I promised a post on using Instagram to drive blog traffic at the start of this month. Upon reflection, I realised I don’t feel I know Instagram well enough to give advice on this topic, so I called in an expert. Who better than social media queen Becky from Cuddle Fairy. Before you read Becky’s … [Read more…]
I have always said I would never use Facebook to promote my blog. It was the one network I wanted to keep for personal use only. Of course I gave in and set up a Facebook page. I’ve had my page about a month now, and it seems all I have learned in that time … [Read more…]
The headline on the front page of yesterday’s Daily Star screamed Easter eggs are banned. Well, at least having the word Easter on them is by several big brands including Cadbury’s, Green and Blacks, Nestle and a few of the big supermarkets. It is reported this is to avoid offending other religions. Of course this … [Read more…]
I don’t normally read much non-fiction, but when I was approached to review this Clinical Hypnosis Textbook by Professor Ursula James, I jumped at the chance. As someone who has studied psychology, the human mind fascinates me, and hypnosis has always captured my attention. It intrigues me how, when someone is in such a relaxed … [Read more…]
Welcome to the book tour for John Darryl Winston’s IA: Initiate. If you’ve never come across a book tour on blogs before, basically, a group of bloggers post something about the book every day, one day on each blog. The way the other tours I’ve taken part in have worked is that the bloggers taking … [Read more…]
Firstly let me just point out that this will in no way be Harry Potter fan fiction. I don’t really “get” fan fiction, why not just write your own story? Anyway, I’ve digressed already and I haven’t even wrote a paragraph yet. I recently re-read all the Harry Potter books. I thought of doing a … [Read more…]
Today I want to put paid to another blogging myth – the blog niche. You absolutely don’t need a blog niche to have a successful blog. There I said it. I’m sure a lot of mega big bloggers are reading this and shaking their heads. Actually, scratch that, I don’t believe for a second mega … [Read more…]
As some of you may remember, I took part in last year’s A to Z Challenge in an unofficial manner. My blog was very new and I had only just joined Twitter. Mid-April I noticed a lot of talk about blogging from A-Z and as someone so new, I decided this was a perfect way … [Read more…]
Welcome to the Anything Goes linky, week 38! This linky is for any type of posts on any subject. Literally Anything Goes! It will run from 12.05am Monday to 11.55pm the following Sunday, so there is plenty time to link up. And if you link up early, feel free to pop back and check out … [Read more…]
I’m sure everyone in the blogosphere has come across spam bots at some point. Those annoying little programs that try to get comments posted on blogs to gain back links to their random (and often very weird) sites. What I cannot understand about spam bots is how they expect to get any of their ridiculous comments … [Read more…]