Of all the social networks out there, Facebook is the one that frustrates me the most. With their ever-changing algorithms, the almost requirement to pay for ads, and only a fraction of my followers even seeing my posts, it's almost enough to make me throw in the towel. It makes it difficult to get more Facebook likes organically when hardly anyone is seeing your posts!
Just almost. Right when I'm about to, I have a post that does well, and it makes me feel like all the stress of Facebook is
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Awesome Free Blogging Tools Every Blogger Should Know About
While there are some definite expenses that come with blogging, they are something I try to keep to a minimum. Blogging is a relatively low-cost career (at least in my case), and there are so many awesome free blogging tools out there to help you accomplish your goals.
I've tried a lot of tools - and not all of them are that great. For me, the tool has actually to increase productivity or the effectiveness of a blog post. If I'm going to pay for a tool, it has to do that about 10-fold! I thought
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Online Blog Con 2015 Giveaway
Several weeks ago I mentioned the Online Blog Conference, and I just wanted to remember you to be sure to sign up. It's only a few short weeks away, and we have some great speakers in the works for it. It's not only a great learning opportunity, but it's a great way to network with other bloggers. If you are wanting to take your blog to the next level, I assure you, this is a great way to do it. What's better than attending a top-notch blog conference from home?!
We are giving away a ticket to
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How I Freed My Life from Pinterest Scheduling
Many Bloggers will attest to getting a majority of their traffic from Pinterest. Although it's undergone some major changes in the past year or so, and it may not be as amazing in some ways as it used to be, it's still a major driver of traffic that you can't afford to overlook.
There's hundreds of articles out there about Pinterest strategy and the best Pinterest scheduler. I've read many of them myself - and most of them tell you the same thing: verify your website, get rich pins, pin vertical
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Target Readers and Increase Revenue with Custom Sidebars
The first hurdle when building your website traffic is getting people to come to your site. The second? To stay on your site and come back again and again. In my post on how to increase blog traffic, I mention several different ways to make your site more sticky. One of the things I addressed was creating custom sidebars, which I think are great for keeping people engaged and clicking around more on your website.
Basically, by creating a custom sidebar, you can make sure people are seeing more
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5 Ways to Improve Your Blog to Increase Blog Traffic
It's been over two and a half years since I started Clarks Condensed. I seriously can't believe it. When I started out blogging (at least on Clarks Condensed - I have blogged on a variety of different sites since 2008), I knew that I wanted to make something of it, but I had NO idea that it would come to support our family completely. There's been a lot of ups and downs, but in the end, it's a journey and experience I wouldn't trade for anything.
While I am constantly trying to come up with new
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How to Install Google Analytics on WordPress and Blogger
Last week when I shared 5 simple steps to starting a blog, I mentioned the importance of installing Google Analytics. This is a great (and powerful) tool that can not only gauge your growth but give you valuable insight into your readers, traffic sources, and much more. There's lots of reports you can generate that can really help increase your traffic if you interpret them correctly. However, this post is just for those of you looking to get started on how to setup Google Analytics in WordPress
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How I Monetize Our Blog – The Details
I'm in a lot of Facebook groups for bloggers, and these groups have varying levels of bloggers. There are people who are just getting interested in blogging, and there are others who make six (and even seven) figures from blogging. There's definitely a huge range!
Something that I find most valuable in this group is when people are transparent and willing to share their tips for success and monetizing a blog. I've always felt so blessed by our success with blogging, that it feels almost selfish
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5 Simple Steps to Start a Blog
Despite what you might think, starting a blog isn't really that hard. Maintaining a blog, growing your readership, and monetizing your blog? Now, that's a little more difficult. However, starting one? Pretty simple.
But before any great blog becomes a great blog, it has to be created. And there are just a few simple steps one should follow in order to be start on the best foot possible. Lucky for you, I've been in the beginning stages of many blogs (including my own), so I've got this
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Online Blog Conference 2015 – Registration is Now Open!
If you can't tell by now, I'm very passionate about blogging. Not only am I passionate about my own blog, but I'm passionate about helping other bloggers succeed as well. While blogging can be super stressful, time consuming, and, to be honest, tear inducing at times, it's been such a blessing in my life.
Something that I've been very grateful to be a part of for the past three years is the Online Blog Conference. It was first started in 2012, and I've been able to help organize it since 2013.
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Why Your Traffic May Have Dropped After Moving from Blogger to WordPress
Did you recently switch from Blogger to WordPress and see a huge drop in stats? Here's a few reasons why that may have happened (and how to remedy it.)
Not a day goes by that I don't see someone on Facebook talking about how their traffic plummeted after they were moved from Blogger to WordPress. This can be incredibly frustrating, especially when you are trying to grow your blog and make money!
When I moved from Blogger to WordPress, my traffic increased. I didn't see the big drop others had
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Visual Post Editor not Working after WordPress Update? Try this.
If there's one thing I tell people, it's to not update WordPress right when the update comes out. WordPress is notorious for having major bugs and conflicts with new versions. Typically they have to do with a plugin that hasn't been updated to work with the new version of WordPress, but sometimes, the issue goes much deeper.
For instance, my friends at the Double the Batch were having some major issues with their post editor. They could only edit in text mode, and they couldn't get the visual
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