CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Are these Mindsets Holding You Back from Achieving Blogging Success?
“What’s the biggest mistake you see aspiring bloggers making?” This is a question I’m asked a fair bit on panels or in interviews, and it’s one that I suspect the people asking the question would like a technical answer to. The reality is that the biggest mistakes I see bloggers ...more
Mindset + Motivation

How to Go Beyond Blogging and Harness Multi-Channel Marketing
Scrupulous readers should have noticed that blogging is not just about writing and getting their opinions, rants and random stuff online. In fact, a blog is just a tool for publishing and conversing online. Every opportunity to enhance communication and reach out through various media should not be taken lightly. ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog
Recently on ProBlogger we’ve been looking at the topic of building community on a blog. We started by identifying 9 benefits and 3 costs of community on a blog and then looked at 5 stages of building community on a blog. Today I want to dig deeper into some specific ...more
Featured Posts

How To Achieve Your Goals – Hint #1
Friend – ‘Darren, I never seem to reach any of my goals.’ Darren – ‘What are your Goals?’ Friend – ‘…ummm….. ‘ Darren – ‘Do you have any goals?’ Friend – ‘Yes – at the start of the year I worked some out’ Darren – ‘So what are your goals?’ ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

How to Choose a Blog Topic That’s Pre-Programmed for Success
This is a guest contribution from Jason Gracia. As I write these words, dedicated men and women struggle to grow their blogs and they don’t have a clue as to the cause. Could it be effort? Could it be talent? Could it be that just one more course is needed? ...more
General

Tips on Building and Maintaining a Great Relationship with Readers
This is a guest contribution from Dan Goss. When it comes to blogging, nothing is more important than your readership – if you’re publishing the best content in the world with no-one to read it, you quickly get into a Zen-style conundrum. If a tree falls in the forest and no-one ...more
General

Seven Steps to Combat Blog Content Thieves
It can happen to the best of us, usually a surprise, and often undetected – people online publishing your blog content like it was their own. It’s an incredibly disappointing and frustrating experience – one that listener Grant has recently discovered. He asks: “I just discovered another blog is republishing ...more
General

How to Make Your Blog a Cybersecurity Fortress
This is a guest contribution from Cassie Phillips. Problogger is where I learned a lot of my own blogging skills, and I cannot compliment Darren enough for creating a space for bloggers that focuses on real improvement and in-depth conversation. Posts on the website such as this one on improving ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

5 Ways to Be Comfortable on Camera So You Can Make More Money with Your Blog
This is a guest contribution from Nathan Agin. Sometimes you’re just terrified. It’s not a matter of passion or knowledge—you have written plenty on your blog in the past, and people can’t shut you up once you get started. But now, you’re face-to-face with the camera, and you just freeze ...more
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