What are the risks when you blog for money?
Do you blog, vlog or podcast for money? And if so, are you doing it legally? Or are you risking your blog being removed from Google listings? Perhaps you get…
Do you blog, vlog or podcast for money? And if so, are you doing it legally? Or are you risking your blog being removed from Google listings? Perhaps you get…
What are your best blogging tips of the year? I’ll tell you mine, if you tell me yours. Britmums is a blogging collective. Although it’s mainly for parenting bloggers, it…
How do you know when someone is stealing your blog? And what can you do about it? I’ve just had this experience (not for the first time). So have several…
I’ve had so many questions about why Facebook is important in the past few months. Even those who hate social media are tentatively asking me whether I would explain a…
What does a garden blogger do? Or, indeed, what does any blogger do? And, most importantly, does blogging make money? If so, how? The world wakes up in February, after…
Garden videos don’t feature in the playlists of the UK’s biggest YouTube stars. Although it can only be a matter of time before Zoella gets to ‘that gardening age’… But…
It’s snowdrop time. But snowdrops are the most frustratingly difficult flowers to photograph. From this weekend onwards, there will be ‘snowdrop walks’ all round Britain. The NGS has a list of…
If you blog, tweet or Facebook about your garden, you need wonderful images. If you run a business in the gardening world (or any other world), you need great photos…
I’d just enjoyed a lovely day at The Chelsea Flower Show with a dear friend. And the Middlesized Garden had also been accredited for Press Day. This, along with my no…
Have you considered finding garden ideas on Pinterest – or using it for promoting your garden blog or business? It’s great for planning and research – you can use it…
A good headline is a blogger’s secret weapon – it can increase hits on your blog by over 100%. And you also need a good headline for your emails, press…
Do you run out of ideas when you blog? Is that writer’s block? No, it isn’t. It’s just time to go out and talk to someone, or to see somewhere…
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