The most successful professional bloggers give you their tips on making your blog popular and successful.



Daily Blog Tips
Daniel Scocco
Daily Blog Tips
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I was definitely going to Blog World Expo this year. At that time I was only planning to attend the conference. Then I heard they were welcoming speaking proposals, so I decided to send one. Long story short I got approved, and I’ll be s...

Daily Blog Tips | 30 Jul 2010 | 10:27 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
Content strategy might seem like the domain of giant content sites and big-brand online publishers. But if you run a blog, you’re a content publisher. And a solid content strategy can help you to more clearly define your goals, and identify how you’ll achieve them. For those for whom con...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 30 Jul 2010 | 8:56 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
One of the biggest challenges for a new bloggers starting out in an established niche is to find a way to stand out from the crowd and find their first readers. Without existing profile and/or credibility – getting those first readers can be very tough. To combat this a few years back a number...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 29 Jul 2010 | 7:29 pm CDT

Daily Blog Tips
Daniel Scocco
Daily Blog Tips
A couple of weeks ago Pawan from MaxBlogPress.com contacted me, saying he had developed a new plugin that would significantly boost the number of sign-ups I was getting to my email newsletter. I have known Pawan for a while, and I use many of his plugins, so I said “Sure.R...

Daily Blog Tips | 29 Jul 2010 | 1:53 pm CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
What does every blogger need more of? Quality content! This is the first of a series of six posts that tackle key content questions. Today, we’re looking specifically at content sources: places where you can get ideas and information that, with a little work, you can turn into quality blog pos...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 29 Jul 2010 | 9:05 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
One of the great things about blogging is that it is very accessible to anyone with internet access. There are some fantastic tools around that are completely free that mean you can have a blog up and running within minutes of deciding to start a blog. Free tools range from hosted blog platforms lik...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 28 Jul 2010 | 8:51 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
One of the best new resources for those wanting to make money from blogging is a new eBook (and available as a ‘real’ book is How to Build a Successful Blog Business by Collis Ta’eed. I had the opportunity to read this great new book last week and was really impressed by the mix of...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 28 Jul 2010 | 6:21 am CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
I recently published a video on why it is important to develop a deep understanding of your customer. In that video I covered a brief overview of the different psychological elements that relate to you understanding your customer and how you fit in as a service or product provider, fulfilling their ...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 28 Jul 2010 | 2:15 am CDT

Daily Blog Tips
Daniel Scocco
Daily Blog Tips
This is a guest post by Kevin Muldoon. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. I recently stopped using Aweber. Not because I wasn’t happy with the service but because I sold the site I was using it for. For 2 years I was a very happy customer wi...

Daily Blog Tips | 27 Jul 2010 | 11:23 pm CDT

Daily Blog Tips
Daniel Scocco
Daily Blog Tips
Last week I told you guys I was working on a really long post that I hoped would become popular, remember? Well, I just published it on one of my other websites. The post is called 100 Ways to Increase Your Website Traffic. I had seen a couple of similar lists around the web, but mo...

Daily Blog Tips | 27 Jul 2010 | 1:27 pm CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
Kevin Geary is the author of Employee Revolution: A guide to being indispensable, irreplaceable, and higher paid (without lying, cheating, or joining a union). If you have a personal blog, I’m talking directly to you. If you don’t have a personal blog, get one now. Sorry, but this surefire strat...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 27 Jul 2010 | 9:14 am CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
I’ve been working with people who are setting up online businesses now for years. Whether it’s comments left on blog posts, conversations at conferences and workshops, group calls for my members or private coaching sessions, these two stark realities about Internet businesses are rarely ...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 26 Jul 2010 | 10:12 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
I’m preparing a presentation on ‘Finding Readers for your Blog’ which I’ll be giving at the Melbourne Blog Training Day next Tuesday. It’s got me thinking back to some of the bigger days of traffic that I’ve had on my own blogs over the years and I thought I’...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 26 Jul 2010 | 9:04 am CDT

Daily Blog Tips
Daniel Scocco
Daily Blog Tips
First of all, by “make money online” I mean all the Internet marketing niches, including blogging, social media, SEO, affiliate marketing and so on. The question I am asking is: should someone who is getting started online enter the Internet marketing niche directly? Man...

