
5 Tips for Creating a Truly Valuable Tutorial
The notions of pillar and evergreen content aren’t exactly news to bloggers—we know that’s where we have some of our best shots of nurturing rapport and loyalty, and building repeat readership. It follows, then, that we should hone our pillar-content-writing skills. Today I wanted to look at a key type ...more
Writing Content

How Boring Is Your Blog?
This guest post is by Julien Smith of inoveryourhead.net Are you repeating the same things every other blogger is saying? Are your valuable visitors turning away as soon as they see what you have to offer? Is your blog great, or is it boring? How would you know? Very few ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

The 5 Critical Errors Most People Make When they Start Using Social Media for Business
For most businesses, participating in social media is unchartered territory. When there are no examples to follow, the only way to learn is to experiment. Over the last 18 months, I’ve been observing what’s worked and, more importantly, what hasn’t. Here are the top five ways a business can alienate ...more
Social Media

ProBlogger the Book: 44% Off Today at Amazon
If you’ve been putting off buying ProBlogger the Book (the ‘real’ paper one) that I wrote with Chris Garrett – today’s the day to pick one up at Amazon. Normally retailing for $24.99 today they have it at 44% off – just $14.04. They often have had it at 30% ...more
ProBlogger Site News

October and November Earnings Breakdown
Over the last few months I’ve been showing breakdowns of my earnings in an attempt to give some insight into the diversity of income streams available to bloggers, as well as showing how earnings can vary from month to month. Earnings come from my work on a number of sites ...more
Blogging for Dollars

Will You Build or Buy Your New Blog?
This guest post is by Andrew Knibbe of Flippa. When most of us think of blogging, we think about starting from the ground up. Having researched a niche, we search for a good domain, choose a blogging platform, apply a template, and prepare our first post… But there are other ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Use Photos to Stand Out in the Facebook News Feed
This guest post is by Tommy Walker, Online Marketing Strategist and owner of Tommy.ismy.name. A picture is worth a thousand words, right? This old cliché has become especially true in blogging. It’s statistically proven that by inserting compelling photographs into your blog posts, you’re able to better retain your reader’s ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

How to Write a Press Release that Gets Attention
This guest post is by Frank Strong of PRWeb. Writing good content for a blog is only half of the equation: promoting your blog to drive traffic is the other half. Previously we offered five reasons to promote your blog with press releases as part of an overall content marketing ...more
Blog Promotion

7 Powerful Ways to Get Your Blog Post Noticed
Stanford obsesses about how to get passionate people’s blogs noticed and promoted at Pushing Social. Great posts often get ignored. It shouldn’t happen. Literary masterpieces should be revered but that just isn’t the case in the blogosphere. On a blog, a post has a few seconds to capture and pull ...more
Writing Content