
135: How to Grow Your Blog’s Traffic and Income by Setting Goals
Setting Goals to Grow Your Traffic and Income Today’s podcast is about setting goals to grow your traffic and income. Pamela, one of our readers asked this question: “Darren I’ve been blogging now for 12 months and I’ve seen some growth in my traffic and more recently income – but ...more
Making money

Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?
Still shaking my head over that WordPress tip I HAD NO IDEA EXISTED. This changes everything – and means my workload is lighter. AWESOME. Have a great week! How to Discover Your Customer’s Favourite Social Media Platforms | Copyblogger We say be where your audience is, and these are some great ...more
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134: How to Decide if You Should Start on a New Social Network or Medium
How to Decide if a New Social Network or Medium is Right for You Today I’m going to help you decide if you should start on that new social network or that new medium like a podcast or a YouTube channel. As bloggers, we are constantly bombarded with choice as ...more
Creating Content

Why LinkedIn is the Only Social Media I Use
This is a guest contribution from Matthew Oleniuk. Close to ten years after Facebook took the world by storm, there’s not much point in stressing the importance of social media anymore. You just can’t grow your blog or your brand these days without having a social presence – so everyone ...more
Social Media

10 Top Twitter Tips to Improve Your Engagement
This guest post is by Josh Sayers of Adventure Connections One of my biggest bugbears in the world of marketing are people that do not have Twitter. It’s a free platform that has over 310 million active users, and unlike the monster that is Facebook, doesn’t meddle with your timeline ...more
Social Media

133: The Secrets of Making Money Blogging
The Seven Secrets of Making Money Blogging Today, I am traveling back in time and playing for you the audio of a video I made back in 2010. This video is called The Secrets of Making Money Blogging, and I share seven different secrets on how to make money blogging. Of ...more
Making money

Reading Roundup: What’s New in Blogging Lately?
The sun is shining in Melbourne, and productivity/spirits/motivation is high. I hope you’re feeling the same wherever you are, and you kick some pro blogging goals this week! Facebook Now Lets Broadcasters Restrict Their Live Audiences By Age, Location, Gender | Marketing Land Specific targeting can only be a good ...more
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132: How to Give Your Blog Posts Structure By Using Subheadings
How to Use Subheadings to Add Structure to Your Blog Posts Today we are talking about written content. I have one of our regular contributors Ali Luke, from Aliventures.com on the show today to talk about subheadings. I haven’t talked much about using subheadings, but as I was listening to ...more
Creating Content

How to Get Your Readership Involved and Grow Your Audience with Community Challenges
One of the things we’re always told is to build community – it makes all the difference between traffic who don’t care and an audience who are invested in you and your story. If you have a blog or online following, and you want to take it to the next ...more
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