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How to Back Up your WordPress Site to Google Drive

Why should you worry about backing up your site? If you are self-hosted, you may be thinking your host server is backed up, and that may be true. Thankfully, backing up your site is simple and free with one WordPress plugin and Google Drive.

While it may seem unlikely that your hosting company would go under or their servers with your data would get hacked, the truth is that by not backing up your site, you are putting all of your content at risk. I feel better having more control over my own data. After all, I have put a lot of work into my websites.

The Ultimate Guide to Finding Sponsored Blog Posts

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There are four primary ways to make money from your blog:

Ad networks
Affiliate marketing
Private advertising
Selling your own product or service

One option for private advertising on your blog is to write and publish sponsored posts. A sponsored post is a post you publish on your own blog (or on social media) that a brand pays you for. Many bloggers love sponsored posts because they can use them to make a large amount of money in a short amount of time.

Your sponsored post could be a product review where you receive the product for free in return for your honest review. It could be an informational post about the company and what they have to offer that would benefit your readers. It could also be a normal post where the brand is mentioned in the post with a link to the brand’s site because it is related to the content your are writing.

Working with bloggers is a great way for brands to spread their message. Bloggers are great at sharing information with their readers in a natural and authentic way. They have to be in order to build and keep the trust of their readers. [Read more…] about The Ultimate Guide to Finding Sponsored Blog Posts

How to Remove Referral Spam from Google Analytics

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When you review your Google Analytics stats and see your pageviews growing each month, you want to believe those pageviews are all from real people visiting and finding value in your site. Most of them are, but some are not.

Referral spam (also called ghost referrals, crawlers, bots, and spiders) shows up in your referrals in Google Analytics and affects your pageviews and bounce rate. Some of these visit your site with the hope you will click back to their site. Others don’t actually even visit your site at all. [Read more…] about How to Remove Referral Spam from Google Analytics

Should I take a Blogging Class? – Elite Blog Academy Review

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Should You Take a Blogging Class?

If you have never taken a blogging class and you are wanting to grow your blog, you could probably benefit from taking a blogging class. It doesn’t have to be an expensive class and the cost could be considered a business expense. I have taken two different blogging classes and had great experiences with each one. Continue reading and you will also see my complete Elite Blog Academy review as a paying customer.

Connect with other bloggers that are working on growing their blogs by taking a blogging class. Elite Blog Academy Review.

One thing you should know about bloggers is we love to learn and we love to help each other. The more time you spend around other bloggers, the more you will find this to be true. Blogging is a community. Networking with other bloggers is a great way to learn new things you can do to improve your own blog.

When you are starting out, one of the easiest ways to find other bloggers that are also working on growing their blogs is by taking a blogging class. In addition to the information provided by the class, you can make connections with bloggers at a similar level to your own. Beyond that, you could be quickly be introduced to more advanced bloggers and blogger groups. [Read more…] about Should I take a Blogging Class? – Elite Blog Academy Review

How to Remove Your IP Address from Google Analytics

By Dawn 2 Comments

Once you have added Google Analytics tracking to your blog, it is time to tweak those analytics to give you the best information possible. One way to do that is to eliminate your own IP address from being counted in your blog stats.

Chances are, nobody will spend more time on your own website than you will. But you don’t want your own page views on your site inflating your stats. Therefore, it is a good idea to remove your own IP address from being counted in your Google Analytics tracking.

It’s really easy to do and will take less than 5 minutes of your time. [Read more…] about How to Remove Your IP Address from Google Analytics

How to Use Google Analytics: Beginner Tutorial

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Once you have installed Google Analytics tracking code on your blog it is time to learn how to use Google Analytics and understand what all those statistics mean.

Google Analytics tracks a ton of data that contains all kinds of information about your readers and their behavior. We are going to dive into the basics of what you need to know most about using Google Analytics. [Read more…] about How to Use Google Analytics: Beginner Tutorial