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Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

How to Blog: How to Choose a Blog Niche [6 Tips]

Earlier in the week we looked at the importance of ‘niches’ when it comes to building profitable blogs. Today I want to extend the topic and gives the process that I tend to use when working out if I want to start a new blog in a particular niche. I hope you find it helpful. Many factors...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 11 Mar 2010 | 10:56 am CST

Daniel Scocco
Daily Blog Tips

Business Idea: Copyright Protection For Web Publishers

I am quite passionate about the Internet, and as such I am always coming up with new ideas for websites and online businesses. At the same time I know that focus is vital if you want to achieve success, and I already have a couple of projects going on, so most of the time I just let those ideas site...

Daily Blog Tips | 11 Mar 2010 | 10:14 am CST

Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

Let’s Meet at SXSWi!

As this post goes live I’ll be in the process of arriving at SXSW Interactive in Austin Texas. I was fortunate enough to at SXSWi two years back and it was one of the best conference experiences that I’ve had – so I’ve made it a priority this year to return. My schedule is pr...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 11 Mar 2010 | 7:56 am CST

Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey

Do You Want A Copy Of My Definitive Guide To SEO For Bloggers?

It was early 2006. I had been blogging for over a year and felt I had achieved something. My blog had recently surpassed 1,000 RSS subscribers (what is RSS), making it at the time the most popular website I had ever built. The income was solid – up to $2,000 a month at best – and it was ...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 10 Mar 2010 | 7:03 am CST

Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

Blog Security: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Scares Me Into Taking It Seriously.

guest post by Kelly Diels warning: there are lessons and even actionable advice in here, but it is buried inside a story. I write stories because I love you and don’t want to bore you and because if you laugh then chances are that you’ll remember the educational bit, too. There’s ...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 10 Mar 2010 | 7:01 am CST

Daniel Scocco
Daily Blog Tips

Blogging Dynamite: The Power of Connections

This is a guest post by Nicholas Z. Cardot. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Far too often I find that people are getting caught up with the technical aspects of blogging like which plugins are the best, which designs are the most appealing, which methods of SEO...

Daily Blog Tips | 9 Mar 2010 | 10:54 pm CST

Daniel Scocco
Daily Blog Tips

Ever Considered Launching a Membership Site?

Let’s clear one thing right away: yes I am an affiliate for the coaching program I mentioning below, which means I’ll earn a commission if you end up purchasing it. But your trust is much more important to me than any commission I might earn, so rest assured I am only talking about this ...

Daily Blog Tips | 9 Mar 2010 | 11:29 am CST

Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

How to Blog: Choose a Niche for Your Blog [Why Niches are Important]

While I get many questions from bloggers asking for advice on ‘how to blog‘ perhaps one of the biggest questions a new blogger needs to ask themselves before they move on to the HOW to blog question is ‘WHAT will I blog about?’ There is no real right or wrong answer to this q...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 9 Mar 2010 | 7:54 am CST

Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey

Why You Need Your Own Product – Membership Site Mastermind Open

Rather than throw you head first into my very long sales page for the opening of Membership Site Mastermind, I’m going to show you just the video here on my blog, to help keep you on focus . This video was taken directly from my sales page, however it’s full of great content – no...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 9 Mar 2010 | 12:44 am CST

Daniel Scocco
Daily Blog Tips

5 Tips To Get The Most Out of Your 99Designs.com Contest

This is a guest post by Andreas Kambanis. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. I’ve always considered logo’s the realm of big multinational companies. Companies like AOL or Amazon who have thousands of dollars to throw at new designs. Therefore, despite being c...

Daily Blog Tips | 8 Mar 2010 | 9:07 am CST

Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

Feeling “Blogged Out?” [10 Pro Bloggers Share Their Advice on What to Do]

A Guest post by Heather Allard from The Mogul Mom. If you’re a regular ProBlogger reader, you know that Darren dishes up heaps of incredible blogging advice 7 days a week, 365 days a year. His archives positively overflow with information on how to build a blog from the ground up, how to engag...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 8 Mar 2010 | 8:08 am CST

Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

What Do You Do With Your Blog to Make it Stand Out from the Crowd?

Last week on Twitter I was asked by @southrngurl6489 the following question: If you had to pick only one thing that makes a blog stand out from its peers, what would you pick and why? I thought it’d be a good question to open up to a wider audience as its something I’ve touched on quite ...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 7 Mar 2010 | 7:26 am CST

Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

7 Tips to Keep Your Family On-Board for Your Blogging Journey

A guest post by Dustin Riechmann of Engaged Marriage. My life is pretty typical for a 30-year old family man these days. I do my best to maintain a hectic schedule and the demands that come with balancing a wife, kids, a full-time career, a mortgage, church, community service, tee ball practice, m...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 6 Mar 2010 | 8:00 am CST

Daniel Scocco
Daily Blog Tips

Do I Need to Register A Business To Make Money With My Website?

