Tag: Blogging
5 Plugins Every WordPress Blog Should Have
Plugins are add-ons that give WordPress (self-hosted, not .com) sites extra functionality. They’re basically apps for your sites, and whatever you want, there’s a plugin for that. But just because you can use plugins for whatever doesn’t mean you should. Every plugin you add to your website is one more thing that load every time someone [...]
How Pinterest Brought Me Over 100,000 Pageviews in the Last 3 Months
Pinterest is an online visual site where you can “pin” pictures (and videos) while following other folks and re-pinning their stuff. I joined at the end of 2011 and quickly became addicted to it. I e’em wrote a blogpost in January 2012 on how I’m obsessed with Pinterest and board creating. Back then, I only had [...]
My Spring Webinars on Blogging, Branding, SEO and Getting Traffic
Hey folks! Yesterday, I released my newsletter announcing the 4 webinars (online classes) I’m having this spring! My goal is to have those who just started blogging and those who’ve been blogging for a while but don’t feel confident about it walk away knowing they can do it effectively. AND you can take them from wherever [...]
How Some Bloggers Are Doing It Wrong: A Rant
Last night, I was on Twitter and a rant came forth from my spirit about how some bloggers are placing priority and significance on the wrong things, which is why really high quality blogs are hard to come by. Below is the rant that came from it. Please share it if you feel me. [View [...]
How to Back Up Your WordPress or Blogger Blog
I’ve been blogging for a long time and I’ve written over 700 posts and have about 170 sitting in my drafts folder. That’s a lot of typing and letters. If something was to happen and my site crashed and I lost all of these, I would basically quit writing. I’d just take up the craft [...]
I’m Going Going, Back Back to Blogging While Brown
My peoples! Today, I’m leaving for Philadelphia to attend the Blogging While Brown Conference for the 4th year in a row. I’m a veteran at this point! BWB is one conference I have made sure not to miss in the past 4 years because it’s so awesome. It’s remained small so it can stay personable, [...]
How to Protect Your Blog Content: Know Your Rights
You’ve done all this work. You’ve spent hours trying to make the words perfect and the paragraphs flow. You’ve done research to make sure what you’re saying is accurate. And you create an EPIC post that makes the internet go wild. You do all types of cabbage patches and fist pumps to celebrate. Then someone [...]
Google AdSense is a Hater And They Disabled My Account
So a couple of weeks ago, I got an automated email from Google AdSense saying: “After reviewing our records, we’ve determined that your AdSense account poses a risk of generating invalid activity. Because we have a responsibility to protect our AdWords advertisers from inflated costs due to invalid activity, we’ve found it necessary to disable [...]
Blogging While Brown 2010 Was Awesome
I had A BLAST in Washington DC this past weekend. The Blogging While Brown Conference was super super awesome for so many reasons. So take off your coat and stay a while. There’s much to gist you with. The Conference began on Friday with a game night but Afrobella and I missed all those festivities [...]
Alicia Keys Tweeted Me!
Oh EM GEE, yall!! Alicia Keys tweeted me. My day/week/month is MADE!!! Lemme tell you a story. Picture it, yesterday, my computer… A friend of mine who knows someone that works at Monster.com emailed me, saying “I got this sent to me and thought of you.” It was a posting for Alicia Keys’, who is [...]
Blogalicious 2009 was THAT BUSINESS
What it does, folks? So I’s back from Atlanta from Blogalicious (conference for Women of Color bloggers) and it was FANTAWESOME! I was mainly there to rep The Red Pump Project because my goal is to get 500 bloggers “Rocking the Red Pump” on their blogs to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and women (you can [...]
Blogalicious Game Proper!
I’m in Atlanta for the weekend at Blogalicious 2009. I’ll be the one wearing either Red Pumps or some form of the color Red. I’m also the one that looks JUST like that avatar up top. You can’t miss me. Sidenote: In a HUGE success on my part, I managed to pack everything into a [...]
Blogging Do’s and Don’ts: 10 Commandments
There are some things to consider when blogging, so I decided to write a 10 commandments of blogging , with 5 do’s and don’t. I’m a Licensed Hater (according to @Sdotwalton) so I frown upon a lotta things that bloggers do. Slim Jackson touched on a few “don’ts” on yesterday’s post “I Hate Blogging” but [...]
