CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Andy Beal – author of a great book by the name of Radically Transparent – today shares his blog’s ‘tipping point’. The biggest tipping point for me was a redesign of MarketingPilgrim.com. I moved from Blogger to WordPress and also had a custom template built. Within 30 days of the ...more

Want to win a copy of the ProBlogger book? ScribeFire is giving away 50 copies to people who sign up for their newsletter. More details here. Also over at ScribeFire’s blog today is my latest guest post – How to Increase Page Views on Your Blog.

In the Skribit question widget in my sidebar the number 1 requested post is for me to ask ‘a bunch of pro bloggers what their tipping point was?’ I’ve done just that over the last few days and a few answers have trickled in so far. The first is from ...more

Last month at Digital Photography School I ran the biggest competition that I’ve ever run (on that blog). I put a $729 Nikon DSLR up for grabs for one lucky active member in my the forum attached to the blog. The competition was successful in my mind but today while ...more

“Do not follow where the path leads, Rather go where there is no path, and leave a trail.” – David Perkins I’ve not been able to get this quote out of my head since hearing it over the weekend. I shared it last night on Twitter and half a dozen ...more

Good interview over at BlogHerald with Duncan Riley who today finishes up as a blogger at TechCrunch. The ground covered in the interview is great listening – from how he landed the TechCrunch job, to what it’s like to dealing with the email on such a position, to dealing with ...more

Today Lea Woodward asks whether Bloggers are putting their health at risk and a number of ProBlogger readers add their pearls of wisdom on the topic. Darren posted a timely response a few weeks ago to the NY Times article that talked about bloggers blogging until they drop. Despite the ...more

This week we’ve been looking at how to reach our potential by overcoming Blogger Inferiority Complex – a condition that cripples many bloggers. Yesterday I suggested two steps to overcome this problem: 1. Identify What You Have – don’t focus one what you don’t have but instead focus upon what ...more

This month I’m asking What is the Biggest Source of Traffic to Your Blog in our sidebar poll. I’m finding the results so far interesting. It’s still early to draw too many conclusions although Google is a clear winner so far with 49% of the vote (in comparison to all ...more