
The State of the Darren-Sphere
In this post I’d like to give an update of the different sites that I work on, how they’re going and what I’m working on with them. 3 questions that I get a lot are: You seem to do a lot of ‘stuff’ – can you give me a quick ...more
Case Studies

Why Did You Start Blogging?
In the last post on ProBlogger Kevin talked about starting a blog based upon one of your hobbies as a great way to start blogging. As I mentioned in the introduction to that post – Kevin had really described much of my own motivations for starting my photography blog (and ...more
Reader Questions

Hobby Blogs: Making Profits from your Hobby
In this post Kevin Sanders shares some introductory reasons to take a hobby and blog about it. In effect this is the way that I personally got into blogging – there was no intent of my blogs being anything more than hobbies in my early days – but out of ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Want a Crash-Proof Site? A Paint-by-Numbers Guide to Using (and Surviving) Amazon S3
By Mary Jaksch from GoodlifeZen. Do you dream of creating a post or Ebook that goes viral? If you do, you might run into a problem. People flock to your site. You’re ecstatic about the spike in your visitor numbers. And then your site crashes. The problem is that your ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

A Simple Way To Funnel New Traffic & Sales From Buried Blog Archives
In this guest post internet marketer and full time blogger Lynn Terry of ClickNewz shares one of her newest tested blog marketing strategies. On the current theme of Content Marketing, I have a super simple strategy I have been testing to increase exposure and profit that you’ll really enjoy. It’s ...more
Blog Promotion

9 Things to Do To Make Sure Your Next Blog Post is Read by More than Your Mom
Two days back I explored the myth that all you need to do is write great content on a blog for it to get readers and introduced the idea of ‘seeding’ content rather than ‘forcing’ it upon readers. Today I want to take the ‘seeding’ idea a step further and ...more
Blog Promotion

The Power of Trust – a Living Example
Lately there’s been a lot of talk about Trust here on ProBlogger. Over the weekend we published a post on how to develop bulletproof Trust – last week I talked about Trust as an essential part of good affiliate marketing – the week before we linked to a great book ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

The Myth of ‘Great Content’ Marketing Itself
One of the common misconceptions that some new bloggers start out with is that in order to find readers for their blog all they’ll have to do is regularly write quality content. “Great content will market itself” – a statement I heard one speaker make at a blogging conference last ...more
Blog Promotion

3 Mind Power Techniques to Become A Better Blogger
A Guest Post by Steve Martile from Freedom Education. It’s normal to have a bad day, right? Well sure. But what if you have a bad week or a bad month? I’ve been blogging for just over a year. And if there is one thing that I’ve learned is that ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips