Guest Blogger
How I Made it onto Freshly Pressed 3 Times in 6 Months
This guest post is by Hassan Osman of TheCouchManager.com. Less than a month after I launched my blog, one of my posts got featured on Freshly Pressed—Wordpress.com’s homepage where each weekday, ten posts are selected from around 450,000 new blog posts. I didn’t even know what Freshly Pressed meant until ...more
Blog Promotion
How I Use BuySellAds to Monitor Blog Traffic and Goals
This guest post is by Kevin Muldoon of WordPress Mods. One of the biggest mistakes new bloggers and webmasters make is to check traffic stats and affiliate reports too often—often enough for it to stop them doing real work on their projects. That being said, it is still important to ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
A Blog Traffic Strategy: Quality vs Quantity
This guest post is by Marcello Arrambide of Wandering Trader. When it comes to blogging, there are different mentalities around both the quantity of traffic and the quality of traffic. At different stages in a website’s development, we tend to focus on one or the other, but when we start ...more
Blog Promotion
All You Need to Know About Educating and Selling
This guest post is by Jean Compton of jeancompton.com. In the Febuary 2011 issue of Inc. Magazine, Gary Vaynerchuck was interviewed regarding how he runs his many business ventures under the umbrella of VaynerMedia. Talking about his show, Wine Library TV, he was quoted as saying: “Some people think I’m ...more
Blog Promotion
10 Blogging Lessons from the Dalai Lama
This guest post is by Annabel Candy of Successful Blogging. The Dalai Lama recently came to visit me on the Sunshine Coast in Australia. Well, not me specifically but the thousands of people who drove miles, piled into buses, and waited under bright skies to hear him speak. It wasn’t ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Add That Special Something That Makes Your Readers Adore You
This guest post is by Kirsten Simmons of Personalized Productivity. Imagine your dream customer. The person who comments on every post, and opens every email you send. The person who replies to your tweets and tells their friends about you on Facebook. The person who immediately scrolls down your sales ...more
Writing Content
5 Crucial Questions to Ask Before Deciding to Blog in Another Language
This guest post is by Stephanie Hetu of StephanieHetu.com. Most of us international bloggers learned pretty much everything we know in English, just because the community of bloggers is there, huge, active, and available. We don’t have to search very far to learn all sorts of little tips and tricks ...more
Writing Content
How to Create Emails with a 47.8% Open Rate and a 28.3% Click Rate
this guest post is by Moon Hussain of Experiments in Passive Income. Contrary to popular belief, you need great copywriting skills to make a successful income online. For over a year, I thought publishing good material would not only help me go viral but also hurl me and my blog ...more
Blog Promotion
Tactical Tips for Building an Online Community
This guest post is by Jim Nelson of Tripawds.com. With all the wonderful feedback on my guest post about how we utilize WordPress multisite and discussion forums to build community for our rather niche market, I thought I might offer some detail about specific tactics and network plugins we use ...more
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