PB064: Content Marketing – Secrets From an Entrepreneur Who Has Used It to Build a Successful Business
Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes. How to Build Your Business with a Content Machine Today’s episode is about how to build your business using content marketing. It’s an interview with Dan Norris, a serial entrepreneur and popular blogger. Dan has used content ...more
Creating Content
5 Sure-fire Ways to Avoid a Google Penguin Penalty
This is a guest contribution from Steve Ceaton. So recently Gary Illyes from Google announced that hopefully by the end of 2015, Penguin updates will be carried out in real-time. Waiting for the next Penguin update has been the bane of many a website owners’ life, and getting hit with ...more
General
Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?
Plenty of stuff in here today to get you thinking! I’d love to hear your thoughts – let’s chat in the comments cos I seem to have a lot of opinions today! 11 Authors’ Strategies for Overcoming Writer’s Block // Mashable Ah, it happens to the best of us. Nothing a ...more
Blog News
Writing Challenge: Write a “Mistakes” Blog Post
Today I want to give you a writing challenge – one of many we’ve done during the life of this podcast. We’ve tackled list posts, link posts, opinion posts, calls to action, review posts, and “how I do it” posts, and now it’s time to crack open our vulnerabilities with ...more
General
PB063: Writing Challenge | Write a ‘Mistakes’ Blog Post
Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes. How to Transform an Embarrassing Mistake Into an Opportunity to Increase Your Blog Readership Today’s episode is about how to write a blog post about a mistake you have made. Across my blogs, the most popular posts ...more
Creating Content
How Writing Sponsored Posts Changed the Way I Blog (and Why it Might Change You Too)
This is a guest contribution from Katie Moseman. In my first few months of writing my food blog, I ran across a lot of impassioned opinions about how publishing a sponsored post on your blog constituted “selling out.” I didn’t immediately agree with that idea, but I hadn’t ever written ...more
Blogging for Dollars
Using Google Analytics to Unlock the Secrets of your Blog’s Audience
This is a guest contribution from Benjamin Mangold of Loves Data. Do you ever think Google Analytics is a bit overwhelming? Do you ever get stuck on where to start? If you’ve already logged into Google Analytics then you’ll know it provides an incredible amount of information which you can ...more
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How I Lost 80% of My Traffic Overnight (And How I Got it Back, Plus More!)
In today’s episode of the ProBlogger podcast, I want to tell you a little story. I want to tell you about one morning in 2004 when I realised my blog, which I’d recently established as my full time source of income, had hardly any traffic coming to it. I lost ...more
General
PB062: How I Lost 80% of my Blog Traffic Overnight and How You Can Stop It Happening to You
Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes. How to Diversify Your Blog Traffic Sources to Make Your Blog Stronger Today’s episode is about how I almost lost my blogging business overnight. It was right after I had decided to blog full time and had quit ...more
Finding readers