This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. Just use the contact form if you want to submit a question. Allison asks: I’m considering setting up a website. Do I have to register a business before being able to charge for advertising space or other services I might offer? Do I need to pa...

Daily Blog Tips | 5 Mar 2010 | 11:56 am CST

Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

9 Tips for Creating More Small Business Blogging Ideas

A Guest Post by Mark Hayward. What the hell am I supposed to write about, I own a {insert your small business here}? Really, who cares about your flower shop, bike shop, auto parts store, or coffee house? Answer: Your customers certainly care. We all know by now that consistent small business blogg...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 5 Mar 2010 | 7:33 am CST

Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey

Joanna Martin Explains How She Did A $60K Launch With A Tiny Email List

Press play to begin streaming the audio or right click the text link and choose save as or save link. Download the MP3 [ 40 Minutes - 55 MB ] Dr Joanna Martin used to be a practicing medical doctor in Tasmania, then left that role to become an aspiring actor. Today she is a professional speaker foc...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 4 Mar 2010 | 6:07 pm CST

Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

How To NOT Repulse Readers And Send Them Running Scream… Um…I Mean Clicking Away

A Guest Post by Cori Padget from Write Syntax and Big Girl Branding. In a word? Engage. Engage, engage, engage, engage. Get it yet? ENGAGE! OK, I’m thinking you get it now, kinda sorta. But in case you don’t, let’s discuss it further. EN… Just kidding! If you’re a wr...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 4 Mar 2010 | 8:17 am CST

Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

The BEST Way to Generate Lots of Comments on a Your Next Blog Post

Last week on my Photography Tips site we published a guest post titled Three Lenses Every Photographer Should Own. The author of the guest post emailed me a few days later amazed at amazing amount of comments left on the post. While the average post on dPS gets a reasonable amount of comments this p...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 3 Mar 2010 | 7:32 am CST

Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

Lessons for Bloggers from ChatRoulette

ChatRoulette (warning: this is often NSFW) is a site that has caused a lot of buzz over the last week or so. It’s a webcam site where you login to chat with complete strangers – you are randomly matched with a stranger and you both have the opportunity to find a new person to chat with a...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 2 Mar 2010 | 7:44 am CST

Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey

How Stable Is Your Online Income

I’ve made some form of income from the Internet for the past ten years. That’s incredible for me to consider, as I look back over the years how for such a long time I felt very insecure about where my next paycheck was going to come from and whether there would be another one the followi...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 2 Mar 2010 | 1:29 am CST

Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

5 Tips for Getting Readers Viewing Your Old Blog Posts

Over on Twitter last week @JapanNewbie asked me about how to get people viewing old posts on your blog once they drop off the front page. In this video I tackle the question with 5 suggestions including using: Best of Sections Autoresponders Related Links Best of Posts Repost Old Content I’...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 1 Mar 2010 | 7:52 am CST

Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

Stick Out Your Finger (Not That One!) and Create a Meaningful Blogging Experience

Guest post by Jenny McCoy Sometimes it doesn’t matter where you’re going; you just kinda enjoy the ride. This is true of my blogging experience. After sharing my vision of church services optimized for screaming babies and their snoring grandparents, my drinking companion responded with glazed e...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 28 Feb 2010 | 8:14 am CST

Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

8 Reasons You Might Not Be Getting Many Comments

A Guest Post by Charlie Gilkey from Productive Flourishing. No matter how big their blog is, every blogger loves and wants comments. When you’re just starting out, there are few bigger thrills than writing something and having people comment and give you feedback about what you’ve writte...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 27 Feb 2010 | 8:39 am CST

Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey

5 Tips On How To Outsource Your Blogging

Tyrone Shum has participated in both my Blog Mastermind and Membership Site Mastermind programs. He’s special because not only did he study the materials (which is rare enough!), he went on and has built himself a successful blog and last year launched a membership site too, so he’s a re...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 26 Feb 2010 | 5:24 pm CST

Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

What Are You Taking For Granted That Might Be Useful to Others?

I recently was chatting with a new blogger and they made the comment that after 3 weeks of blogging that they’d run out of things to write about. They had written 10 posts so far but felt that they’d nothing else to share of value on the topic. What surprised me about their comments was ...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 26 Feb 2010 | 7:55 am CST

Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

Rock Hard Thighs and Cold Hard Cash: Robb Sutton Spills His Tawdry Review Site Secrets

guest post by Kelly Diels When I was wondering how to create an effective, money-making review site, I thought of Robb Sutton. Robb Sutton’s review site, Mountain Biking by 198 “pulls in thousands in review product every month” and in the last 15 months has received over $100,000 ...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 25 Feb 2010 | 3:55 pm CST

Carl Ocab
Make Money Online

Wyzo Marketing – Social Bookmarking for Link Building Success

This article is sponsored by Wyzo Marketing and posted by Valerie. Promoting your new Internet application, product, service, website or other Web 2.0 property is essential to your success. Without the right promotional methods, you can be doomed to ignominy. However, what are the best options for...

