CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

The old say that “There’s more than one way to skin a cat” can certainly be applied to the topic of making money blogging. Everyday I hear of a different example of a blogger who has managed to make a buck (or two) from the medium in a different way. ...more

Today John Chow just made a post reflecting upon a competition that he ran with Shoemoney to see who could get the most new RSS readers in a month. Over the month both John and Jeremy had some great success at increasing their numbers – both by over 4600 and ...more

One of the comments on this week’s post – The Power of Commenting on Blogs – was from The Great Seducer who asked: “Do you have any suggestions for commenting in a way that will draw interest to you? Obviously an insightful comment is the best plan…. but when there ...more

Regular readers of ProBlogger will be familiar with Leo Babauta who has written several guest posts for me on this blog. In fact Leo is a serial guest poster and has consistently produced great content on numerous blogs for some time now – as well as on his own blog ...more

The last couple of weeks have seen some real action in the selling of blogs in the ‘make money online’ part of the blogosphere with the sale of Blogging Fingers ($6000), Ryan Shamus ($2500) and One Man’s Goal currently up for sale and with the bids up to $6000 (update: ...more

One of the important features of my daily blogging routine is to check my ‘Vanity Folder’ in Google Reader (my news aggregator of choice). The reason I call it my Vanity folder is that it’s a folder that is absolutely and completely dedicated to…. well me. The purpose of the ...more

Did you do anything for Halloween on your blog? I know that Halloween isn’t celebrated in every country – but it is an opportunity for bloggers who want to make the most of seasonal trends in web usage. So lets showcase what everyone did on their blogs this Halloween. I’m ...more

Collis Ta’eed has put together a 10 point post with Tips to Successfully Selling a Blog which has some useful tips in it both to those selling and those buying blogs. What I found particularly useful was the tips for those buying blogs – especially the advice around keeping the ...more

In this post regular contributer Skellie from Skelliewag.org explores the idea of building successful blogs by giving readers value. What do ProBlogger, Lifehacker, Seth Godin’s Blog, Copyblogger, Dosh Dosh, Lifehack.org, MAKE blog, Zen Habits, 43 Folders, Pronet Advertising and Coding Horror all have in common? Yes, they’re all in the ...more