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This guest post is by Jonathan Thomas of Anglotopia.net. A common way for a blog to build its newsletter and traffic base is to hold a contest. My blog, Anglotopia, has been around for over four years now and we’ve had various successes and failures with contests. Eventually we basically ...more

This guest post is by Nivin of SecretMarketingPlaybook.com. So, you’ve decided to start a blog? By now I’m sure you would’ve noticed that every man, woman, and their dogs seems to have their very own blog.That leaves you with the unenviable task of answering the ultimate question for any blogger: ...more

This guest post is by Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing. Our blog is less than a year old. We started Firepole Marketing less than a year ago, and we’ve done pretty well with it over that time. A lot of people know who we are, and what we do. I’ve ...more

They say one of the best ways to improve your craft (whatever that may be) is to learn from the greats. The experts, the legends, the Mohammad Alis and J.K. Rowlings of the field. So before I started my blog, I took notes from the best. What made the popular ...more

This guest post is by Beth Hayden of Blogging with Beth. You wake up in a cold sweat. You bolt upright and gasp for air. You’ve just realized that your blog has only one true fan—and it’s your mother. Dear old mom reads all of your posts. She comments every ...more

One of the types of posts that I’ve created quite a few of over the last few years here on ProBlogger is the “talking head” video post—like the one you see above. In this video I talk a little about some of the benefits of using video in this way ...more

This post is by Chris Wise of Expressionables. Product review blogs are one of the best ways for ecommerce sites to spread the word about their products and build backlinks to increase organic search traffic. That being said, there are thousands of small-to-medium-sizes product review blogs on the Internet all ...more

It’s a paradox. The pundits encourage bloggers to find a niche, think differently, and say something unique and valuable. Then they give us standard formulae for producing content, as if your unique voice, approach, readership, and topic will be neatly addressed by a preselection of three or four formats. The ...more

As I reflect upon the times when I’ve felt most “effective” as a blogger (and perhaps as a human), I think it’s times when I’ve built these three things into life. Space Perhaps it’s just me and my personality, but I find that if I don’t create space… to reflect ...more