Abandoning your blog for social media (particularly Instagram) is a trend I’ve noticed in the last couple of years or so. It may be a trend in an industry where Instagram rules – especially where huge follower numbers seem to…
How about a few suggestions for ways to support bloggers you love on this most romantic of days? It’s a slightly different way to celebrate Valentine’s Day, but a really love-ly one all the same. Something my readers often thank…
Bloggers (influencers) buying fake followers on Instagram is something I find hard to get my head around. But who buys followers, I mean REALLY…? I’ve been desperate to try and understand the logic behind buying fake followers ever since I heard it…
Media kits are kind of a big deal these days for bloggers. What to include and how to create them is something I hear asked a lot in the blogosphere. Over the years I’ve been asked several times to write…
I have a new blog design and it’s now easy for everyone to comment, hurrah! So there’s that, PLUS if you’ve ever wanted to migrate your blog to WordPress but thought it was too difficult or too expensive, I can tell you…
About 18 months ago I made the discovery that I was seriously squandering blog traffic in a way I didn’t even know about. Yet now it’s one of the biggest – and most important – ways I generate traffic to…
Over the four years that I’ve been blogging full-time I’ve been contacted by quite a few bloggers to ask how I managed to give up the day job and go full-time with my blog. There’s no secret formula – I’m…
Last week I talked about things bloggers must do when accepting freebies, and it touched on the subject of using nofollow links. However I know it remains a very confusing subject for many of us, so I thought I’d dedicate…
This week I was contacted by a blogging friend who asked for some advice where a gifted item was concerned. She had been offered some freebies in exchange for this, and this, and this, and this, and this… In fact the…
