CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

The following guest post was submitted by Tim Ferriss author of The 4-Hour work Week and blogger at www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog. Read my interview with Tim. 1. Decide how you’re measuring success before writing a post—what’s your metric? Form follows function. Is it Technorati rank? Then focus on crafting 1-2-sentence bolded sound ...more

In today’s video post I want to respond to a reader’s email by talking a little about how to choose a niche topic for your blog.

Are you looking for some fresh design, marketing and even story ideas for your blog? Today I’ve got an exercise that you might find helpful. This is an off line activity – all pack of sticky notes, a notebook, pen, a magazine and an hour of time. The Exercise It’s ...more

A couple of weeks ago I took readers on a video tour of my blogging workspace and invited others to share theirs via video or picture. A few days later I put together a mashup post of 27 reader blogging workspaces. I said at the time that I wasn’t sure ...more

It has been a while since I ran a poll on ProBlogger but thought it might be time for another one. This week’s poll is one we’ve run before (over a year back) and it will be interesting to compare the results. Please note – there is a formatting issue ...more

Earlier in the week I took you on a video Tour of ProBlogger HQ (office) and invited you to show us (via picture or video) where you blog from. I promised to compile all of your submissions so we could see them all in the one place. So here’s the ...more

Having looked at some of our reader’s rhythms and tools for enhancing productivity today we’re going to wrap up this mini series by looking at some other organizational techniques that they use: 1. Marko Novak tells how he sets himself daily tasks: “I’ve made a week list which tells me ...more

A few quick links: Mashable puts together 17 WordPress Plugins for AdSense Leo shares 12 ways to keep your posting going for ever Are you a US College Student with a blog? You might want to check out the $10,000 blogging scholarship Blogging Tips shares 5 Secrets to Bad Search ...more

As a follow up to my own productivity tips for bloggers I asked readers to submit some of their own tips for keeping productive. The response was fantastic with over 40 responses already. As promised in the call for tips I said I’d be publishing some of my favorite submissions. ...more