9 Proven Tips For Creating An Extraordinarily Successful Blog [Lady Gaga Edition]
26th of July 2010 Darren Rowse 92 Comments

9 Proven Tips For Creating An Extraordinarily Successful Blog [Lady Gaga Edition]

A Guest Post by Karol Gajda from Ridiculously Extraordinary. I’m going to come right out and say it: I’m a Lady Gaga fan. I didn’t really know who she was until about 6 months ago. I knew the name, but hadn’t heard the music or learned about the artist. Then ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Blogosphere Trends + Being Opinionated
25th of July 2010 Kimberly Turner 25 Comments

Blogosphere Trends + Being Opinionated

Man alive, I hate bringing you a list of blogosphere trends that includes both Lindsay Lohan and Jersey Shore—not to mention Sarah Palin. But I report the list, I don’t decide what’s on it (neither does Regator—it just calculates what’s being blogged about most this week). Then again, you might love Lohan and eagerly await the next episode of Jersey Shore. You may have voted for Sarah Palin. My distaste for those things is merely my opinion and, in giving it, I have given you a better sense of who I am. As a blogger, I am all for that. And you should be too.
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Christmas in July Special – Get 25% off 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Today
24th of July 2010 Darren Rowse 17 Comments

Christmas in July Special – Get 25% off 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Today

The 25th July is tomorrow and at our place we’ve invited a group of friends over for a Christmas in July dinner (we do it as an annual thing and exchange gifts and do a full Christmas dinner). On the spur of the moment today I thought it might be ...more
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10 Common Spelling Mistakes That Haunt Bloggers
24th of July 2010 Darren Rowse 153 Comments

10 Common Spelling Mistakes That Haunt Bloggers

Whether you like it or not, people will judge your blog by the quality of your writing. The first thing you should do is to avoid the most common spelling mistakes, as they can turn off first-time visitors to your site. Below you’ll find 10 such mistakes to get you ...more
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Reach Out and Touch Someone: How the Power of Personal Connection Creates Blogging Success
23rd of July 2010 Darren Rowse 61 Comments

Reach Out and Touch Someone: How the Power of Personal Connection Creates Blogging Success

A guest post by Barrie Davenport. If you look at recent posts on Problogger, you will find a plethora of practical and useful tools and ideas for creating a blog, growing a blog, and making money from a blog. Like me, you have probably read and absorbed as many of ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
How to be the Life of the Social Media Party
22nd of July 2010 Darren Rowse 106 Comments

How to be the Life of the Social Media Party

“Being good on social media really has a lot to do with being good in relationships and conversation.” I made this statement in a presentation really and have been pondering it ever since. While there are a lot of great techniques for increasing the effectiveness in your use of blogging ...more
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Brainstorming Activity: What Could You Sell from Your Blog?
21st of July 2010 Darren Rowse 65 Comments

Brainstorming Activity: What Could You Sell from Your Blog?

Today I’d like to suggest an exercise to think about the future of your blog. It’s a brainstorming task to get you thinking about the types of products and services you might one day add to your blog. I remember doing this for ProBlogger 4 or so years ago and ...more
Blogging for Dollars
How to Take an Idea to Launch in 4 Steps
20th of July 2010 Darren Rowse 44 Comments

How to Take an Idea to Launch in 4 Steps

“How do you know which projects to go with and which to leave behind?” This is a question I’ve been asked almost every time I’ve spoken at events recently so I thought I’d jot down a few thought on the process that I find myself going through when looking at ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Melbourne Blogger Training Day <br />3 August 2010 – 12 Seats Left
19th of July 2010 Darren Rowse 13 Comments

Melbourne Blogger Training Day
3 August 2010 – 12 Seats Left

Just over a week ago I had the crazy idea to run a training day for bloggers while Chris Garrett was in Melbourne. It was a spur of the moment idea and as a result something that I thought would be quite small, informal and relaxed. I posted about the ...more
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