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Lydia Schoch is a speculative fiction author and blogger who is working on her third book and lives in Toronto with her spouse. When she’s not doing bookish things, she lifts weights and dances in order to remain physically prepared for any zombie apocalypses that 2020 might still have in store for us.
Almost every blogger's advice to new bloggers includes "choose a niche." But why is that? There has to be a reason why this is a very popular tip. Why is having a niche so important, and is it actually that important? Today, I want to break down this advice, dig through it, and dissect it.
My name is Saniya (they/them) and I’m a 24-year old, queer, Indian-American, teacher and reviewer. I love romance, fantasy, fluffy fanfiction, venti salted caramel mocha frappuccinos, binding my own sketchbooks, painting and drawing all sorts of things, and wreaking mild havoc wherever I go 😀
I’m Melanie. I’m the co-ower of TBR and Beyond, which is a blog, Facebook group and now a book tour company as well. I live in Canada with my three dogs and a million books. I am permanently disabled, I identify as pansexual and I’m crazy about everything horror.
Blogging encompasses a vast number of areas. When you become a blogger, you take on the role of an editor, a graphic designer, a social media marketer, a web designer, and much more. Blogging is much more than writing posts and publishing them. I joined blogging in January 2016 with absolutely no idea about what… Continue reading 10 Things I Learnt from ~5 Years of Blogging
It's surreal that two whole thousand of you subscribed to my content. While I do look at the followers count, I realized long back that followers =/= readers. People can follow via social media and not the blog but still keep up-to-date with posts or there could be people who read several posts whenever they… Continue reading I hit 2k followers!! + long overdue Q&A
What are Twitter retweet accounts? They are accounts on Twitter which just retweet other's tweets. Usually, there's a strategy to this. Most of these accounts retweets the tweets that either use their hashtag or tag them in the tweet. You have to be following the account, of course. And this is done without any picking. They retweet ALL of the tweets.
Blogging consistently while also managing life and studies/work is a collection of routines, well-formed plans, and habits that increase efficiency. Part 1 included tips which all-together make one really good routine to blog consistently. This post consists of additional tips that aren't involved in the actual blogging process but still help.
Breaking down all the tasks in writing a GREAT BLOG POST to 5 simple steps. These tips will help you take your blogging to the next level.
One of the main challenges bloggers face is publishing great content regularly without burning out or falling into a blogging slump. Writing and publishing a great blog post involves many steps, and sometimes it is hard to keep up when trying to post often. Today, I'm here to share my notes and to-do lists which help me stay on top of my blogging while managing college, hobbies and other facets of life.
What is it like to be a blogger? What do we struggle with, and what confuses us? That's what this post is about. Today we're talking about 10 things that show exactly what blogging is like, other than the basic activities.
One of the most debated topics in the blogging community, specifically the book blogging community, is blog hopping. There are many questions about it. Do you HAVE to blog hop? How much? How often? Is there a right way of doing it? And is blog hopping important for your blog to grow? Blog hopping is the act of visiting multiple blogs and commenting on their posts. Usually, the term is used for when you spend quite a bit of time doing this. For example, when I start to blog hop, I spend at least 20 minutes.
Blogging isn't easy. You have to concentrate on your content, your voice, images, blog look, social media and much more.
At the center of it all is every single one of your blog posts. They are the ones that convince your readers to come back. Getting your posts out and increasing new viewers is important, but readers who come back and stay with you are even more important.
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If you've been in the blogging game long enough, you would have realised how much work blogging actually takes. You're not just a writer—you're an editor, graphic designer, marketer, the creative mind behind the content AND the one shaping it into something publishable, and many things more.
It's all a matter of how you effectively balance all those positions and become better at them. A schedule and/or a checklist helps. It makes sure you don't forget to do something.
Today I'm here to help you out with a small checklist on all the things you could do AFTER publishing your blog post to increase the views and credibility.
I think all of us can agree that our initial blog posts sucked.* In two months, you might feel that a post you published TODAY sucks. At least, I'm sure I would. All of us becoming better the longer we do something, and it is VERY clearly seen in blogging. Most of us (including me) simply continue on blogging while changing our style, becoming better and soon there is significant difference between our current and old posts. We usually hope that it's never seen and let it be, buried under the new posts. But that is precisely what you SHOULDN'T do. And I'm here to tell you why.
adventures in books & nature
YA Novels and Belgian Waffles
changing the world, one story at a time
mostly books, sometimes law*
Universes are contained within the pages of a book
Books in hand, wheels on chair
CONTENT WARNING: BOOKISH
My thoughts and opinions on all things bookish
