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Keyword Research Tutorial
Keyword research is important to planning out your website and the pages that you write for your website. Below you’ll find a video that I recorded on how to do keyword research. Here’s my recommendations before you watch the video: 1. Go ahead and download your Free Trial of Market Samurai, which is the tool I use in the video. You’ll be able to follow right along with me as I demonstrate different tactics. If you decide to buy the pro version I’m using, you’ll get a discount 2. Please watch in full...
read moreWordPress Categories vs. WordPress Tags
Did you know that from a search engine optimization perspective, WordPress categories are the same thing as WordPress tags? I didn’t know that! In your WordPress database, tags and categories are treated exactly the same, and the search engines see them as essentially the same. That means it’s redundant to have a tag and category with the same name — if you do, you’re essentially just applying the category to the tag. Some themes use tags and categories in different ways, but the database still stores...
read moreProfitable Keyword vs Passion: Which is More Important?
When you get started making an online business you hear a lot of different things. The advice comes from all different directions and on any number of topics. There are so many ways to make money online! Two of the most common things to hear are “follow your passion” and “it just takes good keyword research and a niche.” Which one of these do you pick? They seem at odds — do you follow your interests and passions, or do you just go to where the money is? Show Me The Money! It’s an overused phrase, but...
read moreHow to Stay Healthy Enough to Enjoy Your Passive Income
Working at home is a great thing, but sometimes your health is forgotten while you’re working. It’s easy for an entrepreneur like you to forget about your own health while you get wrapped up in the excitement of working on projects and creating passive income for yourself and your family. This is one area that I have struggled with — it’s easy for me to get wrapped up in staring at the computer screen for hours and hours. When I get up I typically feel sore and often exhausted. It may be a good exhaustion, but I...
read moreInspiration to Rise Above It All
Granted, they’re rather small ones, but my response on women and rejection in online business is making waves in the blogging community. I’m going to highlight several resources rising above and overcoming that have come to my attention since I posted that. It’s amazing how you stumble across things related to what you’re thinking about: The Post Here’s my original post in response to Lisa. You can read my thoughts as well as the comments and the thoughts of others. I think it has been a really interesting...
read moreA To-Do List That Works for You
An important part of time management is keeping track of everything you have to do. An effective task list is the cornerstone of staying on top of what you need to do — and what you want to do. I promised I’d cover the task list in my post about cleaning up your email inbox, so here’s the real deal: Most Task Lists Don’t Work You’ve probably made up task lists before. You know, they ended up being long, convoluted, and eventually trashed. You probably had due dates written down that got crossed off over...
read moreHow to Use a Mind Map to Create Passive Income Strategies
Mind maps are a fantastic tool to use in your online business. I use them extensively and love them (despite the fact that my husband teases me every time I open one up). They’re really useful for planning out strategies for passive income in your business, planning content, and keeping everything straight in your life. I’m going to show you how I use them in just about every aspect of planning my business — and more importantly, how I use them to keep myself taking massive action so I see the results of my planning. Check...
read moreWhy is SEO Important?
SEO, which stands for Search Engine Optimization, is an important part of building your website and bringing traffic back to your pages. SEO is a free traffic strategy, meaning it doesn’t cost money to optimize your site. There are two major aspects to optimizing your site, called “on page” and “off page.” Both of these are important for increasing the traffic of your site, as well as leading people through your site to where you want them to be (probably the pages that make you money!) On-Page SEO This aspect...
read moreA Market Research Shortcut to Mine Your Niche
You’ve heard the stories — somebody invests their life savings into a business only to have it fail. A friend boldly left his or her job for self employment only to be right back in the work force two years later. Or, more common in the internet marketing world, somebody spends 6 months on their product only to have nobody buy it. How can you prevent wasting your time and money? How can you make sure that you’re building an income stream that will continue to grow and continue to build your bank account? Market...
read moreWomen and Rejection in Online Business
Lisa Irby of 2CreateaWebsite recently did a video about fear of rejection online and women (video below). I don’t have a camera set up to do a video response, but I did want to respond to her because it’s something that’s been on my mind, too. I used to worry about making me front and center on my websites and blogs because I wanted to be more private and I wanted my topics to be at the forefront. But I’ve been reading a lot about branding and influencing lately and realized that I needed to be the expert. I want to be...
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I'm Kristen - a wife and mother in a house that's always rocking (literally!)
