
ProBlogger Challenge: Create a Pinterest Persona
I struggled a lot when I first started managing the Pinterest account for Digital Photography School. I knew that I wanted to focus on visual curation, and that I wanted to provide a comprehensive overview of techniques and tools. There were so many possible boards I could create and I ...more
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How My Old Blog Post Got Half a Million Pinterest Views [Case Study]
There’s a lot of information on the web, including ProBlogger, on how to maximize Pinterest to get traffic to your site. Between tutorials on how to optimize Pinterest as part of your social media marketing strategy, Darren’s own experiment on Pinterest, how to create Pinterest-worthy graphics, and how to run ...more
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Do You Need a Pinterest Consultant? Interview with Jade Craven of dPS
Back when Pinterest was brand-spankin’-new, we heard the same cry from a lot of Problogger.net readers: “Not another social network! Who has time for all this?!” Who indeed? Each social network is different, and they all require slightly different approaches and skills. One potential solution for more than a few ...more
Social Media

Heavyweight Help: The Complete Guide to Getting Started on Pinterest
Do you lie in bed at night dreaming of getting a link from some high-profile blog like ProBlogger that would send you thousands of visitors and give your blog the exposure you need to take it to the next level? I’d rather have Pinterest. Don’t get me wrong: I’d love ...more
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The 3 Emails You Must Send During a Launch … and a Fresh Alternative for Bloggers
Are you ready to launch a product from your blog? Not an affiliate product, but something you created with your own flesh and blood? After many late nights spent honing that ebook, ecourse, or coaching program? Whatever it is, if you’re ready to release that puppy, then it’s time to ...more
Blog Promotion

The 3 Essential Components to My Online Publishing Business: Blogging, Social, and Email
As bloggers, we’re always under time pressure to do more. Whether it’s releasing a product or engaging with users on a new social network, the blogger’s task list can seem overwhelming sometimes. I think some of that overwhelm comes from the granularity with which we tend to look at our ...more
Blog Promotion

Common Creativity: Understanding the Rules and Rights Around “Free” Images on the Web
We’re all familiar with the old adage: a picture is worth a thousand words. In some cases, a picture is worth a thousand dollars. Luckily, for those of us not interested in investing a small fortune for the use of an image on a small scale, there are options. Sites ...more
Blog Design

ProBlogger Census: We Need You!
It’s that time of year! We’ve set our plans, shifted our focus … and now we’re running our ProBlogger Census. I’d love to hear your feedback on the change of approach on ProBlogger, but I’m also really keen to hear what topics you’d like us to explore in the coming ...more
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Four New Ways to Monetize a Blog
The ad industry is dead. Target will only buy remnant inventory. Federated Media, the darling of the online ad world, is just about vaporized. And media behemoth IAC is building a state-of-the-art ad sales system that will work like a trading floor where you don’t even know what content you’re ...more
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