
The Power of Story on Blogs
One book that I find myself delving into every six months or so is The Story Factor by Annette Simmonds. She writes about a topic that is close to my heart – the power of storytelling as a way to be influential. One of the points Annette makes early in ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Show Off Your Title Creation Skills – Rework These Post Headlines
In the last few days we’ve been talking about how to write good blog post titles here at ProBlogger. We’ve talked about the theory of it – so now it’s time to get a little more practical. In the next couple of days I’m going to launch a group writing ...more
Writing Content

11 SpeedLinks for Professional Bloggers and Web Workers
I’ve been doing most of my ‘speed linking’ on Twitter lately – but here’s a collection of links from around the web for bloggers and web workers that got my attention today: Screen Casts Rock – Here’s Who’s Rocking Them Now – RRW showcases great Screen Casters 7 Tips for ...more
Pro Blogging News

Is Writing Great Content Enough to Build a Successful Blog?
At times you could be forgiven for thinking it is – if you read a lot of blogs on ‘how to blog’ that is. One of the first thing that most of us who write about blogging advise those starting out is to work on writing useful and unique content. ...more
Featured Posts

Blog Hosting – Which Hosts Top Blogs Use
Who is Hosting This has put together a great little study into the blog hosts of the top 100 bloggers (according to Technorati). On top of the list is Media Temple, Datagram, BlogSpot and Six Apart. Yes you heard it, 8 of the top 100 blogs use Blogspot and 4 ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

AdWords Keyword Tool How to Use it to Hone Post Titles and Choose Blog Topics
Today I want to point out a useful tool for bloggers wanting to do a little research into topics to blog about (or even what topic to choose for your next overall new blog). The tool is a free one from Google – their AdWords Keyword Tool. This tool is ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

The Buzz about Yahoo Buzz
I opened my inbox this morning to find quite a bit of mail on the one topic – Yahoo Buzz which today opened up its doors to the public and started allowing other sites outside of it’s initial closed test to submit stories to it. Yahoo Buzz is a social ...more
Social Media

Applying for a Blogger Job? Treat it Seriously
Today I received an email from one of the advertisers on the ProBlogger Job Boards. They reflected back to me that they’d had a lot of ‘low quality’ job applications and made some suggestions for those looking to apply for a blogger job. I’ll include their suggestions below. Let me ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Blog World Expo (Winners of Passes) – I’m Going Too!
A couple of weeks ago I announced that Blog World Expo had generously decided to give away two free passes to their conference in September to ProBlogger readers. There were a lot of entries so it took us a while to choose the winners but over the weekend Rick emailed ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips