This thought suddenly occurred to me. You know how bloggers are often saying things like: “I’d love to be able to post some unique features on my blog, but I can’t think of anything good.” “I envy bloggers who have unique features. I don’t have […]
Category: Blogging
Do GIFs Infringe on Copyrights?
Hello Ashley! I’ve noticed a lot of bloggers using GIFs in their posts. I’ve been considering using GIFs, but I wasn’t sure if there are any copyright considerations I should be concerned about. Do you happen to know if there are any? Thank you! Amy […]
How Many Plugins is too Many?
I was wondering if there is a limit to how many plugins a website should be running? I have 14 running right now (Askimet, SEO, Google Analytics, etc.) and I’m wondering if at any point the amount of plugins will end up bogging down my […]
Automated Review Archives, Resizing Images, & Sending Followup Emails to Publishers
BBB Question Roundup I’m including three BBB questions in this post! I’ve started to realize how much of a backlog I have! Included in this post are: How do you put together and organize your review pages? What’s the best way to resize images in […]
Your RSS Feed Isn’t Broken – It’s Supposed to Look Like Code
I’ve gotten A LOT of questions/comments like this: I have been noticing that when I try to look at my native feed in Chrome, it gives me the XML page, which is horribly useless. It works fine in Firefox and IE, but in Chrome, it […]
How Best to Configure the WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin
I just read your article on focus keywords and you said that the focus keyword does not affect your SEO. So the YOAST plugin is not really an SEO optimizer, but rather an SEO analyzer? I know with Google’s Hummingbird update that meta-tags are not […]
Do You Need to Worry about Failed Login Attempts? (iThemes Security)
I’ve been receiving tons of notifications about bad login attempts from users. Should I be worried? I’m currently using iThemes security. Thanks, Ashley! Della Hi Della! People are going to try to gain access to your blog for malicious reasons. That’s just a fact. If […]
Where to Find High Quality Book Cover Images
Hi Ashley! I was wondering how/where you manage to get ahold of the high quality book covers for your reviews and posts. I can only find smaller, poorer quality images of the covers – which is frustrating when I’m trying to create banners and blog […]
Goodreads Reviews Can Outrank Your Blog Reviews
Like many bloggers, I cross-post my reviews. I post them on Nose Graze, Goodreads, and sometimes Amazon. A few months ago, someone asked me if cross-posting book reviews will hurt your SEO. At the time, I did a lot of research before answering that question. […]
Do Blogs Go in and Out of Fashion?
As bloggers, we all have moments of self doubt. We worry that our blogs aren’t good enough or that nobody’s out there actually reading our content or that we’ll never get new readers. It’s very common for bloggers to struggle with this. But here’s a […]