CategoryWriting Content

Don’t be afraid to be a little Bossy on Your Blog. Over the weekend I was reminded that sometimes readers just like being told what to do. In my post How to Launch a Blog and Have Fresh Content for Weeks I was asked by a reader for advice on ...more

This question from James of My Fitness Guide hit my inbox this week: “My question is, when starting a new blog, do you write a list of all your blog topics first, then plan to write one of them per day, or do you write it all as fast as ...more

Last week on Twitter I had a discussion with a number of followers about landing interviews with other bloggers as a way to generate interesting content for your blog. One of the responses I had via a direct message from a follower was: “I’m too shy to approach big bloggers ...more

Alisa Bowman from projecthappilyeverafter.com shares some tips on writing fast. So you haven’t quite monetized your blog. That means you’re still working 8 or so hours in the non-virtual world for that paycheck. You may also have many other time commitments. They are called marriage, parenthood, friendships and Twitter. With ...more

Today Marko shares a quick tip on how to generate post ideas from the comments left on previous posts. At the time of writing this, there has been 34 comments to my Create A Media Kit To Attract Advertisers To Your Blog guest post at ProBlogger.net. One of the good ...more

In this guest post Jonathan Fields from the Career Renegade takes a look at three types of blog posts that will Engage your readers. Three words… Engage. Engage. Engage. It’s the rally cry of great blogging. Heck, it’s the touchstone of powerful writing in general. When it comes to blogging, ...more

Today Bamboo Forest from Pun Intended shares some thoughts on the topic of avoiding Clichés. I’ve co-authored a blog for less than a year, and prior to beginning, my writing was natural – which is precisely why it wasn’t good. Good writing stands on good principles. These principles aren’t natural; ...more

In this post – relatively new blogger CJ from Wise Money Matters shares what they’ve learned about using Pillar Articles (sometimes called evergreen content) to Grow Traffic to Your Blog. I started blogging only 4 months ago. In the grand scheme of things, this is a very short time and ...more

Over the last week I’ve been talking about Newsletters a little. We’ve covered reasons start a newsletter and how I’ve increased my newsletter subscriber numbers 10 fold. Today I want to finish this informal mini-series on newsletters off with some tips for actually writing a newsletter. How to Write an ...more