blogging tips

If you’re struggling to monetize your blog, I know it can be hard to ante up the money for snazzy stock photos for blog posts. Of course, you can always take your own photos, but that’s not always doable if you’re chronically ill or creatively challenged. It’s probably tempting to use photos from Google images, […]

Be forewarned: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is cracking down on influencers who are promoting products/services and not using the proper disclosures. In case you haven’t heard the news, you can get up to speed by reading this article from Consumerist: Feds warn social media ‘influencers’ to stop it already with the stealth ads And here is […]

As members of the Chronic Illness Bloggers network, we receive some incredible opportunities to work with companies thanks to CIB’s founder Julie Ryan. But what if you’d like to approach a company on your own? For that, it’s a good idea to have a media kit. Yep, I know the term “media kit” sounds intimidating, […]

We all know social media is one of the best traffic drivers for our blogs, so this week I’m sharing links to some helpful articles to build your following: Rignite: 47 ways to get Twitter followers LuxuryBackpacking.net: How to gain more followers on Instagram SmartBlogger.com: The skeptic’s guide to getting targeted traffic from Google+ Dustn.tv: Don’t […]

Got a blogging question? You can submit it here! I recently finished an online course called Facebook Strategies 2.0 and thought I would share some of the tidbits I learned. Obviously, I won’t be sharing all of the info from the course because that wouldn’t be fair to the instructor, but I’ll be highlighting some of […]

Have a blogging question? You can submit it here! Don’t be shy! You can even submit it anonymously.  A member of the Chronic Illness Bloggers community recently submitted the following blogging question: “How do I market a blog post where I describe my medical condition and my struggle? In essence, I’m not providing any solution and […]

While curating others’ content for social media, there’s one thing I notice over and over again: Way too many blogs and websites are not optimizing their images for Pinterest. That’s a big fail because Pinterest is currently one of the fastest growing social media platform for bloggers. . So, today I wanted to share some […]

A few weeks back, we asked the Chronic Illness Bloggers community to submit any blogging-related questions they might have as ideas for future posts. We received a couple of questions about how to get started blogging. Well, entire books have been written on that topic, so it’s impossible to cover everything in a simple blog […]