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Stuck for something to write about on your blog? Here are a few suggestions of things that might help get the creative juices flowing. 1. Use Mind Mapping I’ve previously talked about how Mind Mapping can be used to generate hundreds of ideas for blog posts. It can be used ...more

As this post goes live the doors at the BlogMastermind blog mentoring program are opening again for the first time in many months. When he first launched BlogMastermind I was really impressed by what Yaro had put together. He didn’t just rely upon the fact that he earns a six ...more

Does the traffic coming to your site come in a Yo-Yo like cycle of ups and downs that never really seems to go anywhere in the long run? Yesterday I wrote about a common problem that many bloggers face - spikes of traffic followed by flat-lines and promised a follow up post today on how to break this cycle by building 'sticky' sites.

Today I want to reveal 21 practical techniques for making sticky sites that new readers just can't leave.....

“Darren, I have been blogging for 6 months and have tried to build traffic through social media, networking and buying reviews. I have attached a screen capture of the last 2 months of traffic (above) where you will see I have some good days in traffic, but it always flat ...more

I’m excited today to announce an exclusive special offer for ProBlogger readers from Chitika (my own #2 income earner) that could be worth up to $100 for some of you. If you’ve previously not been accepted into Chitika or have a site that is product focused and didn’t work well ...more

Over at the ProBlogger Room on FriendFeed Keith asks a good question that has stimulated a whole stream of thought for me. He asks: “If you have a blog post that clearly outperforms all other posts (more than double the traffic in my case) do you capitalize on it by ...more

Yesterday I announced the re-launch of the ProBlogger Newsletter (there have been 500+ new subscribers added to the list from last time bringing it to a total of around 16,000 – the first newsletter will come out next week) and since doing so I’ve had a number of questions about ...more

Over the last week I’ve run some Crazy Egg heat map tracking on two posts on Digital Photography School (both of which got to the front page of Digg and got a lot of traffic) that both highlight to me a very simple method of increasing the number of pages ...more

Have you let your blog go? It’s easy enough to do – this series of posts explores 10 ways that bloggers ‘let their blogs go’ and what they can do about it. The season here in Melbourne is changing (some say it changes every day) and we’re slowly moving into ...more