With a high degree of certainty, guest blogging will be be one of the absolute best strategies to employ if you’d like an uptick in targeted traffic to your blog, higher search engine rankings and a stronger reputation in your niche… all for free. It might sound like a pipe dream (especially if you’ve only

So, why is it important to learn how to do keyword research? While some bloggers drive traffic to their websites from a combination of social media, word-of-mouth and email subscribers—the most successful blogs diversify their marketing. That includes strategic keyword research with the best (free) keyword tool & thoughtful content planning that results in traffic

Today, we’re breaking down how to add images in WordPress and reduce their file size (to keep your pages & posts loading as quickly as possible). When you’re just learning the fundamentals of how to start a blog, there’s a lot to figure out, I get it. We’ve talked about how to change font size,

There are so many blogs out there (600+ million to be exact). Hence the need for developing your own blog style, to set yourself apart from the crowd in your niche. From starting a blog and honing in on your own blog writing style (over time), to developing a more clear blog style guide to

Today, my blog makes around $25,000 to $35,000 per month (with peaks as high as $55,000/mo and dips as low as $15,000/mo depending upon seasonality and Built to Blog course launches). But that didn’t happen overnight. In fact, there are a lot of things I wish I knew before starting a blog—lessons that would’ve saved me time,

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

If you have a competitor website that’s always one step ahead of you, chances are you’d like to learn some of their secrets, right? Enter today’s topic: BuiltWith alternatives. Whether it’s the backend services they run, the website framework they use, their programming language, WordPress themes, the frontend technology or otherwise—you can gain useful insights