Believe it or not, taking a few minutes to learn how to set up Google Alerts (properly) can actually pay massive dividends when it comes to growing your blog audience. Do you sometimes feel like you’re missing out on a big blogging secret? Perhaps it seems like all the big name bloggers in your niche
Let’s talk about how to change font size on your WordPress blog. When you’re just getting started with blogging, wanting to change the font size for various text elements across your blog—ranging from your default site-wide paragraph text size, to changing how large your headings appear to readers—it’s surprisingly not intuitive to figure this out.
March was yet again another great month for me personally, filled with a healthy amount of time away from my computer and a few days each week dedicated to filming video content for the massive overhaul I completed with Built to Blog. I continue to be super grateful that I don’t need to work all
January was another great month for me personally, one of the best I’ve had in a while actually. This is particularly true in the context of continuing to really redefine my relationship with work (I’m grateful to embrace the fact that I don’t need to work all day/every day), and I’ve been creating a lot
Looking back, the past year has been marked by great change in my life. I’m now living down by the beach in Los Angeles (Santa Monica), enjoying a winter that looks & feels a whole lot more like summer… it’s sunny and 80ºF outside as I’m writing these words—and the beach is calling my name
Whew! This income report is coming to you late, but I’ve been enjoying a lot of offline time exploring several of my favorite US National Parks these past couple of months, so my attention has been elsewhere. November saw a pretty consistent slide across the board with my blog, from revenue remaining flat (due to
October saw either a flattening or decline across the board with my blog, from revenue going down (this was largely due to a major affiliate payout missing their projected payment date), to a leveling off of traffic and drop in email subscriber growth. Income came in at $24,626.17 and I brought in 234,944 readers—with 321,352
Choosing to invest a significant amount of my time (and money) into building my marketing skills has been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Not only have I been able to transition a number of my marketing skills directly into side hustles (freelance content marketing being #1), but my marketing skills have also gone on
September was another very successful month for my blog and the third highest in terms of revenue generated for this year, which I’m super grateful for as I celebrate my birthday (yesterday 🎉). Income came in at $43,297.99 and I brought in 255,427 readers—with 316,888 unique sessions. Now, digging into the numbers for September… blog