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WP Kind

When you first start your blog with WordPress, there is so much to learn. It can be overwhelming. Meghan Nicholas is the founder of WPkind.com, a place to discover practical WordPress tips and tutorials for beginner bloggers.

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Blog Hosts

Looking for the perfect host that suits your own personal blogging needs can be like trying to find a needle in a haystack!

You will find a lot for and against any host, so it’s totally up to you to do your own homework and find out what will fit your budget, what you wish to achieve, and go from there.  You can always change later as and when you get higher traffic, or you feel you do require a bigger plan.

Something to remember:  Sites get slow with any host if you choose a poor theme and load up too many plugins.

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Only available through the below link, use special code TENDISCES for a 10% discount off of your first three months payments with CloudWays

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Publer is so easy to use, it actually works and I love the fact that I can track post insights:

  1. Followers
  2. Gender
  3. Age
  4. Top Cities
  5. Top Countries
  6. Post reach
  7. Post engagement
  8. Link clicks
  9. Best times to post
  10. Post Insights

for all 5 different social media accounts, I connected to. You can choose to do more, that’s totally up to you.

Publer is a great social media scheduling tool and I love the ease of use. You can post and schedule your content on Facebook Page, Facebook Group, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, and Google My Business.

You can also add your RSS feed, which is absolutely awesome, so each time you do a post on your blog, you can have Publer auto-post it to your blog page or wherever you decide you wish to share it. This saves you an extra step to do it manually. I am all for saving time and Publer does that for sure.

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Publer Social Media Superhero

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Mariam Tsaturyan

Mariam is the founder of the Freelance & Marketing website. This website was born as a hobby and a way to spend her time. However, she soon realized that she could turn this into a legitimate business. 

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Mariam Tsaturyan

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Tracie Forbes

Tracie has been blogging for more than 11 years! After selling her first site for more than six figures, she started teaching others how they too, can set up and run a profitable blog. She approaches teaching differently than most as she believes in not only the “why” but also ensures everyone learns the “how-to” aspects as well. Upon completion of any of her courses, you’ll have a clear understanding and know exactly what to do to implement what you’ve learned.

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Blogger Education Network – Learn How to Blog

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Only available through the below links, use special code TRACIEDEALS for a 15% discount. This will apply to all below EXCEPT Coaching Services or the Physical Planner.

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Yadsia Iglesias

Online Template Shop

Yadsia helps businesswomen create and sell digital downloads, open their own online shops & drive traffic to their products.

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Carly Cbell

Want to get the Most Pinterest traffic for the Least effort?

No doubt about it, this is a lifesaver, so get over there and save yourself a lot of stress, hours, or fiddling and worry to get your pins correct.  Carly has done all the work for you. 

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Special 10% Discount Deal

Use Code ESME10 for 10% off any of my products EXCEPT Pinteresting Pins Subscription & Mastermind

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Debbie Gartner

SEO for bloggers!  Debbie has incredible and very successful SEO Ebooks

Your one and only SEO contact to use for anything SEO-related.  The best of best to my mind for SEO courses and resources.

Debbie Gartner runs a successful home decor blog as TheFlooringGirl.com.  She’s been blogging since 2010 and gets over 500,000 page views per month and earns over $20,000 a month.  She’s an esteemed blogger and has coached 100’s of bloggers on SEO, so you can not go wrong by following and getting her courses.

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Ana Sykes

If you’re ready to get serious about your blogging business, you are in the right place! Ana, The She Approach, has tons of free tutorials and exclusive blogging tips waiting for you.

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Special $5 off Deal

Only available through the below links, use special code TSA5OFF for $5 off of any product listed below for Ana. You can also buy any of these products as a gift for your own blogging friends. 

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Renee

Geek in Your Pocket helps you get over your technical hurdles so you can focus on what you need to do to help your clients, customers, and audience.

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Jenn

Jenn created Jenny Journals which was a place to blog about my life’s journey and sell my creations too.

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Jan Small

Jan created Simple Happiness Biz. A happier life on her own terms. And that’s what her site is all about.

In her own words, something about herself:

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Jan Small from Simple Happiness

In my time at home, I’ve been:

  • an author under a handful of pen names (179 titles published on Amazon and I still write when the mood takes me.)
  • a life coach after studying for my diploma at the Life Coaching Academy in the UK
  • a diet coach after training for a diploma in nutrition (Can you tell I’m a life-long learner?)
  • a creator of simple websites (for myself and others)
  • an affiliate marketer
  • a designer after taking a diploma in Graphic Design
  • an instructor
  • and now I’m focusing on creating beautiful and fun notebooks, planners, course materials, and journals.

