“You can’t know where you’re going until you know where you’ve been.” Sure, it’s one of those cliche statements that ends up in mediocre romantic comedies like Will Smith’s “Hitch.” But it’s also good advice for bloggers. How do you know if you’re making a difference unless you’ve got benchmarks to gauge your progress? Sure, you […]
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This is the start of a new series on Chronic Illness Bloggers and each week we will be highlighting a different member. As well as getting to know each other better, we hope that you enjoy this series and that you find the interviews with each member to be insightful and helpful. This week our […]
Read MoreThere are a ton of sites popping up left and right that are stealing content from websites and blogs and trying to pass it off as their own. At minimum they are profiting off of our content. In many cases they are using this content to lure people to their website where they data-mine, steal […]
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As new bloggers start out one of the first questions they are faced with is where to blog. There are many choices, but there are three that tend to dominate, so what’s the difference? Blogger.com (aka Blogspot) is the free blogging platform owned by Google. Pros: It’s owned by Google. Because Blogger/ Blogspot is owned by […]
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Traffic is the most important metric when it comes to brands/ businesses considering you for potential sponsorship opportunities. But, how do you know how much traffic you are getting? If you are running a WordPress.com blog, you will not be able to install Google Analytics. However, it’s still quite easy to determine your average daily […]
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Writing is easy, at least it is for most of those who take the step of creating a blog. But, what’s a blog without readers? It’s a diary. You didn’t decide to start a blog just to create a diary. If you wanted a diary you wouldn’t have made it public. And, if you didn’t […]
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