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How I Develop an Editorial Calendar for a New Blog
Figuring out what blog posts to make to bring traffic to your site can be a bewildering task. See how I developed my editorial calendar for a whole year’s worth of posts that would bring targeted traffic and followers to my site fast.
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Tips Tuesday – Hosting, Pinterest Sharing, Solving Problems with Blog Posts
Tips this week include:
• Update on the paid social share buttons case study and why I’m not releasing it yet
• The new Pinterest share case study has begun
• Why I’m researching new hosts
• An update and new posts for my hobby to money-making site
• Why I have to get theme performance testing done and what’s coming for the Webmaster Training
• Why it’s time to delete one of my long-standing recommended plugins
• What country is getting massive bad bots through and if these are probes for a DDoS attack
• Why SiteGround dropped showing IP addresses in AWStats
• Why you need to log out when you’re not using WordPress and the toll it takes on your site if you don’t
• A new site and property verification in Google Search Console
• Hard proof of why we all need to scream for SiteGround to give us our resource meters back
• What’s coming in the next two Genesis releases
• How to find your audience’s biggest pain points and why you should
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Invest for Blog Success at Startup
All businesses require startup costs. A money-making blog is no different.
See why I was willing to invest so much into my success right up front, and why I’m 100% positive it will pay off big.
Tips Tuesday – Paid Share Button Plugins, Dashicon Updates, Green Screen Effects
Tips this week include:
• The peek at the big win I’m celebrating this week
• New Hobby to Money Site series of posts
• An update on my paid social share button case study
• A HUGE thank you to the plugin case study sponsor that came through in a big way
• Whether it’s safe or not to update to WordPress 5.1
• What you need to check if you see a new warning in WP 5.1
• Whether it’s okay to update to Genesis 2.9
• What’s in the release schedule for WP 5.1.1 and when it will hit
• What WP vulnerability was patched after 6 years
• Much needed proposed updates for Dashicons that will make our sites faster and score better with Google
• An image SEO workshop this week
• What we can all learn about ADA compliance on our sites by watching someone use a screen reader
• A super tutorial for using XSplit VCam for green screen videos
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The Planning Behind a Money-Making Site Launch
It takes a lot of planning to launch a money-making site, especially if you know what you’re doing.
I see so many new bloggers waste 2 years and $2,000 before they figure that out.
See the planning I did for the re-launch of Heartwood Art including the thinking, the research, and the money.
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The Journey of Turning a Hobby Blog into a Money Making Site
I’m documenting the process of turning my hobby carving site into a money-making, mass appeal, woodworking and wood art site.
I’ll be sharing the details of the process including the money, the wins, the setbacks, and everything in between.
I hope you’ll follow along on this journey and that it inspires and helps you with your site journey too.
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Tips Tuesday – Social Share Buttons, WordPress 5.1 Changes, Designer Tips
Tips this week include:
• Best and Worst Free Social Share Button Plugins test results are in!
• Where to find the full 120 page case study report
• The best settings for Scriptless Social Sharing
• An update on the next case study for paid share buttons and Pinterest buttons
• A new post series on turning Heartwood Art from a hobby site to a money maker
• Who’s helping me have a ball on Instagram Stories
• The best mount for your phone or tablet to do video
• A whole bunch of tips on the serious changes coming in WordPress 5.1
• UpdraftPlus just got faster for our backups
• Where to find more ADA Compliance testing help
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