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Sasha Lassey

Everyday She’s Sparkling

Sasha from the Facebook Group Everyday She’s Sparkling shared with us her Blogger’s Best Bundle which has everything you need to get your blog up and running the right way from the start. It has step-by-step video lessons plus bonuses on branding your blog, finding the best deals as a new blogger, and how to manage a busy blogging schedule (with Trello templates).

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Being Creative

Done for you printables by Kim. Discover the most perfect printables.  Hope you will enjoy these.

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Lucrezia & Marina

Lucrezia & Marina help new bloggers start and run a successful blog, to make money blogging. Join today and learn how to blog profitably and legally. 

Special 10% Discount Deal

Only available through the below links, use special code ESME10 for 10% off on any of the below-listed courses, bundles, and templates.

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Kayla Marie Butler

Ivory Mix Stock Photos

Kayla started Ivory Mix as a hobby, turned it into a multi-six-figure business, and quit her 15-year career as an Interior Designer to help other Creative Experts start and grow their businesses so they can live an abundant creative life with revenue on repeat.

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Kara Fidd

Simplifying DIY Design

Kara is a certified graphic designer + full-time blogger that specializes in marketing through jump-off-the-screen designs! Templates are my JAM and my passion is to create design tools and systems that you can use to implement your way to success in your digital business!

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Neha Gupta

Blogging Made Easier

Blogging is Hard and Overwhelming!

Neha is doing her best and trying to make it easier by sharing what she has learned. So irrespective of whether you are a new blogger or an intermediate one – you will definitely find something that interests you. Here she shares tips and provides services to take your blog to the next level.

She can help you Transform Your Vision and goals into Actual Results! So if you need anything or have any questions contact Neha.

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Karen Meder Whitfield

Online Blog and Business Help

Karen’s aim is to help bloggers and business owners start, build and grow the online side of their businesses. Through her blog and virtual assistant business, she offers tips, products, and services to make earning money online a little easier for everyone.

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Becca Klein

The Blog Biz Network

Becca Klein is a blog coach and blogger with more than 5 years of experience. Becca blogs about blogging, digital products, and social media. Becca’s signature course, Break Into Blogging, teaches new bloggers how to start a blog and grow it into a profitable business.

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Food Blogger Pro

The Food Blogger Pro team is packed with creators, doers, makers, and bloggers who know the food blogging industry inside and out. They will support you as you work to bring your blogging dreams to life in small, intentional, and impactful ways.

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Food Blogger Pro

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Kitchen Bloggers

In their own words:

Stop struggling to create a profitable online food-related business! 

If you run a food, lifestyle, or health & wellness-related business, KitchenBloggers can help you save time and money on high-quality content creation and food photography. Plus, we offer tons of resources to help you grow your business and help it become more profitable.

What You’ll Find Here:

Our goal is to help our dynamic community of food, lifestyle, and health & wellness bloggers – like you – build fun and profitable online businesses.

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Rank Math

You will be amazed at what can be achieved by using Rank Math. It’s built for

  • Bloggers
  • eCommerce Stores
  • Niche Sites
  • Businesses
  • Local Businesses
  • News Websites
  • Startups
  • The Real Estate
  • Artists & Photographers
  • Any WordPress Website

They have a FREE plan as well as a PRO and BUSINESS Plan.

You can check out their pricing structure and decide which will work best for you!

Take a look at Compare Free vs PRO vs Business.

To satisfy yourself to make sure you get the best deal look at the following comparison between Rank Math vs. Yoast and SEO

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CleanTalk 

Have you ever wondered what on earth is CleanTalk and asked yourself:  How does it work?

Well, let me try and explain what I found. 

You get a visitor coming to your site/blog and they want to leave a comment or sign up for your blog (yeah lucky you!).  Once this happens, this fantastic plugin, called CleanTalk will kick into action and do its thing and send a notification to the CleanTalk cloud to check out your visitor and analyze all relevant parameters to make sure that it’s a human visitor, not a spam bot.  If you received a visit from a nice human, his or her comment will be published, and all is good.  Should you have bad luck and get a spam bot checking in (they do so very often, see the images below from my site) this clever and amazing system will stop and block the comment and stop all spam dead in its tracks.

I did get a lot, and I mean a lot of spam, and they stop all types of spam.  It is only $ 8 USD per year with a 7-day free trial period.  Another plus factor about  CleanTalk, is you do not need a Recaptcha (let me tell you, I am not keen on it, so maybe your visitors feel the same), so yeah, no Captcha, no questions, puzzles, or quiz, CleanTalk just get to work and that’s it.

Blocking by Country is just one of many features available in the CleanTalk plugin. If you block any country, other options will continue to work properly.   I checked and most of the spam for last week came from the Russian Federation, at 23% of the overall traffic, so I can should I choose to do it, block all traffic from the Russian Federation.

Another neat perk to my mind, when you sign up you can have CleanTalk check your system and comments retro and it will give you a list of past spam comments.

