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Next week marks the 3 month anniversary of Vanessa (my wife) starting her first blog at Style and Shenanigans. It’s been a fascinating process to watch her plan, launch and grow her blog. Some might imagine that being married to ‘the ProBlogger’ means she’s constantly being told what to do ...more

What sort of content should you publish on your blog to help you grow traffic in your first year? There is no right or wrong answer to that question as each blog will be different depending upon the topic, your writing style and the purpose of your blog. However, I ...more

Last week I spent time with a young blogger who was completely stalled with her blog (for the purpose of this post I’ll call her Sally). Sally’s blogging had started with a bang and had put together 3 great months of content and had started to build a readership but ...more

Are you looking for a little inspiration and guidance in your blogging as you head into the rest of 2013? The Problogger Training Event Virtual Pass could be just what you need. In March this year when I announced the 2013 ProBlogger Event I did so quite nervously because we’d ...more

How do you keep yourself fresh, inspired and creative as a blogger? I was asked variations of this question three times this week, so thought I’d put my mind to giving a public answer. There are certainly times when I don’t feel overly ‘fresh’, ‘inspired’ or ‘creative’. However, I guess ...more

Can you believe that it’s almost the middle of 2013 already? If you’re anything like me you started out this year with big dreams and intentions to deliver on some signficant goals with your blog. However along the way to reaching ones goals often comes a lot of distractions and ...more

“ONE DAY I’ll be a full time blogger!” ‘V’ – my wife – must have heard that statement 100 or more times in 2003-2004. It would usually be accompanied by a spread sheet and/or chart in which I showed her how the earnings from my blog had grown from $9 ...more

Today I was speaking with a blogger (I’ll call her Alice for the sake of this post) who was feeling a little overwhelmed with the idea of monetizing her blog. She expressed that as she looked at other blogs in her niche, everyone seemed to be doing such amazing things. ...more

Do you lie in bed at night dreaming of getting a link from some high-profile blog like ProBlogger that would send you thousands of visitors and give your blog the exposure you need to take it to the next level? I’d rather have Pinterest. Don’t get me wrong: I’d love ...more