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Tag: Lifestyle & Travel

  • Easy Ways to Spring Clean Your Blog

    a.k.a. things Ria should be doing instead of watching countless Buzzfeed videos or scrolling through Instagram.

    It’s Bank Holiday Monday (if you are lucky enough to live in the UK right now) and honestly days like this when you get an extra bit of time are the ‘perfect’ time for clearing out the cobwebs both IRL and online. In the wonderful haze of writing blog posts we sometimes forget those ‘under the hood’ things that we set up when we first start blogging and often don’t really think about a couple of months down the line. So if you find yourself with a spare 10 minutes and no motivation to actually write, how about ticking a couple of these things off your blogging ‘to do’ list.

    • Delete old broken links.
    • Make your formatting more consistent (I’m terrible at this!)
    • Run a spell/grammar check on recent blog posts
    • Add alt-text tags on all photos
    • Fill out good SEO on all your most recent posts
    • Re-write and update your bio on your About page and social media
    • Update the stats on Media Kits/PR pages
    • Update your social media icons/headers
    • Schedule social media for old blog posts and general promo
    • Clear out inactive blogs you follow on BlogLovin
    • Unfollow inactive accounts on social media
    • Unsubscribe from unnecessary mailing lists
    • Back up your blog files on your computer
    • Reorganise your tags/categories
    • Brainstorm ideas for 10 minutes
    • Reorganise and revisit old blogging notes (and file them for future ref!)

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    Have I missed anything off this list? Leave some of your spring cleaning tips for your blogs for today’s Bank Holiday and beyond in the comments below.

    Ria Xx

  • Postcards From New York | Thoughts From Places

    new-york-skyline

    As I keep mentioning this trip to New York was a re-visit holiday rather than a brand new experience.

    With parents and mini Cagz in tow it was harder for me to actually go back to some of the more ‘off the grid’ places I’d been before like Strand, Greenwich Village and quiet corners of Central Park. We never ‘explored’ further than Chelsea and I barely brushed past SoHo and didn’t even set foot in Brooklyn. The bitter cold winds and packed schedule confined and exhausted us most days as we collapsed into hotel beds at 5pm to rest up for evening activities. We were seeing family most nights, going to shows we’d booked, celebrating my parent’s wedding anniversary and making sure my sister got to see ‘movie New York’ to the best of our ability.

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  • Postcards From New York | It’s Quiet Uptown

    uptown

    Though this trip was very much a run around old favourite places I did finally get to make my way to Uptown Manhattan on a bus tour on one of the sunnier afternoons in the city. Whist Midtown and Downtown Manhattan are more recognisable to your average tourist, Uptown is considered more like an expansive neighbourhood in contrast to the busy-ness of it’s more tourist-y counterparts.

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