Blogging Tip: Make close Blogging Friends!

Bloggers Need Blogging Friends

If you are a blogger chances are you have friends and family who just do not understand why your dancing in your chair over a "yes" to a pitch you sent off weeks ago and forgot about. They probably also do not understand the headaches of google changing the rules for links and how aggravating hours of work can be correcting past posts to fit new rules that change often!

It can be very helpful to have a few close blogging friends to cheer with, and to vent with. It is about keeping your blogging sanity. It is not JUST about your sanity though. 

Blogging is all about who you know!

Yes, you can go it alone. Goodness knows I have done so most of the time but there is little as wonderful in the blogging world like being able to help another blogger and having them have your back when you need help. So as I have said before, find forums on blogging sites and facebook groups! Connect with bloggers in your blogging sphere and outside of it! 

How to make blogging friends:

When you have time to do a few things, say so! Let small groups of bloggers know you have a bit of time and would like to help them out. You could "like" and share some of their posts, maybe stumble some of their blog posts, or comment on their social media posts. A little helps, and it lets other bloggers get to know you, and know they can count on you! When they know you, they might want to help you too! The best bloggers know that in blogging, it is about you know! Who you know effects how many contacts are shared with you and what advice that is up to the date you can get. Those things matter! They say that a lot of big business is done with buddies on the golf course, I am telling you a lot of blogging goddess work happens on social media between friends! I have just a very few blogging friends I do all I can to help and goodness they are dear to me. I would do about anything to help them succeed and I love cheering for them! Find bloggers to cheer for, and they might find they want to cheer for you back! 

Blogging Tip: Be Specific

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 Dear Blogger,

         When you post to complain about how companies do not want to work with you as they are looking for Niche blogs, take that as a hint! Do not go trying to talk them into seeing that you post about what they are looking for too! Over all blogs are not what the market wants! I know it might be hard to find your Niche but you need to do just that. If your blessed with more then one Niche, make TWO blogs!

         This is not a new tip, but an important one to remember. If you want to blog about books and mommy life, make two blogs, else make a blog about Mommy Books or Children's Books!

         You can do this! You really can. Write about what you love and if you love many things, make more blogs! It is what readers want, it is what google wants, and it what clients who hire or work with bloggers want. If you want to make money blogging you need to be specific!

                                                                                                           All the best,
                                                                                                        Not Yet A Blogging Goddess

Make Money on your Blog

  How to make Money on your blog

This is a common question and one I get asked often know that I know how to do just that and I am getting fairly good at it. Still not a blogging Goddess though! Working on it. 

 I was asked this question by a good friend who blogs, she wanted to know if there was a website she could go to in order to get work. Thinking on it a few things came to mind. First being that my best jobs have found me, my second best jobs come from word of mouth from other bloggers, and that 3 there are a few sites but there can be issues with them. I gave her personal contact information after asking said contact if it would be ok. I can not post such information at this time on this blog as this would overwhelm those who do this job for companies. Stick around though, if I know you I might recommend you too! 

There is a site that came to mind 

https://www.blogsvertise.com

I used to get a bit of work from here, they pay out a month after you post and this is the longest pay out time I have seen, most are within days and my best is within hours if he is working when he gets my posts. 

This however was not the reason why I did not right off the bat give this site to my friend. I like my friend after all. This company over and over asked me to post things and not include the legal disclosure they know is needed. When I felt I needed to say something I stopped getting jobs from them. It was that clear cut, I mentioned it and suddenly they had nothing for me. 

   You could be fined if you do not disclose, you could be sued even. It is not something to mess around with and this company, or those they work for, asked me to break the laws. I wanted to work with them to promote for them legally but they had no interest in it. 

   So I share them with you to do with as you see fit. Maybe you can do some legal jobs with them or maybe your not in America so the same laws do not apply! 

    Good luck becoming a blogging Goddess and be sure to check back here for more tips and links to help your blog grow and put money in your pocket! 

Blogging Tip - Photos Photos Photos

They say a photo is worth a thousand words, and they are in the blogging world! 

I get a lot of my hits from google images. The best way to do this is to take your own photos, give them descriptive names such as funnysmilingdog.jpg and post them on your blog. 

You should try to get a photo in at least every other post in my opinion. Even if the photo is not your own! Of course DO NOT break any copy right rules but if you either have no camera or are bad with it or have no editing ability you can still add some great photos to you blog! 

You can pay for a site with stock photos or find a free site such as the one a got the doggy photo from to help add another level to this post about needing photos on your blog. 

http://www.morguefile.com

Just double check the permissions on each photo no matter where you get them. The one for this photo says: 

morgueFile free photo

You are allowed to copy, distribute, transmit the work and to adapt the work. Attribution is not required. You are prohibited from using this work in a stand alone manner.

Helpful right? So now you have no excuse to not add photos to your blog! They really do make a difference! 

Blogging Tip - Join a Challenge

If you find yourself out of ideas for content one of the best things you can do is to join a blogging challenge. There are so many different kinds of challenges to choose from. Do a quick search and I am sure you will pull a lot of them up. Some last a week, others a month, and still others last a year or longer. Here is a new one you can check out! It is hosted by a crunchy parenting blogger but the challenge is so open ended it would work for most any blog type. 

This one could last even more than a year of you only post once a day. I recommend at least once a day if you recall and more than once a day is even better. This blog is even offering a gift to the blog that finishes the challenge first! How great is that? 
So join a challenge and fill your blogging spiritual cup to the brim with wonderful new content!

How am I doing

TIP: While it might bother you not to use punctuation in your title it is important to leave it out so that google will not pass your post over! I know it bothers me too! 

See this rainbow that was in my yard the other day? It made me smile. It is the small things in like that add up and make one feel whole and happy. 

I am certainly happy with how my blog is coming along. Blogger shows over 17,000 page views now for it! I am up to 4k fans on facebook and about 2500 on Twitter. 

TIP: Work on your Twitter followers, Facebook only shows your post to a few people on your fan list! 

I wanted to share something with you all that has had me rather pissed off. Someone I know in short basically told me that blogging is useless and no one reads it. I had brought it up as I know the person has no job and needs work and I know they could make money blogging. It would have been fine to say that they are not interested, I mean I would make nothing from it if they did, I was trying to be helpful. Instead they insulted something I have come to love and that I know does in fact have value. I have reviewed hundreds of dollars worth of items and sites and I had just pocketed $300 for a few moments of work placing some sponsored links on my blog for a company and that blog is still only Google Rank 2. 

I wanted to bang my head on a wall talking to that person. 

That person is just flat out wrong says the products I get daily and the pay I get as well! 

The time of the bloggers is NOW. 

We rule the internet connecting brands to readers and readers to social media and social media back to brands. We are a strong part of the web connected to so many things for so many reasons. Your voice does matter and people are reading, or at least they will once you learn what your doing. For that matter more will read my blog once I fully figure out what I am doing. Thus this blog, so others can learn from my mistakes and hopefully from this blog learn faster than I have! 

Happy Blogging!