To install theme downloaded from solostream please follow the below given steps:-

• To install solostream theme you will first require wordpress installation which you can do as follows:-
  • Download and unzip the WordPress package if you haven’t already.
  • Create a database for WordPress on your web server, as well as a MySQL (or MariaDB) user who has all privileges for accessing and modifying it.
  • (Optional) Find and rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php, then edit the file (see Editing wp-config.php) and add your database information.
  • Upload the WordPress files to the desired location on your web server:
    • If you want to integrate WordPress into the root of your domain (e.g.http://example.com/), move or upload all contents of the unzipped WordPress directory (excluding the WordPress directory itself) into the root directory of your web server.
    • If you want to have your WordPress installation in its own subdirectory on your website (e.g. http://example.com/blog/), create the blog directory on your server and upload the contents of the unzipped WordPress package to the directory via FTP.
  • Run the WordPress installation script by accessing the URL in a web browser. This should be the URL where you uploaded the WordPress files.
    • If you installed WordPress in the root directory, you should visit: http://example.com/
    • If you installed WordPress in its own subdirectory called blog, for example, you should visit: http://example.com/blog/

•  Once your wordpress installation is done you need a theme for your website.
• Sign in your solostream member account and you will see list of all the themes available on solostream to download.
• Select the theme which you want to use and download it. A zip file of that theme will be downloaded.
• Login to your wp-admin using your username and passwod and you will be directed to your website’s dashboard.
• On you dashboard goto->Appearance->Themes. Once on the themes page click on add new button and you will be redirected to  a page where you can upload files.
• Browse for the downloaded theme zip file and upload it to your dashboard. Once uploaded you can activate it. If that particular theme requires any external plugins you will get a notification about it. Download those particular plugins.
• That’s it! Your solostream theme has been installed in your wordpress installation. You can start creating new pages adding new blogs/articles for your website’s visitors to see.

User engagement and bounce rate go hand in hand. Whether you have an up and running website or established a new one recently, an increased bounce rate can signify poor user engagement on your website. And of course, you wouldn’t want that especially when you put countless hours of efforts into building it.

What is a bounce rate?

A bounce rate is a measure of how rapidly your visitors leave your website after landing on it. The higher the bounce rate, the poorer is the user engagement on your website. Well, this isn’t always a bad thing if your website’s primary objective is to get visitors who click on your advertising banner and keep the money rolling in. However, if you own an online store or an informative blog, you most likely to need a reduced bounce rate where you would want your visitors to stick by as long as possible.

In a nutshell, irrespective of your business goals, it’s always a wise idea to make visitors stick around for longer since it will attract more subscribers and add more money to your pocket.

So if you are one of those who is tired of trying millions of things to lower their bounce rate, you are at the right place.
In today’s post, we are going to share some of the tried and tested methods of bringing the bounce of a website down while significantly increasing it’s user engagement.

1. Know your audience

Establishing and maintaining a website is a challenging chore especially in today’s ever-growing competitive market. However, the key to a successful website is to comprehensively know your audience and examining the analytics. Before you jump into the process of lowering your bounce rate, it is imperative to figure out the complicated details of every page of your website. Study your audience and find out what type of audience is attracted to your website. This way you can focus on creating content that’s best suited to your audience and drastically reduce the bounce rate on your website.

2. Keep it simple

Being able to create a website design that is both aesthetically appealing and functional gives you the freedom to add countless numbers of elements. However, adding too many elements on your website will only distract your visitor from performing the actual chore you want them to perform such as subscribing to the newsletter, buying a product, or more.

The best way to ensure that your visitors do not abandon your website immediately after landing on it is to keep the design as simple as possible. You can create an app like interface where only the necessary elements are integrated, improving the UI and UX.

3. Integrate a compelling call-to-action

More than 47% of the sites use well-designed and clear call-to-action buttons that do not take more than 3 seconds to be noticed by the visitor as reported by the study conducted by Go-Globe.

If your site is one of them, you are lucky. If not, this is probably the primary cause of your increased bounce rate.

The matter of the fact is visitors won’t subscribe to your newsletter unless they are persuaded. Not insisting them to take an action on your website will leave you in a jeopardy of collecting genuine and useful email ids.

So no matter what type of design you have, make sure the CTAs integrated are compelling. Also while designing the CTAs, every single element is important from the location of the CTA to its color.

