
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

6 Powerful Guest Post Tactics that No One’s Talking About
This guest post is by Tom Ewer of Leaving Work Behind. Guest posting is a hot topic amongst startup bloggers. It is one of the most widely-adopted blog promotion strategies in existence, and has been made perhaps even more popular by the success of “serial” guest posters such as Danny ...more
Writing Content

Six Steps to Make Sure Your Site Is Ready to Go Viral
This guest post is by Nancy Sathre-Vogel of Family on Bikes. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Surely Google Analytics was confusing my site with another, way more popular site. There was no way my visitor numbers could be so high! And yet they were. One of my posts ...more
Blog Design

How to Create and Host a Blog Carnival
This guest post is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Everyone has them, except possibly R.L. Stine. I’m referring to those days when you’re lacking either the inspiration or the energy to write something fresh and/or inventive. If you can somehow get those days to occur on a regular ...more
Blog Promotion

Why Kissing a Digital Baby is Better than Back-scratching a Super-famous Blogger
This guest post is by Shamelle Perera of Better Blogging Ways. By now, it’s been engraved into every bloggers mind that relationships are the foundation of building a successful blog. Then, there is this “hush hush” unwritten law, “You should build strong relationships with established pro bloggers or blogosphere influences! ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Develop Irresistible Content with this 4-Point Formula
This guest post is by Neil Patel of KISSmetrics. If you want to create blog posts, white papers, and even ebooks that clearly communicate your idea and compel your readers to do whatever you ask, you need to use this little formula. It deals with the four different learning abilities ...more
Writing Content

2 Different Tales of Blog Growth
“What was ‘the tipping point’ for your blog?” This question is one that I’m regularly asked in interviews, and it is one that is challenging to answer. The assumption behind the question is that there is often some kind of event that pushes a blog into the limelight. The reality ...more
Case Studies

6 Fatal Symptoms You’re in the Wrong Niche
This guest post is by Martyn Chamberlin of Two Hour Blogger. “What should I write about?” It seems such a silly question. Of course you know what to write about! In fact, you could argue it’s even impossible to write about the wrong thing. That’s like ordering the wrong iPod! ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Your Social Media and SEO Game Plan for 2012
This guest post is by Herman Dias of SEOsoeasy.com. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you will have heard about the Google Panda update and what it did to many low-quality websites last year. It was more like a Google sniper attack on all the spam and rubbish sites. ...more
Search Engine Optimization