Brighter Blogging Roundup: Friday 30th April

Looking for some extra blogging inspiration? Each week, I pick a bunch of my favourite blog posts to share with you. Here’s this week’s: TOP READ: What Every Blogger Needs to Know About Email, Darren Rowse, ProBlogger If you’re fairly new to email marketing (or...

Two Crucial Reasons Your Blog Posts Need Clear Titles

As a blogger, the title (also called the headline) might be the last thing you think about when you write a blog post. Maybe you’ve finally finished your post, you just want to publish it, and you write the first title you think of. Alternatively, perhaps you do put a...

Brighter Blogging Roundup: Friday 23rd April

Looking for some extra blogging inspiration? Each week, I pick a bunch of my favourite blog posts to share with you. Here’s this week’s: TOP READ: Affiliate Marketing in 2021: FREE Guide for Beginners, Leanne Regalla, Smart Blogger This in-depth article from Smart...

Seven Tips on Finding Work as a Freelance Blogger

Do you want to get paid for your blog posts? Freelance bloggers have been around for years – I’ve been getting paid to write for blogs since the start of 2008, and there were plenty of people doing likewise before me! Freelance blogging is still going strong, with a...

Brighter Blogging is Back! (And I’ve Got Lots to Share With You)

A year and a half ago, Brighter Blogging went on hiatus while I was working full-time for Awesome Motive, writing for WPBeginner. Working with AM was a great experience: I had so many lovely colleagues and it was fantastic to get a behind-the-scenes look at how a huge...

Seven Ways to Start a Blog Post … and Seven Ways to Finish It

Where do you get typically get stuck when you’re writing a blog post? For a lot of bloggers, the first few lines of the post – and the last few – are really tough. You might have a perfectly good plan for what’s going to come later, but you just don’t know how to...