One of the best examples of strong CTAs is Sprout Social that has kept its Call-to-action button above the fold and captures the attention of the visitors instantly.

4. Leverage Breadcrumbs

Have you ever shopped on amazon or eBay? Of course, you have. While spooning the website for different products, you must have noticed a trail of links at the top. Well, this is called breadcrumbs.

Breadcrumbs is a great way to make navigation easier and convenient for your visitors. It allows them to navigate back to the previous page they were visiting or directly move to the homepage.

Adding it to your website will not only help visitors to easily navigate on your website but also make it a lot easier for the search engines to comprehend your website’s structure.

5. Get social

Social media is yet another amazing way to constantly drive traffic to your website while reducing your bounce rate consistently. However, not establishing your brand on the social media platform will hinder it from making the most of it. As a matter of fact, people now prefer social networking where they can communicate with their friends as well as brands they are most interested in.

Since web users on the social media platform are active and participate in almost every activity taking place, it’s a great opportunity to introduce your brand to them and direct them to your website. This way you can kill two birds with one stone – driving traffic to your website and lowering bounce rate.

6. Be Mobile-friendly

The mobile industry has grown significantly with the evolution of countless smartphones, tablets, iPhones and more. And according to a recent study, more than 38% of the traffic is driven by the smartphone. This is indeed a huge number, and trust me, it is only increasing.
So, do you have a mobile friendly or responsive website or still overlooking this need of the hour necessity?

What do you think about the points mentioned above? Do you think they make any difference to the bounce rate of a website? Share your opinions and suggests in the comments below.

Author Bio:

Jason is a well-known writer and a professional web developer working for WordSuccor Ltd.If you are looking to get WordPress eCommerce Theme Development Services, then get in touch with him. He is expert in PSD to WordPress Conversion and WordPress Plugin Development. He loves to share his intangible knowledge on the web related to WordPress development tips and tricks.

Running a multi-author blog can be a challenging chore especially when it comes to updating your authors regarding their post status. When you have too many authors working for your website it usually becomes pretty difficult to keep a track if the author has been informed.

But why it’s important to inform your author?

Well, when the article of any of your WordPress website author is published they should be notified about the publication so that they can also participate in the discussion and advertise the article on their social media accounts as well as on other platforms. This helps you drive huge traffic to your blog and generate revenue. It also allows your authors to respond to the comments posted by the users on their articles, making it easy for you to manage your content and users.

But a majority of webmasters may not know that WordPress provides a method to automatically notify authors when their blog is published.
In today’s post, we are going to show certain methods to get the job done.

Method 1: Sending notification using Edit Flow

For this method, you will need a plugin called Edit Flow. Just install and activate the said plugin to configure email notifications.

Edit Flow plugin

The plugin allows you to collaborate with your editorial team within WordPress. Edit Flow plugin integrated with tons of options that allow you to easily manage your editorial team. Edit Flow is a powerful, profound and the most advanced WordPress plugin that can do a lot more than just sending notifications to the authors.

Some of the popular features of this plugin include creating user groups, adding editorial metadata, editorial comments, calendar, custom statuses and more.

As soon as you activate the plugin, it will start sending notifications to the respective authors once their posts are published. However, this default setting of Edit Flow plugin does not notify the admin about the notifications sent to the authors.

In order to notify the admin as well, you need to configure the settings first. Click edit flow → notifications. You will be redirected to the notification page of the plugin where you have to enable “Always notify blog admin” option. Hit save changes.

Once enabled, the site admin will start receiving the notifications along with the authors.

Method 2: Better Notifications

This is yet another popular way of keeping your authors informed about their post-publication. Even for this method, you would need a plugin installed i.e. Better Notification for WordPress plugin.

Better Notification for WordPress

Better Notification for WordPress is yet another popular WordPress plugin that enables you to create custom email notifications and sends them to individual users or user roles for almost every type of things happening on your WordPress website.

Creating custom email notification for your authors

You will need to install and activate the plugin on your WordPress website. Once activated, click Notifications → add new. You will be redirected to Add New Notification page where you will be able to create a custom email notification for your authors.

First off, you need to enter the title of the email notification. You can enter any title. We chose Published Post Notification for Authors. Similarly, you have to enter Notification For text box with the relevant info such as Recent Post Published. Now check “Send this notification to the Author only” checkbox in front of Additional Email Fields option. Enter the most suitable subject line and email body. The plugin allows you to use shortcodes in the email body like [user_nicename], [permalink] and [post_title].

