Blogging strategies for 2017

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Blogging strategiesfor 2017

Why blog?

More traffic to your site

Great way to share your knowledge

Can reference old posts to help people

Can reference old posts to help people

How often should I blog?

My history of blogging

Started in 2004

WordPress soon after

Sporadic and scattered

Google Earth Blog

GreenMellen

Where to blog now?

Lots of consolidation and cleanup

Finding ideas and planning posts

Finding ideas

gmm.to/feedlypost

Saving ideas

gmm.to/keeppost

Building ideas

Creating images

Canva

Canva

Themes

Dumb & Pretty

Dumb & Pretty

Don’t worry about theme niches

Dumb & Pretty

Beautiful Pro

Wintersong

Daily Dish

Plugins

Akismet

AMP

Genesis Simple Edits

GM Block Bots

Google Analytics by MonsterInsights

Jetpack

Jetpack

● Sharing● Related Posts● Comments● Likes● Subscriptions● Enhanced Distribution● Protect

● Single Sign On● Photon● Extra Sidebar Widgets● Holiday Snow● Shortcode Embeds● Spelling and Grammar● Markdown

ManageWP Worker

Post List Featured Image

PuSHPress

Simple Social Icons

The SEO Framework

Other Tips & Notes

Typo Domains

GreenMellenMedia.comGreenMellonMedia.comGreenMelonMedia.comGreenMellen.com

Mickmel.comMickmell.comMicmel.com

Markdown

Markdown

# Header 1## Header 2**bold***italic*[link this](http://google.com)- Bulleted- List

gmm.to/trymarkdown

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