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How to Delete Blog Posts: An SEO-Friendly Step-by-Step Guide
Each website is a garden: every post and page on the site is a plant within the garden. Some sites are tidy, well organized, and flourish as a result of each plant getting enough water and sunlight; other sites are a jungle, poorly organized, and the plants – aka posts – within them all struggle to thrive...
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Love Your List Review: Is Kate Doster’s Signature Course Worth It?
If you know me at all, you know one thing: I'm possibly the most cynical person when it comes to the online "knowledge economy." There's nothing that makes my blood boil more than course creators selling courses about how to become a course creator selling your own courses about creating courses. I mean, that sentence is just stupid to write – and yet people are profiting off of the hard work of thousands of people, selling these course multi-level marketing schemes every. single. day...
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Jordan Traveler 18-Month Report
[CASE STUDY]2022 has been a year of reflection: after starting several new sites in 2021, I've been focused on tending these new blooms in the garden that is my website portfolio. One of the sites I started later in the batch was Jordan Traveler, a site dedicated to providing travel resources for the country of Jordan...
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Valerie & Valise – My 9th Blogiversary: Lessons Learned from 9 Years of Blogging
Holy crow, you guys. As of today, my first blog, Valerie & Valise, has been live for 9 years. NINE. YEARS. If my blog were a child – and I affectionally refer to my sites as my children – it would be in 4th grade! We'd be starting to worry, I mean think, about puberty and middle school at this point! AH!...
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Great Plains Travel Guide 18-Month Report [CASE STUDY]
Despite what the cookie-cutter course creators might have you believe when trying to sell you during their latest launch, every website is unique, and after you learn the basics – which you have probably mastered if you're reading this – you're very much on your own learning what works for your blog, your business, and your audience...
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June 2022 London On My Mind Income Report
As I've now officially passed the 18-month mark since starting my London-focused travel site, London On My Mind (LOMM), I'm finally getting a sense that the site has moved out of the tumultuous early/newborn phase and into a bit more maturity. While 18 months is not long in the lifespan of websites, it does have enough tenure with Google that content tends to rank better and faster – and has a body of work that readers can use and trust...
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How to Spin Out a Niche Site from Your Main Site
Since the start of the pandemic, it seems like everyone and their cousin is all about the niche sites, am I right? Niche sites are, like, so in right now. Of course, there were some bloggers and site owners hip to the trend before it became mainstream.
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London On My Mind 18-Month Report
[CASE STUDY]Here we are: 18 months from the start of 2021, which was the year I got a wild hare and started so. many. websites. (No claps, just facepalms!) As these sites have passed their one-year marks and continue to mature, I'm beginning to make bigger strategy decisions about each one – including one of my beloved projects, London On My Mind...
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June 2022 Valerie & Valise Income Report
It's gone from zero to sixty around these parts – how about you? Just like in April, I spent most of June on the road, trying to fit in my (admittedly monstrous pile of) "desk" work around two major trips – which were also work! After starting the month in Alaska on a partnership trip with Windstar Cruises, I ended it on the other almost the literal other side of the world in the Maldives...
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Eat Like Bourdain 1 Year Report
[CASE STUDY]I'll be completely honest: at a certain point, I was definitely starting sites on a whim last year. I'd sit down to dinner with my husband, and be like "I think I'm gonna start X new site" and would have it launched and deployed within a week. While I pride myself on coming up with (what I think are) good ideas and moving on them quickly, it got to be a bit much – we did end up running twelve sites at the end of 2021...
