CategoryStart a Blog

A Guest Post by Nathan Hangen of Making it Social. As much as many of us want to get our blogs up and running and create an overnight success story, the truth is that having desire alone just isn’t enough. For starters, guys like Darren make it look extremely easy ...more

In the last post on ProBlogger Kevin talked about starting a blog based upon one of your hobbies as a great way to start blogging. As I mentioned in the introduction to that post – Kevin had really described much of my own motivations for starting my photography blog (and ...more

This post was written by Alan Skorkin. Alan shares his thoughts about software development, people and teamwork on his blog skorks.com. Every blogger wants to be successful, it is only natural. We often start out blogging about something that is our passion and we want everyone else to be just ...more

Today Ali Hale from Aliventures shares some thoughts that build upon a recent post I wrote on finding your blogging voice. Darren’s recent poll on How Long Have You Been Blogging suggests that over half ProBlogger’s readers have been blogging for under a year (and of those, a sizeable proportion ...more

Are you starting your first blog? Looking for some tips and advice for new bloggers? I just received a tweet from @MillerMosaicLLC asking for some links to posts about starting a blog so I thought instead of just replying to her I’d compile the list here as a post for ...more

UPDATE: Check out our new post – How to Start a Blog in 5 Steps. If you’re starting out in blogging for the first time it is easy to get ahead of yourself. In this post Aileen Journey from the Problem Solver Blog shares some tips on getting going with ...more

Over my first 4 years of blogging I started in excess of 25 blogs. Most failed and no longer exist – but in those first 4 years I started a new blog every few months. In hindsight I now look back on that period and realize that my strategy was ...more

Over the past week I’ve shared five strategies that I’d use to promote my blog if I were starting from scratch again today. We started off by looking at how the majority of your efforts need to be focused upon Readers You Don’t Already Have (obvious but important) and then ...more

Today I want to explore a ‘secret’ of growing the readership of a blog. A few weeks ago I explored how to increase the number of subscribers on your blog through creating anticipation. The more people anticipate that they’ll get something of value from your blog in the future the ...more