CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

This is a guest post by Gregory Ciotti of Sparring Mind. As 2011 comes to a close, now is a better time than ever to evaluate your blog, its performance, and most importantly, what you can do to improve your blog in 2012! A point I always like to drive ...more

This year, I tried to go outside of the social media echo-chamber and focus on people who are expanding beyond their blogs. As Michael Stelzner said at Blogworld, “You’re not a blogger, you’re a publisher!” These are 20 people who stood out to me this year. There is no ranking, nor ...more

This guest post is by Nischala Murthy Kaushik. Wearing the 6 Thinking Hats on your blog helps in generating valuable, interesting and diverse content. What are the 6 Thinking Hats? Dr. Edward de Bono’s 6 Thinking Hats is a simple, effective parallel thinking process that helps people be more productive, ...more

This guest post is by Matthew Setter of The Dreamers Manifesto. Have you wanted to start a blog, a website or an online business, but you’re not sure where to begin? Are you already putting in the hard yards to build one or the other or both, but you’re not ...more

Yesterday we looked at the strategic question of, “What do you want new visitors of your blog to do?” It’s a question that’s very powerful in helping you to achieve your goals as a blogger. Today I want to take the question and apply it to repeat readers—an exercise that ...more

Here’s a little strategic exercise that I think is well worth doing as we approach the beginning of a new year. Ask this question: What do you want your readers to do? There are numerous levels you can ask this question on. Let’s explore one now (I’ll do another tomorrow). ...more

This guest post is by Gab Goldenberg, of The Beginner’s Guide To Usability Testing. Want to find out how to boost RSS subscriber conversion? I did, but I hardly found any information about it online! Besides having an obvious call to action above the fold and getting to [social news ...more

I’m regularly asked this question by PreBloggers: “How much work should I do on my blog before I launch it?” How many posts should it already have live? How many posts should I have in reserve and ready to go? Should I have a customized or premium theme, or just ...more

Last year I began a semi regular series of posts here on ProBlogger that explored the principles that I saw being exhibited in successful blogs. So far in the series we’ve talked about Listening, Trust, Usefulness, Community, Being Personal and Story Telling. Not all successful blogs will do all of ...more