CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips
A Reality Check about Blogging for Money
Last week’s article in the Wall Street Journal revealed that my blog earnings are in excess of $250,000 per year (a very ballpark figure). The problem with these type of articles is that they report in a few words just one element of a story – in this case my ...more
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My Search for the Perfect Cafe [And What it Taught Me about Blogging]
Warning – Tangent Ahead… As I’ve been Twittering lately, I’m currently on a search for a good local cafe to blog from. While there are plenty of cafes in the area we’ve moved to – this morning’s ‘cafe crawl’ showed me that it could be more of a challenge than ...more
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Fighting Scrapers With Your Left Jab
This guest post was submitted by Patrick who blogs at Piggy Bank Pie Writing Services. I started 2008 with a post that went viral on StumbleUpon and BloggingZoom. Even Skellie and Caroline Middlebrook took the story back to their respective blogs. For those interested, the post in question was How ...more
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Blogger Proof Workout
Regular readers of ProBlogger know that I’ve been attempting to get back in shape lately. I’ve been seeing a personal trainer, exercising 3-4 times a week, eating better food, smaller portions and more regularly during the day. It’s only been 4 weeks but I’m beginning to feel lighter, the scales ...more
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Blog Tips – Twitter Style [Competition]
Over this weekend I want to run a ‘little’ competition here at ProBlogger. I’m offering a ‘little’ prize (see below) and all you need to do to put yourself in the running for it is to submit a ‘little’ blog tip. Let me explain: Lately I’ve been getting into Twitter ...more
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How Stressful Do You Find Blogging?
This is a guest post by Lea Woodward from modern nomad. Some people find blogging relaxing, a release and an outlet; many others don’t. It often depends upon your reason for blogging. I’m guessing that most of you who read ProBlogger do so because you’d like your blog to become ...more
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Don’t Just Have a Blog – Learn to Think Like a Blogger
Last week I was chatting to a new blogger and he asked me “how do you manage to keep coming up with post ideas for my blogs?” It’s a question I get a fair bit – and one I’ve struggled to answer… until recently. It sounds odd that I don’t ...more
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Having an Elevator Pitch Isn’t Enough – How PostSecret Improved in 2007
I mentioned earlier in the week that there was one more response to come in from bloggers responding to my 1 Question interview on how they improved their blog in 2007. Today I’m happy to present it – a response from Frank Warren – the blogger behind the wildly successful ...more
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What one thing did you do on your blog in 2007 that improved it the most? – The Last Answers
Over the last week I’ve run a 1 Question Interview Series here at ProBlogger. There have been some great responses (links to the full series are listed at the bottom of this post) but it’s not over yet. Today I want to post the last two responses (actually there might ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips