
Four Professional Editing Techniques that Boost Post Value
Putting aside grammar, spell-checking, and similar post QA techniques, editors commonly rely on a suite of tactics to help boost the communications value of content. They’re easy to apply, and don’t take a whole lot of expertise or time. Perhaps you can (or do?) use them to hone your posts. ...more
Writing Content

Setting the Hook: Fishing for New Readers with Social Media Lures
This guest post is by Ben Harack of the Vision of Earth project. Regarding readers as fish, and bloggers as fisherman, might seem strange. Bear with me as I show you part of why I like the idea of blogging as being similar to fishing. Those of you who are ...more
Social Media

Everything You Need to Import and Display RSS Feeds with WordPress
WordPress makes it super-easy to publish your own content, and even easier to import and display content from other great sites around the Web. Just as other people are displaying and reading your feed in their apps and devices, you can use external RSS feeds to supplement and strengthen your ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

Personal Or Business Social Media Accounts: Which Is Best for You?
One of the first decisions you’ll need to make when you start using social media and participating in social networking is to choose your username. It might seem like a simple question, but the username you decide on will be closely linked to your branding, how people perceive you, and ...more
Social Media

Online Marketing: the Onion You Should Peel
This post was written by the Web Marketing Ninja—a professional online marketer for a major web brand, who’s sharing his tips undercover here at ProBlogger. Curious? So are we! One of the most common mistakes people make when entering into the world of online marketing and sales is having a ...more
Blog Promotion

Three Essential Tips to Growing Sales and Service, One Tweet at a Time
This guest post is written by Phil Hollows, the Founder and CEO of FeedBlitz. Twitter offers small businesses and independent professionals unique opportunities to out-maneuver their larger competitors, by using the social network as a real-time prospecting and customer service system. You can improve your pipeline and grow a stellar ...more
Social Media

Put Out the Welcome Mat: How to Run a Blog Contest with Panache
This guest post is by Nathalie Lussier. Whether you’ve got a new blog or want to jump start your existing blog, you have two options: 1) keep blogging and hope it pans out, 2) try something different. In this post you’ll learn how to run a blog contest with panache. ...more
Blog Promotion

How to Use a Magazine to Improve Your Blog
View this video at full size here. Looking for a little inspiration for your blog? Check out this simple exercise that I do from time to time, particularly if I’ve got a little time to spare and a magazine handy. Note: pick a magazine that relates to your topic—unlike I ...more
Video Posts

10 Realizations that Will Crush Your Little Heart In Your First Year of Blogging
This guest post is by Moon from Experiments in Passive Income. This post comes from someone who has made a ton of mistakes and is on her way to learn from those mistakes. You and I probably have a lot in common … after all, you’re here to learn about ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips