
Fresh Ways to Handle Blog Criticism
This guest post is by Harry French of BloggingTips.com. Sometimes being famous isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. When a blogger writes a negative comment about you, or goes on an outright tirade, it can be hard to bite your tongue and move on. Sometimes, however, that’s the best ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

So You’re Making Money Blogging … Now What?
You’ve started a blog, written great content, engaged with readers … and now you’re making a little money at it. Congratulations! I started blogging seriously with the aim to make a living from it, but I know plenty of bloggers—probably the majority of those making money blogging—have less clear-cut ambitions ...more
Blogging for Dollars

How to Land a Job as a “Resident Blogger”
This guest post is by Jane of Runaway Jane. I recently secured the position of Resident Blogger at PLUS Hostels, a large hostel and camp site chain based in Europe. I’d spent more than two years blogging on my independent travel blog RunawayJane.com, and that experience undoubtedly led to me ...more
Blogging for Dollars

Titles That Work on ProBlogger—And Why
Darren recently highlighted some of the posts that attract clicks at Digital Photography School. Many readers were interested to see the kinds of titles that do well here at ProBlogger, so today I thought I’d show you the posts that garnered a lot of traffic here in April. The top ...more
Writing Content

10 Cheap Survey Tools for Bloggers Who Want Answers
This guest post is by Neil Patel of Quick Sprout. Whether you want to write a persuasive post or a headline that grabs attention, or create a call to action that grows your RSS subscription count by 243%, you first have to understand who your reader is. So how do you ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

7 Steps to Creating More Effective Reader Surveys
This guest post is by AJ Kumar of Single Grain. The benefits of polling your readers and conducting good customer surveys have already been well-established in the blogging world. Not only does this technique enable you to make better informed marketing decisions, gathering information via reader survey can help you to ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

What’s the “Right” Kind of Blog Traffic?
As I was reviewing my analytics this week, it struck me that the universal desire for basically all of us is to grow traffic. We’d all like more traffic, all of the time. Having that goal in mind drives more than a few bloggers to try black-hat techniques, or to ...more
Blog Promotion

This Post Will Change the Way You Read Blogs. Guaranteed.
This guest post is by Timo Kiander of Productivesuperdad.com. Let me ask you this: how many RSS subscriptions do you have? 20? 50? 100? 250? I figured that the number you follow would be quite high. I used to follow almost 90 blogs through RSS. However, there is one big pain ...more
Be Productive

What to Do When Your Posts Aren’t as Good as they Seem in Your Mind
This guest post is by Amit Sodha of Unlimited Choice. Have you ever had an idea, a thought, or a burst of inspiration that, while it was still in your mind, sounded amazing? But, when you tried to articulate it on screen or paper, or in speech, it didn’t sound ...more
Writing Content