It’s no secret that Google is who you want to be BFFs with when it comes to SEO. The search engine has 3.5 billions searches a day. But here’s an interesting fact: twenty percent of the searches performed on google are searches they’ve never seen before. Here are some other things we learned at an…
For every blogger, keeping up to date with trends to enhance the user blog experience can be extremely helpful to grow your followers and to keep the current ones from leaving. Here’s a list of 3 things you should add to your blog this year: Push Notifications, HTTPS, and Missinglettr. Push Notifications These are notifications…
In the world of blogging, traffic is king. Many bloggers have been popping up in Google search results thanks to a new Google tool called the rich snippet. The rich snippet tool allows a small picture of you to be shown when someone googles content for which you are the author. It`s basically a little…
Mode Media files bankruptcy and leaves contributors feeling like we’ve been hit by a Bernie Madoff bus. On Friday, September 16th, thousands of contributors awoke to the announcement that Mode.com, a site geared towards millennials that focus on fashion, food, and lifestyle articles would shut down immediately. The announcement went public the previous afternoon and…
Blogging evolves as it goes. We’re learning as we go. Anyone who tells you they’ve got it ALL figured out is crazy or lying. Or both. Here’s what I learned this year and plan to implement in my blog business for 2016. Focus more on longer more engaging pieces rather than short informational ones. In 2015…
Periscope, a live video streaming app for iOS and Android developed by Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein, has been purchased by Twitter. This new app, lets you share and experience live video from your mobile phone. For broadcasters, Periscope lets you share experience with others, instantly you can notify followers you’re live, and begin broadcasting. For viewers,…
“SEO is as important as the development of a site.” SEO, or Search Engine Optimization is key to creating traffic on your blog! If you’re not executing this easy fix correctly, you may not be getting full gain from your website or blog. Optimizing your website for search engines, can nearly triple your internet traffic!…
By Grant Goggans If you’re like literally thousands of other food bloggers, you had been exchanging reciprocal links with Urbanspoon until the end of May, when Zomato, the new owners of the service, finally closed it down. Zomato purchased Urbanspoon at the beginning of the year, and while some of us were braced for some considerable changes, the breadth…
Do you track your progress? If not you may be a subject of the “Ostrich Problem” – (image above source: linkedin.com). This phenomenon is “the widespread tendency for people to avoid information about progress towards their goals” (source). This phenomenon is a psychological roadblock that causes most of us to fall behind in realizing how…
Have you ever noticed that some sites have a tiny logo beside their URL in your browser window? Does your WordPress blog have one that came with your theme that you’d dearly love to change? For example, Foodie Pro’s default heart icon is cute, but it probably doesn’t perfectly represent you if your blog is…
