Category: Blogs and Websites
Personal Blogging for Emotional Healing – 7 Tips for Bloggers
These tips for personal blogging and emotional healing are from a blogger who survived depression and a serious head injury. Steffani Cameron spoke at Mental Health Camp at UBC in Vancouver; she’s been blogging since 2004, and has a sex blog called something I can’t write here. But her link is below! Before her tips, [...]
5 Mistakes New Freelancers Make – Tips for Successful Writing
New freelancers make mistakes that can easily be avoided – especially if they’re armed with these tips for successful writing from a professional writer! Here, Chris Brantner of HELP! Copy & Design doesn’t just reveal the biggest mistakes new writers make, he explains how to prevent them. Before his tips, a quip: “What is written without [...]
Writing Product Reviews – A New Slant for Freelance Writers
Writing product reviews isn’t my bag ‘o books, but I recently discovered a new slant for freelance writers who do review gizmos and gadgets! A fellow Suite101 writer borrows products to review…when she returns them to the company, they lend them out to other freelance writers. This is news to me — I didn’t know products were loaned [...]
The Make Money Blogging eBook – and My Top 10 Tips
Writing my “make money blogging” eBook changed my approach to blogging! I learned that most bloggers don’t have the time, energy, or desire to be a six figure blogger — and so Quips and Tips for Successful Bloggers is for us bloggers who want to earn a few hundred (and eventually thousand) dollars a month. A few hundred dollars a month is realistic and [...]
How to Get Help With Blog Problems, Blog Crashes, and Blog Blips
If you blog, you’ll have problems sooner or later! Don’t worry – here’s how to get help with blog problems like crashes, broken WordPress plugins, and misplaced code… Before the tips, a quip: “Making money from blogging requires you to do only two things: drive a lot of traffic, then maximize the income from that [...]
5 Ways to be a More Confident Writer, Blogger, or Freelancer
I’m a full-time freelance writer and blogger who needs these ways to be more a confident writer more than anyone! My husband and I just bought an expensive house in Vancouver (like, over a million buckaroos, my friends). You know how unstable a freelance writing career is – especially if you’re a writer like me, who chooses to earn the [...]
My 12 Favorite WordPress Plugins for Bloggers
What are the best WordPress plugins for bloggers? It depends on the blogger’s niche, preferences, and readers. Here’s a list of my favorite plugins for WordPress – most of which I use every single day… Before the tips, a quip: “Many great bloggers are ‘learning’ blogs – the author writes about what she is learning, [...]
Writing for Online Magazines – How to Find Work on the Web
Writing for online magazines can be profitable and interesting, especially if writers know which sites to write for! These tips for finding work on the web are based on a fellow writer’s questions about online writing jobs… “I have been regularly writing for two publications (both trade publications – one is a magazine and one [...]
How to Find Your Blogging Voice – 8 Tips for Bloggers
Knowing how to find your blogging voice – who you are as a blogger – is the first step to loving your blog! These tips for bloggers will help you answer these types of questions: What kind of blogger are you? Do you advise and instruct, or are you sharing your journey? These tips for finding [...]
What’s the Best Web Host Provider for Your Blog? How to Choose
How do you choose the best web host provider for your blog? These tips will help you decide – and I learned firsthand yesterday just how important this decision is! My biggest blog crashed (rather, was suspended by HostGator because of script errors), and was down for two hours. Even if you already have a web host for your [...]
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