Problogger Blogging Tips

Googleâ€™s Knol - A Wikipedia Killer or a Blog Killer?
	Is Google’s Knol an attack on Wikipedia or Could it hurt Smaller Publishers like bloggers more? So today Google finally opened up and launched Launched Knol (it’s been coming for a while) a place where people can publish ‘authoritative articles about specific topics’. It’s like Wikipedia in that articles can be edited by others - but [...] ...»

Follow These Twitter Users - Theyâ€™re Just Like You
	ProBlogger reader - I’d like to introduce you to some new friends - around 700 of them (and counting). Over the weekend, on a whim, I started the ProBlogger Social Media Love-In as a way of linking you as readers of this blog together via social media. In that post I invited you to submit your [...] ...»

A Secret to Sustain Yourself as a Blogger
	Today I want to talk about an issue may seem more suited to a ’self help’ blog than a blog about blogging - but it’s something that I think is pretty important you want to be a successful blogger. It’s something that is so important that it can make or break you. Image by *nathan However - [...] ...»

Conversion Blogging Video
	Yaro Starak from the popular Blog Mastermind mentoring program has today released a video that looks at a processing of making money from blogs that he calls Conversion Blogging. Yaro’s been using it to make over $10,000 a month from his blog. Yaro is an expert at building an audience and using email newsletters to market [...] ...»

The Power of Making Readers Famous
	The last 24 hours on ProBlogger have seen a lot of action around our social media love-in project that is currently running. Not only has there been a lot of action in the comments on that post but it’s driven up traffic and increased the numbers of emails that readers are sending. Just now I scanned [...] ...»

Social Media Love-In: Phase 2 Coming Soon
	Wow - when I posted an invitation this morning for ProBlogger readers to promote their social media profiles on this post I didn’t know what would happen - but I suspected it would be fun. It’s been almost 9 hours since the post went live and over 280 readers have participated and I’m getting emails and [...] ...»

AdSense Announce Changes to Ad Ecosystem.
	Today AdSense publishers (or at least some of them) received the following email outlining some recent ‘changes and improvements’ to the Google ad system. These changes largely revolve around new features that they’ve added to AdWords to let advertisers target websites differently (more control). One of the big changes is the introduction of ‘Ad Planner’ (currently in [...] ...»

Welcome to the ProBlogger Social Media Love-In
	Image by Mandala Update: This will close after 24 hours - read more about why here. Today I want to try something a little different and want to invite you to share your social media profiles with us (please read the ‘rules’ below before participating). Are you active on social media sites? Do you want to find more friends [...] ...»

Dates on Blog Posts - Should You Have Them?
	Last week in my post exploring how to make blogs sticky I suggested (in point 14) that one technique to consider is to remove the dates from your blog posts. My theory is that dates can either add to or take away from a post. Let me explore this a little further: When you put a date [...] ...»

Blogger Gives Up Medicine to Go Full Time as a Blogger
	I always love hearing stories of bloggers who are able to go full time with their blogging so earlier today when I read in the NYT about the author of one of my favorite blogs (Mac Rumors) has traded in a career in Medicine for blogging it got my attention. “Dr. Kim’s Web site now attracts [...] ...»

Has Blogging Lost Its Relational Focus?
	Today I want to talk a little about bloggers working together - to talk about the importance of it and to reflect upon whether the blogosphere has become a less relational place. “After years of being in an offline business I’ve recently decided to start an online business that will include a blog. However as I [...] ...»

iPhone Applications for Bloggers
	I know quite a few ProBlogger readers are enjoying the iPhone App store - so I thought I’d ask the question: What iPhone Applications are most useful for bloggers? In addition to that - what iPhone apps would you like to see developed for bloggers? PS: I’m yet to get an iPhone (although I have ordered one at [...] ...»

The Wink Wink, Nudge Nudge Method, Or, Blogging Is Flirting
	Oh blogger, are you a flirt? You should be. Sara Ost from EcoSalon explains more. Successful blogging takes epic diligence. As a blog grows and brings in new readers, we all want to maintain what we've already built. No easy task! This sort of strategy calls for an effective tactic. And that tactic, my friends, is [...] ...»

7 More Techniques to Make Your Blog Sticky
	In 21 Ways to Make Your Blog or Website Sticky I shared a long list of ways to help first time readers ’stick’ to your site and become loyal readers. The comments on that post triggered a number of other ideas for making sticky sites that I want to add. Thanks to everyone who has [...] ...»

Thesis - a WordPress Theme Design Worth Considering
	What do you get when you take one great blog designer and match him with a fantastic blogger with superb writing ability and marketing skills? Not it’s not the start to a bad joke and yes the answer could be many things - but today I’m excited because one of my favorite blog designers, Chris Pearson [...] ...»

21 Ways to Make Your Blog or Website Sticky
	Does the traffic coming to your site come in a Yo-Yo like cycle of ups and downs that never really seems to go anywhere in the long run? Yesterday I wrote about a common problem that many bloggers face - spikes of traffic followed by flat-lines and promised a follow up post today on how to break this cycle by building 'sticky' sites. Today I want to reveal 21 practical techniques for making sticky sites that new readers just can't leave..... ...»

Youâ€™ll Never Know Unless You Ask
	Growing up I was a very shy little guy. I was so shy that I rarely put myself out there in situations that I was unfamiliar with and never asked other people for favors unless I was either in desperate need or very familiar with the other person. I remember my mum telling me on numerous [...] ...»

Do Your Visitor Numbers Look Like This?
	“Darren, I have been blogging for 6 months and have tried to build traffic through social media, networking and buying reviews. I have attached a screen capture of the last 2 months of traffic (above) where you will see I have some good days in traffic, but it always flat lines days later. The spikes all [...] ...»

When Should You Add a Newsletter to Your Blog?
	Over on Plurk HCI Blogger asked me - “How do you decide when to start publishing a newsletter?” I’m sure other bloggers with newsletters will have different opinions to me on this one but if I were starting a new blog today I’d start a newsletter to go with it on the very same day. I won’t [...] ...»

The Comprehensive Paint-by-numbers Guide to Writing and Publishing Your Ebook
	Over the last few months I’ve had a rise in the numbers of people asking me about the why and how of writing and publishing Ebooks. So when Mary Jaksch from the blog Goodlife Zen and Ebook From Tragedy to Triumph: Winning Through a Life Crisis offered to write a post on Ebooks I jumped [...] ...»

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