Let’s get one thing straight: There are no shortcuts when it comes to growing your blog traffic. That being said, you can see massive progress over a period of a few months with good content and legitimate SEO techniques. For example, I was able to increase my blog traffic by almost 4,000% in just half a year. In this ... Read More
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Match Made In Heaven: 10 Dream Work-From-Home Jobs
Nowadays it’s increasingly difficult to find a job, let alone one that will allow you to work-from-home. Every now and again, there’s that lucky and rare opportunity that will enable you to earn a good wage and do it remotely. A quick perusal of online job sites reveals many opportunities to work-from-home (data entry, stuffing ... Read More
From Surveys to Blogging – How This Mom Found the Path to Six Figures
Anna Thurman's work-at-home journey started with surveys, writing articles, and working online for sites like ChaCha. Through these side hustles, she was able to replace the income she had previously earned outside the home. But even though she was earning a steady income, she was amazed at what was going on in the work-at-home niche ... Read More
How This Accountant Ditched the Cube and Became a Productivity Blogger
Carrie Smith Nicholson is the founder of carefulcents.com where she works as a financial influencer and productivity blogger. Using her past experience as a small business accountant, she helps burned out business owners get more done in less time. Her business strategies and productivity tips have been featured in Inc. Magazine, ... Read More
Is It Time to Sell Your Blog? – Interview with Heidi Gollub
Heidi Gollub started Free Fun in Austin as a creative outlet in 2010, when she was ten years into being a stay-at-home mom and still had two little boys at home. She’d take her boys on a new adventure every morning and write about it in the afternoon when they were napping. Gradually, she started writing about free events that were ... Read More
How This Mom Went from Retail Management to Full-Time Blogger
Scarlet Paolicchi is a Nashville blogger and stay-at-home mom of two. Her award-winning blog, Family Focus Blog reports on parenting tips, family fun activities, eco tips, food, travel, decor, discounts, and giveaways. Find out how this biology major made the leap from retail management to full-time blogger. You started blogging in ... Read More
How One Mom’s Career Change Turned Her Passion for Gluten-Free Living Into Profit
Jenny Finke is a certified nutrition and health coach. She founded her gluten-free blog, Good For You Gluten Free, after a devastating celiac diagnosis in April 2012. Today she helps her readers and clients live a healthy, gluten-free lifestyle, and she works hard to advocate for those living with celiac disease or following a ... Read More
Enter to WIN a SnapPages Website for LIFE!
It's giveaway time! We're excited to partner with SnapPages to offer one (1), lucky reader, a FREE website for life! SnapPages is a DIY website building tool that allows anyone (yes, anyone!) to quickly and easily build a professional quality website. The winner of this giveaway will win a SnapPages website for LIFE! Regular ... Read More
5 Ways to Use Social Media to Promote Your Blog
As a blogger for years, I’ve experimented with multiple types of blog promotion. To this day, though, one of the most effective promotional platforms for me, continues to be social media. In this blog post, I’m going to share my top five tips to use social media to promote your blog. 1. First things first: Grow your social media ... Read More
How to Stand Out in a Crowded Niche as a New Blogger
"Blend in, but stand out" - that is my motto when it comes to blogging for my website. As a new blogger, blogging can get overwhelming. The struggle begins once you start getting serious about it! One of the biggest setbacks for bloggers is standing out in a crowded niche. You might be interested in food, beauty, or photography ... Read More
Earn Ridiculous Money While You Sleep
Admit it. You don’t mind working hard, but you’re tired … tired of working in an office, tired of working for someone else, tired of working hard just to make ends meet, tired of no time, no money, no vacations, no fun, tired of … You’re just plain tired… But, what if—you could be playing, traveling the world, doing anything — and ... Read More
How This Blogger is Earning Five Figures a Month with Affiliate Marketing
Initially, I interviewed Michelle Schroeder-Gardner back in December of 2013. Since that time she's had AMAZING success with her personal finance blog, Making Sense of Cents. So, I thought it would be fun to catch up with Michelle and find out how she's doing and what's next for this professional blogger. Here's how this ... Read More
3 Signs That You Could Be Signing Up For An SEO Scam
By Liz Lockard If you’ve had a website or blog up and running for any amount of time, you may have found more than one of these in your inbox at some point … SUBJECT: How To Increase Your Website Ranking And Traffic Dear Sir/Madam, We can get your website on top of Search Engines. All work will be done as per Google's ... Read More
5 Ways Blogging Can Contribute to Your Self Growth
We all have them. Bad habits, mindsets, learned helplessness that we may not be aware of. We’ve gotten quite accustomed to them that they feel a part of us. Developing good blogging habits should allow you to confront some of these habits and make decisions about them that will be beneficial. If you’re new to blogging welcome ... Read More
Blogging Etiquette: Don’t Be a Blogger Behaving Badly
The online world/blogosphere is filled with tons of amazing tips and advice on how to be a super-dynamic-the-bees-knees-type blogger. However, I am fairly certain that there is not nearly as much information about what to NOT do available for those of us whose blog is an important part of their livelihood. After blogging actively ... Read More
