How to use LinkedIn to promote your blog.

LinkedIn is so much more than a site to help you find a job or promote your business.  You can use LinkedIn as a tool to promote your blog and generate a lot of traffic and leads.  However, LinkedIn techniques to help generate that traffic really have to be learned.  There are a few different techniques and they really have to be tested through trial and error to see what works best for you and your blog.

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How to Keep Your Visitors on Your Site.

To define the bounce rate in layman's terms, it's the percentage of people who enter your website and then leave (bounce) without visiting anymore pages.  This happens often by the reader clicking another link from your blog, closing the window, clicking the back button or inactivity once on your blog for an allotted amount of time.  So, how do you keep your readers on your page and prevent them from bouncing off of your page?  There are a few things to try to lower your bounce rate! (An ideal bounce rate is 20%-40%. Anything above 40% needs to be addressed.  This means that your visitors are not really reading your material.)

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How do Moms Make Money Blogging?

Just how much money a mom blogger makes has always been a controversial and tough topic.  In actuality, there isn't a solid way to calculate a monthly or yearly figure since it all depends on the blogger, their time investment, traffic and monetization techniques. However, it is possible to generate an income from your blog whether it's extra pocket change or a full/part time income.  It does take a lot of time and work to make money off your blog and that is something that people do not have patience for.  Generating an income from your blog will not happen quickly, it's something that will build up over time.

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Must Have Apps for Mom Bloggers (Part One)

For a mom blogger on the go, our mobile phones or tablets are an extension of ourselves.  While many people may tell us that we need to surgically implant these devices in our hands, ears, etc...  We know that being connected at any point of the day is 100% essential.  You never know when a client may need you or when an opportunity may come knocking on your door...or e-mail.  How can we keep connected and keep productive when we aren't near our computers?  What apps would be essential to a mom blogger?  Here is part one of our must have apps for mom bloggers! (If you have any other apps that may be essential, leave them noted in the comments!  We will include them in our Part Two.)

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