271: How One Blogger Simplified Starting a Blog by Sharing the Load
How One Blogger Worked With Others to Start a Blog We continue our series featuring stories from new bloggers who have recently completed our free Ultimate Guide to Starting a Blog course. We hope they’ll inspire others as part of our International Start a Blog Day on February 7. Today’s story ...more
Start a Blog
270: How One Blogger Changed Her Life by Starting a Blog
How Starting a Blog Helped Transform the Life of a Blogger Happy New Year! This first episode of 2019 launches a series of stories from new bloggers who started their blogs after completing our free Start a Blog course. The course features seven steps, which makes it a perfect way ...more
Start a Blog
6 Ways to Boost Your Blog Traffic in the New Year
This post is based on Episode 177 of the ProBlogger podcast. Did your blog have a bit of a holiday slump? Many bloggers find they lose momentum with their traffic in January. So if it happened to you, you’re not alone. Your readers were probably online less than usual. A lot ...more
Creating Content
The Best Way to Start a Blog in 2019
If you’ve been Googling how to start a blog, then I’m sure you’ve already come across many resources telling you how. And most of them are pretty much the same, as creating your first blog is just a matter of a few technical steps. We even have a “how to ...more
Start a Blog
How to Start a Blog When You’re Not an Expert: 11 Ways to Make it Work
Is it okay to blog about a topic you’re not an expert on? Definitely. I wasn’t an expert blogger when I started ProBlogger, or an expert photographer when I started Digital Photography School. Even now I don’t consider myself an expert, especially with photography. When I started ProBlogger in 2004 I’d ...more
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Have Blog, Will Travel: Tips For Blogging On the Road
This post is based on Episode 243 of the ProBlogger podcast. If you’re travelling over the holidays – to see family and friends, or just for a vacation – then you might be worried about you’ll keep up with your blogging. (This can also be a challenge if you travel regularly.) Here ...more
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Four Realities of Blogging Every Blogger Should Know About
Does it look like other bloggers achieve success really easily? Maybe they’re content machines, pumping out great post after great post. Perhaps they’ve just launched yet another course, or have an amazingly swish new design for their blog. Or maybe they always reply to comments and emails really quickly. And ...more
Mindset + Motivation
13 Key Ways to Lower Your Blog’s Bounce Rate (and Why it Matters)
Bounce rate is a Google Analytics metric that tells you the percentage of people who “bounce” off your site (i.e. visit your site and leave from the first page they arrive on). To find out your bounce rate, log into your Google Analytics account. (If you haven’t set up Google Analytics ...more
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What Do Your Blog Post Titles Say About Your Brand?
This is a post by ProBlogger writing expert Ali Luke If you’ve been reading ProBlogger for a while, you probably know the basics about writing blog post titles such as: Be clear and specific Use numbers where appropriate Use powerful words and phrases such as “how to”, “easy”, “quick”, “great”, “little-known”, and ...more
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