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This is a guest post from Leo Babauta of Zen Habits, and author of the best-selling book The Power of Less. Leo has just released a free report for bloggers called How I Got 100,000 Subscribers in Two Years: Lessons from Zen Habits. One of the things I’m proudest of ...more

Today I spent a little time digging around in my AdSense earnings stats to see how they’d been performing over the last 6-12 months and particularly was interested in how the RSS advertising was performing. I decided to pull out some of the data that I found and chart it ...more

One of the most common questions I’m asked by readers starting out with blogging is around blog design and how they can get an affordable but unique blog design. The irony of this is that I’m a self confessed dud when it comes to blog design. These days I hire ...more

Stuck for ideas to write about? Here’s a quick and easy to use tool from Google to help you identify topics within most niches. View this video at full size to get all the visual details in the video here on Facebook. PS: a number of people have been asking ...more

Have you ever read a blog post that just seems to have ‘it’? You arrive at the page, begin reading and immediately feel drawn into what the blogger is communicating. You can’t really put your finger on why – but there’s something about the way that they write that connects ...more

This week at ProBlogger I’m writing about principles of creating Compelling Content on a blog. Read principle #1, Being in Tune with Your Readers Needs here. Sometimes what makes a blog post compelling is not so much what the blogger writes but how the post is interacted with by readers. ...more

Compelling – “having a powerful and irresistible effect; requiring acute admiration, attention, or respect” Image by margolove Compelling content is a cornerstone of all great blogs. But what is it? How do you write it? Why do some blogs have it and others don’t? Over the next week at ProBlogger ...more

Today, Shaun Connell from Learn Financial Planning explains how to build a passive income from your blog without sacrificing value. Trying to get the most “bang for your buck” has been behind the invention of the wheel, light-bulb, the Internet and pretty much every other major technological advancement in history. ...more

Over the next week here on ProBlogger I’ll be exploring the topic of ‘compelling content’. I’ve identified 7 principles of compelling content that I’ll be sharing (actually it could blow out to 9 as the more I think about it the more I realize there’s to say on the topic) ...more