Once you have entered all the details, hit save to save all the changes.
So, now whenever you publish an article of one of your authors, the plugin will automatically send a notification to him/her.

Method 3: Manually sending notification to the authors

Well, this method is recommended for those who do not want to use any kind of plugin and know how to add code snippets.

For this method, you are required to add the following code snippet to your functions.php file.

function notifyauthor($post_id) {
$post = get_post($post_id);
$author = get_userdata($post->post_author);
$subject = "Post Published: ".$post->post_title."";
$message = "
Hi ".$author->display_name.",
Your post, \"".$post->post_title."\" has just been published.
View post: ".get_permalink( $post_id )."
Thanks"
;
wp_mail($author->user_email, $subject, $message);
}
add_action('publish_post', 'notifyauthor');


The code sends automatic email notifications to the authors when a new post is published with the subject and message defined in the code. You can alter the subject and message as per your requisites.

Conclusion:

No matter which method you choose to send notifications, you can now easily keep your authors informed about their post statuses.
If you know any other method, feel free to leave a comment in the comments section below.

Author Bio:

Kerin Miller is an expert WordPress developer having years of experience in working with various web development technologies. Currently, she is working for Stellen Infotech, a leading WordPress Development Company around the globe. She is always trying to share her intangible knowledge with others on the web.

In 2016, WordPress is a household name. It’s a brand that almost every website owner or designer is aware of, and that’s assuming they don’t already use it. Like anything else, though, WordPress blogs came from somewhere. Today I’m going to show you just how far WP has come since its creation.

We’ll follow that up with an infographic that charts the path WordPress sites took from its inception to its current throne on the peak of content management systems.

Tracking the Incredible Success of WordPress (Infographic)

Let’s look back on the time you started thinking about creating a blog. You may currently be in this moment or it could be a distant memory, but we’ve all been there. You’re looking for the right platform to create your masterpiece and you see there’s a lot of options.

Sooner or later (most likely sooner), you come across WordPress and all of the incredible themes it offers. You start looking into it and the statistics blow you away:

• Users are publishing roughly 58.3 million new posts each month!
• WordPress has been downloaded 41,646,534 times and counting.
• 25% of WordPress users have a full-time job using the program.
• WordPress.com has more unique monthly visitors than Amazon.com!

Beyond these stats, what makes WP so popular? It all boils down to some of the extremely user-friendly design choices and features it offers. For starters, it’s an open source program that doesn’t cost a dime to download and use.

Another benefit of this feature is the ability for people to create their own plugins and themes that work with the latest version of WordPress. Programmers around the world contribute to the program’s continued patches and success through volunteer work.

In terms of usability, there’s nothing that beats WordPress. The design and layout is extremely easy to understand for beginners and advanced users alike. The addition of plugins and themes allows those same users to completely customize the look and feel of their blog or website without any trouble.

Continuing the list of great features, WordPress also has plenty of options for SEO (search engine optimization). The coding used in the program and the plugins available for tweaking your various on and off-page settings allows you to hit the top spots in organic search rankings with enough skill and work.

Finally, WordPress is extremely adaptable to all kinds of content. Whether you’re making a blog, a static webpage, a shop, or a business website/blog hybrid, WP has you covered and then some. It is easily the most accessible and flexible platform in existence.

It’s for these reasons and plenty more that brought WP to the top of everyone’s lists when they decide to create a website. It truly is incredible how far WordPress has come, but now it’s time to see where it all began, and where it’s going.

Check out our infographic for a look at the past, present, and future of WordPress. Do you use WP for your site? Let us know in the comments!

Most of us know WordPress is the leading open source platform that is used by more than 74 million website and more than 48% of blogs all over the World, and that is why its favorite gateway for hackers to host malicious content that can use extreme resources of your server and you find difficulty to maintain and keep up running your other websites.

How to secure WordPress Website ?

Using WordPress is easy but to maintain it needs more focus and professional eyes on what is going on with your WordPress website. There are many ways that you can take care of your WordPress site which we have described below .

