Blogging & Personal Development

Blogging 101: SEO Post Optimisation

What is keyword research? Keyword research is looking for keywords or key-phrases that real people will enter into search engines to find the content they need. These can be short keywords such as just ‘SEO’ or it can be a longer key-phrase such as ‘SEO for beginners’ which is what my first SEO post had…
Blogging 101: Google Search Console

In Google analytics you can also access Google search console data under acquisition to see which pages are gaining traffic through search. However, sometimes you may want a bit of a deep dive into what search terms are useful for you and how successful certain pages are in the long-term. That’s where the Google Search…
Blogging 101: Category and Tags Mapping

When it comes to SEO, your site categories and tags inform the search engine what the post is about. The metadata also states to search engines what your site is about. So it’s important to know how to use them and to plan out what your blog has or will have. This will give you…
Blogging 101: SEO for Beginners

What is SEO? SEO stands for Search Engine Optimisation, which simply put is optimising your website and pages to get them to appear in the top results on a search engine. There’s multiple search engines such as Bing and Yahoo, but Google is the biggest and most used and most SEO is done to meet…
Blogging 101: Photo Editing with Lightroom

I’m going to say exactly what I said in my editing with Photoshop post first. Which is I would always recommend shooting in RAW format with a DSLR camera. You can use any type of image in Lightroom, but RAW files help to create a higher quality image as it’s more precise to edit before…
Blogging 101: Photo Editing with Photoshop

Before we even get to Photoshop, I recommend shooting in RAW format. This is easily done in your camera settings and helps improve the quality of the image as it allows more precise photo manipulation whilst on your laptop rather than processing the photo through the camera. It also means, that while you’re editing the…
Blogging 101: Alongside University?

Similar to many bloggers I started my blogging journey whilst a University student. I had way more time than I used to at school, and I had weirdly long holidays so I tried to make something that I could work on in my down time. But, as exam deadlines rushed, friends talked about socials and…
Blogging 101: Running a Blog Alongside a Full Time Job

Since I started my placement year last July my blog has had some ups and downs. Going from uni to having a full time job meant that I had a lot less time. Plus, I was a lot more tired because of it. So over the past year I’ve gradually learnt how to actually do…
Blogging 101: Blog Photography for Beginners

It’s that time again where I have another Blogging 101 post for you. This time we’re talking about photography for the blog, and how you can take some quick steps to upping your photography game. Camera When you first decided you wanted to start a blog, you probably worried that you didn’t have a good…