It’s been a while since I have done a blogging post. It seems like they are always really popular. I guess it is mostly bloggers that read other blogs! People seem surprised sometimes to learn that I am able to make money off of my blog. They are more surprised when they learn that my blog is less than a year old and most months I am making over $200. Granted, that’s not a real income, but it is a little extra money that I can use when I feel like doing a little shopping. Most of my income comes from reviews. I...
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Did you guys know that this blog is less than 7 months old? It’s hard to believe that in 7 months Traci and I have come this far. I recently signed up for a blogging course put on by Amy from One Artsy Mama. She’s designed a course with each week focusing on a different blogging topic. We started off with goals and now we’re half way through and reflecting on how far we’ve come so far. I have to say that the biggest thing I’ve been able to fix is my photography skills. I thought I was doing okay, but after...
One thing I realized quickly after I started blogging was that there are a lot of things that I don’t know. I started seeing other blogs that had social icons that seemed to be one picture, but with links to lots of different places. At first, I thought they were just uploading lots of pictures and setting them next to each other, and I tried doing that,...
Blogging can be really time consuming. There are link parties to join, comments to write, emails to answer, reviews to write, posts that need written, surveys that need filled out, and many more things that can demand the time of a blogger. It can be addicting and completely time consuming if it gets out of hand. A lot of people want to make it big blogging, and a...
This is my 101th post! Woohoo! I figured a good post for my number 101 would be one to help other bloggers to make their blog a little bit better. I am pretty sure that doing this one simple thing has helped my blog more than any other one thing I could do. In life, you hear all the time the phrase “first impressions are everything”. When it comes blogging,...
In the blogging world, links that direct people to your site are like gold. They mean more visitors, which means more followers, more comments, more tweets, and for some, more money. It is nice to know when other bloggers link back to you, and it’s fun to see your blog’s popularity grow. By using Webmaster Tools, there is a very simple way to see how many links are out there in the wide web that bring people to your site. First, you need a Webmaster Tools account. Since it is run by Google, if you have a Google account, you’re...
Disclaimer: I know that I call this “career” blogging. I am no where near a career level at this point nor do I intend to be. Blogging for me is a hobby, but I do want to create a successful blog, one where my mother isn’t the only reader (but thank’s for being here, mom ) I am writing this post exactly one week after I started my blog. I don’t know when I will publish it, but I wanted this information to be fresh in my mind. I hope that it can help someone else that is hoping to start a blog sometime...