1. Upgrade your WordPress and Plugins
   You have to make sure that you have the most latest version of WordPress and plugins which reduces risk of compromising your website
2. Use Licensed and tested WordPress themes and plugins
   Try to use official and licensed theme that also helps you to report and file any issues that came when you have compatibility issues with your WordPress and plugin versions.
3. Secure server and configuration files
   Protect your “.htaccess” & “WP-Config.php” file with proper write permission according to your requirements.
4. Optimize data files, Themes and Plugins
   We often can see there are most of the times we have unwanted files that lies withing our WordPress directories, it can include unwanted themes, plugins which are not active or not in use.
5. Secure your ID and Password
   It is standard practice to protect and secure your login credentials as well as your other server login credentials
6. Choose right Hosting Server for your WordPress
   Most of the time we don’t know what is the reputation and standard practice to manage servers, and people get tempted to host their WordPress to host on cheaper hosting, and that can be the one of the standard practice that hackers find another websites to hack your WordPress.

WordPress: Most popular website development platform

When we think of the best and the most popular content management system, WordPress is the first name that comes to our mind. It is by far one of the most reliable CMS tool on the web that allows both the developers and novice users to develop a beautiful and highly-intuitive website. It comes packaged with a ton of high-powered themes, plugins and tools that will help you create a custom website, without any heavy lifting.

In fact, over 75 million of websites are powered by this robust content management platform and it enjoys more than 40 percent market share – which is a huge portion in the CMS industry. With that effect, we bring you the advantages of using WordPress platform for creating highly professional and user-friendly websites.

1. Easy to use and learn

Why WordPress is so popular among beginners? This is because WordPress is a super-easy CMS tool that requires zero programming or coding skills for developing a website. It means you don’t need to learn any programming language such as JavaScript, HTML, PHP, etc to building your website.

You can also watch a tutorial video, such as “how to create a WordPress site? Or ways to create a custom website on WordPress”. With the help of these tutorials, you can effectively build anything- from a content-based site to an eCommerce platform.

1. Tons of cutting-edge and updated plugins

WordPress is great because it offers a ton of advanced and updated plugins that can help you extend the functionality of your site, without even writing a single line of code. WordPress plugins always played a significant role in enhancing the usability and functionality of a site.

WordPress has introduced some of the amazing plugins, such as Wordfence, Visual Form Builder, Infinite SEP. AdSanity, WPtouch, BackupBuddy and a lot more. With the help of new and advanced plugins, you can harden the security, and boost the performance of the site with ease.

1. Search Engine Friendliness

One of the biggest advantages of using WordPress is that it is a SEO-friendly content management tool. Actually the codes behind the WordPress are simple and clean that allows Google and other search engines to read and index the site more quickly and easily.

Furthermore, it offers a plenty of robust SEO-based tools and plugins to help you optimize your site for the search engine platforms. You can make a use of the best SEO plugins such as WordPress SEO by Yoast that will encourage you to make your site as well as content SEO-friendly.

1. Mobile-optimized platform

The growing usage of mobile devices for browsing internet allowing web designers and developers to build a responsive web design that will work swiftly on different devices such as desktop computer, laptop, smartphone and tablet. This shows that it has become imperative for the site owners to create mobile friendly websites that can help in increasing their web traffic.

Fortunately, WordPress offers a variety of mobile-friendly tools and plugins that can switch your existing site with the mobile-friendly feature. You can also use responsive WordPress themes that make your site compatible with the multiple devices and screen sizes.

1. WordPress is a Universal Platform

WordPress is one of the most well-established and reliable content management systems by all search engines. In simple words, it is a universal platform that powers millions of websites across the world. In fact, universal feature also extends the functionality and ideology of the sites developed on WordPress.

1. Fully-customizable

WordPress gives you the flexibility to create a customized site, without any coding skills. It offers a variety of beautiful and certified themes to help you create a site the way you want. You can create anything – from a photography site, portfolio, e-magazine to a personal blog, eCommerce site and a lot more.

With the help of these themes, you can change the color, fonts, background color, typography, content structure, etc with ease.

1. Unlimited functionality and usability

The WordPress site owners can boast the unlimited functionality offered by WordPress. These functionalities include management, usability, customization, and administration. It enables you to set up a network of contributors along with fully customizing websites.

In fact, you can also install the additional functions by installing a purpose-driven plugin into your WordPress site.

1. Secure

It is tough to say that WordPress is a fully secure CMS platform. But we can assure you that it is one of the safest and secure tools as it rolls out the latest version on a regular basis with the advanced features and security fixes. If you find any loophole within your site, you can update your site and installed themes and plugins with their respective latest versions.

Plus, it offers some of the great security plugins that can help you strengthen the security of your site with ease.

