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Mediavine Grow is a great tool that can help you increase engagement and build your email list. (Plus, if you want to start using Journey by Mediavine ads, setting up Grow is also a requirement.) It’s how you get those share buttons that you see in the bottom corner of blogs, making it easy for…
Even if you’re just starting out, starting a newsletter for your blog should be a top priority. Social media is unreliable and your reach changes constantly and search traffic can seriously fluctuate. You OWN your email list though, so Google can’t take that away with the next algorithm change. 4 Reasons your blog should have…
If you’re a food blogger using Webflow, you might have noticed some limitations that can slow down your growth. There are some designers out there who work only with Webflow, so they might try to convince you that you can succeed there (not knocking them, they just aren’t experts in SEO or food blogging so…
If you’re a blogger using affiliate links, you know how tedious it can be to manually insert them into every relevant post. That’s where Internal Links Manager comes in. This plugin helps you automatically insert affiliate links across your site, making your monetization strategy effortless and efficient. 1. Automate Your Affiliate Links One of the…
A new version of WordPress is out. Let’s talk about updating it. As always on the internet…there’s so much drama around the question. “Updating will break your site!” “If you don’t update yesterday you will get hacked!” If someone has stressed you out about it, let’s just breathe first. What’s the truth? What’s the worst…
Perfmatters is a REALLY great performance plugin for your blog. It’s lightweight and speeds things up so well. It’s also very easy to set up. I use it on all of my clients’ sites, in addition to their caching plugins (usually WPRocket). I’ll walk you through my settings here, but they can and should be…
When you start hiring pros to help with your blog, you’ll need to add us as administrators to your blog. Whether you’re working with a developer, content manager, or assistants, giving admin access lets us get the work done you’re hiring us for without compromising your security. Step 1: Log into Your WordPress Dashboard First,…
WP Recipe Maker and Tasty Recipes are both solid plugins, both have everything you need for SEO and functional, good-looking recipe cards. As a food blog developer, I get asked about these two plugins a lot, so here’s a rundown for you of the differences, pros, and cons. (And which one I recommend.) 1. Ease…
Great news! If you’ve had a goal for your blog to grow it enough to join Mediavine but aren’t there yet, they have introduced Journey, a new network made exactly for you. If you’re still growing and don’t have the numbers required, you need to apply for it. What is Journey? Journey is Mediavine’s way…
If you’re just starting out, or if you were just blogging for fun to this point, to start achieving your goals, you’ll have to start understanding SEO. SEO is constantly changing, so the learning will never stop. But the basics are actually very simple: write things that people want to read about, and write it…
Should you switch to the new editor? Isn’t it hard? Isn’t it limited compared to the Classic Editor? Read the post to find out!
In a previous post, I explained why I highly recommend the WP Rocket caching plugin for WordPress bloggers. It can make a huge difference in your site speed (and perceived speed), which will give you a big boost for your SEO and also make your visitors happier. A blogger client recently asked what the best…
You may have heard that your specially-chosen fonts could be slowing down your blog. If you have heard that, you probably have only see one alternative: the flat-out default serif that comes on everyone’s computer (Arial/Helvetica). It makes some bloggers cringe. I get it. They are a fine fonts, nothing wrong with them at all,…
Instead of sharing your own usernames and passwords with us, adding us as administrators is the most efficient and most secure way for us to work together. That way your passwords are safe, you don’t have to change them, and in many cases the actions we take can be tracked back to us…so we’re all…
There is A LOT that goes into a blog business. 99% of the time, it’s way more than we realized before we started our blogs. In the beginning, you have to do the job of probably 4 or 5 different people all by yourself–because you’re not making any money yet to pay someone to do…
I’ve talked in a previous episode about how important categories are for your blog. So now that you have the categories decided on and set up, what happens once your visitor lands on one of those category pages? That’s what we’re going to be talking about today: using your category pages to connect with your…
Today’s episode of the podcast is a little different. I’ve wanted to talk about the subject for a while, but after the most recent Google algorithm update when so many professional bloggers lost so much traffic literally overnight, I bumped up this topic in my calendar. Google, Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook can all be great…
Today’s episode is all about organizing your blog to make a bigger impact–on both your readers and Google. Why categories are important Imagine walking into your kitchen, opening a cupboard and finding a pizza pan, a couple plates and a salad fork. Each door just had random things behind it. They might be really nice,…