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Have you ever found yourself stuck for ideas on what to blog about? If so, you’re not alone. Today I want to give you a gift to help you with that challenge. One of the most common challenges I see bloggers tackling is creating fresh ideas for their blogs. Recently, ...more

If converting traffic to subscribers is high on your list of priorities, you won’t want to miss today’s episode of the ProBlogger podcast, where I chat with “Conversion Educator” Tim Paige of LeadPages. Getting better conversions on our websites is something I think bloggers really need to know, and Tim ...more

Mixed news for you this week! Sad face about the Instagram algorithm, happy face about the Facebook Instant Articles WordPress Plugin! I also love the books for entrepreneurs (I’ve only read one, better get busy in that department!), and for the product launchers among us, plenty of tips from Michael ...more

There’s plenty of other ways to spend your time, and certainly easier ways of making money – so why blog? What are the benefits, really? Isn’t everyone moving toward social media anyway? The questions all boil down to one thing (encapsulated by Marcus Boswell): what does the modern blogger get ...more

So much to chat about this week! Siege Media had me taking copious notes, as did Ramsay’s case study on conversions. The Middle Finger Project gave me an aha moment (and made me laugh!), and Copyblogger gave me something to aim for. Plenty in this roundup today, so I hope ...more

If you have a business, and use your blog to promote it, today’s episode of the ProBlogger podcast is for you! I’m often asked about blogging as an adjunct to a main business (rather than the business itself), and the biggest thing people want to know is: can they do ...more

This is a guest contribution from Larry Alton. With billions of pages circulating around in cyberspace, chances are most of the content you produce is invisible and irrelevant. This isn’t a knock on your writing ability or creativity, it’s simply the truth. The majority of bloggers write about the same ...more

This is a guest contribution from Tracey Jones. Have you been reading up on all those facts about how sites with slower page load times (more than 3 seconds) have higher bounce rates? Or how Google ranks slow loading pages lower than those that load fast? If you are alarmed ...more

I feel as though Saturday rolls around ever faster these days, and I’m scrambling to figure out where the week has gone. This week was a doozy for internet learning – I took tons of notes in Darren’s podcast with SEO expert Jim Stewart, and I waded into Medium waters ...more