We are huge proponents of slow and steady wins the race. While garnering a high Google ranking is important for organic search, don’t worry about backlinks too much. Instead, concentrate on creating the most compelling, interesting, and sharable content you can when starting out.

Quality backlinks are simply links back to your site from higher ranked web sites or…

We have attended many blogging conferences over the years and inevitably these lessons come up time and time again. Here are the ten lessons we think will serve you well when attending conferences. 



1. Pay your own way. Many brands work with bloggers especially during conferences. If you want to enjoy the conference without the pressure of having to work on behalf of a brand, pay your own way. You can cut some of the costs by sharing a hotel room…

Sometimes when we log onto Twitter, Facebook, or Google+ we want to close them down forever and never look back. Like most people social media can be overwhelming and at times nearly annoying when people use it all wrong.

Yes, we do know that social media means different things to different people and everyone uses social media in their own personal ways, but…

We know many of you here are brand-new to relatively new bloggers and the option of attending a blogging conference may not be on your radar just yet. However, you may begin to want to start planning to attend a local or national blogging conference next year or perhaps the year after that.

So, are conferences worth the expense? The quick answer is it all…

We all know there are umpteen tricks to create a successful blog. We can post consistently, comment on other blogs, attend conferences and network, pen compelling content, write well, be creative, trick it out with SEO, become an expert, cross-post on social media and the list goes on and on.

But, none of this even matters if you don’t have a goal in…