You only get one chance to make a good first impression.
Your website is your virtual calling card, and making it great is up to you.
Your success depends not only on your readership and your engagement level, but also on its appearance.
When deciding on your website’s appearance, you need to take the following three factors into consideration:
Making your site as fast and as user-friendly as possible is the goal of many serious bloggers. Today I’m going to show you a few tools you can use to help you achieve this goal.
I’m also going to refer you to someone who can help you, because, if you are anything like me, you’d rather not do this techie stuff yourself.
Back in April 2015, Google made some changes to how websites will be ranked in the search engines. If your site is not mobile-friendly, chances are your rankings will drop. No one wants that!
Here’s a great post about making your site mobile-friendly.
For the last few months, I’ve been slowly and steadily making changes to the overall look and function of Wording Well. I even had some work done on my site during the first week of May 2015, from the 4th to the 6th.
I hired Vinay Kachhara (Harleena Singh’s husband) from Aha!NOW to help me do this.
After reading his post How to Increase Website Speed and Make Your Blog Load Faster, I asked if he was available for hire. He was. Read More
There are millions who have started blogging, and there are still many reasons to continue to blog. The sad reality is that only a small percentage of bloggers succeed.
Why do they succeed? Because they don’t quit. No joke. Too many bloggers quit too soon, and they quit during the first year.
The first 12-months of your blogging career is the most important. What you do in the first year can set you apart from those who fail. In essence, you are building the foundation that will either help your succeed or fail.
Trust. Credibility. Customer satisfaction.
These are three things you want your clients/customers to have.
One way you can achieve this is through testimonials, which can be very powerful (and will help you to achieve more sales)!
In this article, I’m going to cover everything you need to know about client testimonials, including
As a bonus, I’ll also mention a few things about how others can help you earn money through referrals, which are different but yet at the same time similar to a testimonial, depending on how you look at them! 😉
NOTE: This topic became of particular interest to me recently, because I was doing some work on my website. I created a new SERVICES OFFERED page, which now divides the four services I offer into four different pages. I also removed the testimonials from each section and gave them their own page!
Client testimonials act as social proof – proof that you are who you claim to be, proof that you are trustworthy and honest, and proof that you can deliver what your client/customer wants.
The following three quotes speak to the power of testimonials: Read More
Everyone wants to blog and learn how to make money online through blogging.
When I first started blogging, I was a “nobody.”
Now that I’ve been “discovered,” others are seeking out my expert opinion.
(I’ve participated in numerous round-ups already!)
I’m being interviewed.
I’m participating in podcasts.
I’m gaining new clients each month. (Want to be one? See what I can do for you!)
I’m loving it, too. 🙂
To help you understand some of the things I’ve done in order to become the successful blogger I am, I have a guest blogger that has summed up the strategies I’ve followed quite nicely.
His name is Ben, and he wrote the rest of this post.
Please read it, share it, and comment on it.
We’ll talk in the comments.
For now, here are ten strategies that have helped me become successful, which you can use.
