
How to Expand Your Blog Audience when Traffic Plateaus
This post belongs to a series on how to grow your blog once it gets past launch phase. Many bloggers that I chat with tell me that their blogs hit plateaus in terms of traffic after around 6 months of blogging. They launch with enthusiasm, great content, significant time invested ...more
Blog Promotion

AdSense ‘Force’ Expandable Ad Units on Some Publishers and Exclude Others
Update: I’ve updated this post below with an update from AdSense. Please read it. AdSense have today announced a new type of ad – Expandable Ad Units. I’m pretty sure that I’ve seen these ads being tested on one of my sites (although bizarrely I am not able to use ...more
Adsense

Offer Readers New Ways to Connect with Your Blog
Today we continue to look at ways that blogs which have got past the launch phase can take their blogs to the next level. In this post we look at something that I touched upon two posts back when we looked at building community on your blog – expanding the ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Some European AdSense Publishers Can Now Get Reports in Euros
AdSense today have added the ability for publishers located in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain to view AdSense reports in Euros as well as USD. They write: “If you’re located in one of these five countries and make this update, we’ll convert your earnings to Euros on a ...more
Adsense

How to Shape Your Blogs Brand
In this post we continue to look at tips for established blogs wanting to step up to the next level (this is the 6th tip in this series) by taking a look at how to shape the brand your blog. One of the things that I’ve noticed happen once a ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Learn How to Rank Highly in Search Engines – SEO Secrets
Want to learn how to make your blog rank well in Google? SEO Secrets is a resource worth considering. Last year at an SEO conference I met a fellow Aussie by the name of Glenn Murray (pictured right). He introduced himself to me as an SEO copywriter and he made ...more
Search Engine Optimization

Blog Carnivals Are Great, Hosting Them is Better
The Writer blogs about money and writing at The Writer’s Coin. His goal is to become the Michael Lewis of the personal-finance world—always writing something interesting and entertaining. That’s his goal, anyway. Image by meagen You can’t read a post or a blog about “being a better blogger” without some ...more
Blog Promotion

Bloggers Without Boundaries: Are the Lines Getting Too Blurred?
In this post Jonathan Fields from the Career Renegade Blog and author of the book Career Renegade talks boundaries. It’s Sunday morning, you’re up early, the house is still quiet. And, like any self-respecting blogger, you take this time to meditate, set-up your day and plan what you’ll do with ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

How to Develop a Niche Blog Content Plan
Jonathan Thomas is a blogger and social media marketer that runs several successful niche blogs such as: Anglotopia – The world’s largest Anglophile blog. You can connect with him on Twitter: @jonathanwthomas The best way to build traffic for a new niche blog is to have lots of content and ...more
Writing Content