1. Easy to manage content

Creating, editing and modifying a new page or post on a WordPress site becomes easy and quick. You can add new content on your site, without the assistance of a web development service provider. Even, you can preview the changes before uploading the content on the live site.

1. Cost-effective

WordPress is a free CMS tool. It means you can download, install and use this platform at free of cost. You can also buy premium WordPress version that will automatically offer you access to unlimited tools, themes and plugins that you need to buy for your site.

But if you are looking for an affordable option, you can go with the free version of WordPress.

Conclusion

WordPress is the most reckoned platform on the web that allows people to build beautiful and highly-interactive websites with ease. You can also this platform to start off your first online venture.

Author Bio:

Maggie Sawyer works for MarkupHQ Ltd., a PSD to WordPress Company. She is a professional WordPress developer & a blogger by hobby and she provides WordPress customization services with 100% client satisfaction guaranteed. She loves to share innovative ideas and thoughts related to WordPress. Connect with her on Google+ and Twitter.

Revisions stored on WordPress can be a very handy tool if used properly, but can also be a space hog on your page and storage. Revisions can be used to compare previous versions and also highlights changes in documents. WordPress keeps a record of each saved draft or published update in a revisions category. This is an area perhaps a lot of folks can utilize there previous created work and go through the revisions to make changes and even restore an older revision from before. If this folder is not utilized there is also a way to bulk delete as well and keep it cleared out and out of the way.

Revisions are displayed by what was added, what didn’t change, and what was deleted. It is useful when working on a large project and needing notes from your revisions to keep track of what has been added or removed. This is a great personal file storage that WordPress offers when used in this sense. If your revision folder is full and backed up it is a possibility it could slow down the functions of your website, and it does help to clean out this area by deleting unused files or drafts, and maintaining control over this file.

There is even a way to disable post revisions if preferred on the site as well and not have to worry about the folder and space being used at all, and to do this you would need to edit the configuration file. An easier solution is learning how to control revisions in WordPress using a simple interface.

There is a plugin called WP Revisions Control Plugin. After activation you can go to settings then writing to control revisions. From this section you can control how many revisions you would like stored for each post type. You will only see pages and posts in this area if you haven’t created any custom post pages yet. If you want to save all the revisions for your post type you can leave the area blank and WordPress will save all of them automatically by default. Be sure to always save changes when making a change in settings and from there you should be able to manage and control the amount of revisions are saved on your WordPress Site.

As discussed before you can also just bulk delete if you are not interested in reviewing your revisions drafts and published work. All though by going over some of the features the revision option offers such as seeing your changes made and delete on different post this can prove to come in handy as well when working on a big project or a chain of blogs.

The plug in mentioned above is free of charge and very easy to add to your page it is compatible with WordPress and has an easy user interface for those new at using plugins. It is definitely worth a try for managing and controlling your pages revisions. We hope this blog article helps you, please feel free to reach out to us if you have any issues with this topic.

Making photo gallery albums is important to a website, adding photo gallery in your blog is simple to do. In today’s society we have become a visual world. Driven by appearances and media when it comes to marketing or drawing in an audience a media gallery should be top priority for keeping our page inviting as well as interesting. What would interest you more a plain page with no pictures or a page with photos included to keep our visual attention.

The good thing about WordPress is it has an add media option where it allows its users to develop a photo gallery on their page. WordPress offers different layouts and ways to style your gallery as well. You have the option of using the default layout which is thumbnail or you can design them in mosaic, and slideshow as well.

Tile mosaic styles come in three styles rectangular, square, and circular tiles. This is perhaps the most popular style yet and has a very easy interface for organizing your stream of photos.

All of these styles can be done through the Media Settings in WordPress and once chosen a style for your gallery this will be the style for all future and past posts created on your page. This can be changed at any time as well.

If you are interested in adding a gallery to your page what you will do is open a page or post for editing if it is a new page be sure to add a title before adding a gallery. You will then want to go to the ADD Media button and from there you can choose the Create Gallery Option and begin adding your photos.

The great thing about the different styles and layouts offered for your gallery you can sample each one and see which one fits your page the best. This is a neat option to offer your readers and can prove to be quite rewarding once added to your page. Once you complete all the necessary steps from choosing the photos for each post and your design layout you are then directed to saving and adding the gallery. From this point you can go to your settings and edit your gallery any time. You are able to add and delete photos, change the style, as well as move the photos around. This gives you complete control over your gallery and how you would like it presented on your site.

