Blogging Tutorials

Tips and tutorials to help increase your proficiency with free blogging software from Wordpress.com and Blogger.

Drive Blog Traffic With Pinterest

Don’t get Pinned for the Crime… Pinterest Images

As you already know, images are a great way to engage your readers. Images also help bring more attention to your blog posts. Let’s face it, everybody loves a good image, it makes you think. I don’t use images often but something has drastically changed on the internet that’s making me re-evaluate how I publish my blog posts and what images I’m using.

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blog posting schedule

Why You Shouldn’t Care About Blogging Schedules

When it comes to blogging schedules, this phenomenon will cause you to do the same thing over and over again – and in the long term can hurt you. For example, I am a big fan of blog challenges (read my other post about blog challenges if you would like to know more about the advantages of doing blog challenges). And, if I were to follow a blog schedule, it would really mess up my creativity with blog challenges – and with other blogging stuff I do (I always like to discover new ways and experiment with it and I hope that you do too …continue reading…

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Writing SEO Articles for Humans – 5 Critical Tips

Writing SEO articles sounds very scary to new Webmasters, but let me tell you that it really is easy. It is simply a matter of following some very common guidelines. This does not mean that you have to write like a machine just to please the search engines though, as writing for the people first should always be your number one concern. The art of writing SEO articles is having the ability to please both the search engines and your website visitors. The key is to incorporate these necessary SEO content rules into your articles without the human visitor noticing…continue reading…

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Top 5 WordPress Plugins for Fashion Blogs

There are a lot of fashion blogs out in the blogospere. So when I decided to start my fashion blog, Chic Renegade, I knew that if I wanted to seriously compete for traffic, I had my work cut out for me. I must admit that although I only started the blog about a month and a half ago, I have a little more experience in traffic generation being that I have been blogging for three years and this is my third blog. Although a lot of fashion bloggers use Blogger’s Blogspot platform, I decided to use WordPress because I am a WordPress junkie! Before I actually started my fashion blog, I had an idea of what functions and design elements I wanted since I am so familiar with WordPress and a good amount of its plugins. I also, picked up a few new plugins during the building process that have proven to be the perfect plugins for a fashion blog.

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Why Don’t You Tell Me, What’s in a Name?

Our name represents who we are and what we stand for. If you mention my name to many bloggers online some words that come to mind are, social media marketer, entrepreneur, nice guy, Blog Engage owner, and perhaps others I don’t like to admit. (lol) The point is our name is important and in fact there’s a lot in a name.…continue reading…

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When to start guest posting in your niche

When To Start Guest Posting In Your Niche

When it comes to blogging, when you start guest posting will determine how fast you can succeed with your business. No matter where you turn now days, you will find loads of people, myself and Ileane included, talking about how guest posting is a great way to build your blog traffic, especially if you are brand new. Although you can get some traffic with little content on your own site, most sites simply won’t let you guest post if you don’t have any content up yet. I would recommend getting at least 15-20 pages of content on your site before you try to do a guest post.…continue reading…

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6 Top Gadgets That Are Essential for Pro-Bloggers

Gadgets are becoming a popular and very essential in our daily life. I learned these from the experience I’ve gained, but also from asking many close friends from around the globe, who are involved in technology and blogging simultaneously. It can also be stated that “no gadgets, no blogging”. I’ve managed to find the best gadgets that are helpful for most of us who are bloggers.…continue reading…

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