Promoting your blog: My Tips for how to share your posts

This week I thought I would continue with my Blogging 101 series and share some tips about promoting your blog, particularly if you have invested quite heavily financially in it like I have. Last week I spoke about the pros and cons of self-hosting your blog.

There are hundreds of posts floating around the blogosphere about promoting your blog so if you’re new to blogging or thinking about setting up a blog as a New Year resolution, you have a whole realm of help and advice at your fingertips.

It takes a long time to build a following but as long as you’re putting useful and quality content out there and letting people know how to find you, followers will come.

Tips for promoting your blog

Promoting your blog

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My Top Five Favourite Things About Blogging

My favourite top 5 things about blogging

Hey Sweeties,

In this final post of this Favourite’s series, I thought I would go back to the very roots of blogging and tell you my top five favourite things about it.

There have been (from what I alone have seen), a huge number of how-to posts recently on how to start a blog, how to take photographs, how to get followers la la la. At the end of the day, if you blog, it’s because you love it and not to get anything out of it so anything that supports you in getting better and improving your content, I’m all for. Anything that supports those doing it for the wrong reasons, I don’t. But it’s because that there’s already a load of those types of posts circling the internet, there is nothing new being or can be, said. View Full Post

Commenting on social media & people that think they know better

Commenting on social media is how online communities are built, most of them positive, but it’s also full of people that think they know better, who take the power of freedom of speech too literally and this is one of my pet peeves.

Commenting on social media

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What Will Become of Blogging?

Sunday Chat

Hey Sweeties,

Today’s post was inspired by an idea that I tweeted on Friday. I was listening to Radio 2 (don’t mock it until you listen to it!) and one of the news items mentioned Hilary Mantel being made a Dame for her services to literature. I got to thinking how long it would be before a Blogger gets made a Dame/knighted/awarded OBE etc. for their services to blogging? Think about it, it could happen.

Blogging (as we know) is now very much a thing, such a thing that those who are involved are taking highly sought after positions of influence and living lives we all want a slice of. Blogging is definitely an art form and in the same way authors, artists and musicians are acknowledged, Bloggers in time will too. It also depends on how blogging will develop, I mean, will it always be regarded as blogging or will it essentially just been seen as writing? YouTube as well, it’s not writing but it is film making, all things that are already acknowledged and rewarded in society and culture.

How many of you reading this, have bought, watched or even been somewhere because a Blogger/YouTuber recommended it? *holds up hand* Yes me to, often. So we know they influence which is why quite rightly they can and do earn from advertising and brand relationships. However, the most successful Bloggers/YouTubers (I don’t need to name names, you know who they are) are now writing books, creating products/merchandise and/or their own cosmetic and beauty ranges. It’s these things (the products of their blogging) that will probably survive them once the blogging thing expires.

Take Nicola and Sam behind Pixiwoo/Real Techniques. Both Makeup Artists that started making YouTube videos and through that has been able to create their makeup brush ranges. But if YouTube went away, they would still be Makeup Artists. Tanya Burr I guess is similar. But what about Zoe/Zoella Sugg? If blogging and YouTube suddenly stopped what would she do? Nothing that she has currently released could sustain her I don’t think. I’m not being mean, I am being realistic.

It’s hard to imagine a time without blogging but like all social media platforms, something in time will probably replace it. One also has to be realistic. I absolutely love blogging, I think about my blog all day long (yes, really), but essentially it’s a hobby or at least it is right now. Writing is what I want to do but there may come a time where blogging becomes no longer necessary or relevant. I will always write, but I may not always blog.

This is why, as much as the blogging lifestyle really appeals and hell yes I would love to quit my day job and do this full time. But equally, in the back of my mind I wonder how secure it really is? Also, when will Instagraming our dinner get boring and photographing every moment of our lives? It’s great we have such a vivid visual record of our time on this earth, so much more than any of the previous generations put together but is there such a thing as photographing too much?

Just some food for thought for you all today…

Until next time x

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