If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A few months back, Google launched a new thing (thing #479!): Google Authorship. So… what’s the big deal? Google launches a lot of things, and […]
Welcome to the third post in the series on how to monetize your blog. This is the final “prep” post in the series–next week, we’ll start looking at the first way you can monetize your blog. This week, we’ll look […]
Happy Wednesday! I have a very light-hearted infographic for you today. There are about a million websites on the internet with guys who are trying to sell you the formula to make your post or YouTube video go viral. The […]
I can’t underestimate the importance of Pinterest for bloggers. Pinterest is the #4 source of traffic to my blog, after organic search, Facebook and Twitter. Its significance is even more important on my cooking blog. You see, Pinterest acts like […]
Traffic. If you want to monetize your blog, you have to have it. Well, technically, you don’t have to. You can still put ads and the like on your site. You just won’t make any money from them unless you […]
As an adjunct to my “Monetizing Your Blog” series, I have a guest post for you today from Rob Greenberg. Why create a community around your blog? A sense of community produces devoted and dedicated blog readers– your Army, in […]
Last year, I had the opportunity to attend a conference called The Art of Marketing. This was unlike most of the smaller, grass-roots conferences I attend, as the docket consisted of 5 social media superstars: David Usher, Mitch Joel, Randi […]
Welcome to my new series of blog posts on Monetizing Your Blog! Every week, for the next 10-12 weeks, I will publish a blog post on this theme. We’re going to start by looking at the issues that might […]
Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but I have lots of pet peeves on Twitter. In no particular order, stuff I hate that people do on Twitter: Hook their Facebook up to their Twitter so that every time they create […]
For me, as a blogger, it’s been a very interesting few months. I’d say it all kinda began when I started writing for Vancity Buzz. You see, it’s not that I don’t think I’m a good writer. It was just […]