Creating a great recipe. Taking gorgeous photos. Inventing crazy workouts. Being super inspiring. Just being plain old fashioned funny. All of these are great reasons why people might love your blog. But how often do you find one of those sites, have a giggle, print off the recipe and then forget where it was you [...]
When we think of visitors landing on our blog, we usually think of them landing on our homepage. However, most people land via search engines, links from other blogs, twitter, facebook, and are landing on individual posts. Even if you have your homepage set up in a more magazine style – with excerpts, your visitors [...]
If you’ve been blogging for awhile, you’re sitting on a little (or big) gold mine of content. But what happens to that amazing content that’s hiding way back in the archives of your site? Not much. Someone may happen upon it via search or if you link to it in a more recent post (<– [...]
After months (I wish I was exaggerating) Blog Genie got new face life of it’s own. We needed to switch servers, redesign and it just never got done with all the awesome clients we’ve been working with. Finally, this weekend, with locked doors and ridiculous amounts of coffee, we finished up the new blog design and [...]
It’s everywhere lately: Pinterest. The social visual bookmarking site has recently exploded in popularity lately with tons of media buzz. Quietly for months and months, Pinterest has been driving more referral traffic than Google+, Linkedin and Youtube combined! {via Shareaholic} That’s a pretty impressive stat and one that should signal to you that using this [...]
With spring around the corner (hopefully) it turns many of our minds to decluttering our homes and lives in a yearly purge we like to call spring cleaning. Your wordpress blog is likely in need of some fine tuning and de-cluttering too, so let’s extend that spirit over to our cyber lives. Spring Cleaning Your [...]
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I’m sure you haven’t missed the huge media swell since February 29th when Facebook rolled out the new Timeline format for it’s fan pages. Many of you have Facebook fan pages for you blogs and they are going to change March 30th to this new format (or earlier if you so choose.) You can quietly [...]
Load times are becoming more and more important for search engine rankings. This may not seem critical for your little old blog right now but as you create more posts, it will naturally bring more visitors to your site via search. Lifestyle blogs often talk about wide ranging topics and may not always aim to [...]
Are you a blogger that uses tons of photos to guide your readers through your life? Photo uploads into wordpress take up a huge amount of digital space and each photo can be saved in multiple file sizes behind the scenes, taking up even more room. Not a big deal if you’re only uploading a [...]
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