Blogging is a great way to optimize your website

Blogging takes a bit of time, but it is a great way to optimize your website. I have a couple master checklist and after I tick all the boxes, I am pushing publish! I personally have been blogging for over 4 years, and I still relay on the checklist. After you press publish, Google works its magic and eventually brings traffic to your website.

There are other spells you need to do to make the magic work at full capacity, but we will visit those options later!

Writing Tips for building a blog

• Make a list of ideas for blog ideas (locations)
  • Prioritize the blog ideas

• Free write or type and not worry about mistakes – I found that my MacBook has a talk to text feature, so I will talk to my computer and it translates it to Pages. It is something that I have only been doing for a year, but it has been a game changer!

• How double and triple checking the blog
  • After you write the first draft – go through and check for errors
  • Copy and paste it to Grammerly  (it is free) and it will help grammatically correct our document, (which is my weakness)
  • Copy and paste it to Google Docs and open the DOC in Google Chrome. Use the “read out loud” feature you can install on Chrome – It will read the text to you and you will catch quite a few errors that you do not catch when you read it.

Ideas of things to include in your blog

• How to get there and plan your trip
• Why you went
• What you expected vs what you experienced
• How you prepared to go vs what you did or did not need
• Favorite places to eat and touristy places to visit
• Any cultural differences or what to be aware of

• Resources you can provide to people

• Loads of photos – Link to Showit Notes