Blogging & Personal Development

Blogging 101: The Proper Way to Use Blog Heading Tags

I’ve worked on a few different sites now where I’ve been auditing old posts and realised that the owner has been using their blog headings completely wrong. When I say blog headings I mean headers, or the small titles which break up text on a page. I’ve talked about how headers are the queen’s to…
Blogging 101: Examples of WordPress Tags

I’ve talked about WordPress tags before both explaining what they are and also how to map them against your categories. But neither of these posts really covered how useful they can be to build up your sites overall map. Tags allow you to further categorise posts in a way that allows you to build separate…
Blogging 101: The Secret to WordPress Tags

Tags are a staple of many a WordPress blog including the free version, but not many bloggers know how to properly use them. First and foremost, WordPress tags are there to further sort your blog posts into topics after using your categories. Tags should not be a way to keyword stuff and it should not…
Blogging 101: How to Write Blog Titles That Work

Today’s post, as the title suggests, is going to be all about writing blog titles that get you views. If you’ve clicked through to this post, you were most likely enticed by what the blog title was telling you and that is the first key lesson. Ensure your blog title accurately represents what your content…
Blogging 101: Design Tools for Bloggers

Love blogging and writing content but can’t quite get the look of your blog and/or images right? No problem! I’ve used so many different tools over the years to try and get my blog and it’s images to look exactly how I want it to. Here’s some of the standout design tools that I’ve loved using.…
Blogging 101: Top 5 Blog Design Tips and Tricks

Whilst I’ve talked extensively about how to design your blog aesthetically and making it look pretty, I realised I’ve not talked much about the more functional aspects of design. Whether it’s the back end coding, designing for SEO purposes or just making sure your website has a useful and easy user experience – the design…
Blogging 101: Choosing the Right Domain Name

Whether you’re using a free plan or paying for a full domain name, choosing the right one can be daunting. This is the name that people are going to remember you for, this is what people will be searching, and for the most part this is going to be your blog name as well as…
Blogging 101: Blog Themes

Choosing your blog theme is like choosing which bookcase you want to buy. The look of the bookcase has to fit your style, but the objects and books you place on the shelf is what pulls it together with the rest of your room. In this analogy I actually mean the look of your theme…
Blogging 101: Own Blog vs Social Media Platforms

With the ever-increasing emphasis on social media platforms for many people’s attention spans there seems to be even less time to get attention on other websites. This means blogs are getting less views, but also less engagement. So why would you create a blog when you could create social media accounts instead? This is a…