Darren Rowse
How to Avoid The Danger of Becoming a Self-Centered Blogger
Updated post first published Jun 19, 2008 Letting Your Blog Go #3 Another way that some bloggers let their blogs go is to let their blog become more about them and their own needs and less about the needs of their readers. A blog will only ever be successful if ...more
Build Community
Tips To Help Your Blog Stay ‘On Topic’
Updated post first published Jun 18, 2008 Letting Your Blog Go #2 One way that I see some bloggers ‘letting their blog go‘ is to become distracted and move off topic more and more. When I asked readers why they unsubscribed from a blog’s RSS feed they told me that ...more
Writing Content
9 Tips to Help you Post More Frequently On Your Blog
Updated post first published Jun 17, 2008 Letting Your Blog Go #1 Problem: Perhaps the fastest way to let your blog go is to stop posting to it. It can happen for many reasons whether it be your life getting busy, suffering from a bout of bloggers block or becoming ...more
Writing Content
How Inspiring Your Readers Drives them to Search for Information (and Interact)
One of my mantras that I’ve shared many times when speaking, and here in posts on ProBlogger, is to build blogs that: Inspire Inform Interact My experience is that a blog can really come alive when you not only provide readers with information, but also give them inspiration and a ...more
Writing Content
Create a Resources Page to Grow Your Traffic and Income
This post is based on episode 74 of the ProBlogger podcast. How many useful resources have you talked about in your blog posts over the years? Chances are you’ve mentioned dozens of them – tools, books, articles, websites, and so on. So wouldn’t it be nice if your readers ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Optimize Your Social Media For More Traffic and Engagement
This post is based on episode 73 of the ProBlogger podcast. For the past month or so I’ve been talking a lot about email lists – how to grow them, incentives you can use to grow them, and even how to take advantage of them through autoresponders. But this week ...more
Social Media
How to Make Money on Your Blog by Becoming an Affiliate
This post is based on episode 72 of the ProBlogger podcast. We often talk about making money by creating products and selling them on your blog. But you can also make good money helping other people sell their products by coming an affiliate. How good? Well, over the years I’ve earned ...more
Affiliate Programs
How to Use Autoresponders to Drive Traffic and Profit
This post is based on episode 70 of the ProBlogger podcast. Last week I talked about creating an opt-in incentive to increase your email subscriber numbers. I also mentioned that one of those incentives could be a series you deliver over a number of weeks. Well, this week I want ...more
Finding readers
Create an Opt-In Incentive to Increase Your Email Subscriber Numbers
This post is based on episode 69 of the ProBlogger podcast. Note: This article contains affiliate links, which means that if you purchase anything via my link I may earn a small commission at no cost to you. (And in some cases, ProBlogger has negotiated special deals for our readers with these ...more
Finding readers