Tag: finding readers

This guest post is by Courtney Mroch of Haunt Jaunts. Statistics and their interpretation is often a popular topic on ProBlogger. One of my favorites about the subject was a guest post by Mark Seall called Who Cares How Many Subscribers You’ve Got? I loved the way he pointed out ...more

This guest post is by Joel Runyon of Impossible HQ. How do you stand out and differentiate yourself online when more and more people are starting blogs every day? Sure, you need to write stuff that’s gong to stand out, but a lot of blogging advice focuses just on writing. ...more

This guest post is by Brad Smith of fixcourse.com. So you want to make money blogging? You want a popular blog that gets thousands of visitors each day, and the attention and respect you’ve been looking for. So what’s stopping you? What’s holding you back? You’re cranking out content, just ...more

This guest post is by Alexander Heyne of Milk the pigeon. You do a series of incredibly useful posts that get a great response, or you get some massive traffic spikes from guest posting, Stumbleupon, Youtube, or your content randomly going viral. Your content teaches people something useful, it’s immediately applicable, ...more

This guest post is by Jennifer Blanchard of InkyBites. If you haven’t heard of Taylor Swift, you’ve probably been living in a cave the last few years. Swift is the teen country sensation who took on the music industry starting at the ripe age of 13, and became one of ...more

This guest post is by Magdalena Georgieva of Hubspot. The September 2011 introduction of Facebook’s Timeline proved prophetic. “It’s a lot more visual,” wrote Sam Lessin, a product manager at Facebook, about the new look of the social network. Visual, as it turns out, is also the direction in which ...more

There’s one technique for soliciting comments that hasn’t been covered explicitly this week, although we’ve shown it through each of the posts we’ve published in this series. What is that technique? Being honest. When we approached the bloggers who wrote posts for the series, we told them we really wanted ...more

This guest post is by Jon Morrow of Smart Blogger (formerly Boost Blog Traffic). According to the legendary copywriter John Carlton, the best way to understand your reader is to visualize them as a giant somnambulant sloth lying on the couch as they watch television. Your job as a writer ...more

This is a guest post by Jeff Goins of Goins, Writer. Most bloggers want to know their words are leaving an impact. They want to know people are listening. One of the best ways to measure this is to see who’s commenting. Not all blogs have a comments section, but ...more