Are you struggling to come up with an idea for your next blog post? Maybe you’re staring at a blank screen as you battle writers’ block—or you’re wondering about giving up blogging and digital marketing entirely. Enter: my favorite blog writing prompts to get you back on track today. Coming up with blog ideas can
When you’re new to blogging or creating a website, it often seems like there are many different technical pieces to get up to speed with. Aside from learning how to use WordPress in the first place, the next big worry you may have is how to install WordPress on your self-hosted website. Getting WordPress installed
We’re here to answer the question, what is a self-hosted blog? So, let’s do it. What is a self-hosted blog? A self-hosted blog is a blog that lives either on your own personal server (not common) or on the server of a third-party hosting company like Bluehost or Dreamhost (most common today), where those servers
Today, we’re answering the question, what is a nofollow link? In this quick tutorial about nofollow vs dofollow links, I’ll also break down how to make a nofollow link, when you should use nofollow links on your blog—and the difference between nofollow and dofollow links. What is a Nofollow Link? A nofollow link is a
Believe it or not, taxes for bloggers are pretty straightforward and easy to manage. I use a combination of practical tax tips for bloggers (informed by my CPA), paired with just a small handful of useful, free and inexpensive tax tools to manage all of the tax implications of running my blog business. It’s not
You may have installed Google Analytics on your website or blog years ago, but you have not given it too much thought since. But you’ve heard that you need to update Google Analytics. It’s changing from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4 (GA4). What does that mean, what’s changed, and how do you get GA4
While many bloggers are able to somewhat quickly develop a sense for the fundamentals of what it takes to go from starting a blog to writing a useful blog post, most begin to struggle when it comes to finding and marketing to the right audience—let alone learning what it takes to bring those readers in
Like it or not, there’s both an art and science to learning how to write a cold email template that predictably converts new freelance clients. Today, we’re talking about both. And we’re using my real cold email templates, case study examples and screenshots of the actual cold emails that generated $110,500+ for my own freelance side business last
If you’re looking to build a passive source of online income, Amazon affiliate marketing can be a great way to monetize the readers coming to your blog—by tastefully weaving in links to helpful products that can be purchased on Amazon after clicking through from your website. Then, in return for referring that product sale to