Blog Profile / ProBlogger
| URL : | http://www.problogger.net/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Internet / Blogging | |
| Posts on Regator: | 2794 | |
| Posts / Week: | 10.5 | |
| Archived Since: | April 12, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
How to Create a Blog Purpose Statement in 3 Simple Steps
Yesterday, I shared a series of questions to help those bloggers seeking a little clarity when it comes to what their blog could be about. Today, I wanted to share 3 more questions – these are not so much focused upon YOU as a blogger but upon your readers. Hopefully they’ll also help you achieve [...]Show More Summary
7 Questions to Ask Yourself to Bring Clarity to Your Blogging
Do you feel like you’ve lost clarity around what it is that you’re trying to do with your blog? I’ve recently bumped into a few bloggers grappling with this idea. Some were new, even ‘Pre’ Bloggers, while a couple had been blogging for a while but had lost some direction. Out of these conversations, I [...]Show More Summary
7 Steps to Proofreading Like a Pro
This is a guest contribution by Charles Cuninghame, website copywriter and owner of Text-Centric. I’m sure we can all agree that proofreading is the least fun part of blogging. But while it may be tedious, it’s well worth the effort. Typos are not only embarrassing, they can also cost you money. In a widely reported [...]Show More Summary
Are Balancing Emerging Technology with Effective Strategy?
Last week I was asked at a conference to reflect upon the future of digital and among other things I made a reflection that seemed to resonate with those gathered. It was: Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. As online publishers we see a steady stream of articles being written about new and [...]Show More Summary
How to Blog Like a Pro: Workshop on the Gold Coast Australia – Next Week
Next week (29th May) I’m running a special workshop at the Internet Conference on the Gold Coast here in Australia. The workshop is titled – How to Blog Like a Pro – and you’ll get 4 solid hours of teaching in it – all delivered by me in a workshop limited to 40 people only. [...]Show More Summary
How To Use Auto Responder Emails to Boost Your Blogging Efforts
This is a guest contribution by Asher Elran of Dynamic Search. I thought emails were a waste of time and that they are ignored, but then I learned how to do it right and watched the numbers flip. After you published a great post and pushed it through your social network, the third step [...]Show More Summary
How Much Content Should I Have Ready to Go When I Launch a Blog?
Recently I had opportunity to sit with a small group of Pre-Bloggers – people about to start their first blogs. One of the question I was asked was for advice on how much content to have written before launching a new blog. My answer came in two parts: The Ideal Scenario What I actually have [...]Show More Summary
Blog This! Sometimes Going Back to Basics Leads to the Best Posts
Today, I’m preparing some slides for a keynote I’m doing tomorrow. I included this diagram – something that Chris Garrett came up with years ago as a way to show new bloggers what they should blog about. The idea – obviously – is to find the connecting point between what YOU know (lessons you’ve learned, [...]Show More Summary
Why Interlinking Your Blogs Posts is a Must (and Not Just For SEO)
This is a guest contribution by Daniel Vassiliou of Endurance SEO. Everybody loves (LOVES) to talk about link building and find the latest and greatest technique for building backlinks to your blog. While this gets you more traffic and better rankings in the search engines, it can draw away from an equally important aspect of your blog – [...]Show More Summary
How Many Posts Should a Blogger Post? [Pros and Cons of Daily Posting]
Almost every time I do a Q&A at a conference I’m asked this question – How many posts should I post? The frequency of blog posts is something that gets talked about a lot and there is no perfect answer for all blogs – but here are a few thoughts on the topic. The Pros [...]
Will Your Content Marketing Last The Distance?
This is a guest contribution by Ruchi Pardal of ResultFirst. Some people believe that content marketing means multichannel, and seemingly mechanical, publishing of anything, anywhere. Their goal is to gain links and rank well (of course, momentarily) using thin content, spinned content, keyword-rich content or unnecessary press releases. Show More Summary
My April Blogging Income Breakdown
Yesterday I published a post telling my story of adding 12 income streams to my blogs over the last 10 years. One of the comments and tweets I had a number of times was a request to make the diagram I used shows how the 12 different streams of income go towards making the overall [...] Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger My April Blogging Income Breakdown
12 Blogging Income Streams [And the Story of My 10 Year 'Overnight' Success]
Today I was speaking with a blogger (I’ll call her Alice for the sake of this post) who was feeling a little overwhelmed with the idea of monetizing her blog. She expressed that as she looked at other blogs in her niche, everyone seemed to be doing such amazing things. She said she felt she’d [...]Show More Summary
Affiliate Marketing: Cult or Cash Cow?
This is a guest post from communications and marketing consultant Brook McCarthy. When I was a young hippie, I accidentally joined a cult. I was a student of religious studies at the time and believed I was merely observing, until one morning, when I found myself at 5am, chanting to a giant image of the guru in a [...]Show More Summary
Final ProBlogger Training Event Tickets Go On Sale Today
The final round of tickets for the Annual ProBlogger Training Event go on sale later today at 1.30pm Australian Eastern time. You’ll be able to get them once released here. Over the last few years we’ve held 3 training events and have seen things grow each time. Year 1 saw Chris Garrett, myself and a [...]Show More Summary
How to Get Your First 1,000 Email Subscribers When Nobody Knows You
This is a guest contribution by Marya Jan, blogging coach from Writing Happiness. What’s the biggest excuse you hear from people who are not getting the results they want from their blogging? “I don’t know anyone online.” Not ‘my content might not be good’. Not ‘I don’t a clear idea of what I am doing’. Not [...]Show More Summary
The Walking Dead Guide to Writing a Killer Blog Opening
This is a guest contribution by Belinda Weaver, the SEO and marketing copywriter behind The Copy Detective. A sheriff’s car rolls up to an intersection, where several cars are burnt out and overturned. The occupant, a police officer, gets out, slowly walks to the back of the car and pulls out a gas can while cautiously [...]Show More Summary
Do You Make These 6 Domain Name Mistakes?
I’m regularly asked about the mistakes I made when starting out with blogging and the first two words that usually spring to mind are ’Domain Names’. Most of the early mistakes I made (and some of the more recent ones) have revolved around domain names. Let me run through a few: 1. Not Getting My [...]
Check out the New Ghost Blogging Platform Kickstarter: Funded in under 12 Hours!
6 months ago I came across a concept article written about by John O’Nolan (web designer and former deputy head of the WordPress User Interface group) that grabbed my attention (and the attention of many others). In the article John dreamed of a new blogging platform – Ghost. In the article John spoke about the [...]Show More Summary
Warning: Don’t Accept Guest Posts Until You’ve Done these 5 Steps
This is a guest contribution by Sandra Miller. Guest blog post can add a lot of value to your blog. Guest posts not only give you a break from writing, they show you are connected and that you respect other experts’ opinions and different perspectives. Guest posts can demonstrate how much you value quality information your [...]Show More Summary