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Breadcrumbs. You’ve probably heard your blog should have them. You might hate them. Many bloggers do…because they’re not always very pretty. What you’ve heard is true: your blog should use breadcrumbs. Today we’ll go over what breadcrumbs are, how they will help your blog grow, and how to turn them on and how to make…
In this episode, we’re going to go over a few reasons your blog should have a homepage, what should be on it, and then how to set it up. First, why should your blog have a homepage? Blogging is not like it used to be. It used to be that your loyal readers would come…
Can’t listen right now? Here are the key points from this episode: Blogging is not just about sharing a recipe, a pretty picture or a cute outfit. Website visitors come to you looking for a solution to their problems. It is your job to identify that problem and inspire them to come to you because…
This is the first episode of the podcast and I wanted to give you a little introduction to who I am and what this podcast is all about. I’ve been in business with Meyne since 2014 developing blogs and websites for small business, and before that, actually since 2011, I was a blogger myself in…
Editing your WordPress menu is TOTALLY something you can handle yourself, no need to learn to code or hire someone. There’s a video and written instructions below and you’ll see how easy it is to add pages, categories, sub-menus (drop downs), blog posts, and even links to your menu.
Reusable blocks are one of my favorite features of the new WordPress editor. They can save a ton of time and can be used for so many things. This post is about ways to use and how to make reusable blocks in WordPress. But what is a reusable block? It’s a set of elements you…
Updating plugins can be a little nerve-wracking, especially if you’ve had a problem before. Ideally, you click the update button when you see it, and your blog only improves. That’s not always how it works though. Updating could do something as small as losing the functionality, to as big as the dreaded “White Screen of…
If you’re using Google Analytics, you probably already know what a massively helpful tool it is for bloggers. But when it’s recording your own views, it can totally skew things (and either make you think you’re suddenly super popular, or that your visitors have really weird reading habits…). Either way, it won’t leave you with…
Your website–just like all of the internet–is made up of pages of code. Those pages get filed into folders so we developers can keep everything neat and tidy. It’s your internet browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, hopefully not Internet Explorer) that translates those thousands of lines of code to an interactive and good-looking website. So to…
For bloggers who want to go pro (or already are), site speed is HUGE. And it’s one of the things I’m asked to help with on blogs weekly. There are SO many factors that go into site speed, and I plan on blogging about a lot of them, but I wanted to start with my…
Want to know why your first time visitors leave your blog and never come back? Let me tell you a first-hand story. I recently clicked a Pinterest pin to a read a blog post about a specific hair problem I’ve always had. It was a fantastic tip. I was excited. So I went to see…
Categories are super important to your blog. Unfortunately, almost nobody tells that to new bloggers (especially those “Start a blog in 20 minutes!” posts). Special side-note request since I can’t help it: please don’t ever start your blog in 20 minutes. Take a proper amount of time, do research, and plan before you dive in…
Short cuts: The right structurePlan your categoriesFree printable category planner When most bloggers start blogging, categories are kind of an afterthought. Nobody explained how or why to set up categories strategically and so many food blogs end up with a disjointed list of both broad and narrow subjects. It’s never too late to get your…
Don’t care about details? Skip to the 2 second summary. It’s a little tricky to understand at first, but I’m going to try to make the difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org easy. Let’s start at the beginning. Forget about .com and .org right now and let’s talk about WordPress alone. What is WordPress? WordPress itself…
Guys. Does your blog need any upgrades? 4 of my very favorite website and business tools are having huge Black Friday sales. And I may be jealous if you get to take advantage. Here they are (and they are affiliate links): SiteGround If your site is slow, if you’re having security issues, or are just…
At some point, you will receive a meta tag or tracking code that you will need to add to your blog. If your site is built on the Genesis framework, as all the ones I build are, adding that code is super-easy. In your dashboard, just hover over “Appearance” then click “Customize.” In there, scroll…
You got your RSS feed set up (woohoo!). But when you test it, there’s a line at the bottom that says “The post appeared first on” It shows in your MailChimp emails, MailerLite, in feed readers. And it’s annoying. Mostly because you can’t where it’s coming from. So where did the text come from? The Yoast…
A blog series is a great way to build engagement and create repeat visitors for your blog. What exactly is a series? Remember how TV shows used to occasionally end an episode in “To be continued…”? And then you couldn’t wait until next week to see what happened? Each episode was still an episode, but those…