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Jill Flory on the BlogAid Site Success Interview Series

July 1, 2015 by MaAnna Stephenson

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Jill Flory on BlogAid Site Success Interview Series

Craft blogger and entrepreneur, Jill Flory of Sew a Fine Seam joins the podcast to share her site audit experience and what it takes to run a successful site in her niche. Jill has a diversified income stream, including her own products as well as ad revenue. She shares the positive results she’s seen on her site by increasing security, performance, and SEO.

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Where to Find Jill

Here are just a few places you can find Jill online:

  • Sew a Fine Seam – her site
  • Instagram – Jill’s fave place to hang out and post
  • Pinterest
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Topics from Our Chat

Below you’ll find a handy timestamp of our discussion, full of takeaways that will help you run a successful site too.

00:25 Jill shares about her site, what she does, and how she diversifies her income.

02:20 Jill shares what it was like to go through a site audit, including:

  • what prompted her to get a site audit
  • things we found that surprised her

03:50 when the best time is to invest in your site if you have a hobby blog that is going into business

05:20 plugins that were flagged during the audit

  • the cost of following generic advice about plugins
  • not knowing what a plugin does on your site

08:30 the importance of optimizing images and ways to do it

15:13 backing up a large site

  • the danger of letting this go
  • having an emergency recovery plan

18:00 the cost of running ads

  • performance hit
  • user experience
  • including ads that fit your style and audience

22:35 Theme revamp for HTML5 compliance and a few tweaks to improve

25:30 Quick results getting more traffic with modest SEO improvements

27:45 High and low traffic times/days, and best times to post

30:15 Jill shares future plans to share her business journey to help others do the same

 

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  1. Alys Milner says

    July 4, 2015 at 2:40 pm

    Great interview and as always, useful tips, MaAnna.

    I’m a life time sewer, Jill, so I’m looking forward to visiting your site.

  2. Alys Milner says

    July 4, 2015 at 2:43 pm

    Your site looks beautiful, Jill. Nice collaborative work both of you. I’m now following you via bloglovin.

    • Jill Flory says

      July 29, 2015 at 10:40 am

      Thanks so much! I hope what I had to share in the interview was helpful to you – and glad to have you along as a follower :)

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