Darren Rowse
How to Use Advertising to Promote Your Blog
Have you ever considered advertising your blog? Today I want to explore this idea as part of my series of posts on how I’d promote my blog if I was starting from scratch. Most blog promotion tips that I see given are about growing your blog’s readership quite organically (something ...more
Blog Promotion
How to Promote Your Blog through Networking
This is the second of five ways that I’d promote a new blog to new readers if i was starting out again. Today I want to turn our attention to Networking as a great way to promote a blog. If I were starting out in blogging today knowing what I ...more
Blog Promotion
Finding New Readers for Your Blog with Guest Posting
This week I’m introducing the first of five ways that I’d promote a new blog to new readers if i was starting out again. Perhaps one of the most powerful ways of exposing your writing to a new group of people is to put some of your best content on ...more
Blog Promotion
One (Surprising) Blogging Resolution You Should Make for 2022
It’s the start of a brand new year, and chances are that at some point you made some New Year’s resolutions. As a blogger, you may have set yourself some goals (SMART goals are something I recommend) such as: “I want to double my traffic.” “I want to create an ...more
Strategy & Planning
Evaluating Your Blog’s First Year: 12 Great Questions to Ask
I originally wrote this review process for bloggers who had started a blog through our Start a Blog Course however this is the same process that I go through EVERY YEAR for my own blogs and I’m sure it will help you too! Firstly … congratulations on making ...more
Start a Blog
How to Eliminate the Echo Chamber and Add New Dimensions to Your Blog
One of the better posts I always remember reading is by Chris Pirillo writing about ways to eliminate the ‘echo chamber’. It’s a post that I’m sure many bloggers will find a challenge (I know I did). Here are his main points (in bold) with a few comments of my ...more
Creating Content
What My 4-Year-Old Son Taught Me About Successful Blogging
This story goes back to when my eldest (now 15-year-old) son was just a toddler and I delivered a Keynote at BlogWorld Expo, where I told how my son reminded me of a powerful principle of successful blogging. So many people have since told me how much they enjoyed and ...more
Video Posts
Are You Spreading Yourself Too Thinly?
Today I want to share one last way to let your blog go to round off our 10 part series. It’s something that has at times almost brought my own blogging to a grinding halt. Problem Taking on too many projects and stretching yourself too thinly. There’s a fine line ...more
Be Productive
How to Avoid Becoming a Single-Minded Blogger
One of the most common ways that I see a blog ‘go under’ is when the blogger gets distracted from the overall task of blogging by one single aspect of blogging. Here’s the thing – for a blog to become successful you can’t just work on one aspect of it ...more
Be Productive