Blog Maintainance, Business Growth, Content, Making Money, Planning
SEO, when implemented properly over time, can provide a major boost to your blog traffic and your overall income. For each blog post you write, you need to have a clear, repeatable, SEO process to make certain that you’re maximizing search engines. Follow the steps... 
Blog Maintainance, Blogging Basics, Business Growth, Making Money, Side Hustles, Starting Out
Last week I shared my system for tracking income and expenses, but knowing where your money is coming from, and where it’s going to, is only part of the process. Most likely – if you’re like the vast majority of business owners – when you start to track... 
Blog Maintainance, Business Growth, Making Money, Side Hustles, Teacher Life
Passive income is often seen as the holy grail of the side hustle. There are many – especially online – who present themselves as passive income specialists, lying on a beach all day, sipping fruity beverages, and listening to their phone cha-ching to... 
Blog Maintainance, Blogging Basics, Business Growth, Content, Distributing, Making Money
When it comes to your blog audience, there’s no denying that size matters. While your blog traffic is not the most important thing when it comes to profitability, you’ve got to have someone to sell to. And if you’ve ever felt that your blog isn’t growing fast enough,... 
Blog Maintainance, Business Growth, Making Money
As a teacher, you may be sick of hearing about data. But as a blogger and business owner, you can’t ignore the numbers. If you want to know if your efforts are paying off, you need to track your numbers. If you want to know what people are responding to, you need to... 
Blog Maintainance, Blogging Basics, Distributing, Starting Out
You work hard on writing helpful, easy to read posts that your audience will love. So it’s frustrating when it feels like no one is paying any attention. I get it. If you want to get more eyes on your content, there are a few things you can do to accelerate your... 
Blog Maintainance, Content, Planning
Every few months or so something happens and just seems to take over every media outlet and social feed. Betty White’s unfortunate passing springs to mind. Inevitably, smaller publishers like bloggers start to jump in on it, too. If you’ve ever thought about trying to... 
Blog Maintainance, Business Growth, Side Hustles, Starting Out
A conversation came up recently in the Side Hustle Teachers Facebook group that I knew had to be shared here. What’s up with blog comments? Are they necessary to the growth or of your blog, or just an extra thing to do that doesn’t really give you anything back?...
