Infographic: The Brain of the Beginning Blogger
This guest post is by Infolinks.com. Nowadays, it seems like everyone has a blog. But creating a successful and popular blog isn’t as easy as simply getting a domain name and ranting away on whatever comes to mind on a given day. Here, we take a look at some of ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
What Did You Think of Blog Smarter?
Today marks the close of our Blog Smarter mini-series of posts, which explain a variety of techniques for scalable blog monetization. In case you missed them, the posts were: Blog Smarter: Don’t Just End Up Trading Hours for Dollars Blog Smarter: A Step-by-step Guide to Boost Your AdSense Earnings Blog ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Blog Smarter: Invest in Your Own Success
This guest post is by Jeff Nickles of MySuperChargedLife.com. My blog grew by leaps and bounds in 2011. It was exciting! But it wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t made a few smart investments in my blog—investments, you could say, in my success. I’m a regular guy and a part-time ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Blog Smarter: Don’t Just End Up Trading Hours for Dollars
This guest post is by Sunil of extramoneyblog.com. Many business owners leave or start their businesses thinking they can achieve more freedom only to find themselves toiling away in their businesses and thus having bought or created themselves another job. Blogging is no different for most bloggers. Many bloggers who ...more
Blogging for Dollars
How Gordon Ramsay Can Increase Your “Expert” Value by 23,900%
This guest post is by Amy Harrison of Harrisonamy.com. To the public, not all experts are created equal. What’s more, this division exists in all industries, and in every blogging niche. And it’s not just about working harder, or longer than other people. It’s about knowing how to rise through ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Why My Blog’s Doing Okay: 3 Unexpected Answers
Yesterday we were talking about how benchmarking your blog and your performance against those of others only goes so far to give ou an idea of “how your blog’s going.” As I said then, looking at others—other people, other blogs—even subconsciously for an indication of where you and your blog ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
How to Systematically Build a Mountain of Links
This guest post is by Neil Patel of Quick Sprout. We’ve all been taught to create high-quality content to attract links. This argument is usually stated in the context of a blog that basically becomes an authority where you start to build a following around consistent, fresh content—think big sites ...more
Blog Promotion
How I Expanded the Demographic of My Niche Blog to Include Every Person Online
This guest post is by Sonal Pandey of Tap Easy. Some things don’t get better with time. This was going to be one such case. Here I was, sharing an awesome technique capable of changing lives, but not many were paying attention. My niche had the perfect demographic—open-minded, receptive, and ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
A Tale of Two Ebooks
This guest post is by Alexis Grant of The Traveling Writer. During the last six months, I’ve published two ebooks: one that’s selling wonderfully, and another that flopped. Why did one succeed, while the other—at least in sales terms—didn’t? What was the difference? It wasn’t a beautiful cover, nor a ...more
Blogging for Dollars