CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Long term readers of ProBlogger will know of Andy Wibbels – the two of us put together a course a couple of years back called Six Figure Blogging – one of the best learning experiences of my life. Funnily enough we’d never met until this time last year at Blog ...more

A Guest Post by Kelly Diels. Let’s mash up reality and assume that Dorothy wrote The Wizard of Oz and it is a memoir told through the lens of pharmaceuticals and it is to be published next year. Dorothy has written a great book: part trippy fantasy, part freudian/jungian/wonky archetypical ...more

I’m regularly asked about local domain names and whether they are worth using on a blog. My answer usually revolves around the question of ‘what audience are you trying to reach?‘ Let me explain. When I first secured my own domain name I chose a .au (Australia) domain without really ...more

Over the last three months on ProBlogger it’s been a pretty busy time – here are the most popular posts – judged by mixture of factors including traffic and comments. 9 Things to Do To Make Sure Your Next Blog Post is Read by More than Your Mom 8 First ...more

A couple of days back I tweeted this question: “Question: what’s your #1 blog tip in 140 characters or less? GO!'” Over the next hour or two a lot of great responses came in – so I thought I’d post a link to them today because I think in the ...more

One of the techniques that I’ve employed in my blogging over the last 6 months behind the scenes is to create Reader Profiles (or Personas). The technique is simply – open up a word document and begin to describe a type of reader that you’re either attempting to write for ...more

This is another guest post from Robby G at Shite I Like.com where he gives expert dating advice for both men and women, amongst other advice. I’ve only recently realized the benefits of good Karma. Greed and blogging doesn’t go well together at all. Right off the bat I wanted ...more

This post is a collection point of links in a long series that I’m writing on principles of successful blogging. It was originally stimulated by a presentation that I gave at the MarketingNow conference here in Melbourne. I shared my story of blogging and then explore 25 or so lessons ...more

A friend who knows I’m a blogger recently asked me for my blog address so she could take a look. We were chatting with instant messaging, so I sent her the link. A few minutes later, she asked me how long I’d been blogging, whether I enjoyed it, and how ...more