Increasing Pageviews, Here’s How to Get Better At It
“If you build it, they will come.” What a load of horse manure, right? You’ve built it, and built it again with probably better colour theory, and three years later you’re staring at your web page views that tell you something smells as bad as that quote on your site. At this point, it looks […]
How to Set Up Facebook’s Instant Articles and Why You Should
For over a year now, Facebook has had popular sites, such as Buzzfeed, testing out “Instant Articles”, a new feature for Facebook pages that primarily promote personal writing. If you’re a blogger, trying to promote your own articles/blog posts on your Facebook page, you may have noticed that it doesn’t get as many views or […]
Incredibly Ridiculous Facebook App Noises, and How To Get Rid of Them
So yesterday had me standing around a local crafts store (for TWO whole hours,) while the nephew Kit sat in a classroom and had fun making art. For the first half hour, I went around the store and made a wish list of pretty much their entire stock of everything, ’cause this geek loves to […]
Five Tips to Get the Most out of Your Alcatel One Touch Idol X+
The Alcatel One Touch Idol X+ smartphone, it’s quite an enigma. On the one hand, it has amazing battery power while it rests; but on the other, it can be quick to tire if certain apps are in use. Or at least, that’s what happened the first time I tried out the phone. Between us, […]
It’s That Time of Year Again! 30 Days of Beauty at Shoppers Drug Mart
It’s the 4th Annual 30 Days of Beauty celebration at Shoppers Drug Mart, the biggest beauty event of the year, and I can’t wait to hit my local store to stock up on those much needed items, as well as stuff that I’ve been wanting to try out for a while now. From Now until […]
Why Vine is So Fabulous And How to Publish Your Vids on Your Blog
If you’re here as part of the Summer Biannual Blogathon Bash for 2013, welcome! (If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you can check out the bash here!) I hopefully have three interesting posts for you to view and work with, and some fun mini challenges to boot! You can join in at […]
Prepping for your Valentine’s Day with DIY (Part 2 of 5)
Making Valentine’s Day Special with Help from HP (Day 2) I have to admit, there were a number of comments in the past couple of days that completely line up with upcoming HP Valentine’s Series posts, including how to utilize both HP ENVY x2 and the eAIO Photosmart 7520 printer to create some DIY gifts, such […]
Optimizing Images for Better SEO #Blogathon2
We learned from last year’s Beginner SEO post for the Biannual Blogathon Bash that a picture is worth a thousand words right? For one of the few posts that I’m going to publish during the blogathon, I figured I would expand further on what anyone can do to improve their website/blog’s SEO concerning pictures specifically. I […]
Blissdom Canada: Meet Lisa Leonard Designs / How To Shorten a Necklace Chain
I had a really great time at Blissdom Canada a couple weeks ago, and have been wanting to share the particulars with you guys for what seems like ages! I got to meet up with some incredible people, some of which I had only met once before at Shes Connected, and others I had met […]