This is the first in an ongoing series of Tuesday posts where I'll share a single (and easy) tip that will help you increase traffic to your blog. While these tips won't make a huge difference overnight, they will slowly and overtime grow and increase traffic to your blog. Comment on other blogs in your niche One of the simplest and easiest ways to increase traffic to your blog is to comment on other people's blogs. A really slick feature of blogs is that when you leave a comment, you can Continue Reading
Don’t ever just shutdown a blog or website
I recently had a client that decided they were not longer interested in blogging. As a result, they went to their hosting provider, deleted the site and canceled their hosting. Seems reasonable right? After all, if you're no longer interested in blogging, why keep your site? While in some scenarios this is the right thing to do, in most it's not. Websites and blogs are like real estate (well, what real estate used to be a few years ago). In most cases, they begin gaining value from the Continue Reading
Base plugins for blogs
Now that WordPress is installed and setup and a theme has been installed, it's time to install some plugins. I've found from building different blogs for myself and clients that there is a set of base plugins for blogs that everyone should really have. These plugins will help your site grow, keep it running efficiently, keep it secure and make it easy to use for your visitors. Here they are, in nor particular order: Updated 8/14/2013 - A few plugins removed and a few Continue Reading
Advertising on my blog – When should you start
One of the more common group of questions I get on a daily basis from readers and clients is about "advertising on my blog" and more specifically "when should I start advertising on my blog". Unfortunately there is no real clear and concise answer to this question and answers from experts vary greatly. I'll provide you with my perspective on this and give you some items to consider, but ultimately the right answer is that you should start advertising on your blog when you feel Continue Reading
Monetizing your blog – Several Choices You Need To Make
This guest post has been written by Mike from The Financial Blogger. He runs several other personal finance blogs and aims to live from his online income. When we all started our blogs at the very beginning of this movement, it was often because we were passionate about a specific topic. We had something to say and wanted to share our thoughts with readers. But after a while, especially if your site enjoys some success, a question arises: how can you transform your effort and passion into Continue Reading
Why you need to write in advance (and I do to!)
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
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