Earlier this year, Facebook said that they now have 1.11 billion people using the site each month and 665 million active users each day. Those numbers are astounding and those users can drive a large amount of traffic to your blog if you have a popular Facebook page. The more Likes you get to your Facebook page, the more people get exposed to your content. My first attempt at creating a Facebook page didn't go so well. The Facebook page was for this blog, and for a number of reasons, Continue Reading
Archives for September 2013
Learn CSS – A beginner’s guide for bloggers
I love it when bloggers and websites owners are interested in learning how to customize their site. One of the most frequent questions and "calls for help" I receive are questions about CSS. Generally these requests are from bloggers interested in doing a little customization of their sites on their own and who are interested to learn CSS and HTML on their own. Just last week, Nikol Murphy was asking for some CSS help on her site, Talking Moose Media and I offered my assistance to help Continue Reading
Side Income Report – August 2013
I've received a number of queries from readers asking about my Side Income Reports since I hadn't published one since March. In hindsight, I should have communicated this, but there really weren't any big changes to report from March - July. In fact, my traffic and income dropped off a bit. I just didn't want to bore you with the basically the same numbers over and over again each month. BUT - August broke that trend and was a big month for Side Income Blogging and I'm really excited to Continue Reading
Genesis child themes – My top three
I've been using the Genesis premium WordPress theme for about 4 months now. I was previously using Thesis. I don't want to bash Thesis, but being honest, I really haven't missed it at all. Making the transition to Genesis has been very easy for me as the two themes are very similar. I've found that due to the number of Genesis child themes available, I can get a very professional looking site up and and running in a couple of hours instead of days. That time savings alone has justified the Continue Reading