Darren Rowse
Achieving “The Package Deal”
Today Chrissy Scivicque from OfficeArrow continues her two part series of posts on Blogging Your Way to a New Career. Previously, I shared my story with you. I told you all about how my blog was purchased by a start-up website called OfficeArrow. I explained “The Package Deal”, which miraculously ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Social Media – Should You Use it Or Focus Upon Building Your Own Properties?
Steve Rubel has a thought provoking post today asking the question – should you rent or buy social real estate? In it he explores the idea of using a service like Twitter (where you ‘rent’ and build up a community on someone else’s property) versus having your own blog on ...more
Blog Promotion
AdSense Retire their Referrals Program and Launch the Google Affiliate Network
Today AdSense announced that they are drawing their ‘Referrals’ program to a close and are relaunching a new Google affiliate network. In actual effect the new affiliate network is not ‘new’ – but a rebranded version of DoubleClick’s Performics Affiliate Network which they acquired in March. This is news that ...more
Adsense
Blog Your Way to a New Career
Today Chrissy Scivicque from OfficeArrow.com shares her story of building up her blog, selling it and then being hired to keep developing it – many bloggers dream. There’s no denying it: blogging is now considered a legitimate way to launch the career of your dreams. The opportunities for bloggers are ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
The Importance of ‘Pause Points’ On Your Blog
Over the last week I’ve run some Crazy Egg heat map tracking on two posts on Digital Photography School (both of which got to the front page of Digg and got a lot of traffic) that both highlight to me a very simple method of increasing the number of pages ...more
Blog Design
How to Let Your Blog Go – Series Wrap Up
Over the last two weeks I’ve been running a 10 part series here at ProBlogger on 10 ways that you can let your blog go and what you should do about them. The series is now complete with the following 10 methods to let your blog go. Lack of Posting ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Using bbPress Forums to Community Power Your WordPress Blog
A couple of weeks ago I had an email from Terry Ng from Kineda (a great fashion site) telling me about how they’d been using WordPress and bbPress together to create an innovative site. I asked Terry if she’d tell us what they’ve done and how they’ve done it. Here ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
How To Use Product Launch Principles When Selling From Your Blog
Today Yaro Starak from Entrepreneurs Journey and the Blog Mastermind Mentoring Program has written this post on Selling from your blog. When I say the words “product launch” do you cringe and think of over-hyped Internet marketing product launches? Or maybe you have never been on the end of a ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
The Long Tail of Blogging: Why Content is King
In this post Eric from Photography Bay examines the Long Tail as it applies to blogging. Content is king. Yawn . . . right? You know this tired phrase is the gospel of blogging, but did you ever wonder why content is really king? You spend your time developing and ...more
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