Daily Blog Tips | 26 Jul 2010 | 5:58 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
A Guest Post by Karol Gajda from Ridiculously Extraordinary. I’m going to come right out and say it: I’m a Lady Gaga fan. I didn’t really know who she was until about 6 months ago. I knew the name, but hadn’t heard the music or learned about the artist. Then I heard the musi...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 25 Jul 2010 | 9:33 am CDT

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger
Carl Ocab
Make Money Online
This article is guest posted by Paul. The last year has been pretty far from comfortable. In fact it’s been a year of hard work, determination, failures, successes, hair pulling frustration and confusion. And I think many beginner marketers who are trying to make money online can relate t...

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger | 24 Jul 2010 | 10:34 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts). – Darren Man alive, I hate bringing you a list of blogosphere trends that includes both Lindsay Lohan and Jersey Shore—not to mention Sarah Palin. But I report the li...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 24 Jul 2010 | 9:05 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
The 25th July is tomorrow and at our place we’ve invited a group of friends over for a Christmas in July dinner (we do it as an annual thing and exchange gifts and do a full Christmas dinner). On the spur of the moment today I thought it might be fun to extend the ‘festivities’ to ProBlogger a...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 23 Jul 2010 | 10:22 pm CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
Whether you like it or not, people will judge your blog by the quality of your writing. The first thing you should do is to avoid the most common spelling mistakes, as they can turn off first-time visitors to your site. Below you’ll find 10 such mistakes to get you started. 1. accept / except ...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 23 Jul 2010 | 9:03 am CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
It’s time to switch gears slightly and return to my series on creating positive change in your life. If you’re looking for pure money making tips, you might want to skip this article, although if you do you will miss out on one of the most powerful articles I’ve written about beco...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 22 Jul 2010 | 9:46 pm CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
A guest post by Barrie Davenport. If you look at recent posts on Problogger, you will find a plethora of practical and useful tools and ideas for creating a blog, growing a blog, and making money from a blog. Like me, you have probably read and absorbed as many of these pearls of blogging wisdom as ...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 22 Jul 2010 | 9:25 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
“Being good on social media really has a lot to do with being good in relationships and conversation.” I made this statement in a presentation really and have been pondering it ever since. While there are a lot of great techniques for increasing the effectiveness in your use of blogging...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 21 Jul 2010 | 8:37 am CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
Over the last week Don Crowther has released some free videos in the lead-up to his Social Profit Formula launch. You can now watch all three of the content videos here (this is my affiliate link, but you don’t have to buy anything – I strongly recommend you watch the first video, itR...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 20 Jul 2010 | 9:06 pm CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
Today I’d like to suggest an exercise to think about the future of your blog. It’s a brainstorming task to get you thinking about the types of products and services you might one day add to your blog. I remember doing this for ProBlogger 4 or so years ago and coming up with a long list ...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 20 Jul 2010 | 8:50 am CDT

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger
Carl Ocab
Make Money Online
This article is sponsored by WebHostingRating.com and posted by Valerie. Finding the right web hosting option in the modern world can be more than difficult.  With the explosion of webhosting companies, conducting due diligence and determining which company actually offers you the best price, the b...

