
Win 1 of 10 Trips to The Great Barrier Reef in Queensland Australia #QldBlog
Update: this competition is now closed to new entries. We’re now narrowing down to find our 10 winners who will be contacted and then announced here on ProBlogger on 24 April (note: I previously wrote 23rd of April but this was my mistake. As per the terms and conditions it ...more
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19 Essential WordPress Plugins for Your Blog
This guest post is by Eric Siu of Evergreen Search. WordPressers are always looking for helpful plugins for their blogs, and if you’ve been following today’s posts on ProBlogger, especially Install Your First WordPress Plugin, you’re probably in the same boat. So I thought I’d compile a list of the ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

Install Your First WordPress Plugin
This guest post is by Karol K of ThemeFuse. WordPress is a platform that’s rather easy to use, for the most part. Publishing new posts is easy, creating new pages is easy, and moderating comments is—again—easy. And that’s great because, this way, the platform can be used by anybody. As ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

What You Need to Know Before You Start a WordPress Blog
This guest post is by Matt Hooper. After reading through Darren’s census of ProBlogger results, a couple of numbers stood out to me. 8.7% of ProBlogger readers haven’t started a blog of your own yet. Only just over half of the respondants are on the WordPress.org platform. The latter caught ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

Move Beyond Fear: Find and Keep Your Writing Voice in 10 Steps
This guest post is by Sean M. Madden of Mindful Living Guide. I’ve been teaching creative writing, along with mindful living, for years now. And I can say, without hesitation, that fear is ubiquitous. Its presence, more than anything else, stops writers in their tracks. All seems to be going ...more
Writing Content

Plagiarism … or Inspiration?
This guest post is by Dawn Walnoha of Brandsplat. In all writing, blogging being no exception, there is a fine line between borrowing ideas and plagiarizing content. Since the issue is not clearly defined the same way everywhere, it is open to interpretation. And that means the line is somewhere in a ...more
Writing Content

How to Create a Website and Sell it for $200,000
This guest post is by Patrick Meninga of Make Money with No Work. Over the last four years, I created a single website that exceeded $2,000 in monthly income, and sold for six figures to one of my direct advertisers. When I started this journey, I had no idea what I ...more
Blogging for Dollars

5 Ebook Publishing Hurdles, and How to Beat Them
This guest post is by Paul Jun of Motivated Mastery. During the journey of writing my first ebook, there were many roadblocks and sudden realizations that I faced; it’s only right for me to share them with you so that you can avoid undermining your ebook’s true potential, or at least ...more
Blogging for Dollars

Brand Yourself in Four Simple Steps
This guest post is by Crissie Fuller of Independent Fashion Bloggers. Think about your resume. You stress over making it perfect, sweat every little detail—from the wording, to the layout, all the way down to your “Special Skills.” It’s your ticket to your dream job and you know it needs ...more
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