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  • Grow Your Traffic
    • SEO
    • Email
  • Monetize Your Traffic
    • Affiliates
    • Advertising
    • Products & Services
    • My Income Reports
  • Case Studies
    • Discover Sausalito
    • Eat Like Bourdain
    • Follow The Butterflies
    • Great Plains Travel Guide
    • Jordan Traveler
    • London On My Mind
    • Soup Whoop
    • Space Tourism Guide
    • Valerie & Valise
    • Visit Ni’ihau
  • Content Challenge Hero
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    May 18, 2022 / No Comments

    Feeling stuck on growing your site? Have a serious case of burnout or writer's block? I've been there – many times. Most people are surprised to learn that since I'm generally super productive and get a lot done but I (like everyone) struggle with my motivation. I've also worked to overcome those issues by finding tricks and techniques that motivate me even when I'm not feeling the fire inside on any given day, week, month, or even season. (Yes, I've taken whole seasons off from some sites!)...

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    If I've learned anything over the eight years since I started running my first site, it's that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) never stops changing. As soon as you think you've figured out what Google wants, the world's biggest search engine improves its algorithms, changes its criteria, or releases some update that upends all we've been focusing on...

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    SEO is a world of acronyms. Heck – SEO itself is an acronym (Search Engine Optimization) though most of us forget that as we talk about and work on our SEO every single day. Unfortunately, SEO is an active process for most website owners – after all, the word is "optimization," not "optimized." The SEO strategy that used to work for you might not work anymore, and you need to be constantly learning and adjusting to help your website succeed with Google...

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    There's a lot of buzz about email marketing and why you should be doing it – but as I've discovered, email is probably the most neglected part of every website owner or blogger's business. Literally, it's the thing that everyone says "I know I should be doing it but I just don't know what to do/how to do it." If you feel the same, you're not alone...

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  • Keyword Research
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    December 8, 2021 / No Comments

    Gone are the days when you could start a blog about a topic like "food" or "travel" and expect it to rank well in Google within the first few years – if ever. The internet has been flooded with independent publishers and bloggers, and Google has gotten way better at figuring out who knows their stuff – and who's full of it...

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    The most important and biggest part of SEO is what’s called On-Site or On-Page SEO. On-Site SEO is when you optimize elements on a page (such as a blog article, your homepage, or a landing page) or within your website to try and improve your rankings and earn more organic traffic. It’s a huge term as the vast majority of SEO work is “on-site” work...

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    December 30, 2020 / No Comments

    I’ll be honest: I did not want to write this post at all. I wondered if anyone would read it, and looked at my traffic to determine that very few people saw my 2020 post on the same topic. But when it came time to sit down and organize my thoughts, I realized I had a lot I wanted to say.

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    November 3, 2020 / No Comments

    Here we are, in the early days of winter, as the darkness descends and we all feel a little bit down. If your blog is anything like mine, you’ve probably been feeling the squeeze of seasonality since school “started” in September. (You can see what I mean in my October recap too.) My traffic always goes down this time of year, and I’m left feeling a bit low...

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    Whether this is your first time on my site or your fiftieth, you might wonder: is it really possible to be a full-time travel blogger? Successfully??? While the answer depends on your definition of travel blog success, by my definition, yes, it’s entirely possible to be a full-time travel blogger, travel the world, and make good money...

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    Here we are: a new year! A new decade! A new opportunity to create or adjust our business and travel blog strategies! I do love a new year, as I’m sure you’ve noticed from my many, many posts this week… Not to toot my own horn, but I work pretty hard at this blog – and I think it’s paid off so far....

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About Me & Site School


 
Hi, I'm Valerie! 👋
I've been blogging for over two decades – and for the past 8 years as a professional blogger.
 
Today I run over a dozen websites, and I started Site School to help you build your own sustainable and financially successful website!

Explore My Websites

(Indicates Starting Month)

Valerie & Valise (October 2013)
Space Tourism Guide (Nov. 2017)
Discover Sausalito (January 2020)
Follow the Butterflies (April 2020)
London on My Mind (January 2021)
Great Plains Travel Guide (Mar. 2021)
Soup Whoop (April 2021)
Visit Ni'ihau (May 2021)
Jordan Traveler (June 2021)
Eat Like Bourdain (June 2021)
True Crime Pods (July 2021)
Solar Smarts (July 2021)

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