Sassy-who blogs over at Thinking Out Loud-is blind and is passionate about raising awareness of how to make blogging and social media as accessible as possible. It’s something we may forget to consider at times, but making your blog, youtube and social posts accessible to those with visual impairments and other needs; takes only a […]
Read MoreAs part of Crohn’s Awareness Week, we wanted to shed some light on the 300,000+ people in the UK who have Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis and other forms of IBD. In support of this we also wanted to highlight and share some fantastic bloggers who talk about what it feels like to live with their daily […]
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Instagram can be such a tough platform to grow at times and hashtags should be part of your strategy. As a chronic illness blogger, it can be hard to find relevant hashtags; so we asked all our bloggers to share their resources and come up with 100 (yep, 100!) of the best hashtags to use! […]
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Hello all! I’ve had quite a few of you ask about google analytics recently. If you’ve applied for a campaign, you’ll know I ask for stat screenshots-and lots of you have asked if you can use WordPress or other stats instead. Google analytics is a little tricky to navigate but it is industry standard when […]
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We’ve had a ton of new members join us lately (hi, all!) and one thing many of them have in common is a drive to take their blog to the next level. Whether that’s to reach a certain number of page views, grow a following or make money from it. We reached out to the […]
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Without a doubt, Pinterest can be a fantastic traffic generator for bloggers, but if you’re just starting out or don’t have many followers, it can be difficult to gain traction there. Group boards are the best way I’ve found to grow traffic and followers on Pinterest because they expose your content to more people than […]
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A few months ago, I took the plunge and finally signed up for Tailwind, a scheduler for Pinterest. After joining several group boards, it had become tedious and confusing to manually pin my posts every day, so Tailwind is a real time saver! It makes it super easy to schedule your posts in advance. At […]
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Early on in my blogging career, I was a big fan of using Facebook groups to promote content. I know some people have mixed feelings about doing this. To some, it may come across as spammy, but I found it to be an effective way to reach my target audience. People who frequent chronic illness-related […]
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Tired of writing post after post and hearing crickets when you hit the publish button? Yep, been there, done that, and so have most other bloggers. It’s so hard to build traffic, especially in the beginning, because no one knows you, and your blog is just one of millions. A lot of bloggers make the […]
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