CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

This guest post is by Courtney Mroch of Haunt Jaunts. Statistics and their interpretation is often a popular topic on ProBlogger. One of my favorites about the subject was a guest post by Mark Seall called Who Cares How Many Subscribers You’ve Got? I loved the way he pointed out ...more

This guest post is by Joel Runyon of Impossible HQ. How do you stand out and differentiate yourself online when more and more people are starting blogs every day? Sure, you need to write stuff that’s gong to stand out, but a lot of blogging advice focuses just on writing. ...more

This guest post is by Eric Siu of Evergreen Search. WordPressers are always looking for helpful plugins for their blogs, and if you’ve been following today’s posts on ProBlogger, especially Install Your First WordPress Plugin, you’re probably in the same boat. So I thought I’d compile a list of the ...more

This guest post is by Karol K of ThemeFuse. WordPress is a platform that’s rather easy to use, for the most part. Publishing new posts is easy, creating new pages is easy, and moderating comments is—again—easy. And that’s great because, this way, the platform can be used by anybody. As ...more

This guest post is by Matt Hooper. After reading through Darren’s census of ProBlogger results, a couple of numbers stood out to me. 8.7% of ProBlogger readers haven’t started a blog of your own yet. Only just over half of the respondants are on the WordPress.org platform. The latter caught ...more

When we put together Blog Wise, I thought I would be the only blogger who didn’t use many (okay—any!) of the productivity apps I downloaded. As it turned out, very few of the pro bloggers we spoke to relied on any apps or tools other than Gmail, Google Calendar, and ...more

I put Corbett Barr on this year’s list of bloggers to watch because he is brilliant. He knows how to draw a lot of attention to a new blog and sustain that interest over a long period of time. That’s something that a lot of people struggle, including myself, so ...more

This guest post is by Jeff Nickles of MySuperChargedLife.com. My blog grew by leaps and bounds in 2011.  It was exciting! But it wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t made a few smart investments in my blog—investments, you could say, in my success. I’m a regular guy and a part-time ...more

This guest post is by David Edwards of A Sitting Duck. I’ve just passed three years on YouTube and I’m really happy with what I’ve achieved so far. But over the last few months I’ve become mates with a guy who owns one of the fastest growing channels in the ...more