CategoryBlogging Tools and Services
How I use Google Analytics ‘Compare’ Feature to Motivate Me to Grow My Blog
This morning, a reader asked me this question: “How do you motivate yourself to grow your blog traffic from day to day?” We’ve covered a whole heap of techniques for growing the amount of traffic you attract to your blog in our Blog Promotion category (also check out this ‘how to find ...more
Blog Promotion
5 Affordable Image Creation Tools that I use In My Blogging
Earlier in the year I published a post where I shared links to 13 tools and services that I use every day in my blogging business. Today I wanted to add a four – particularly ones that relate to creating images for my blogs. PicMonkey I use PicMonkey every day ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
How to Protect Your WordPress Site Before the Hackers Lock You Out!
This is a guest contribution from Caleb Lane, WordPress security expert. I am sure you already have on your to do list that you need to respond to emails, return phone calls, show up for meetings, write more content, and a whole lot more. But, what if I told you that ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
How To Stop Your WordPress Blog Getting Penalized For Duplicate Content
This is a guest contribution by Felipe Kurpiel, an internet marketer I came across this topic by accident. One day I was monitoring my analytics data I noticed a big drop on my traffic stats and I didn’t understand why. Actually, I had a hint because I was starting to interlink my ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
4 Tools for Creating a Bulletproof Idea Capture System
This is a guest contribution by Charles Cuninghame is a freelance content writer. Have you ever experienced the terrible frustration of remembering you’ve had a great idea for a blog post or e-book you’re writing, but not being able to remember exactly what the actual thought or idea was? ‘ Don’t ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
6 Tips for Managing Multi-Author Blogs Without Losing Your Mind
This is a guest contribution from Alexis Grant, an entrepreneurial writer and digital strategist. Managing multi-author blogs can be a lot of work; you’re juggling contributors, an editing funnel, your calendar and maybe even promotion on social channels. But if you put certain systems in place, stay organized and know where ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Optin Skin Plugin Review
In June, Darren shared 3 Ways to Get More Subscribers for Your Blog. In that post, he identified the area under the blog post as being one of the ‘hot zones’ for calls to subscribe. This area is a solid location to place a call to action, but it can ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
13 Tools and Services I Use Every Day to Build a Profitable Blogging Business
Yesterday, during our Q&A webinar, we received a lot of questions about the tools and services we recommend for different aspects of blogging. While we touched on a few, there are quite a few more that I wanted to touch on. Not all are strictly ‘blogging tools’ but all are ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
How to Use Multivariate Testing to Build the Ultimate Opt-in Form
This guest post is by Adam Connell of Bloggingwizard.com. There’s a testing technique out there that’s not being used to its full potential—or even used at all by most website owners. Today I want to show you how you can use it to create the ultimate high-converting opt-in form. So ...more
Blogging Tools and Services