BLOGGING RESOURCES

Building and maintaining a website takes time. As we launch our blog (JENMERCKLING.COM) and build the website, join us for the journey and learn with us along the way. I'll share the key learnings that we make as we strive to create a user friendly website that is functional, intuitive, and engaging for the user! My biggest ask--share your ideas, your questions, and your comments. I'm eager to make this communication a two-way street for the "technical" side of blogging. We can all learn from each other!

Design Tools

Seriously, there are so many tools available when it comes to designing your website. There are also a lot of opinions on how to do it as well. I'll share my key learnings and thought processes with you!

Advertising

Budgets for promoting your blog can be limited in the early going. I'll share ideas that gave us the best ROI as we launched our blog and also talk about our advertising goals.

Favorite Plugins

Thank goodness for those plugins! There are some real time saving plugins that have saved me days building our blog. I'll share them here and walk you through how we used them on our site.

SEO

Optimizing your blog for traffic is a critical early step to success. I'll provide some ideas around how we approach SEO to successfully launch our new blog!

Social Media

The majoritiy of website traffic now comes by way of social media referrals. Here's some tactics we've implemented, along with the results we've obtained!

Monetization

A question that's on every bloggers mind, "How do I monetize this blog?" There's an evolution to this process as you build a new blog. I'll share our ideas here!