Which is the Best Blog Hosting Solution?
Sometimes I feel like I’m asked this question more often than people Google it. If you have a self-hosted website (or are about to start one), you’ll probably want to know the answer too: Which is the best blog hosting solution? There are plenty of answers to this question. Check out ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
When DIY Blogging isn’t for You: 5 Alternatives to Self-Hosted WordPress
Here on ProBlogger, we’ve always recommended self-hosted WordPress (aka WordPress.org) as the very best platform for blogging. And with good reason. Many of the world’s largest blogs and websites run on self-hosted WordPress. Thousands of plugins and themes are available – many for free, although there are lots of premium ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
237: How Collaborations Can Accelerate Your Blog’s Growth
How to Use Collaborations to Grow Your Blog Have you ever felt that too many things need doing to build a successful blog? A student I spoke to this week who recently completed our Start A Blog course said they were a little overwhelmed by how much needed to be ...more
Start a Blog
Behind the Scenes of ProBlogger’s First Course Ever
Last month we launched our very first ProBlogger course. After a whirlwind few weeks (months, actually ), I thought I’d take the opportunity to share a bit of what happened behind the scenes while creating the Ultimate Guide to Start a Blog course. Why have we only started offering courses ...more
Creating Content
236: 5 Areas to Focus on to Grow Your Blogging Income
Growing Your Blog’s Income In today’s episode, I want to talk about growing your blogging income, particularly when you’ve already started building some traffic and income streams on your blog. This one will be most relevant if you’re at an intermediate to more advanced level. If you’re just starting out ...more
Making money
Case Study: What Happens When You Want to Sell Your Blog?
Today’s post is a case study with one of our past ProBlogger Event speakers, Sharon Gourlay. Sharon has built up two blogs with relatively passive traffic building strategies. Today she tells her story of selling her first blog. When I started my travel blog back in 2005, I never imagined ...more
Blogging for Dollars
235: How to Build Authority, Influence and Trust When Nobody Knows Who You Are
How to Build Authority and Influence with Your Audience In today’s episode, I want to talk about building authority and influence. This topic came about from talking to a number of bloggers who’ve just completed our Start a Blog course. They’re starting from scratch (as we all did), and want ...more
General
International Start a Blog Day Class of 2018
ProBlogger created International Start a Blog Day on February 7th to celebrate the achievements and diversity of new bloggers around the world launching their blogs at the beginning of the year. Please join us in supporting these new bloggers by checking out their sites, reading their stories, leaving them a comment ...more
General
234: How to Relaunch Your Blog After It Becomes Dormant
How to Relaunch a Dormant Blog In today’s episode, I want to answer a question I get regularly from listeners: How do you relaunch a blog that has died or become dormant? I want to talk you through two scenarios for relaunching a blog, and give you 11 things to consider ...more
Start a Blog