The past two weeks at my full-time job have been just crazy busy and the unfortunate reality of that is I haven't been able to write near as often as I would like here on Side Income Blogging. The good news is that this little predicament made for a great article topic (this one). My plan here on Side Income blogging was to have a consistent posting schedule of two articles per week: one on Monday and one on Thursday. Monday would be the big article since Monday's are big blog traffic days. Continue Reading
Archives for August 2010
How to set-up WordPress Part 2
In part 1 of how to set-up WordPress, we walked through the Settings menu and adjusted the default settings. Now we'll dive into a few other areas and complete the base set-up. Again, we'll return to the Settings menu of the WordPress administrative console. If you need a refresher on how to login and get there, review the How to set-up WordPress part 1 article. Ping Services By default, each time your publish a new post on your blog WordPress notifies any web sites listed in the Continue Reading
Increase blog traffic – 5 easy ways
New and experienced bloggers have at least two things in common, they want to increase traffic to their blog. Traffic drives many things on your blog including earnings and growth. There are many different ways to increase blog traffic, but here are 5 easy ways that new bloggers can easily start driving traffic to their blog: Comment on other blogs in your niche Commenting on other blogs in your niche should be a priority for all new bloggers from day one. Commenting on other blogs does the Continue Reading
How to set-up WordPress Part 1
On our journey to start a money making blog, we've: determined what to blog about, picked a blog name, set-up blog hosting, and installed WordPress. Now it's time to do some set-up on WordPress and get it ready so we can start creating pages and writing articles. General Settings When you initially installed WordPress, you specified an initial blog title and tagline, but let's verify that what you keyed in is exactly what you want. We'll also tweak a few other WordPress general settings Continue Reading
Two pages your blog must have
One the items new bloggers struggle with is what pages need to be created on their blogs. I've often started working with new clients and visit their blog for the first time and find they don't have any pages created at all. WordPress pages, generally accessible from the main menu, are a great way to to share important information with your visitors. Pages can be used to: Tell people more about you Provide contact information Highlight a series of posts Highlight your most popular Continue Reading