This has proven to be a successful tool for example if you are creating a cooking blog with recipes a photo gallery of your created recipes or step by step photos of your meal you are blogging about can give your readers a much better experience with your blog and can draw more people to your page. This can be useful for a number of things and pretty much any blog you can create. A photo gallery can aslo be used as a branding opportunity for displaying your company’s logo and photos for marketing helping give your business an identity through the gallery as well.

The photo gallery option is very easy to use and should definitely be a tool to be utilized. Adding such visual elements to your blog or site will make it stand out and be superior than other sites who don’t utilize this feature. Plugins have also been created for WordPress sites that allow you to easily add galleries to your site in under a minute, so now there are no excuses for creating amazing websites! We always enjoy seeing our clients who use our premium wordpress themes so feel free to email us your website and we can add it in our showcase display.

You think blogging could be a great idea? Could making a WordPress Blog make you money? What are you looking to achieve from blogging? Who are you aiming at? Why do you want to share your words with the wider public?

These are all vital questions you need to answer before you commence your blog. However, below are our top tips to creating an effective and successful blog whatever your motivation is!

1. FIND YOUR SUBJECT MATTER

The first thing you need to determine is what you want to say and, more importantly how you are going to say it. Say something original… or at least say it differently! If you can put a fresh spin on a subject, whether informing, educating, entertaining or all three, your writing will be compelling to read.

2. FIND YOUR PLATFORM

Choose a platform that can offer a vast array of themes and feature-rich packages, such as solostream.com. This will give your blog a real professional shine. They also provide themes that are fully compatible with mobile browsing. Many people choose to read blogs out of home. Whether they are commuting to and from work or stopping for a coffee, your reader should be able to access your blog across all mobile devices.

3. FIND YOUR VOICE

The internet is not short of bland and passively written blogs so don’t add to the list! You have an opportunity to bring your voice to life so allow your personality and passion to shine through all your posts. The best blogs can make people laugh or cry because the reader is rooting for the blogger. Many of us like to live vicariously through the exploits of others so take your reader with you on your journey and keep them coming back for more!

4. FIND YOUR AUDIENCE

This is not so easy to do. How do you make sure you are not going to be sat in an empty room talking to yourself?! Well the good news is that a site like solostream will ensure your blog is SEO ready (fully optimized for search engines and able to generate the highest traffic). This will allow you to focus on writing a blog people will want to read.

5. GRAB ATTENTION

In journalism the role of a headline writer is a very specialist function. It really doesn’t matter how well written a piece is if the headline does not hook the reader in.  If you are going to email your blog to your own distribution list, make sure you make a splash with your subject line or you will never hook them in!

6. KEEP THE READER ON YOUR PAGE

Now you have found your readers and brought them to your blog you want them to stay and read your post in full. Make sure you do not waste words. Never post a first draft you have written. Edit your post so it says what you need it to say – no more, no less. You want every sentence to have some impact or resonance with the audience. Don’t ramble on aimlessly or your reader will quickly drift away!

7. ENGAGE WITH YOUR READERS

It can have enormous benefits for the blogger if they make themselves accessible to the readership. Invite comments on your posts. Always be polite and respectful and take the opportunity to add that extra personal touch! This will enable you to build audience loyalty.

8. MAXIMIZING OPPORTUNITIES

The internet is a bountiful, never-ending landscape of opportunities. For bloggers these take the shape of sponsorship and affiliate marketing. If your content is drawing in an audience from a particular demographic, let’s say, 25-34 year olds with a keen interest in health and fitness; that will allow you to form affiliate marketing connections with product suppliers who will appeal to those readers.

As a blogger you can earn money from purchases made that have originated as a click through from your blog. Other businesses, able to see the traffic you generate, may approach you with offers to provide banner sponsorship of your blog pages. Solostream has a world class support team who can advise you on this.

9. TIMING

You should not under-estimate the importance of timing. You want your blogs to always be relevant and ‘of the moment’. If you are writing about the best places to visit in the UK, it is better to do this before the peak season rather than just after! If you write on sport then those that preview major events or events in progress, will have much more appeal than post-event pieces.

10. LOVE WHAT YOU DO

The question posed at the start was, “what is your motivation?” However you answer this it has to include ‘for pleasure’. It is key that you enjoy writing your blog and get satisfaction from the process. It should never feel like a chore and should always resonate as completely authentic.