A Day in the Life of a Full-Time Blogger

Search “blogger working” in Google Image and you will see thousands of smiling bloggers working on their laptop while drinking coffee in a trendy coffee shop. And while these things can definitely be part of a blogger’s day, they are only the visible part of the iceberg. Blogging isn’t just about drinking coffee, traveling to beautiful destinations and relaxing on the beach, it’s also about answering emails, fixing technical glitches and all sorts of invisible tasks....

May 15, 2019 · 10 min · 2081 words · Benjamin Houy

How to Write a SEO Title Google and Your Visitors Love

Writing a SEO title (also called page title or Google title) is considered difficult because you are writing for 3 main audiences. Visitors coming from search engines. Search engines. Visitors from social media. And writing a SEO title that ranks high on Google and gets shared on social media can often feel like mission impossible. Luckily, it turns out it really isn’t as difficult as it sounds. All you need to do is follow a few important rules....

May 8, 2019 · 10 min · 1942 words · Benjamin Houy

A Bittersweet First Blog Income Report

The internet is full of success stories and my 6-figures language-learning blog French Together could be considered one of them But things don’t always go as planned and every business experiences ups and downs. April was definitely in the down category for me and that’s great because it means the first blog income report I ever published will be full of valuable lessons about blogging. Grow With Less The story of Grow With Less (and why I switched niches 3 times) Grow With Less had an interesting start and changed a lot over the last few months....

May 7, 2019 · 9 min · 1730 words · Benjamin Houy

Journorequest, Snowmaker and 20 other Link Building Strategies That Work Great in 2022

Creating awesome content is not enough. If you want traffic, you need to build high-quality backlinks. But how do you do that? There are hundreds of articles listing the best link building strategies but the reality is that you don’t need 100 strategies that make you feel pushy and overwhelmed, you need one strategy that works and makes you feel good about your link building efforts. This article will help you find it and show you how to avoid a few “backlink killers” that could render all your link building efforts useless....

May 1, 2019 · 26 min · 5472 words · Benjamin Houy

Stoicism: Can the Ancient Philosophy Make You a Better Business Owner?

I have always considered philosophy to a strange topic full of mysterious sentences and complicated concepts. So I was pretty surprised when I read Epictetus’ Manual for the first time. The advice in the book was not only understandable but also surprisingly actionable. I have since read many more books about Stoicism and found that the ancient philosophy is full of useful tips for living a good life, and more surprisingly, full of useful lessons for growing an online business....

April 18, 2019 · 8 min · 1592 words · Benjamin Houy