SEO has always been something I've, well, kind of ignored. (If you've ignored it so much you don't know what it means: Search Engine Optimisation. In other words: how to publish blog posts that Google will send lots of search traffic to!) Deciding to think more about SEO and researching …
Not A Ballerina
Thoughts on blogging after nine years of my travel blog: why you should or shouldn’t start a blog
Last week my first blog love, my travel blog Not A Ballerina, turned nine. Yep, nine whole years have passed since I first sat down at my little desk in my flat in Germany and started a blogspot blog, not really having any clue about what it was all about, and even less clue that I'd still be doing …
Monetising my travel blog: traffic and income report May 2014
It's been two months since I last wrote about my travel blog's monetisation journey and I thought that made it time to check in again. You might remember that last time I listed quite a few bloggy tasks to do and I have definitely made some progress but at the same time, the monetisation progress …
Monetising my travel blog with a long list of tasks (and a stats update)
Well, it seems that there are plenty of you out there keen to see how my journey to monetise my travel blog goes, judging by the feedback I got to my first post inviting you along for the monetisation ride. I wasn't planning to update monthly (more likely quarterly) but since I have other relevant …
Monetising my travel blog – come along for the ride
I've got a big and important goal this year: to turn my nearly nine-year-old travel blog Not A Ballerina into something that doesn't just sit there on the internet looking pretty, but actually puts a decent amount of food on the table.I am really keen to monetise my blog properly - for lots of …
The Ballerina Syndrome, or how keyword-rich titles are better than beautiful ones
There are two kinds of bloggers in this world: those who title a blog post based on what is about ("How to cook a lamb roast", for example) and those who believe a title should be clever, arty and/or beautiful ("What to eat even if Tom Cruise invites you to dinner" - watch this old Aussie TV ad for …