Build Blog Products That Sell 1: Match a Unique Idea to Your Audience
This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. How do you get readers to part with their money, especially when said money is scarce? This year has been particularly tough for businesses and individuals who are all dealing with rising interest rates and cost of living pressures. It’s ...more
Blogging for Dollars
Using Categories and Tags Effectively on Your Blog
This post on using Tags and Categories on a blog was originally written by Michael Martin from ProBlog Design and updated recently by the ProBlogger team. Categories and tags are essential for blogs and content organization for many reasons: SEO Benefits: Categories and tags help search engines understand the structure ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
How to Turn a Blog Post into a Press Release
This guest post is by Erika Gimbel, a Chicago freelance writer. If you’re an ace at writing blog copy, you can write an excellent press release. Both have many of the same elements: strong headlines, top-down format (most important stuff up front), etc. You already know that press releases are ...more
Blog Promotion
7 Steps to Proofreading Like a Pro
This is a guest contribution by Charles Cuninghame, website copywriter. I’m sure we can all agree that proofreading is the least fun part of blogging. But while it may be tedious, it’s well worth the effort. Typos are not only embarrassing, they can also cost you money. In a widely ...more
Writing Content
5 Blog Naming Basics
A guest post by Nathalie Lussier. Is your blog getting the attention you know it deserves? Maybe you haven’t started your blog yet because you can’t settle on the right name or theme. Perhaps you’re thinking of starting a second blog, but want to “do it right” this time… Whichever ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Ramit Sethi Exposed: How He Earns Millions Blogging
This guest post is by Michael Alexis. In this post, I’m going to show you the exact steps one blogger used to earn over $1 million. That’s making some serious money blogging! I interviewed Ramit Sethi of I Will Teach You To Be Rich and if you’re serious about making money ...more
Blogging for Dollars
52 Types of Blog Posts that Are Proven to Work
This guest post is by Karol K of Online Business Design blog. Blogging is not only about putting together 400-2,000 words of text and publishing them on your WordPress site. As a blogger, you can choose from a much bigger variety of possible blog post types (and content in general). ...more
Writing Content
5 Simple Font Changes to Boost Readers, Comments, and Shares on Your Blog
This guest post is by Bnonn of Information Highwayman. You may not realize it, but the font settings on your blog can have a huge effect on how many people read your content. And how many people read your content has a huge effect on whether a post goes viral. ...more
Blog Design
7 Powerful Ways to End Your Next Blog Post
This guest post is by Ali Luke of Aliventures. You know your title has to hook readers. You know your first line needs to keep them reading. The start of your blog post matters. But so does the end. In fact, without a powerful end to your post, all the ...more
Creating Content