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How Good Copywriting Can Benefit You, Even if You’re Not a Writer
I have a secret to tell you. It’s a secret that can improve the lives of every single person who reads this post … writers and non-writers a like. A secret that Chip Kelly would appreciate. Who’s Chip Kelly? He’s a proud, notoriously pithy football coaching wizard who cast a four-year spell on college football [ Continue Reading... Show More Summary
11 Compound Word Errors that Might Make You Look like a Numbskull
Even as a seasoned writer, I’m not immune to making simple but stupid mistakes. Take the word “jive” for instance … Ever since I was kicking the slats out of my crib, I thought it meant “to agree with, to be in harmony.” But nnnnnnnnoooooo. Jive is a language immortalized by the movie Airplane. The word [...]Show More Summary
8 Curious Reasons to Start an Online Business and Work From Home
Don’t get too comfortable with who you are at any given time – you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be. - Jon Bon Jovi Most of you know that I really like working from home despite the occasional cat-based distraction. It is challenging, rewarding and sometimes a lot of fun. [...]
7 Tips for Busy Bloggers on Finding Time to Blog
Last week I tweeted a question asking my Problogger followers to share the biggest challenge that they face as a blogger. Around 50 replies came back and a couple of themes emerged – the biggest one centred around ‘Time’. Finding time to blog is something that all bloggers struggle with. Whether you are just starting [...]Show More Summary
What’s the Best Way to Backup Your WordPress Website?
Nearly 14 years ago today, some of the greatest advice in the history of online publishing was dispensed. Twas May of 1999 when the chart-topping modern day philosopher Terius Gray (better known by his apt stage name ‘Juvenile’), applied his lyrical genius to the Internet, imploring website owners everywhere to “back that thang up.“ For [...]Show More Summary
The 6,528 Word Guide to Choosing Your Main Social Media Battleground
A quick list of social media sites: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Reddit, Digg, YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Yelp, imgur… oh and your blog, that’s social media too! Jeez there’s a lot! So which one do you focus on? Or, like me, perhaps you prefer to crawl up into a tiny ball in the corner of your [...]
Blab Says Its Social Analytics Can Predict The Future Of Social Conversions
Social analytics start-up firm Blab launched in public beta today and it claims that its social analytics platform can predict the future of social conversations. Blab works by listening to 60 million conversions that take place on 50,000 websites. The company uses both text and image matching to detect a websites pages content. Blab then [...]
3 Ways Your Website is Losing Readers
The last time you got into your car, did you notice if your wheels were properly aligned? My guess is that 99.99% of you didn’t even consider it. And if you did, would you really know how to check anyway? But it’s an important question. Wheels being out of alignment can decrease gas mileage, reduce [...]Show More Summary
21 Critical Tasks to Perform as Soon as You Start a Blog (+1 Extra)
When people start a blog they often think that things will take off as soon as the first post is published. Traffic will flow in, readers will give you their email address and your fame and wealth with blossom and flourish. Unfortunately it doesn’t work like that. When you start a blog you need to [...]
9 Benefits [and 3 Costs] Of Building Community On Your Blog
Do you ever feel – as you blog – like you’re talking to an empty room? Day after day you publish posts only to have them greeted by…. If that is how you feel – then you’re not alone. In fact one of the most common questions that I hear from bloggers is: “How do [...] Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger 9 Benefits [and 3 Costs] Of Building Community On Your Blog
Viral Videos – Hit or Miss?
Viral videos are pretty hit or miss, and not many brands can match the virality of independent series like
Making Money Online – The NEW Standard
A Guest contribution from Nick Thacker from www.LiveHacked.com. I’ve been a leech for most of my life. By “leech,” of course, I mean I’ve basically existed online as the type of person who consumes considerably more than I’ve created. But this year things changed. I was, and still am, a student of the Internet age, [...]Show More Summary
How to Get Your Photo in Google Results and Why Google+ Worries Me
One of the most important things you can do for your search engine rankings is to set up Google Authorship. This is where Google displays a little photo of your handsome mug next to any results that you have authored (I’ll show you how to set this up down below). Here’s a screenshot of how [...]
Should you Use Content Locking and Earn?
PS: Please note that I don’t approve of this method as of now (why?) but it doesn’t mean you won’t too. Do read, understand and decide. What is Content Locking? Content locking is a method via which you get to earn from visitors even before they view your blog content. Show More Summary
Why Blogs that Allow Guest Posts Will Be Penalized in 2013
This guest post is by Jeff Foster of WebBizIdeas. Just as low-level article directories (ezinearticles, articlesbase, and others) got hurt by Google’s Panda Update in 2013, I predict that Google will hurt sites abusing guest blogging in 2013. I don’t feel guest blogging is bad, nor that all bloggers who do it will be penalized [...]Show More Summary
8 Things to Do Immediately After You Get a New Email Subscriber
A lot of blogging advice is centered around helping you get new subscribers. But what should you do after a person has signed up? You see, the moment after a person subscribes to your mailing list is a very important one. One might even say it is a very intimate, romantic moment. This person has [...]
Old Spice’s Scented and Spiced up Social Media Strategy
“Hello ladies, Look at your man, now back to me Now back at your man, now back to me…” Does that ring a bell somewhere? Yes, you sniffed that right, I was hinting to the viral video series rolled out by Old Spice featuring mirror-cracking Isaiah Mustafa. Show More Summary
Get More Comments: Can Blogs Still Attract Huge Comment Counts?
I heard some people at the water cooler say that the days of huge comment counts are over. It’s rumored that sites like Google+ and Tumblr and Pinterest have made it too hard to build an active, on-site community. While I do agree with some of that theory I also think it’s only part of [...]
My 10-in-1 Content Creation Strategy [Case Study]
This guest post is by Wayne Turner of MurrayKilgour.Com. Content creation calendars and schedules are the bane of most serious bloggers’ and content managers’ lives, depending on which side of the creative block you’re on. I straddled this fine line on many occasions until my Eureka moment. Having amalgamated my home radio and video studios [...]Show More Summary
Bloggers, Think for Yourselves: Reject the SEO Rumor-Mongers!
This guest post is by Dustin Verburg and Jeriann Watkins of Page One Power. Matt Cutts spoke, and the internet started to buzz about guest posting. This unsettled blog owners who were already uncertain about accepting contributions from strangers. SEO industry veterans declared “and from this day forth, all link building is spam, especially through [...]Show More Summary
