Whether you’re starting a blog on an extremely tight budget—or taking your business online with a website, saving every single penny becomes a priority. That’s where free web hosting plans come into play. While many hosting options are quite affordable, nothing beats free if that’s your main focus right now. The biggest problem though, is
Believe it or not, there’s a true art and science behind writing effective blog headlines. It’s a skill that can make the difference between whether your blog succeeds or fails in the long run—because if your blog headlines fail to attract readers… you’ll have a difficult time making meaningful progress in your traffic growth. Whether
Want more blog readers? You need to spend more time learning how to write blog titles that’ll attract readers. Some newer bloggers think that blog post titles don’t matter. They write a post, figure out something to call it, and publish it. The same goes for the next post. And then they’re surprised when no
Like it or not, evergreen content needs to be in your publishing arsenal if you hope to start a blog that can bring in a steady flow of readers over substantial periods of time. When you’re building traffic to your blog, you might think it’s best to focus on posts that will bring in traffic
How big is your to-do list? If you’re anything like me, it’s probably huge and you’re looking for ways to be more productive. Enter: Productivity tips. This year, my to-do list has turned into a growing mountain of “important” tasks that always seem to lead to something else (of course equally as important) that needs to
Today, we’re talking about how to HTML highlight text in WordPress (in both the Gutenberg editor and Classic editor), to get a highlighted result like this: Here’s an example of highlighted text. As a new blogger when you’re just getting your blog off the ground, all of the little technical components of learning WordPress can
I have some big news to share… I recently rejoined the marketing team at Close, as their Head of Content—and we just opened up a couple of remote marketing jobs working with me 🎉 If you’re interested in a remote marketing job working with me at Close, then read on. And if you’re just interested
You want to start a blog… but maybe you don’t know quite how. Enter: today’s guide to choosing the best blogging software for your needs. There are so many different blogging software platforms out there, and it’s tough to decide which one offers the best blog software for you. Maybe you want a website where
Whether you want to make your content easily navigable for readers, or you’re hoping to boost your SEO rankings, learning how to create a WordPress table of contents menu (also called a clickable menu) near the top of your blog posts, can help both causes in a big way. For the better part of a