it so we can see that we’re …
For this week’s blogging chat, I thought it would be interesting to talk about people’s blogging goals. That’s not to say that you need to have goals; there’s nothing the least bit wrong with cruising along at status quo. Posting frequency might be one area where people have goals for their blog. My plan is …
There’s a lot that one can learn about blogging, and one of the things I like about it is that there’s always more to learn. But do you actually need to fuss over learning the technical side of blogging? And by technical side of it, I mean anything that goes beyond your basic writing, publishing, …
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Comments can be a great thing about blogging, but they can also be a source of stress. In this week’s blogging chat, I wanted to talk about whether people ever choose to turn off comments on their blog. First off, if you want to turn off comments on individual posts, that’s in the post settings …
If you write blog posts, you probably have some desire for people to read them. On WordPress, it’s not too hard for people to find you if you use tags and interact with other bloggers, but what if you want a wider audience? If you choose to go out looking for readers, social media is …
Yesterday, I came across a few posts by my blogging friends about changes that WordPress is making in the plans it offers. I thought I’d do some investigating to help give people some ideas on how to deal with this change. I’m getting the details on the plan options from WP’s Pricing page and WordPress.com …
The whole link in bio situation seems to have arisen because of Instagram. It allows you one link in your profile, and doesn’t allow links in posts to your feed, although it recently started allowing people to use links in their stories. For those of you who don’t know or give a rat’s ass about …
I started this draft a long time ago, and then I got thinking about it again after seeing people’s comments a while back on my post The Mystery of the Blog Viewer But Non-Interacter. I tend to fall into the trap of thinking people read blog posts the same way I do, which is absolutely …
Unless you’ve deliberately made your blog unsearchable, it’s probably kind of nice when new people drop by and follow your blog. And by follow, I mean actually follow, not spam follow in the hopes you’ll follow back. But is it easy for people to find and follow your blog? You might be making it harder …
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I’m guess most people would agree that it’s pretty cool to get comments on your blog. When you do, do you respond to all of them? Let’s chat about that. Responding to comments I try to respond to all comments, although it doesn’t always happen. Sometimes I can’t fish words out of my head for …
