Getting Serious: Going from Side Hustle to Full-Time Blogger
How do you go from side hustle blogger to full time business? What is a pro-blogger?
How Mai Theme Helps You Rank in Google
How Mai Theme for WordPress has brought my blog back from the brink, to the point where I am getting first page and even #1 Google Rankings.
Why You Should Monetize With Ads
Monetizing with advertising can be an amazing way to add a revenue stream to your website with very little effort and super low risk.
Why Website Publishing Is the Best Business or Side Gig to Start in 2023
Starting a website publishing business is the best option, especially as a side gig for if you're busy and short of precious time! Here's why
26 Biggest WordPress SEO Mistakes Publishers Make and How to Solve Them
WordPress SEO mistakes are sadly common. Here are the biggest mistakes that we see bloggers and publishers make, and how to fix them.
How to Detect ChatGPT and Humanize Your AI-Assisted Writing
Blog automation such as ChatGPT are increasingly popular for content creation but how can you use AI and still rank and convert to sales?
Growing Confidence for Bloggers
Do you wish you had more confidence as a blogger? Try these tips to be more successful in your blogging and in business.
30 Blog Post Ideas for Small Businesses
Stuck on blog post ideas for your small business website? Here are 30 ideas to help your audience and bring more consistency to your blogging schedule so you can get more organic traffic.
What is Email Automation and Why Is It Important to Website Marketing?
What email automation is and how it actually relates to setting up your website marketing. Starting automated email for marketing websites.
Topical Authority and Going Off-Topic in SEO
How topically focused does your site need to be to do well in Google rankings? Does going off-topic harm your "Topical Authority" and SEO (search engine optimization)?
The Wrong Way to Start Blogging
Why do some bloggers have so much growth and respect while others fail no matter how hard they work?
Announcing Mai Homestead Theme for WordPress
Announcing Mai Homestead theme for WordPress, the Best Homesteading Site Template for Farming Websites!
What is a Blog?
What a Blog Was 20 Years Ago… I am going to start with a little perspective, because to understand how cool blogs are nowadays, you need to have experienced the early days. If you don’t care about my story, no problem. Skip down to the “What is a Blog” heading for the the more factual …
14 Ways to Find New Content Ideas for Blog Posts
Coming up with new ideas for you blog can feel difficult after a while. Use these 14 tips to come up with new content ideas to make it easier.
19 Answers for Your Top 5 Questions
How are you doing? We are acclimating and pressing forward. I hope that your family and friends are safe and healthy. I’ve learned of a few college friends whose kids fell ill with COVID 19. It’s super scary, and I can’t imagine how they are coping. Luckily, the last I heard, the kids are recovering …
Content Calendar Planning, Tools, and Steps
In this post, we'll review why a content calendar is important, tools you can use, organization tips, and steps to creating your content calendar.
Why Evergreen Content is the Most Valuable Content You’ll Ever Create
Why Should You Create Evergreen Content? Evergreen (or cornerstone) content is extremely important to your blog, because, as the name suggests, it stands the test of time. Invest time in evergreen content as part of your content marketing agenda; it’s well worth the effort. This type of content is always relevant and will consistently deliver …
Don’t Lose Your Head!
“Why is my banner zoomed in?”“Why is my head chopped off!?”“Why are my images blurry?” We get asked these questions all the time. So much, we realized we needed to give a detailed explanation of the importance of website image aspect ratios. We know it can be confusing, so with our explanations, analogies, and animations, …
How to Promote Your Blog
Why Content Marketing is Essential If a tree falls in the forest and nobody’s around to hear it, does it still make a sound? The same kind of question can be asked of blogging. If you create content for your blog, but you don’t market that content, is anyone going to know about it? The …
9 Essentials to Write a Compelling WordPress Blog Post
Blogs have been one of the stalwarts in the world of SEO. For the uninitiated, blogs are individual websites that are updated regularly and usually have a word count tool embedded in them which focuses on the author’s interests, niche markets like anime, gardening, etc. It’s also incredibly informal, almost conversational in tone. WordPress has been the …
How to Embed Videos in WordPress Blog Posts
Running a WordPress website or a WordPress blog requires an individual/team to stay on their front foot. This is needed to keep the visitors engaged at all times so that the purpose of the website is fulfilled. Talking of engagement, the presence of good content on the website can be a huge enabler of the …
How to Make Money Blogging
Ways to Make Money Blogging I’m often asked by people who don’t blog if you can make money blogging. The answer is yes, you can create a full-time job for yourself growing your own blog. But like any profession, it takes effort to earn a paycheck. It’s not a simple as choosing the perfect domain name expecting …
How to Create a Content Strategy
I will also share with you all of the steps we take to create content strategies for our blog and our customer projects at the end of this post. Done correctly, a content marketing strategy will help you improve your sales funnel and increase revenue. “What,” you ask, “content can help me make money from …
How to Design a Blog
You've decided to create your own blog and may have even chosen a domain name, and now you might be wondering how to design a blog that's great-looking, modern, and accessible? In this post, I summarize BizBudding's process of designing and developing hundreds of blogs along with our WordPress theme, Mai Theme.
