CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

In my daily blogging activities I get to interact with a lot of bloggers from around the world. They have blogs of all shapes and sizes and have a variety of different experience levels. However in the past week I’ve come across quite a few newer bloggers who fit into ...more

The other day when I was looking for quotes to finish up my Making Money From Blogging Takes Time post I came across a heap of great sayings from famous people that seemed appropriate for bloggers. So I thought it’d be fun to start a little meme here to see ...more

ME “Liz” Strauss has a good post over at Successful Blog called Think Before You Link which has five factors to consider before adding a link to your blog post: Does this link clarify what I’m saying here? Have my readers seen this link 10 times already? Is this information ...more

I’ve been reflecting today upon the long term nature of having a business that makes money from blogging. I am regularly asked by bloggers in their start up phase why they are not earning enough money from their blogs to go full time. While I usually can find a variety ...more

Wayne at Blog Business World has a helpful post on email newsletters today. One of his tips is to consider collecting subscribers to your newsletter not only on your site but also from offline sources: ‘Most e-mail newsletter subscriber efforts make the mistake of being entirely online in their marketing ...more

A common problem that many bloggers face is having to work out what to do with a blog that is trapped on a domain that they wish they’d never started it on. An example of this is starting out of a Blogspot or hosted TypePad blog and then realizing that ...more

Instablogs has been copping a fair bit of criticism in the past few days since its launch a week back. One of their latest posts – Why This Unfair Treatment? – takes a look at a blogger’s argument that they are spam, their latest post explains their Plagiarism episode and ...more

There are 82 Days until Christmas. Christmas is one of the busiest times of the year for many ProBloggers – especially those with product related sites. The number of people searching for information on products that are given as gifts as well as the numbers of people actually buying presents ...more

Someone asked me what I want for my ProBlogger Birthday. I said nothing – that was until I saw this: Could this be every blogger’s dream? The reality however is probably a little more like this for many bloggers: Found via Gizmodo