Google Analytics has been offering Google Analytics 4 since October 2020, but much of the advice was to wait to implement GA4 and stick with Universal Analytics for as long as possible. In March 2022, Google issued an end-date for Universal Analytics: July 1, 2023. Google Analytics as we know it is going away on…
If you’re an Amazon Associate using self-hosted WordPress, you have many options for displaying your disclosure automatically. You can include the disclosure on every post and page, selectively based on post tags, or insert it manually using a shortcode or reusable block.
If you’re a smart blogger, you know you’ll get more return on your investment if you spend more time creating shareable content than sharing your content. If your readers love your content, they will pin it and like it and share it–and you can’t put a price on reader-generated promotion. It doesn’t matter if you…
Working your way through a course like Sticky Blogging or Blog Smarter and making changes to your old posts? Just feeling like a bit of spring cleaning on your blog?
Here are three things to know about updating old posts.
Rest assured: you can do it without breaking any links or losing your social media shares!
It’s easy to get overwhelmed at all the things that the “experts” say you “should” have on your blog, let alone all the bells and whistles you know you could add! But when it comes right down to it, sometimes simple is better. And when you’re just starting out as a blogger, you don’t have…
Dear brand new blogger, I see you there, on the other side of the computer screen. Your blog to do list is a mile long. You’re overwhelmed at all the things you are supposed to do to make your blog the best it can be before you release it to the waiting world. You are…
It’s all fine and good to declare blog commenting alive and well. But how can we give the comment section on our own blog a shot in the arm? We’ve heard the usual suggestions time and time again: write good content, ask questions, be real, be controversial, be sure to reply to their comments, as well…
There’s a tidal wave sweeping the blogosphere: bloggers everywhere are removing the comment feature from their blogs. They say that replying to the comments is no longer scale-able, it takes too much time to moderate spam, and the conversation is taking place elsewhere. Whatever the reasons stated, the fact is: comments are down, and many bloggers are…
At first, I didn’t think I wanted to do #Bloganization. Going through my blog’s archives seemed too daunting a task–even for a month-long project. My archives are an assortment of the last four years of my story, and that story has been through a good share of different chapters: my pen name’s been dropped, my blog’s name…
When I first started sifting my blog archives, I asked myself only, “Which posts need to go?” But the more I re-read, the more I began asking myself, “Which posts need to stay?” As writers, it’s easy to view the written word as sacred. We can’t bear to think of deleting a single post we’ve published,…
You were on a roll with 31 Days to Earning with Amazon. You started using your Special Links as naturally as punctuation in your blog posts. You set up automatic disclosures in the same font size and color as the rest of your post. And you always disclosed before an affiliate link. Always. But then…
Growth and change are two hallmarks of a good blogger, or indeed anyone who excels at their craft! As each season changes, we see growth, but we are also often faced with the urge to purge. Clean. Reorganize. Just as in life, each change of season is a great opportunity to get organized in our home on the internet. As bloggers, our online…
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