Prepare To Be Shocked, Reduced To Tears Yet Amazed & Inspired
Why do you blog? What made you decide to start blogging? This is a really important question and one that you need to sit down and think about, if you don’t get this answer right, your blogs going to fail. “I want to make some extra pocket money” I hear a few cry “I [...]
Can you remember why you started a blog? What was your goal? Did you even have a goal? Did you just want a space to write down your thoughts, something to look back upon? When did blogging become such a competition? After a conversation on Twitter, yes I started it by moaning that yet again [...]
When I saw the linky that the very beautiful and talented Kate from Kate Takes 5 was doing this week, I thought it about time I got involved. Kate is asking bloggers to reveal what their Top 5 Blogging Tips are. Here are my own Top 5 Blogging Tips: 1 – Don’t even start a [...]
When I started blogging a little over 8 months ago I had no idea what direction I was taking. To be honest, I had no idea what blogging even was. My desire was to create a website to house a few parenting articles, after searching for free hosting I came across WordPress. [...]
If you have yet to write a guest post, I recommend you do so. Today I will be talking about why writing a controversial guest post has great benefits. When I say controversial, I am not asking you to offend anyone or be nasty in anyway. I am talking about creating a debate [...]
Google Friend Connect has bugged me for a while, well many things do as you know but Google Friend Connect to me is nothing more than a show off tool. I do and will continue to read the blogs I love, but what I have found most annoying is being forced to follow a [...]
1: Stop sitting and thinking, too much of using that brain will frazzle it. While thinking is good, jot down those thoughts and get stuck right in and revert back to the note book when needed. 2: Stop putting off today, if you have a plan then get the wheels in motion. I find [...]
Its Friday which means the Tots 100 Best of the Parent Blogs Ten at ten is published and YES what a surprise or should I say not a surprise to see the usual names there. It does make me sad that we never witness Tots 10o or Brit Mums showcasing newbie bloggers, who can I add work just [...]
I have read a large variety of blog posts and the comments about how bloggers must do this or must not do that. As many will know by now I don’t like rules and rarely like to follow suit. I am not a sheep and will not do what everyone else is doing; I have [...]
It goes without saying that your headline or title is the first impression you give to possible readers, I say possible as if your headline does not grab the readers attention, then you have lost a reader. You can waste half a day writing an award winning post, but if nobody comes to read it? How do you write a headline that [...]
Many Mummy Bloggers blog about parenting topics and while this is the norm for Mummy Blogs have you thought about standing out from the crowd? What about introducing a niche topic to your blog?
We all love like the feeling when we see our blog has visitors, it makes it all worth while at times, but we need to encourage visitors to stay with us. There is nothing more disheartening than flogging your guts out over writing a post that you publish and nothing. So when those visitors do come calling, we [...]
As many of you know I am always regularly on Facebook due to my parenting support network group. I came across blogging tribes thanks to Triberr, so the idea of building a support blogging tribe came to me this afternoon, and where other to host it than Facebook.
For those who follow and read my blog you will have no doubt noticed I post quite very regualy. If there was an award for the manic blogger, it has my name on it.
Do you ever sit down to write a blog post to find ten minutes later your still sat there staring at that black white screen? What do you do? Give up blogging for the day?
Not many like hearing the truth, but there are some harsh realities that come with this Blogging lark. While I have been blogging a little over 5 months now, I have to leave the newbie title behind and stand out there alone, for the big wide world to see.
I have come to the conclusion that some of my blog posts are very boring in comparison to others. While researching various blogging topics I have come across some very informative blogs. What sets these out from the rest is the ability to possess so much information in a blog post, that does not seem [...]
Negative comments, delete or leave them on your blog?
Admit it we all love comments, they what makes a blog come alive. Comments are what push a blogger to blog, to write. Receiving feedback from your readers gives you greater understanding to what interests those reading your blog. There will come a time when you receive comments that you are not happy with. Despite [...]