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger | 24 Feb 2010 | 10:19 am CST

Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

Optimize a Single Post On Your Blog for SEO

This is an unofficial extra task for the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook. Today I spent the morning working on a task that I try to do at least once a month – SEO on individual key posts in my archives. While it’s important to know and practice the basics principles of SEO in th...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 24 Feb 2010 | 7:34 am CST

Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey

I Cut My Hair And Bought A New Car

I’ve been debating for a while whether to publish this blog post because it’s a bit off topic and very self indulgent, however lots of people have been asking me questions about these two changes to my life, so I’ve decided why not tell you about them. Consider yourself warned, thi...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 24 Feb 2010 | 12:39 am CST

Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

9 Ways Become an Exceptional Guest Poster

Image by kwerfeldein In a session I did with Brian Clark at Third Tribe last week Brian made the statement – Guest Posting is the New Article Marketing. In days gone by the way one of the best ways to build a website’s ranking in search engines and to pull in traffic was to write article...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 23 Feb 2010 | 8:19 am CST

Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

Dear FaceBook Friends, I’m De-Friending Most of You [It's Not You, It's Me]

Dear Facebook Friends, I’ve been wondering when and how to do this for a while now but the time has come for me to bite the bullet and clean up what I’m doing on Facebook. For 99% of you – this means that I’m about to de-friend you from my personal account on Facebook. It is ...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 22 Feb 2010 | 5:58 pm CST

Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net

Top Ten Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Small Business Blog Using Twitter

This is a guest post by Mark Hayward on driving traffic to your small business blog with Twitter. Based on the success of the recent ProBlogger post, Top 10 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog Using LinkedIn, I thought it would be useful to put a resource post together for small business owners who ...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 22 Feb 2010 | 8:05 am CST

Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey

My Notes From The Ed Dale Internet Marketing Seminar

Over the weekend I attended Ed Dale’s 30DC Coming Home three day event in Melbourne. Ed Dale, if you don’t know him, is one of Australia’s most well known and likable Internet marketers, who adds a uniquely Australian flavour to the industry. Currently he is most well known as one...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 22 Feb 2010 | 7:21 am CST

Carl Ocab
Make Money Online

What Is A Blog And How It Will Make You Money

This article is part of the “Start A Blog And Make Money” series. Simply put it, a blog is a website that is often updated with content called “blog posts”. Most often, the latest blog post will be shown at the top of the blog. Someone who blogs is called a “bloggerR...

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger | 19 Feb 2010 | 9:15 am CST

Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey

Don’t Let Your Ignorance Stop You

This is the fourth article in a series on Positive Change. My goal with this series is to give you the tools necessary to manifest positive change in your reality, or simply put, to get what you want and eliminate what you don’t want in your life. Before you read this article, make sure you re...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 17 Feb 2010 | 8:49 am CST

Carl Ocab
Make Money Online

Heads Up!

Last December I asked in a poll, “How Much Do You Currently Make Monthly?“. I think it’s very important to survey your market. You wouldn’t know what you’re going to get – what you think your market is might not be what it REALLY is. So without further ado, he...

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger | 17 Feb 2010 | 7:09 am CST

Carl Ocab
Make Money Online

The Costly Mistake That Many Bloggers Have Committed

I see a lot of bloggers giving the tip “Traffic now, monetize later” then telling that it’s more important to concentrate on getting traffic and building readership first BEFORE you monetize your blog. I don’t agree. Now here’s the 3 reasons why you SHOULD monetize your...

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger | 16 Feb 2010 | 6:05 am CST

Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey

Industry Shift: What The Armada Music Label Can Teach Us About New Media Marketing

You may not know this about me (unless you follow me on Twitter where I tweet music video clips from time to time), but I’m a huge fan of the progressive and vocal trance scene. That’s dance music for the uninitiated, although the genre of dance is massive in terms of all the categories ...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 14 Feb 2010 | 8:45 pm CST

Carl Ocab
Make Money Online

What Makes Some People So Successful At Internet Marketing?

I must admit this blog has been inactive. Today I’ll revive it – and this time, it’s on. The last couple of months I got the most severe case of… guess what? MULTI TASKING. Seriously, I’ve been juggling 5 projects. Add to that the holidays plus school work (I’m at...

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger | 13 Feb 2010 | 5:13 am CST

Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey

Valentines Special: How To Find Your Business Love Balance

Chris Crowe is a friend in Brisbane who specializes in coaching people to create loving relationships, with a focus on the importance on polarity between partners. We were talking recently about relationships and business. Chris noted the importance of your relationship with your partner and how mu...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 12 Feb 2010 | 10:13 pm CST

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