The way your post starts is important, just as the way your post ends.SEO in a nutshellYour blog is constantly being visited by search bots (a.k.a. spiders, crawlers, robots). Their job is to read yo...
Did you know you can subscribe to a Facebook Page via RSS and read all updates in your reader?This is an excellent idea for pages you really want to follow, but don't always see in your news fee...
I've been a fan of Michael Hyatt for a long time. He consistently puts out excellent posts about productivity, leadership, blogging, publishing and related topics. He is one of the very few blog...
A permalink (permanent link) is the unique URL of a particular blog post, page, update, etc. For example, the permalink of this post is:http://bloggingwithamy.com/ change-post-title/Whenever someone t...
The other day I posted this on my Facebook page:One of my pet peeves: When I unsubscribe from a mailing list in an effort to cut back on unwanted email, and then I get an email confirming my unsubscr...
So I was surfing doing research recently and I saw something I see a lot.It has to do with the social sharing buttons you find on blogs (like the cluster of buttons you see at the end of this post). ...
I need an Advertising page. It's one of the many things I need on this blog, so one day I'm hoping it jumps from my to-do list to reality. Photo by Cameron MadduxJust to make sure we'r...
If you use YouTube to post videos, make sure you're leaving a clickable link to your blog in the first part of your video description. It's a great way to drive traffic to your blog from yo...
I'm not sure what has happened to me over the last week, but I am on a major organizing kick.This photo was taken after my last organization kick.Here are some of the things I've done in th...
I like the new Timeline on Facebook, but I have to say, I got the urge to streamline this week.Between emails, DMs on Twitter and private messages on my Facebook personal profile, it was becoming a l...
I've gotten many questions lately about WordPress, and specifically, what the difference is between a WordPress.com blog and a WordPress.org blog.There's definitely a difference and I'...
YouTube makes it easy to share videos in your posts, but resizing them to make them fit well isn't as straightforward.Here's a brief rundown of sharing, linking, embedding and resizing.Can&...
Goals are great, but I think they can be problematic.I went to school. I did relatively well. I worked my tail off to be the best at as much as I could.I got good grades, nearly straight A's all...
I recently saw a blog post in which the author was promoting a product as an affiliate (here's an explanation of affiliate marketing if you need it).It was a great post in which they explained h...
There are many reasons you might want to add text to your images. It's very simple to do so let me show you how…Add a watermarkYou may want to add a watermark to your images like I did at ...
A lot of people have asked me how to make a photo collage now that Picnik is no longer working.I previously wrote about some alternatives to Picnik, but here is another one.Alex from iPiccy emailed m...
Let's face it, while digital media is exploding, "old fashioned" media is still around.Traditional media has taken notice of the blogging world and many bloggers have enjoyed extra exp...
I am prone to making things more complicated than they should be, but oh my stars, I totally outdid myself last week.I had this idea (famous last words) that I needed to simplify all of my blogging e...
It's easy to customize your WordPress background to make it unique. In this video, I show you how you can change to a different solid color as well as create a fun patterned background or upload...
There are a lot of ways to make money online. 8 Ways to Make Money Online continues to be one of the most popular posts here on BWA.But I came across this older post from ProBlogger recently, 13 Ways...
Compfight is a handy tool to find Flickr images without having to search through the cumbersome interface of Flickr itself. Simply type in keywords for the type of image you're looking for and y...
KM asked a great question in the comments on Are You Sad to Lose Your Facebook Landing Page?She wonders how to get the custom images for the tabs (indicated by the orange arrows here):It's not d...
My husband and I have an appointment every morning at 6:15 am. Appointment isn't a good word. Maybe I should call it a date? I don't know, but the point is, every morning from 6:15 until 7:...
I have recently started using Tentblogger's RSS Add Footer and I'm a fan. If you're a subscriber of mine (if not, wanna be?), you may have noticed the link to my ebook in the footer of...
There's no doubt, social media is a huge part of life and growing. There are countless platforms—Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Google+, LinkedIn, Quora and many more. It's overwhel...
Can't see the video? Watch it here.Video NotesWrite about the things you are passionate about. And don't forget that a passion is not the same thing as an interest. Read How to Find Your Pa...
Facebook Pages are switching to the Timeline format on March 30. I worked on mine over the weekend.One thing a lot of people have lamented over is the loss of the default landing tab. On the old Page...
Have you ever wanted to use a fancy font on your site? On BWA I have a few fancy fonts.I use a paid-for service called TypeKit to get these particular fonts, but it can use other fonts for free with ...
When I initially wrote my How to Write an Ebook series, I had not yet made my ebook available on Kindle. I did so soon afterward, and I now generate far more Kindle sales than I do selling via PDF.Bo...
A lot of you are using Genesis as your WordPress theme, as am I.I've noticed, though, that a lot of blogs still have the default Genesis favicon in place. Wouldn't it be great to have your ...
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