Lost of people get ideas for blogs or blogged books. Not so many create the blog and publish posts consistently. In fact, many never begin blogging or, if they do, quit soon after. Today, James Blake offers a quick guide on how to get started with a blog site and sustain your blogging efforts. Hey! Why […]
Multiple Blogs can Make You Struggle
Should I create multiple blogs? As a blogging expert and coach, I hear this question more than almost any other. Why? Because people are creative and have many interests and passions. And if they choose blogging as a way to express their creativity, interests and passion, they want to blog about them all. They’ve also […]
How to Choose the Best WordPress Themes
Have you ever tried to choose a WordPress theme? There are so many options, especially free ones, that the decision can feel quite hard. If you upgrade to paid themes, the choice seems harder. After all, you don’t want to pay for something that isn’t the best choice for your site or that you can’t […]
5 Deadly Landing Page Mistakes to Avoid
Beyond basic blog pages, you need landing pages if you want to sell anything, including your blogged book or booked blog, or build an email list. However, your landing pages won’t do much good if you don’t know the basics of how to create ones that convert visitors into subscribers, book buyers, customers, or clients. […]
How to Protect Your Blog from Hackers
I had just told a group of students not to worry so much about their sites getting hacked. It had never happened to me in all the years I’d been blogging and using WordPress.org, and I’d been a blogger a long time. And then, BAM! One of my sites got hacked. And then another got […]
4 “Book Page” Essentials for Your Blog
Your blog provides an essential tool in your book-marketing toolbox. However, to use your blog to help promote your book, you need a “book page” on your website. Not only that, your book page needs some essential elements to help it effectively sell books. What’s a book page? It’s a page on your website or […]
12 Essential Blog or Website Pages
Once you have included the essential Home page elements on your website, it’s time to turn your attention to other pages. Pages provide an enormous amount of information to your site visitors as well as an organizational and navigational tool. Don’t confuse pages with posts. Pages are used for specific purposes and send visitors away […]
11 Home-Page Essentials for Your Blog
Every blog needs essential elements that make it easy to navigate by and attractive to visitors. If you blog a book on your site, you may need additional features, but certain elements should be visible on any website’s Home page. The following 11 elements won’t create a design for your site, but they inform your […]
How to Effectively Share Your Blog Posts on Social Media Sites
Writing and publishing blog posts often and consistently goes a long way toward helping your blog get discovered, but it’s not enough. To drive traffic to your site, so you gain followers and subscribers, you need to share your posts on social networks. That’s how you “tell” potential readers of your blog and your blogged […]
Is Your Blog Mobile Friendly?
Can your visitors read your blogged book on their mobile devices? If it isn’t “mobile-friendly,” you will lose readers—in more ways than one. Readers click away from your site, and, as of today, Google will make it harder for them to show up on your site at all if it’s too difficult to access via […]
