Morgan Timm

Blogging + Business

Business

How to use Yoast to rock the SEO Game!

You guys, Google and I are sort of BFF’s. I mean, it hasn’t always been that way, and I had to fight a lot in the beginning. But now? Thanks to SEO we are on the same page. And by the same page, I mean the front page.

If one of your goals as a blogger isn’t to get your posts on the front page of Google, then you may need to reassess. If you’re looking to grow an audience and your blog as a whole, Google should be your go-to.

It took me almost 6 months to start getting my posts ranked by Google over on Mostly Morgan, but once I started taking SEO seriously,my blogging world changed. My most popular post on Mostly Morgan (bringing in at least 1,500 daily views) is ranked number one for it’s search term on Google and several related searches. That in itself has made a world of a difference for me and the blog, and it really kicked my butt into gear in terms of utilizing SEO.

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How to Brand Yourself as a Blogger or Entrenpreneur.

Hello everyone! If you’re here that means you’re probably a business owner or blogger extraordinaire, and that probably means that you’ve been told to “brand yourself” once or twice before. Ok, so now it seems that “branding” is just a buzz word used by creatives and entrepreneurs, but it is still some of the most important advice that you’re going to get.

What is branding?

So the easiest way to describe branding is it’s what people recognize you for. When you hit publish and put your work out into the world, you want people to see it and instantly recognize that it was created by you. A real world example of this is Apple. Their brand is sleek, simple, and stamped with the apple logo. You see the logo and you instantly know who it’s by, but even without the logo a lot of their work is recognizable.

In the blogosphere By Regina and The Nectar Collective are both excellent examples of business women who have their acts together when it comes to branding. If I see something of theirs on Pinterest, you can bet I’m going to check it out and pin it because their content is so recognizably theirs.

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