
Bounce Rates High? Why?
Most bloggers I know want to reduce their bounce rates. Sometimes it can seem as if it doesn’t matter what the bounce rate for a page actually is, we want it to be lower! While it’s a stretch to expect we’ll hit a zero bounce rate, for most bloggers, it ...more
Featured Posts

How to Bore Your Readers to Death and Scare them Away
This guest post is by Jack Samuelson. Blogging is no joke. There are millions of blogs, probably hundreds of millions of bloggers, and billions of articles online. Still, that does not mean everybody can blog effectively and run their own blog with success. So what about all those unsuccessful bloggers? ...more
Writing Content

What New Bloggers Can Learn From Some of History’s Greatest Minds
This guest post is by Kate Miller of BestWebsiteHostingServices.org. Today’s new bloggers are a fortunate group. The blogging community is swarming with a plethora of experienced bloggers who they can turn to for advice, tips and DIY tutorials. These bloggers are the thought-leaders, renegades and early-adopters of the industry. Turning ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

A Basic Visual Design Guide for the Visually Incompetent
This guest post is by Anabelle of Read, Write, Live. Have you ever woken up one day, looked at your blog’s header and other visual elements, and thought, “My, this is ugly!” You need a visual redesign. What to do? There are two solutions to this problem: you hire a ...more
Blog Design

How to Work With Technical Contractors
This guest post is by Neil Matthews of wpdude.com. The majority of work to run a WordPress blog can be done by non-technical people, but about 20% of the work requires in-depth knowledge of the technology that sits underneath the hood of a WordPress site. This is when many blog owners ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Highlights from ProBlogger Event 2012
Last weekend, over 300 bloggers converged at Etihad stadium in Melbourne to attend the annual ProBlogger event. We had dreamed a lot bigger this year. This was the first year that we held the event over two days. It was the first year we had two different “streams” of content, ...more
General

Blogging Isn’t a Numbers Game: It’s a People Game
Last month I had the privilege of attending one of the biggest events in Australia—the AFL (Australian Football League) Grand Final. For those of you outside Australia, it’s kind of like the Superbowl of Aussie football (without all the cool ads and wardrobe malfunctions…). Anyway, I was a guest (with ...more
Featured Posts

Got a Consulting Gig from Your Blog? Don’t Make this Big Mistake
This guest post is by Bill Zipp of Billzipponbusiness.com. You’re so excited! The blog you’ve been writing faithfully, the list you’ve been building consistently, the newsletter you’ve been sending out weekly just paid off. You got a call from a reader who’s asked about the Holy Grail of blogging success: ...more
Blogging for Dollars

Build Your Brand to Get Paid Speaking Gigs
This guest post is by Valerie Khoo from www.ValerieKhoo.com This article is the third of a three-part series on how to build your brand through your blog and get paid for your creative output and expertise. The first two parts were about How to build your brand to get paid to ...more
Blogging for Dollars