Archives for August 2024

For years, I’ve wanted viable newsletters to accompany my many WordPress blogs. I love the idea of having someone read one or more of my posts and fall in love with them to such a degree that they search for a method that would allow them to read via email. Or to be alerted to my news posts via email. Or to receive anything at all from me via email. I’ve actually set up newsletters through plugins and Mailchimp in the past, but as time has worn on, I’ve become disenchanted with how it all worked. I never really liked how the plugins operated and I’ll never forget the day I received a notification from Mailchimp that not everyone on my newsletter subscriber list had received the newsletter email. Apparently, I ran over the free number of 500. What a bummer. Imagine being notified that due to your success, you now have to begin paying to have emails sent out. Substack is set up to deliver a massive number of emails for absolutely no cost. It’s a newsletter website. Authors write and Substack mails that writing out to subscribers. When I first heard of this, I was blown away. I began thinking of ways I could use both WordPress and Substack together. And one day, I figured it all out. In today’s post, I share my discoveries and I let you peek behind the curtain of how I now operate my blogs and newsletters. It’s outstanding, if I don’t say so myself and I encourage you to follow my lead – of course, if you’re interested in this sort of thing. Click through to learn all about it. Continue reading…

Unbeknownst to many a beginner blogger, blogs evolve. So many of the most popular blogs we see on the internet today oftentimes began as whimsical hobbies or very amateur business ventures. The earliest posts displayed on these popular blogs were absolutely horrific. They were short, didn’t include any sort of heading structure, didn’t include proper keywords, and didn’t include any type of introductory paragraph. Needless to say, they were lackluster at best, a waste of time at worst. The good news is, the owners of these blogs stuck with it and, through the years, learned how to properly blog. Today, their posts are well researched, well structured, well written, and well promoted. What happened? The bloggers in question transitioned from beginner bloggers into advanced bloggers and their hard work paid off. In today’s post, I discuss the process of what I just discussed above and I lay out a blueprint that can help that transition occur. I discuss blogging niches, why writing schedules are critical, how a blogger can take advantage of their competition, why social media matters, the benefits of launching a newsletter, and so much more. So if you’re about a year into blogging and you’d like to know which steps you need to take to move your beginner blogging along to the level of advanced, click through to learn all about it. Continue reading…

As a person becomes more and more involved in a thing, the person learns that sometimes the most challenging part of the activity isn’t so much the labor that’s required, but the thought behind the labor. The brain work, if you will. For instance, let’s say you’d like to launch a blog. You write very well and have scored high in all of the writing classes you’ve ever taken in school. You have full confidence in your abilities, but you find yourself plagued by one nagging issue – you simply don’t know what to write about. If you’ve ever faced an issue such as this, know that you’re not alone. Nearly all creative people roaming around out there face similar types of issues. The trick is to find what the world now refers to as “hacks.” Tricks that have the potential of helping you sail right by what once blocked you so you can begin your work in earnest. In today’s post, I discuss the problems many writers face today and then I share my very own tried-and-true solutions for each one of them. I know they’re solutions too because I’ve taken advantage of them for decades with my own writing. Once you read what I’ve written, I think you’ll find that your greatest obstacle is an obstacle no more. Click through to learn all about it. Continue reading…

If you’ve searched anything via Google or Bing in the past few years, you’ve surely noticed how blog post authors have begun adding numbers and dates to their post titles. For instance, titles like, “Great WordPress Themes” have morphed into titles like, “15 of the Best WordPress Themes Available.” And titles like, “Best WordPress Plugins” have morphed into titles like, “The Best WordPress Plugins in 2024.” Notice how the latter titles have numbers attached to them. These numbers add specificity and whether we like to think so or not, people love specificity. Authors wouldn’t be going through the trouble of adding them if they didn’t increase clicks to their websites. In today’s post, I teach how top-level WordPress authors set their blogs up to accept short code that can assist with adding dynamic dates. Whether it be a month, year, or current date, I teach how to add them to blog posts and pages. And the good news is it’s so, so easy. So if you’re interested in adding dynamic dates (dates that update automatically) to your blog posts, click through to learn how to do it today. Thanks! Continue reading…

Blogging is an incredible hobby. I’ve personally been hobby blogging for decades. I initially began when I bought my very first house. I took photos of my renovations and gave updates on everything I was up to so family and friends could read about it all. Years later, I realized that I was actually quite proficient at blogging, so I decided to make a living out of it. I launched a few more blogs – this time for profit. Since then, the world has caught on to how lucrative blogging can be. And also since then, savvy bloggers have scoured the internet in hopes of finding its most profitable niche. While blogging about a favorite activity can be fun and rewarding, blogging about a favorite activity that’s also highly profitable can be even more fun and rewarding. With today’s post, I help out all those internet sleuths who are bent on making a go of it and launching their own blogs. I list which niches are the most profitable online today and I give a lot of advice on how to go about approaching each one. But beyond offering well-paying blogging niches, I also list sub-niches. If you want to jump on this bandwagon, it’s the perfect time. Blogging for profit has never been more popular. Click through to read my post on how to make the most money doing it. Thanks! Continue reading…