The Thin Line Between Guest Posts and Sponsored Posts

You are reading this on my blog. That is why many people would refer to this article as a blog post (however, I use the terms article and blog post interchangeably). If another blogger had written this blog post for me to gain exposure for their own blog, it could …

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Restarting the Blogging Engine

Restarting the Blogging Engine

Maintaining a successful blog is a lot like driving a steam train. It takes a lot of energy to get it going, but even when you’re on the right track, you need to keep adding fuel to the fire or it will eventually grind to a halt. Failure to follow …

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Building an Online Community with WordPress

Building an Online Community with WordPress

It should be no surprise that WordPress is one of the most popular platforms for online communities. With a built-in user system, simple publishing options and website design customiser, the core version of WordPress is a great starting point for a community. All you need to do is choose one …

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Guest Posts

SEO Companies are Getting Guest Posts All Wrong

If my daily emails are anything to go by, all you need to call yourself an SEO expert these days is a Gmail account and cheap email blasting software to spam the crap out of half the internet. In an average week, I get around 25 emails from “SEO Experts” …

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The Only Reason to Join a YouTube Network

YouTube Changes Mid-Roll Ad Break Policy

YouTube refers to any advertisements during a video as a “Mid-Roll Ad Break”. On 27 July 2020, YouTube introduced some changes to mid-roll ad breaks that change the number of advertisements that are shown during YouTube videos. Since most of my videos are longer than eight minutes, these changes effect …

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YouTube

Reaching the 10,000 Milestone on YouTube

Four days ago, I received an email from YouTube advising me that my main YouTube channel had reached the 10,000 subscriber milestone. This is a significant point in a YouTube channel’s growth, so to mark this milestone, I published a short video thanking my subscribers. In the video, I talk …

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