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This post is based on episode 69 of the ProBlogger podcast. Note: This article contains affiliate links, which means that if you purchase anything via my link I may earn a small commission at no cost to you. (And in some cases, ProBlogger has negotiated special deals for our readers with these ...more

This post is based on episode 68 of the ProBlogger podcast. Note: This article contains affiliate links, which means that if you purchase anything via my link I may earn a small commission at no cost to you. (And in some cases, ProBlogger has negotiated special deals for our readers ...more

This post is based on episode 35 of the ProBlogger podcast. With so many blogs out there (not to mention all the other types of websites), you’ve only got a few seconds to convince a first-time reader that yours is worth coming back to. So how do you do that? By ...more

This blog post is based on episode 35 of the ProBlogger podcast. With so many websites out there all competing for people’s attention, you need to try to grab people’s attention quickly and keep it for as long as possible. But how exactly do you do that? Well, here are 15 ...more

A decade ago, new bloggers were often advised to leave comments on other blogs to start building traffic to their own blog. But is it still worth doing? For years, there’s been a lot of debate in the blogging world about comments. Plenty of big blogs have disabled (and sometimes ...more

This post is based on episode 159 of the ProBlogger podcast. Incoming links to your blog are vital. They not only drive traffic to your blog from other websites and blogs but also help you rank higher in search engines, which again leads to more traffic. The method I’m about to ...more

Here on ProBlogger, we have a lot of tips on influencer outreach – how to reach out to influencers and pitch to them. Here are just a few of the resources we have available: How to Approach Influencers in Your Niche (podcast episode) How to Grow Your Blog by Interviewing Influencers ...more

This is a post by ProBlogger SEO expert Jim Stewart While WordPress is a relatively secure platform, it can still be hacked. In fact, out of the 11,000 hacked websites Securi analyzed in 2016, 75 percent of them were running WordPress. If your WordPress site has been hacked, fear not. ...more

Once you’ve understood why guest posting is important, got your pitch accepted, and written the post … you might think you’re done. A lot of the success of your guest post, though, comes from what you do after it’s published.  There’s plenty you can do to get the most out of ...more