How To Use Pinterest To Better Your Blog {and Pinterest linkup!}

Pinterest Tutorial

If you have blogged, tweeted or logged into Facebook in the past month, chances are you have heard about the latest social media craze, Pinterest. Pinterest is an excellent tool for bloggers. The two most important things it can do for you as a blogger are: 1. Drive traffic to your site. 2. Connect you… [Continue Reading]

The 8 Goals You Should Set For Your Social Media Plan

Social Media Marketing

This week, #SITS31DBBB is all about promoting your blog: getting you and your content out there for the world to see. Today, Caz from yTravelBlog shares 8 goals you should think about as you engage in social media marketing and how those goals will help you meet your social media plan! Building your Brand You… [Continue Reading]

#SITS31DBBB Week Five: Promote Your Blog

Promote Your Blog

Wow, folks. We’ve made it! It’s the last week of the #SITS31DBBB 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge. We’ve covered assessing your blog, looking under the hood, building community, and honing your writing. And last, but certainly not least, we’re going to spend the next 5 days working on how to promote your… [Continue Reading]

Blog Critique: Life as Wife

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We’re back with another Blog Critique from Momcomm and The SITS Girls! Fran, Gigi and I are dissecting a blog from top to bottom in three areas: design, navigation/functionality and content. The reason? To help the featured blogger meet her blog goals and become even MORE awesome. The goal of a blog critique is to… [Continue Reading]

Broken, Hacked, and Deleted…When Good Blogs Go Bad

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It’s happened to the best of us. Everything is running smoothly and then one day you log over to your blog to find an error page, or your posts appear to be missing, or God forbid you are redirected to a porn site. WHAT HAPPENED? Here are just some of the common problems that might… [Continue Reading]

#SITS31DBBB Week 4: Hone Your Writing

31 days to a better blog

Wow, folks. Here we are in Week 4 of the #SITS31DBBB 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge. We’ve covered assessing your blog, looking under the hood, and building community thus far. Now we’re moving onto the cornerstone of every blogger’s craft: Writing This week’s tasks and challenges are all designed to help equip… [Continue Reading]

A Year Of Better Blogging

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Blogging has changed. I don’t know when you started, but when I started blogging I started because I thought it was a neat way to share pictures and stories. Okay maybe a TINY part of me thought it would be cool to get famous and meet Ellen DeGeneres, but back then I spent hours commenting… [Continue Reading]

Thou Shalt Build A Blog Community!

blog community

This week is Build Community week of the #SITS31DBBB Challenge. You can join us for all or any part of the challenge! Today, Natalie from Mommy of a Monster is here to talk about the commandments of building a strong blog community. So you’ve just started blogging, and maybe you even have a few regular… [Continue Reading]

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