SEO is not dead. Some people predicted that SEO will die in 2017, but trust me, SEO is still going strong. And it is now more important than ever for bloggers and creatives. In this post, I will discuss 5 SEO practices to take note of in 2017. Why? Because SEO is one of the cheapest ways to drive traffic to your website. Organic search results are one way of ensuring you get traffic to your website without spending any money on ads. According to Forbes, almost “40% of customers find the company through search”. In my humble opinion, it is worth the time and the effort to take note of SEO practices to ensure you are always one-step ahead of your competition! P.S. I feel like I should warn you, but this post…

Yeah, I know, I am probably a little late with this one, but rather late than never, right? I also just recently (i.e. last night) wrote down my planning for 2017! Yes, we’re nearly at the end of January, and I only now got my stuff together to start with this 2017 blogging year! Anyway, since everyone is doing a round-up of their 2016, I decided to do a round-up of my top 10 blog posts for 2016. 2016 was a really strange year for the blog. In 2016, I finally decided to change my blog name and spent the last 6 months of 2016 redesigning and moving my blog from the old www.glamorousglitter.co.za to the new www.imkawebb.com. Because I have a full-time job which I absolutely love (I am the digital editor for…

When working on growing a blog, and juggling a full-time, often demanding, 9 -5 that I absolutely love, I sometimes struggled with overwhelming feelings of anxiety and stress. Not because I didn’t like what I was doing, but because I didn’t have any systems in place to ensure that I can spend enough time with my work, my blog, my family and my friends. I soon realised that if I continue with willy-nilly trying to figure out how to fit my blog in to my 9-5, it will do more harm than good. And that is why I created a few systems to ensure that I can continue to grow my blog, be successful and happy at work, and spend enough time with my friends and family. So, how do I do it? Below…