CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips
I Came, I Saw, I Commented: Was It Worth It?
A Guest post by Josh Hanagarne – World’s Strongest Librarian Two quotes: From Jane Austen: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a blogger in possession of a good domain must be in want of some worthwhile comments.” The second is the undisputed, best comment I ever received. It didn’t ...more
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Thirteen Steps to Write and Publish a Free Ebook In Thirteen Hours
Have you ever considered producing an ebook for your blog readers? In this comprehensive post Ali Hale breaks down the process of how to do it. There’s never enough time. In an ideal world, you’d be posting to your blog frequently, writing great guest posts, building relationships with other bloggers, ...more
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How Passion Can Transform Your Blog
By Leo Babauta from Zen Habits. Many of the problems that many bloggers face — not drawing enough readers, not knowing what to write about, not writing well enough, not finding the time to blog — can all be solved with one solution. And that solution’s name is Passion. All ...more
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Outbound Links – An Endangered Species? [And Why I Still Link Up]
Yesterday on Twitter I made this remark: “A change I’ve noticed from the ‘old days’ of blogging – people don’t link when they quote you as much as they used to.” The replies to my tweet were quite varied – some agreed while some disagreed – some argued that a ...more
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Forums – How to Expand Your Blog #1
Yesterday I share with readers an exercise to brainstorm 10 ways that they might expand their blog in the coming years. The reason I suggest the exercise is not that there’s anything wrong with being ‘just a blog’ but because as I look at a lot of top blogs going ...more
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Brainstorm 10 Ways to Expand Your Blog [HOMEWORK]
In this post I’d like to share a simple exercise that helped me to grow ProBlogger beyond being just a simple blog {image by deserttrumpet}. How are you planning on expanding your blog?
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Hobby Blogs: Making Profits from your Hobby
In this post Kevin Sanders shares some introductory reasons to take a hobby and blog about it. In effect this is the way that I personally got into blogging – there was no intent of my blogs being anything more than hobbies in my early days – but out of ...more
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Want a Crash-Proof Site? A Paint-by-Numbers Guide to Using (and Surviving) Amazon S3
By Mary Jaksch from GoodlifeZen. Do you dream of creating a post or Ebook that goes viral? If you do, you might run into a problem. People flock to your site. You’re ecstatic about the spike in your visitor numbers. And then your site crashes. The problem is that your ...more
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The Power of Trust – a Living Example
Lately there’s been a lot of talk about Trust here on ProBlogger. Over the weekend we published a post on how to develop bulletproof Trust – last week I talked about Trust as an essential part of good affiliate marketing – the week before we linked to a great book ...more
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