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Almost every time I do a Q&A at a conference I’m asked this question – How many posts should I post? The frequency of blog posts is something that gets talked about a lot and there is no perfect answer for all blogs – but here are a few thoughts ...more

This is a guest contribution by Ruchi Pardal of ResultFirst. Some people believe that content marketing means multichannel, and seemingly mechanical, publishing of anything, anywhere. Their goal is to gain links and rank well (of course, momentarily) using thin content, spinned content, keyword-rich content or unnecessary press releases. That’s the ...more

Yesterday I published a post telling my story of adding 12 income streams to my blogs over the last 10 years. One of the comments and tweets I had a number of times was a request to make the diagram I used shows how the 12 different streams of income ...more

Today I was speaking with a blogger (I’ll call her Alice for the sake of this post) who was feeling a little overwhelmed with the idea of monetizing her blog. She expressed that as she looked at other blogs in her niche, everyone seemed to be doing such amazing things. ...more

This is a guest post from communications and marketing consultant Brook McCarthy. When I was a young hippie, I accidentally joined a cult. I was a student of religious studies at the time and believed I was merely observing, until one morning, when I found myself at 5am, chanting to a giant image ...more

The final round of tickets for the Annual ProBlogger Training Event go on sale later today at 1.30pm Australian Eastern time. UPDATE: a limited number of these tickets are now on sale here. Over the last few years we’ve held 3 training events and have seen things grow each time. ...more

This is a guest contribution by Marya Jan, blogging coach from Writing Happiness. What’s the biggest excuse you hear from people who are not getting the results they want from their blogging? “I don’t know anyone online.” Not ‘my content might not be good’. Not ‘I don’t a clear idea of ...more

This is a guest contribution by Belinda Weaver, SEO copywriter behind The Copy Detective. A sheriff’s car rolls up to an intersection, where several cars are burnt out and overturned. The occupant, a police officer, gets out, slowly walks to the back of the car and pulls out a gas can ...more

I’m regularly asked about the mistakes I made when starting out with blogging and the first two words that usually spring to mind are  ‘Domain Names’. Most of the early mistakes I made (and some of the more recent ones) have revolved around domain names. Let me run through a ...more