1. Use Pinterest’s free scheduling feature 2. Set up a spreadsheet with links, description, title, and date pinned 3. Five pins per day 4. Pin other people’s pins like a regular user First things first: I don’t recommend using this method until you have 50+ articles, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, Pinterest (and watching … Read more
I wouldn’t worry too much about how long your blog posts are. As long as they cover the topic well, it doesn’t really matter. However, it’s easy for me to say that. I regular churn out 3,000-word articles without even thinking about it, because I’m used to it. I recommend that if you’re new to … Read more
If you’ve been immersed in the world of SEO for a while, you’ll be well aware of Google’s EAT rules. In a nutshell, Google likes to see EAT in websites: expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness. In an ideal world, websites will have all three, but in the beginning, you need to work primarily on getting Google … Read more
If you’ve ever searched for ‘how to increase blog traffic’, you’ll have heard about Pinterest. For a good four years, you couldn’t move in the blogging world without someone selling you a Pinterest course. This is not a Pinterest bashing article. Pinterest can be an incredible way to drive traffic to your blog, but it … Read more
This may seem like a weird question to more traditional bloggers, but if you’re the kind of person that likes to start a project knowing that there’s an end in sight, you’re in the right place. There’s no right answer here. A blog can have one article, or thousands. The only difference is the potential … Read more
Disclaimer: there is no real answer to this. Plenty of people have 30K pageviews a month and don’t make a penny. Others make £2000 per month with only 10k views. It depends on how much you push your blog. My websites don’t typically make anything in their first year, because I like to follow this … Read more
Ah, Adsense. So may bloggers are excited to get accepted to Adsense and FINALLY make some money. This article isn’t bashing Adsense. They pay out, and you will probably need to be accepted by them because other ad networks require that you have an Adsense account in good standing (whatever that means) in order to … Read more
There have been a lot of articles written on branding, and it can be a daunting, especially when everyone goes on how about how it can make or break your online presence. But if you’re not that bothered about design or anything like that, branding can not only make your work more recognisable, it can … Read more
I go on and on about writing good quality blog posts that answer search queries and rank on Google, but that doesn’t really help you too much. It’s all very good me preaching excellence, but what makes a good blog post? How can we write articles that are better than all the other? This article … Read more
Productivity is a bit of a buzzword at the moment isn’t it? To be honest, I’m kind of sick of it. Can we not just be honest and say that what we’re really waiting for is for robots to be invented so we can all lounge around all day and eat peeled grapes? This is … Read more