Blogging
Why having a high bounce rate isn’t always a bad thing
TeaganIf you’re new to social media you might not have heard about bounce rates, but you might have heard that it’s bad to have a high one. The things is, it’s not always such a terrible thing. What’s a Bounce Rate A bounce rate is when some lands on a page on your website, and then they…
Why you should be using Jetpacks Monitor Feature
I recently did a post about one of Jetpacks features that I don’t find particularly helpful, so to even things up here’s a post about one of Jetpacks features that is amazing and is really worth having enabled – the Monitor feature. Unless you sit on your website hitting the refresh button to make sure…
Why You Should Avoid Jetpacks Photon Option
Jetpack has a feature called Photon which Speeds up and optimises your images Sounds pretty good right? The slight issue is the fact that they serve your images from their own CDN, in simple terms, they host your images off of your website. While for some bloggers this might not be an issue, for others…
Treat your blog like a business if you want it to be successful
I know this sounds super suit wearing professional style, but hear me out. If you want your blog to be your main source of income, or even just a bit of pocket money, you need to start treating it like a business from the start. Any of you that are here that are like OMG…
Why you should launch your blog right now!
Ok, hold up, that title might have been a tad misleading! But, when I started this blog, there was a whole load of planning and researching involved, what content was I going to make, what my focus was going to be, who my target market was, how was it going to look, what categories should…
Tips for staying motivated working from home
I’ve worked from home for about five years as a freelance computer programmer with a little side of blogging and youtube, and the one question I get asked all the time is how I manage to stay motivated and get any work done. So once and for all (unless I come up with more tips…
Getting organised for an online career
When it comes to building yourself an online career you really need to have your shit together. My first ever blog was a disorganised explosion of word vomit and half ideas because I didn’t think it through before I started and definitely wasn’t organised enough. But I’ve learnt my lesson since then and want to…