Another plus for me, CleanTalk also protects your site from rude and abusive words and foul language with cursing and hate speech and will send those comments to spam.

To conclude: This is an amazing Plugin for stopping all types of spam and I am a happy CleanTalk user! 

Features as quoted by CleanTalk

I am unable to put the features more descriptively, so I quote and credit the below section directly as per CleanTalk.

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CleanTalk

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WP TASTY

This is a fantastic feature to have on your blog when you share recipes.  Your recipe has a set structure and Google loves it.  Would you like and have Google include it and show it as a search result when someone searches for a recipe?  Yes OR No?  

I would guess that you will answer YES to the above.  For that reason alone, it’s highly beneficial to use the WP Tasty plugin!

You can type it out in the body of your post, but having a recipe card that’s aesthetically pleasing and when laid out for sure has a benefit in that it will keep your readers on your page longer to read the full recipe and hopefully leave a comment and try your recipe. 

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Aweber

I use Aweber as my email provider, and it is working great, it is easy to implement and design your own emails and templates as well as lead pages. 

Should you require and need an email provider, do not hesitate to try them and use my Referral Code.

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AWeber – Email service

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Lastpass

LastPass remembers all your passwords across every device for free!  Save a password once, and it’s instantly available on all your devices.

This is the best thing I have done, and I have tried others, but LastPass goes where I go and this will be my last, and did I mention, the best of all, it’s FREE!  Yes, can do get paid versions as well.

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LastPass

Canva

  • You won’t find an easier way to design an infographic
  • Create standout posters 
  • Easy charts
  • Customize and print new folded card templates
  • Create a social media campaign
  • And so much more to be done with Canva
  • Design anything in minutes with thousands of beautiful templates and images.
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Canva App

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CartFlows

Get More Leads, Increase Conversions & Maximize Profits. Simple & Affordable Pricing

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MockupShots

This is an incredibly awesome deal that I stumbled on and YES I am using this and you will see some of my work with these Mockups. You can access this and get lifetime access to one small investment to work your magic with a 60% lower than normal.

You can use the mockups on FB, Twitter, Pinterest, in your newsletter, and lots of other places, in fact wherever you wish to have an awesome and outstanding image to promote your work.

This is so much fun and you can even create videos and .gif mockups. You also have the ability to create your cover, then search by a specific topic (235 at present) for a design you like. This is so much fun to use and so professionally done. Do not miss out on this awesome opportunity.

Yes, it’s only $80.00 for unlimited lifetime access

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Kris Kimball

The Blog Fixer

Professional software developer turned wife’s WordPress technical support guru turned plugin developer. I created The Blog Fixer ™ plugin and have used it to apply many types of beneficial services to hundreds of WordPress blogs.

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Canva

Canva Pro is the design software that makes design simple, convenient, and reliable. Create what you need in no time! Jam-packed with time-saving tools that make anyone look like a professional designer.

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Canva

AppSumo

AppSumo is the store for entrepreneurs. We curate essential software deals that every entrepreneur needs to run their business.

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AppSumo

Pinch of Yum


Over 13,000 people have taken the Pinch of Yum food photography and stepped up to the next level by using the Tasty Food Photography system. It’s jam-packed with tips, tricks, and video tutorials to learn how to take better food photos for your blog or business.

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Pinch of Yum

Spencer Haws

Do you need help with your Internal Links when you write your blog posts? Do you know that they can help boost your ranking as Google sees all sorts of content that is intertwined and related? These link/s tell them what your site is about and can boost the content’s value, improving ranking.

You need to link to related posts within your article. They have to connect to what you’ve written.

  • If you like, you can use manual linking. You will add links as they make sense in your posts, but manual linking is labor-intensive.
  • To do manual linking, you need to keep a spreadsheet in word or .xls or whatever format you prefer of each and every post you’ve written on your site (which can be numerous once you have been blogging for years. As you write new content, you will have to revert to this ever-growing sheet to find the relevant article/s you wish and need to link to. I have been told the best would be to try and link to at least 3 other posts if at all possible.
  • OR, you can opt to use a plugin like Link Whisper.

You will start by writing your post, and this nifty plugin, called Link Whisperer will check for posts and options for adding internal links. You are not obligated to use the suggestions, you can link or not as Link Whisperer gives you total control. To my mind, this is the easiest and simplest way to remember to use internal links.

Link Whisperer also has an auto-populate feature. All you need to do would be to enter a specified keyword phrase you wish to link to a specific article, and then Link Whisperer will search for them and update your posts with said links!

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Link Whisperer

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    • Hi Erika. I hope and trust that you will be able to make use of them as I oy connect to the best and will not link to any that I do not wholeheartedly trust and work with. You can be assured that they are well worth it.
      Thanks for popping in. If you have any wuestions do not hesitate to ask or email me.

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