10 Tips to Save Time Blogging

The best things happen this time of year - my kids perform the cutest song/dance routines, I get to dress them up, the pine needles cover the unvacuumed carpet, and I get to indulge in a little eggnog and grown-up drink as we call it in our house.  With a little down-time over the holidays, I also spend more fun-time online; doing a lot of extra reading and commenting.  I cruise around getting … [Read more...]

10 Proven Strategies to Increase Traffic

For the business person, we put content online to lure you into our web of products and information.   For the mom blogger, we put a lot of love and sweat into our writing.  And we love, love, love it when people read and comment!  But for every popular blog on the web, hundreds more are read by Loyal Mom, and on some days, Loving Grandma.  Writing a blog is usually a labor of love.   And … [Read more...]

Revenue Streams IV – 6 Books for Bloggers to Sell

Darren Rowse (a very successful full-time blogger) recommends that you diversify your income streams[1].  In this part IV of our Revenue Streams series[2], we're going to look at how to create and/or sell a product that would benefit your readers.  That is the key - Your Readers = Buyers. They deserve the best!  And if anybody knows what they need or want - its you! Also, lets not forget that … [Read more...]

Revenue Streams III – Can you Freelance?

When I started out with Heather, it seemed that there were just too many blog designers.  Everbody thought they could design a blog.  In some ways, they were right - we all have unique tastes and preferences, and a variety of designers is a good thing for the clients.  So I jumped in the ring with Healing Designs (the predecessor to DSWP).  The more I learn about coding a WordPress theme, the … [Read more...]

Revenue Streams Part II – Affiliate Marketing

In part one, we covered how to monetize your blog with contextual ads like Adsense and ad networks.  Here we go beyond placing ads on the page to: becoming an affiliate sell a product or service create a membership site consult / speaking engagements Affiliate Income An affiliate is someone who receives a small portion of each sale that they refer - like an independent sales … [Read more...]

A neat little FREE Keyword Tool – Good Keywords 3

Just found this very cute little site - just a couple programs for download. And the free version - is really free - not just a trial. To use it, you install it on your computer, then you'll need to use the Google Keyword Search tool to download some CSV files (there's a button toward to the bottom of the keyword search results page). The program will upload them all at once. The bottom … [Read more...]