CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Earlier in the week I wrote an email to ProBlogger PLUS subscribers that talked about deepening reader engagement by aiming at the hearts of your readers. In it, I shared an example from FeelGooder of a personal story post that I wrote that got a great reaction from readers. As ...more

This guest post is by Katie Tallo of Momentum Gathering. I’ve developed a tweet. It’s involuntary and annoying. My vision’s distorted. All I’m seeing are the letters S, E and O. Worse, I think I’m losing my mind because I don’t know who some of my friends are—at all—no idea ...more

This guest post is by Moon from Experiments in Passive Income. This post comes from someone who has made a ton of mistakes and is on her way to learn from those mistakes. You and I probably have a lot in common … after all, you’re here to learn about ...more

Last week, I talked about how I’ve been experimenting with monetizing mobile traffic using the WPTouch mobile theme and AdSense. Another great feature of WPTouch is that it allows you to post metrics code into the the ads, so you get a true picture of how many people are viewing ...more

This guest post is by Karen Andrews of Miscellaneous Mum. Personal blogging has changed a lot in the last two years. Some writers now run blogs or social media campaigns to extend their profiles for current (and future) readers; some bloggers are using their reach to find or be offered ...more

This article is by Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project. I started The Happiness Project blog as a way to test the argument that novelty and challenge bring happiness (turns out they do!), but I knew nothing about blogging when I began. Here are some strategies that I learned the ...more

This guest post is written by Matthew Kepnes of Nomadic Matt’s Travel Site So you want to be a travel writer? So do a lot of people. In fact, I can’t think of one person who wouldn’t love to get paid to travel. To try, lots of people start travel ...more

This is a guest post by Joshua Noerr of JoshuaNoerr.com. It’s clear that social media, specifically blogging, is about so much more than making money. Sure, we all want to be compensated for our time and our talents, but if the only goal was to make money, blogging would certainly ...more

This guest post is by Scott McIntyre of Vivid Ways. You’ve just launched a shiny new blog and you’re buzzing with excitement about sharing content and building an audience. At first, it requires a lot of time and effort to get things off the ground, but your confidence is sky-high ...more