CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Drawing on other niches in your blogging can have benefits. On the weekend I wrote a post here at ProBlogger titled 9 Lessons You Can Learn about Blogging by Watching Me Sell My House which was a post that I hesitated to publish for a day or two before putting ...more

Last week I decided to run a small experiment on the ProBlogger reader community (please forgive me for making you a guinea pig). In my post revealing a batch of reader blog tips in the 31 day project I inserted a CrazyEgg tracking code to track what links in the ...more

In my last post I shared a few of my own blogging productivity tips – but I’m just one of millions of bloggers and I’d love to hear yours! So lets have some discussion on the topic of productivity. How do you keep your blog ticking over? Do you have ...more

I get asked a lot of questions about how I find the time to do the different things that I do. My daily focus includes: writing on two blogs (an average of 4-6 posts per day), moderate comments and interact with readers on those two blogs, manage a handful of ...more

Today is Auction Day for our house (the house that blogging bought). While I’ve bought houses before I’ve never sold one and the whole experience has been one of a lot of learning. We’ll find out how it will end later today (12 hours from now) – but as we ...more

Each time I release a new Video based post I get a number of questions about the technicalities of producing the video. So today I thought I’d answer the most common questions that I’ve been asked so far. By no means am I a ProVideoBlogger. I’ve produced just a handful ...more

Today is the last day in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog project and as a result I want to make your last task a little reflective and forward looking. Your task today is to run a SWOT Analysis on your blog. A SWOT analysis is a strategic ...more

Click To Play play_blip_movie_362185(); Who does Your Blog Serve? In today’s video I take a look at two groups of people that a blog needs to benefit if it’s going to sustain itself for the long haul.

Today your task in the 31 Day Project is to articulate a ‘Mission Statement’ for your blog. I won’t rehash all of my reasoning for having a Mission Statement and tips for writing one because I’ve previously written about Mission Statements as part of my previous series on Strategic Blogging ...more