Blog Page Critique: Disney with Toddlers

Blog Page Critique: Disney with Toddlers

Welcome to another page critique! About pages, PR pages, product pages and so on are critical in helping you meet your bloggy goals. Each week I dissect a page on someone's blog as a way to refine it into being more awesome. Read, learn and apply these tips to the important pages on your own blog. Here we go! Blog: Disney with Toddlers Blogger: Carrie Page: PR/Media Carrie is … [Continue reading...]

How It Feels to Finish a Book

Exhilarated Excited Exhausted Yep, that about sums it up! I'm done, y'all. I WROTE AN ENTIRE BOOK. An introduction, 18 chapters, online articles, the whole she-bang! For the last eight months, I probably worked on Blog Design for Dummies every day but maybe five days. Even if I wasn't writing, I was doing something book-related like finding blogs to feature or following up on emails … [Continue reading...]

Blog Page Critique: Living Life and Learning

About Page Critique: Living Life and Learning

Welcome to another page critique! About pages, PR pages, product pages and so on are critical in helping you meet your bloggy goals. Each week I dissect a page on someone's blog as a way to refine it into being more awesome. Read, learn and apply these tips to the important pages on your own blog. Here we go! Blog: Living Life and Learning Blogger: Monique Page: About … [Continue reading...]

Blog Page Critique: Super Sweet Life

Super Sweet Life- Critique of Sweet Life Organizer blog page

Welcome to another page critique! About pages, PR pages, product pages and so on are critical in helping you meet your bloggy goals. Each week I dissect a page on someone's blog as a way to refine it into being more awesome. Read, learn and apply these tips to the important pages on your own blog. Here we go! Blog: Super Sweet Life Blogger: Laura Page: Sweet Life Organizer Laura's blog is … [Continue reading...]

What to Do When Spam Gets Past Akismet

WP ban plugin options screen

If you're on Wordpress.org, you undoubtedly have the Akismet plugin. With over 14 million downloads, Akismet is by far the most popular plugin for catching spam. If you aren't familiar with this plugin, Akismet captures spam and places it into your Spam folder. In fact, it's caught 57,925 spam comments on this blog so far! The plugin learns what to categorize as spam by what you and other … [Continue reading...]

How to Clean Up Your Email Inbox

How to clean up your inbox with Unroll.me #howto

As a blogger, you need time to write. And we all know email is one of the biggest productivity killers known to man. Your email dings and you go check it. You don't look at emails right away and next thing you know you have loads of unread emails sitting in your inbox. Your email taunts you with distractions that keep you from writing, even if it has nothing to do with blogging (like that 50% off … [Continue reading...]

Blog Page Critique Queue Now CLOSED

It's heeeeeere! The critique queue is open until Sunday night (April 7) at 7 pm Eastern. Scroll down to fill out the form if you already know all the details! If you don't, here ya go: What Types of Pages Can Be Critiqued? In doing blog critiques I rarely got deeper into a blog to critique individual pages. Here some of the types of pages you can get critiqued: About page Services/Hire Me … [Continue reading...]

Blog Page Critique Queue Opens Next Week!

Page Critique Queue Opens April 3!

Woohoo! It's that time again! The queue is opening back up so be sure to read all the details then set your clocks. What Types of Pages Can Be Critiqued? Here some of the types of pages you can get critiqued: About page Services/Hire Me type of page Resources page Sales page (ebook, workshop, printables, etc.) Advertising page Sneeze page (if you don't know what that is, read this … [Continue reading...]

Blog Page Critique: The Kennedy Adventures

Blog Page Critique: The Kennedy Adventures

Welcome to another page critique! About pages, PR pages, product pages and so on are critical in helping you meet your bloggy goals. Each week I dissect a page on someone's blog as a way to refine it into being more awesome. Read, learn and apply these tips to the important pages on your own blog. Here we go! Blog: The Kennedy Adventures Blogger: Dianna Page: About … [Continue reading...]

The Month the Internet Changed (News from Across Social Media)

The Month the Internet Changed (News from social media- March 2013)

I don't think I've ever done a straight-up newsy type post before. But why the heck did the Internet wake up in March and say "hey- I'm going to tweak this over here and change that over there and introduce this new thing right here!"? Lots of changes happening, so I rounded them up for you. With everything going on, it's also the time where I wish I had more time to give you detailed posts on … [Continue reading...]