Applying the 80/20 rule in blogging can completely change the way you approach content creation, promotion, and monetization.
Also known as the Pareto Principle, it suggests that roughly 80 percent of results come from 20 percent of efforts. In blogging, that usually means a small portion of your content is responsible for most of your traffic, revenue, or engagement. And from my experience, this is the truth!
Because I run several busy blogs, I get multiple guest post requests every day. While many are normal, some are questionable, and others are downright hilarious.
So, here’s how NOT to request a guest post on any blog or website. But first, let’s start with how you can request a guest post that doesn’t go straight in the trash or spam folder.
This is the story of how I started my mom blog nearly 10 years ago, compiled from my blog posts at the time. I didn’t know anything about blogging, SEO or monetization when I started and didn’t even plan for it to be a new job. But now I’m a fulltime blogger.
We may be headed into fall, but I’m doing some “spring cleaning” on the blog, deleting old blog posts and removing a lot of irrelevant, outdated and zero traffic posts. I used to keep all my posts, fearing the dreaded 404 Not Found error will harm my SEO. […]
One of the things I didn’t learn about until later in my blogging years was internal linking. Recently I’ve decided to take on the task of weaving this internal web through the blog and make sure every article is internally linked. If you aren’t familiar with this yet, […]
