CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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