
The Big Decision: Personal or Corporate Brand?
This guest post is by Luke, an IT-and-business nerd from Melbourne, Australia. I started dating my wife when we were both pretty young and she still lived at home. My wife’s dad, Bob, was a very successful businessman and his daughters all inherited their dad’s intellect. The dinnertime conversation often ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Why Social Media Is a Better Investment than SEO
This guest post is by Gary Arndt of Everything-Everywhere.com As a blogger, you probably do not have the luxury of having a staff of people to work for you. As such, your time is very valuable and you need to spend it where it will do the most good. We ...more
Blog Promotion

This Sunday You’re Invited to #Blogchat to Talk Monetizing Blogs
One of my favorite times of the week on Twitter is on Monday mornings, my time (Sunday night for many of you), when Twitter comes alive with #blogchat. #blogchat is a hashtag on Twitter that ties together hundreds of bloggers all talking about a particular aspect of blogging for an ...more
ProBlogger Site News

The Blog Is Dead: Long Live the Blog
How do you define what a “blog” is? Back in the day, a blog was a weblog—an online journal. This definition had connotations of timeliness, of narrative, and of a personal focus. But these days, blogging has expanded. Bloggers may be hobbyists or corporate CEOs. Blogs may be personal or ...more
Writing Content

How to Set Up Your First Blog the Right Way the First Time
Are you convinced you need to start a blog, but you’re overwhelmed by the setup process? If this describes you and you’d like a little hand-holding in setting up your own blog, I’ve been secretly working with Chris Garrett on a free resource that’s designed just for you. It’s called: ...more
Featured Posts

Scribe SEO Deal Closes November 5
Scribe SEO‘s special Step Up deal is about to close. If you haven’t taken advantage of it yet, time is running out. According to Scribe, “SEO is not rocket science … You know you have to create valuable, reader-focused content, and also: You’ve got to do keyword research. You’ve got ...more
Search Engine Optimization

Which Domain Is Right for You?
This guest post is by Karol K of newInternetOrder.com. If you’ve ever wondered about domain name selection, you probably already know that there are basically only three main types of domain names. And they are: semantic names unusual names combined names Which will be best for your next blog? If ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Awesome WordPress Plugins to Empower Your Visitors
This guest post is by Jeff Starr, co-author of the book Digging into WordPress. Helping your visitors get the most out of your site benefits everyone. Visitors get more relevant and useful content, and you enjoy better statistics and more exposure. Unfortunately the game is set up to keep people ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

October Trends + The 10 Horrors of Blogging
For those celebrating Halloween, it’s the spooky season, with haunted houses, terrifying costumes, and creepy decorations around every corner. What better time to look at the horrors that plague bloggers? Gruesome typos and grammatical errors, ghastly headlines, confusing echo chambers, dreadfully empty comments sections, and more!
Since it’s the end of the month, it’s also time to unveil October’s most-blogged-about stories, according to Regator.com’s trends. They were, in order: Halloween, Windows Phone, Brett Favre, Chilean Miners, Breast Cancer, ‘The Social Network’, Jon Stewart, World Series, Kanye West, and Nobel Prize. We’ll use posts from Regator about these top stories to illustrate how you can avoid the ten horrors of blogging…
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