
5 Things to Email Your Subscribers About Today
I’m a big advocate for building a list around your blog, then making the most of it. A current list of email subscribers is an advantage to any blogger who wants to build their presence, whether you’re monetizing your blog or not. Often, new bloggers tell me they want to ...more
Blog Promotion

The 5 Keys to Blog Usability
This guest post is by Neil Patel of Quick Sprout. The user is king. That’s what a lot of pundits are saying these days, from usability experts to SEO gurus and content marketing pros. Actually, it’s always been true, and it’s why the mantra “content is king” has always been so ...more
Blog Design

Beyond Blogging: Facing Up to Your Long-term Future
This is a guest post by Tyler Tervooren of Advanced Riskology. What happened to all the railroads? Have you ever pondered that question? In the 1800s, the railroad industry in the U.S. was booming. New businesses were sprouting up every year, and inventors were creating newer and more efficient locomotives. ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

You Know you’ve Been Blogging too Long When… #BloggingTooLong
I posted this on my Google+ account and on Twitter earlier today: You know you’ve been blogging too long when a family member asks for parenting advice and you write a 10 Point Answer, start brainstorming catchy titles and considering adding images and further reading. The responses I got were ...more
Reader Questions

A Scientific Approach to Writing Page Titles
This guest post is by Alex of Think Traffic. We all know how important page titles are for SEO and just the general success of our blogs and websites, don’t we? Well we are told often enough, so we certainly should… But how many people actually give page titles the ...more
Search Engine Optimization

The Keys to Creating Unmissable Content
This guest post is by Jonathan Mead of Trailblazer. Over 1.6 million blog posts are published each day. That’s an average is 18.6 posts per second. That’s a staggering number. And with so much content being published, how do you make sure that yours gets seen? And not just seen, but ...more
Writing Content

Why You Should Celebrate Every Win
When I read Rick’s post on the thrills new bloggers get to experience this morning, of course I laughed (I’m not really a margarita kind of guy). Rick’s post is great—I love it as an example of the way we can use humor to get a message across in a ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

10 Thrills We Newbies Experience That the Top Earners Have Forgotten
This guest post is by Rick of www.morebettersmarts.com. I know we all want to be like Darren, sipping Margaritas on the beaches of Australia and occasionally opening his laptop to see how much money his guest bloggers made for him today, while beautiful women clean his glasses with $100 bills. But ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

WordPress.com or WordPress.org? Which One’s Right for You?
This guest post is by Matt Hooper. When you first start looking at building your own blog, you are going to be inundated by the different options that are out there. After considering all your options, hopefully you’ll come to your senses and realize that WordPress is your best option. ...more
Blog Networks