Is Shared-hosting Right For Your New Blog

Should You Still Consider Shared Hosting For Your New Blog?

If you are planning to start a new blog, the first decision you need to make is about hosting. For a long time, I have been an advocate of using shared-hosting to start a new blog. If you are just starting and this is your first blog, shared hosting provides a cost effective way to test and see if you can actually sustain your blogging enthusiasm. But there are other choices out there to explore including VPS, dedicated servers and something new from Amazon. Let’s take a look at all of these options and decide which one is right for your new blog.

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Grow Your Blog with 5 Freelancers

5 Freelancer Specialists to Help Grow Your Blog

When I first started a blog, the only thing I thought about was the content.

I was going to take on the world with my prose, because I would definitely have something worth hearing and my audience would be interested. That bubble burst the first month I began and I started to understand there was a little more to blogging than I realized. There are many strategies you implement to help grow your blog too. One of these strategies are the people you meet along the way. Having a freelancer to help will definitely push up your timetable to success and get the ball rolling for you a whole lot quicker than normal.

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3 Common Travel Blogger Mistakes

If you are having a tough time gaining traction with your travel blog you may be falling prey to a few common mistakes.

These errors plague most travel bloggers at one time during their careers. Instead of blaming the competition or bemoaning the fact that there is no money in travel blogging own the mistakes below and change your fortunes by turning course. Note: these mistakes are common to most bloggers from any niche. Especially error #1. Just because you aren’t a travel blogger doesn’t mean you can ignore this post.

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Creative Writing Tips

Hone Your Writing Skills: 10 Tips for Creative Writing

Looking for ways to bring more creativity into your writing process? If you frequently have the problem of losing your creative inspiration, you need to know the best ways of how to restore it. The writing process needs to be nurtured, and if you want to stay creative, you need to write all the time. In this article, we are going to cover 10 tips that will help you make your writing more creative and will help you become one of those writers who enjoy what they do.

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The Perfect Anatomy of a Guest Post

Blogging Case Study: The Anatomy of a Perfect Guest Post

Meet Joe Elliot. He submitted the perfect guest post to my blog recently. So perfect that it fit my blog like a glove. Seriously. Joe did a fine job writing a post that dyed in the wool blogging newbies or seasoned blogging veterans could vibe with. Which made it a match for my blog. If you want to place more guest posts on rocking blogs, follow these tips!

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How to Boost Engagement with Storytelling

How to Become an Immersive Storyteller (and Boost Engagement)

Studies show that brands who use immersive storytelling increase engagement, improve user experience and eventually boost sales. Why is storytelling so important for the growth of your blog? In this post you’ll discover some effective methods used to become a great story teller and how it can improve the connection between you and your audience.

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Craft an Effective About Me Page

How to Create an Effective About-me Page

What makes a good about page? Considering most people just slap on a paragraph and leave it at that, it might seem as though I am asking a lot. But a good About page is an opportunity to hook the reader with nothing but the bare facts about your product or service. So why wouldn’t real effort be put into it? I am not trying to list dozens of examples here. Instead, here are a few pages that present absolutely different concepts for you to see various ways the information can be formatted.

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