CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

After a week off I found it a little hard to get myself going again this morning. So I procrastinated on Twitter by posting some adapted Karate Kid quotes with some pics. It never was intended to be anything more than just the first one…. but my followers kind of ...more

Guest post by Christine Pilkington, a digital media veteran who recently launched VancouverMom.ca, a hyper-local blog that shows Metro Vancouver moms the unique, intelligent and beautiful side of their city. Christine also can be found at GoGoMamaGo.com, a blog for mom entrepreneurs. Eight weeks ago, I launched my second blogging ...more

Happy New Year (at least it is here in Australia)! I hope that as you read this you’re full of all kinds of inspiration and motivation for the year ahead. As the last post in our Best of ProBlogger 2009 series I wanted to share a list of 11 more ...more

Todays post in the Best of ProBlogger 2009 series is all about the newer blogger and is a collection of some of our more popular posts this year that were aimed at the beginner blogger. Starting Your First Blog – 29 Tips, Tutorials and Resources for New Bloggers 9 First ...more

A Guest Post by Nathan Hangen of Making it Social. Ah, the “It Factor…” that something successful people have that the rest of us can’t seem to figure out. To some, it’s an enigma, while to others, it seems to flow like Willy Wonka’s Chocolate river…boundless and with fervor. Well, ...more

Yesterday I watched this mini disaster unfold before me between a couple exchanging Christmas gifts. As I watched the repercussions of the exchange of gifts (I’ll tell you what happened below) I found myself thinking about unmet expectations. Elliot Larson once said – “Anger always comes from frustrated expectations” – ...more

This morning I glanced down at the Alexa traffic indicator for ProBlogger in my Firefox browser and noticed that in the last week I’ve had a noticeable upswing in traffic to ProBlogger. At first I couldn’t think of why this might have been. In the last 7 days none of ...more

Guest Post by Katie Kimball from Kitchen Stewardship. I know how it feels to know absolutely nothing, and that’s actually a good place to be. When I hit the six-month mark with my blog, I took time to sit down and digest the experience, and I was pleasantly surprised at ...more

Just a quick note to point you to a post that I’ve had published on an Australian Blog – The Punch (I wrote it all except for the title :-)). Seven rules of blogging from a legend of the craft. It probably won’t be completely new to regular readers of ...more