I'm a stubborn individual. When I set a goal for myself such as - Write 31 Blog Posts in a Month - I'm going to push through to see it done. So I did. But boy am I ready for a break! A break I shall not take, however. I already have a list of … Continue reading Blaugust 31- Lesson: A Look Back at 31 Posts
Today I'm going to talk about lessons learned about monetizing a hobby blog. I don't generally like to talk about making money from blogging, or what I earn, because I've never really blogged with the express intention to make money. Turns out, it's just something that happened along the way for me. Back when blogging … Continue reading Blaugust 30- Lesson: Have Real Expectations for Blog Monetization
This was one of those lessons I learned back when I was a freelance writer. As a freelancer, the idea of putting all your eggs into one basket meant that you blindly relied on one or two clients/gigs to be the foundation for most of your income. When writing for clients the web, you are … Continue reading Blaugust 29- Lesson: Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket
Since this is Blaugust's motivation week, I chose to write a little about two things I latch on to for motivation -- especially when I've been playing a single game for a very long time, or I write mostly only about a single game. It's also the weekend, so I'm going to take a little … Continue reading Blaugust 28- Using Game Events and Projects as Motivation
In the last post, I talked about WordPress Reader - a feature that all blogs hosted at WordPress.com can take advantage of. Today I want to talk about how to ensure your posts are getting shared on Reader as widely as possible. It's actually very simple - it's all about tags. Think of tags like … Continue reading Blaugust 27- Using Tags for Better WordPress Exposure
You can think of WordPress Reader as a cross between an RSS reader with a touch of social media vibes to it. If you own a blog hosted on WordPress.com then your blog is automatically connected to Reader, which helps to boost your posts to other WordPress bloggers (as long as you tag them properly). … Continue reading Blaugust 26- The Importance of WordPress Reader
WordPress is a strange animal. It comes in two flavors: WordPress.com - A site that hosts your blog for you WordPress.org - Where you download the software to install a self-hosted blog on a webhost When I was making the move from Tumblr to WordPress, I thought and researched about the two options, trying to … Continue reading Blaugust 25- Should I Choose WordPress.com or WordPress.org?
While I'm writing this quickie tutorial based around the idea of making an archive of posts for a series, you can actually use this for just about any reason. This is how to create an Archive page that automatically adds new posts based on a category you create. For example, here's an archive page for … Continue reading Blaugust 24- Creating an Archive Page on WordPress
Yes, I'm making a series about series! So meta! This time around, we're talking about creating navigation between your series posts... and if you even need to. It might seem like a simple topic, but providing your readers a way to move between posts on your blog is important - especially if you aren't writing … Continue reading Blaugust 23- Creating Navigation for a Post Series
As we move into Staying Motivated Week, I want to talk about a topic that personally find related to my own motivation - writing a series of posts. This might seem simplistic and obvious, but hear me out. Be it a book series, a TV series or a streaming series online, people love series! It's … Continue reading Blaugust 22- Series Posts = Love
