
Three(ish) Techniques to Unborify Your Blog Posts
This guest post is by Stephen Guise of Deep Existence. I’m working on a secret project, and it requires that I read studies. The information from the studies is absolutely fascinating, but they are run through a science machine that sucks the fun and life out of them. The verbose ...more
Writing Content

6 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Blog
Last week’s Blogging in Brief post looked at a really surprising business blog post. In fact, this was a post from a government body, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention—not the kind of place you might expect to have a raging sense of humor. Business blogging doesn’t have to ...more
Business Blogging

Beat Your Fear of Technology, and Grow Your Blog
This guest post is by Ayelet Weisz of All Colores. As Matt Setter recently pointed out here on ProBlogger, pretty much anyone can set up a blog these days without worrying about technical mumbo-jumbo. Yet as I learned when I transferred my blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org, sometimes the technical ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

SEO for Bloggers With Soul
This guest post is by Sarah L. Webb of S. L. Writes. Maybe you consider yourself a serious writer who doesn’t have time for the details of how to boost SEO. Why should you bother with that when you’ve launched a blog to help people and make the world a ...more
Search Engine Optimization

Use Product Promotions to Add Value on Your Blog—and Others
We get a lot of requests for co-promotions here at ProBlogger, and at Digital Photography School as well. No matter what niche you’re in, if your blog has a reasonably engaged audience, you’re probably the target for others who want to promote their new products. On the flip side, you ...more
Blog Promotion

How to Handle Guest Post Rejection
This guest post is by Tapha Ngum of MyAppTemplates.com. So, you agreed on a topic to write about for a blog with the blog owner or editor, and you’ve just spent eight hours writing and editing it. You’ve done all the right things—read the submission guidelines, and double-checked your post for spelling ...more
Blog Promotion

Why My First Blog Failed … and What You Can Learn from My Mistakes
This guest post is by Ali Luke of Aliventures. Where do you hope blogging will take you? I’m thrilled that blogging’s got me to where I am today—with a successful full-time business, a bunch of ebooks, a membership site, guest posts on major blogs, two speaker appearances at BlogWorld, and ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

How to Fail Productively as a Blogger
This guest post is by Bea Kylene Jumarang of Writing Off the Rails. During one of my blocks of free time, I found myself watching a video from Tim Harford, an economist and a writer. In it, he was discussing his three rules for failing productively, and those rules were ...more
Be Productive

Weekend Project: Learning to Fail
This weekend, we’re taking a different approach with our weekend project, and touching on a topic that I think is overlooked a lot in blogging. And that’s failure. In a world like this, where it’s so easy to try new things out—new social networks, new product ideas, and so on—it’s ...more
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