Tag: book blogging

How to Improve SEO for Book Reviews

Posted 29 August, 2015 in Blogging Tips / 15 Comments

Bumblings Blog Tips are weekly-ish ways to improve your blogging – from planning to design and social media. SEO is quite a fickle beast. I’ve heard a lot of book bloggers mention that they don’t understand how it works, or the abundant keyword stuffing in their reviews proves that they don’t. What’s the best way to get review traffic from search engines? #BookBloggers: How do you get organic traffic to book reviews? Click To Tweet I’m no professional SEO, but basic optimization is part of my day job, following a strategy laid out for me by an SEO specialist. I […]

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To-Do List: August Write On Review-a-Thon

Posted 24 August, 2015 in Features / 4 Comments

Despite things being crazy and working on a million projects right now, I’m pretty on top of my review schedule. That being said, there’s always that NetGalley backlog of books that came out awhile ago. And non-ARCs I’ve read. And audiobooks I’ve listened to. See? Always more to be done. I’m going to start early as usual, but it’s going to be a pretty busy week so I don’t know how much I’ll get done. And if this weekend is nice, no promises I’ll want to stay indoors. But hey, I’m gonna try. My August Write On Review-a-Thon To-Do List Sustained by […]

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Why It’s Okay to Have a High Average Book Rating

Posted 22 August, 2015 in Blogging Tips / 11 Comments

Bumblings Blog Tips are weekly-ish ways to improve your blogging – from planning to design and social media. There are a lot of discussions happening in the book community about honesty in book blogging. And I think that’s a really great thing. Some book bloggers clearly cow-tow to authors, filling their reviews with flowery but generic praise that can be copy and pasted to apply to any book. Some book reviews are filled with more fangirling over the author than discussing the book itself. And some people are more subtle about it, maybe not even doing it on purpose, but […]

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9 Ways to Write More Creative Book Reviews

Posted 15 August, 2015 in Blogging Tips / 20 Comments

Read on for a free download of 10 blog post ideas for book bloggers! I have a confession to make: I don’t read many book reviews. I know, that’s a weird thing for a book blogger to say. If I don’t read other people’s reviews, why should I expect others to read my own? But I don’t expect anything. When I’m writing book reviews, I know I need to earn my readers. And for me, the way to do that is by trying to write reviews that stand out. Do I accomplish that? I don’t know; you tell me. At […]

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Be a Better Blogger: Choose Your Own Challenge

Posted 6 July, 2015 in Features / 1 Comment

Hey there! Welcome to this month’s Be a Better Blogger Challenge. Holiday! Celebrate! Well, just one of the two for now since my vacation doesn’t start until Wednesday. Until then, it’s just celebrate, because we’ve officially gone through 5 Be a Better Blogger challenges! Yay! Participation has been down the past few months and I’ll be honest with you: it’s hard. But instead of quitting or complaining, I want to adapt and figure out what kind of challenge you all will join in with month after month. So this month’s theme is wildcard. The purpose of this is two-fold: I […]

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How to Come Up with More Blog Post Ideas

Posted 15 June, 2015 in Blogging Tips / 20 Comments

This post is to help you with this month’s Be a Better Blogger challenge to create a blog post idea bucket. You sit down, log into WordPress, start a new post, and…nothing. Your mind is blank. Raise your hand if that’s ever happened to you. If you can say you’ve never had trouble coming up with something to blog about, well…I don’t believe you. We’ve all been there. If you can say you’ve never had blog writer’s block, you’re lying. Click To Tweet I’m extremely meticulous about keeping a backlog of ideas, and even that doesn’t always do the trick. […]

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Be a Better Blogger: Create a Blog Post Ideas Bucket

Posted 6 June, 2015 in Features / 10 Comments

Hey everyone! Welcome to the 6th Be a Better Blogger Challenge! One of the best parts of sticking to a blogging schedule is that you know what kind of content you need to create, and when. But even if you know that on Tuesdays you write blogging tips and discussion posts are on Thursdays, one of the most difficult parts of blogging still remains: coming up with a post topic. Coming up with post topics is one of the hardest parts of book blogging. Click To Tweet Inspired by this week’s #CoChat (a weekly Twitter chat hosted by CoSchedule that […]

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The Weekly Write-Up: MailChimp Crazy & Bloggiesta

Posted 18 January, 2015 in Weekly Write-Ups / 4 Comments

The Weekly Write-Up is where I talk about what’s gone on in the past 168 hours, both on the blog and off. Hey everyone! I hope you had a great week. I don’t know if I’m still struggling to get back into non-vacation mode, or if it’s just the weather and winter blues, but I have been struggling hardcore lately. Going to bed super early, still waking up with only 5 minutes to get ready for work, not motivated to do much… It sucks. I might be blogging less until I can shake this. I don’t know. Jump to: It’s […]

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