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger | 19 Jul 2010 | 10:33 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
“How do you know which projects to go with and which to leave behind?” This is a question I’ve been asked almost every time I’ve spoken at events recently so I thought I’d jot down a few thought on the process that I find myself going through when looking at opportuniti...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 19 Jul 2010 | 8:59 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
Just over a week ago I had the crazy idea to run a training day for bloggers while Chris Garrett was in Melbourne. It was a spur of the moment idea and as a result something that I thought would be quite small, informal and relaxed. I posted about the idea and asked for expressions of interest and w...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 18 Jul 2010 | 7:30 pm CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
A Guest Post by Johnny B Truant. I know what you’re thinking. You’re blogging to make money, or to express yourself. So why would you ever give something away? If you’re in this as a business, giving stuff away without charging for it seems counterintuitive. If you’re just ou...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 18 Jul 2010 | 8:14 am CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
On a beautiful Sunday morning in Brisbane I headed outside on to my patio deck area to record a video for you. Then, as you will see, I had to move inside due to a certain musical instrument my neighbor was playing. Nevertheless I was able to produce a video and the topic today, since it is Sunday,...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 18 Jul 2010 | 7:08 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts). – Darren I’m often asked about the “ideal length” for a blog post. I’ve heard answers ranging from 200 to 800 words, but my answer is always the same: Enough to t...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 17 Jul 2010 | 8:44 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
Yesterday I challenged readers to write a post that took a 7 link challenge – linking to 7 posts that fit into 7 themes. I thought I’d take it for myself here on ProBlogger. Your first post – the first post I ever wrote on ProBlogger (I’d been posting on other blogs for a co...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 16 Jul 2010 | 9:11 am CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
In between trying to avoid causing a car accident, I managed to record this video for you. This is my first shoot with my new third generation VADO HD, which is just like a flip cam. As you will hear in the video, the topic of my spiel was selling your business. My main message for you is to becom...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 15 Jul 2010 | 8:53 pm CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
Today I thought it might be fun to do a bit of a fun challenge together that draws on a number of things that I’ve previously taught here on ProBlogger (see below for what these teachings are). The idea is to publish a post that is a list of 7 links to posts that you and others have written th...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 15 Jul 2010 | 9:13 am CDT

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger
Carl Ocab
Make Money Online
This article is sponsored by Make Money Online and posted by Valerie. There are few topics hotter than making money from the Internet, today.  In fact, a quick Google search will yield an amazing number of results.  However, a quick perusal of those results will show you that most of these so-call...

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger | 14 Jul 2010 | 8:45 pm CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
Press play to begin streaming the audio or right click the text link and choose save as or save link. Download the MP3 [ 46 Minutes - 21 MB ] You may have recently watched the split-up video segments of my presentation at the Hive networking event recently. The audio on that presentation wasn’...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 9 Jul 2010 | 11:53 pm CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
Press play to begin streaming the audio or right click the text link and choose save as or save link. Download the MP3 [ 30 Minutes - 40 MB ] Matt is the co-founder of one of the very first online forums I spent some time on, SitePoint.com, which today is a massive web community and information site...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 5 Jul 2010 | 9:53 pm CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
Gideon and I held a special live webinar with Adam Short from Niche Profit Classroom (if you are on my email newsletter you would have received an invite to join us live). On the webinar Adam went through his step-by-step process to set up passive income websites, including two case studies –...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 1 Jul 2010 | 12:01 am CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
Press play to begin streaming the audio or right click the text link and choose save as or save link. Download the MP3 [ 43 Minutes - 20 MB ] One of the coolest thing about running this blog is the amazing people I meet, who are not just from my industry, but also in other industries doing really in...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 27 Jun 2010 | 4:10 am CDT

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger
Carl Ocab
Make Money Online
This article is guest posted by James Rey. When it comes to affiliate marketing there is a lot of room to make mistakes. We all hear about beginners coming into the internet marketing industry and blowing thousands on PPC, purchasing lame products and putting all of their eggs in one basket—leavin...

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger | 18 Jun 2010 | 10:25 am CDT

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger
Carl Ocab
Make Money Online
This article is guest posted by Xavier Lazos and Alex Jon Alavi. If you’re a niche blogger like myself then you need to arm yourself with the right tools to make your online equity a success from the get go. So everyone has been advising you to switch over to WordPress pronto because if Google wou...

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger | 16 Jun 2010 | 10:24 am CDT