Weekend Project 1: Fix a Mess of a Multi-topic Blog
This guest post is by Natalie Webb of Leave Me to My Projects. You started your blog because you were passionate. You wanted to write about everything you love. You wanted to inspire people with your passions and your well-rounded knowledge in all of your areas of expertise. You wanted ...more
Featured Posts
Weekend Project: Get Focused With Your Multi-topic Blog
It’s standard professional blogging wisdom that to succeed in blogging, you need to choose a niche. This is a point that I’ve made many times, and it’s advice I still stand by. That said, there are many, many bloggers out there with multi-topic blogs who aren’t about to “niche down” ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
The Importance of Your Essence in Blogging Success
This guest post is by Alden Tan of Alden-Tan.com. So you got your blog started up. It’s time to put everything in place. You start to study the market and conduct all the research needed. You read up on other blogs, scout forums, and buy an ebook that’s supposed to ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
The Barnum & Bailey Guide to Internet Marketing
This guest post is by Steven A. Lowe of Innovator Consulting and Custom Software Development. “There’s a sucker born every minute.”—P. T. Barnum *Note. “They apparently all have Internet access.”—S. A. Lowe Rubix D. Newby—Rube to his friends—left the family farm to strike it rich in the Big City. On ...more
Blog Promotion
New Blogger? Create a Viral Post in 5 Simple Steps!
This guest post is by Greg Digneo of Cloud Marketing Labs. Admit it: you think I’m nuts. There’s no way a new blogger can write a viral blog post with five simple steps! Well, as the saying goes: “I said it was simple, but it ain’t easy.” In fact, it will ...more
Writing Content
How I Run a Successful Blog Without Writing a Word
This guest post is by Ashkan of iPhoneAppCafe.com. I started iPhoneAppCafe.com back in 2010 with the aim of making it a profitable blog—a goal that I eventually achieved. However, after my first blogging venture, one thing became clear to me: writing is not actually my greatest strength. I have always ...more
Be Productive
Social Media Advertising: Should Bloggers Bother?
This guest post is written by Lior Levin. Social media has proven its worth as a networking tool and a means of raising brand awareness, but the future of sites like Facebook and Twitter depend on convincing brands that that it’s worthwhile to invest in advertising on their sites in ...more
Advertising
Is Your Blog Over-optimized?
This guest post is by AJ Kumar of Single Grain. The current hot topic in the search engine optimization world is Google’s recent Penguin update—a move the search giant claims is intended to help reduce the presence of over-optimized web pages in the natural search results. In fact, the possibility of ...more
Search Engine Optimization
Separate Your Blog Needs from Your Blog Wants
This guest post is by Nicola Ibberson of Little House In Town. We’re always told in life that we should distinguish between those things we “want” and those things we “need.” The general idea of this is that we need to prioritise the things we do and things we buy ...more
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