
Six Defining Moments of a ProBlogger
There are defining moments in everyone’s lives that often get looked back on as times that determined how things eventually played out. My reader question for today is to ask for you stories of defining blogging moments. What are the most important decisions and discoveries that you’ve made as a ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Make Sure Your Blog Design Communicates Your Voice – Wife Advice Revisited
Late in December we ran a Community Consulting project for a blog called WifeAdvice. I invited Nancy Clark (one of the bloggers behind the site to come back and give some thoughts on the process and show us some of the changes that they made to WifeAdvice as a result ...more
Case Studies

Using Examples to Give your Posts Depth
Late last year I began the process of hiring a handful of writers to help create new content for Digital Photography School (I wrote a little about it here). I ended up taking on 6 new writers on a trial basis to write one post each per week. It’s been ...more
Writing Content

How To Recruit High Quality Guest Bloggers
John asked the following question about finding guest posters in our question box: What is the best way to get a quality guest blogger to post for your site? First things first: why should you care about having guest bloggers on your site to begin with? Well, there are several ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

The Curse of the ProBlogger – Time Management and Scaling Yourself Up
I love my work – but if there’s one thing that I struggle with more than anything else it is that I get to the end of each day and wish there were a few more hours. image by Erik It was a couple of years ago that I first ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

How to Write Posts That Set StumbleUpon on Fire
Skellie is a regular writer for ProBlogger. Check out her new blog Anywired if you’re interested in earning an income online. Since yesterday, StumbleUpon has sent me around 20,000 page views. It’s the single biggest referrer for both my blogs, despite one of them having been on the Digg front ...more
Featured Posts

Blogging as a Job – The Perceptions of Others – Convincing Those You Love that You Can Be a ProBlogger
In my recent question box Nick from Put Things Off asked me a number of questions that I thought I’d answer together as a single post as they almost read like a mini-interview – with questions revolving around the legitimacy of blogging as a career, helping others to accept it ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

4 Reasons You Should Encourage, Foster and Harness Dissent on Your Blog
Guest Post: Muhammad Saleem is a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. Over the past couple of years I have had many dozens of incredibly negative comments on my posts which I have often marked as spam and not posted. After I do ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Chitika Introduce Viral Branding Units
Chitika today have announced a new type of ad unit that I was fortunate enough to get a sneak peak of a few days ago. It’s called the Viral Branding Unit (VBU) and you can see it in action on their VBU page but it looks like this: This unit ...more
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