Why Bloggers Should Pay Attention to Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Did you know that last year’s Cyber Monday was the largest online sales day in history with $6.59 Billion spent?! (source Adobe Analytics). And from Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving - the third Thursday of November) through to Christmas, one third of all annual retail sales are made. For bloggers, in ...more
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10 Tips to Help You Land a Job as a Freelance Blogger
This post is based on Episode 185 of the ProBlogger podcast. Whether you’re looking to become a full-time blogger, want to supplement your blogging income, or simply want to make a bit of money to support your own blog as it grows, finding a paid blogging job can help you go further, ...more
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269: How Rowan Grew His Pinterest Following to More Than 300,000 in Two Months
How a Blogger Uses Pinterest to Boost His Following Welcome to the final episode of our Blogger Breakthroughs series. Today we share a story from Rowan Sims, Digital Photography School writer and ProBlogger podcast listener. Rowan’s also a landscape and travel photographer who uses his blog to teach readers ...more
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268: How Anita Diversified Her Blogging Income and Depended Less On Page Views
How a Blogger Expanded Her Income Streams and Engaged Readers in a New Way As a blogger, do you feel like you’re on a hamster wheel? Do you need to continually feed the machine to keep your blog generating traffic and income? We continue our Blogger Breakthroughs series with Anita ...more
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267: How Krista Overcame Fear and Procrastination in Her Blogging
How One Blogger Pushed Through Her Fear We continue our Blogging Breakthroughs series with Krista O’Reilly-Davi-Digui, who has a blog called A Life in Progress. Krista knew nothing about setting up a social platform. But she overcame procrastination and fear to show up regularly. Krista shares how her first viral ...more
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What to Do When Someone Steals Your Blog Content
This post is based on Episode 108 of the ProBlogger podcast. One day, you come across someone else’s blog online that has surprisingly familiar content. Very familiar content. Yours, in fact! In most cases, they’ll have taken entire posts for your blog – images, links and all – by “scraping” your blog’s ...more
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266: How Viral Content Grew Rachel’s Income from ‘Pay for Groceries’ to ‘Buy a House’
How a Blogger Used Viral Content to Grow Her Income Enough to Cover Her Mortgage Payments Rachel Miller is back on ProBlogger for our Blogging Breakthroughs series, which features bloggers’ stories about traffic, income, and other parts of blogging. Blogging has transformed Rachel’s life, and made a difference in the ...more
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265: How One Blogger Grew His Traffic Tenfold Without Producing New Content
One Blogger’s Experience of Growing Traffic Without Producing New Content If you’ve been blogging for a while you’ll relate to Todd Tresidder’s story in this episode of our Blogger Breakthroughs series. A blog that’s been around for a year or more ends up looking messy, and gives readers an inconsistent ...more
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3 Ways to Give Your Readers a Fresh Take on a Well-Worn Idea
Today’s post is by ProBlogger writing expert Ali Luke Whatever topic you write about, you’ve probably seen a lot of ideas that have already been done to death. If you’re in the weight loss niche, you might have seen a dozen posts on “How to beat the weight loss plateau”. ...more
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