CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Last week Jackie Willey (from Discover Walking and Amore Travel) left a comment on one of my posts as follows: ‘I own and market two blogs. As a result of my writing for these two blogs I was hired to write for two other blogs. In one case I bartered ...more

Warning, Tangent Ahead – One of the best tips I’ve had in my new found hobby of growing vegetables is when it comes to growing Tomatoes (we currently have more than V and I can eat – so the tip is working). The idea behind the tip is simple. Tomato ...more

John from the Movie Blog just shot me an email with an experience he’s just had which illustrates one of the principles I tend to go on about here at ProBlogger (for example here, and): Hey Darren, Just a little piece of information that supports one of the things you ...more

Warning: Tangent Ahead A few months ago ‘V’ and I took a some time off to go on a weekend road trip to a country town in the North East of our state called Beechworth. One of the interesting things about the lead up to the trip was the well ...more

Nice post by Chris again over at Performancing – Maximise Your Income With Common Sense: ‘Answer this, what is the basic unit of blogging? The blog post. Each post is like an individual worker in your workforce. Some posts might work harder than others. Some attract more attention than others. ...more

Today I spent a few hours surfing through this blog’s archives as part of my annual review. One of the many things I noticed is that there are many articles on how to improve your blog and hardly any on how to totally screw it up. I thought it was ...more

I’ve had a growing number of emails from teenagers in the last couple of months – all asking about how they can get into blogging for an income. In a general sense I think blogging can be brilliant for teens (and even children) for a number of reasons as I’ll ...more

The following post has been submitted by Shane Pike from Three: Twenty Interactive. The secret to becoming a professional blogger in half the time is … doubling your current revenue. Thank you very much. You guys have been a great audience. Enjoy the rest of the blog. (Oh. You want ...more

I’m Michael Hampton, principal author of Homeland Stupidity, a U.S. politics blog. Today I want to address the issue of business continuity, that is, have you planned what to do if a disaster strikes your professional blogging operation? Over the past few months I’ve had some all-too-common computer emergencies arise, ...more