The most successful professional bloggers give you their tips on making your blog popular and successful.



ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
A Guest Post by Glen Allsopp from ViperChill. In 2006, at 17, I started a blog about marketing which was very successful from launch. In fact, the first blog post I published was linked to by 4 of the Technorati Top 100 at the time, and I felt like I was on my way to joining the ranks of A-list blog...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 8 Sep 2010 | 8:56 am CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
This weekend I’m attending James Schramko’s seminar in Sydney. I’ll be there for a panel interview on late Saturday and hang around on Sunday as well.James is one of the best Internet marketers I know of when it comes to getting things done quickly. His stuff isn’t always the...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 8 Sep 2010 | 1:01 am CDT

Daily Blog Tips
Daniel Scocco
Daily Blog Tips
This is a guest post by Onibalusi Bamidele. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Every now and then I will see a list of things bloggers should do, but I notice people are not that inclined to do what they are asked to do, while they pay more attention to things the...

Daily Blog Tips | 7 Sep 2010 | 11:42 pm CDT

Daily Blog Tips
Daniel Scocco
Daily Blog Tips
Over the years I have changed my computer wallpaper many times. In the beginning it was only the default Windows image. Then I started using pictures of things I wanted to achieve. Then I developed the anti-procrastination wallpaper…. Some time last year, however, I started noticing that my de...

Daily Blog Tips | 7 Sep 2010 | 9:01 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
A guest post by Larry Brooks, of Storyfix.com Or she.  Regarding the title… it’s just a saying, no penis required.  It’s not your father’s media anymore.  Hard to cull the gender-based colloquialisms out of the language sometimes. She who blogs less blogs best is every bit as gender-biase...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 7 Sep 2010 | 8:47 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
A Guest post from Stanford from Pushing Social. No doubt about it – Content is King. However, the formula for successful blogging doesn’t end there. In fact, content is just the beginning. If you want to make money, create a loyal readership, or attract new clients, you need to keep your readers...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 6 Sep 2010 | 9:31 am CDT

Daily Blog Tips
Daniel Scocco
Daily Blog Tips
As you probably know there are hundreds, if not thousands of exploits and threats around the web these days. Website based threats usually require an script to run (e.g., Javascript or Java), which means that blocking these scripts is a method to create another layer of security. In the past I had ...

Daily Blog Tips | 6 Sep 2010 | 8:05 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
Guest Post by Elle from Couple Money. Getting exposure is a goal of many bloggers. They work hard writing and sharing their thoughts on various topics. Once they achieve a certain size however, growth seems to plateau a bit. They need a bigger platform so to speak and some decide to join a blog net...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 5 Sep 2010 | 9:06 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts). – Darren While Darren and his family are on a well-deserved holiday, he has lined up enough pre-written content and guest posts to keep ProBlogger readers supplied with p...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 4 Sep 2010 | 3:41 pm CDT

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger
Carl Ocab
Make Money Online
This article is guest posted by Michael Fridman. What makes you think you’re able get wealthy? This must be an unpleasant question. Most people would answer: “because I’m smart, and I am willing to work hard.” Are you one of those people? If this is your way of thinking, it...

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger | 4 Sep 2010 | 10:43 am CDT

Daily Blog Tips
Daniel Scocco
Daily Blog Tips
This is a guest post by Justin P Lambert. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. There. You knew when you put in that pithy final line, just punchy enough to ensure a ton of comments and at least 200 retweets. You sat back, cracked your knuckles, sighed deeply and cli...

Daily Blog Tips | 3 Sep 2010 | 11:05 pm CDT

Daily Blog Tips
Daniel Scocco
Daily Blog Tips
This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question, just write a comment below. Cherran asks: As a person working online, after the initial revenue goals are achieved, I’m getting a feeling that I’m little bit straying away from the normal world. Even for a...

Daily Blog Tips | 3 Sep 2010 | 12:37 pm CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
For the beginner, the blog learning curve can be steep. As well as all the technical and blog visibility issues, there are questions about focus, content types and research, and of course reaching readers. You’re plugging away, day after day, and getting little in the way of recognisable succe...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 3 Sep 2010 | 8:58 am CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
People often come to me as an expert at monetizing blogs. Although my experience making money online is not limited only to blogs, I’ve been able to extract a lot of income from not necessarily a lot of traffic.For example, my proofreading business was able to generate a salary level income &#...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 3 Sep 2010 | 12:45 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
Those of you who follow me on Twitter will know that as this post goes live I’ll be heading to the airport to head to warmer parts of Australia for a couple of weeks break. The bags are packed, the house sitter has the key, the tickets are bought and most importantly….. the blog is sched...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 2 Sep 2010 | 2:14 pm CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
Guest Post by Ross Hudgens of Billy.com. Making money as a freelance content writer isn’t easy. If you aren’t running your own blog or website, turning content into cash can be a difficult thing. But there’s opportunity out there – you just have to try a little harder than normal to find it....

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 2 Sep 2010 | 8:58 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
Blog World and New Media Expo is a fantastic event for bloggers held every October in Las Vegas. This year there will be a full day of ProBlogger training in a ‘ProBlogger Track’ on the Thursday. Yesterday the full details of that track’s sessions were released on the BWE site. The...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 1 Sep 2010 | 6:30 pm CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
You don’t need to be a big-time blogger to need to outsource some aspect of your blog. A beginning blogger with a serious business plan might want to contract a designer to create a skin for their blog. A entrepreneurial blogger might want to outsource some writing, or have an agency provide s...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 1 Sep 2010 | 9:26 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
Ever run out of things to write about on your blog? In this video screencast I want to show you how I came up with over 6000 ideas to write about on my blog using two tools – an Auto Responder (I use Aweber (aff)) and a Simple Survey. Setting this up took me all of 15 minutes work – aft...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 31 Aug 2010 | 9:38 am CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
It’s been a while coming, but finally I’ve decided this year I will attend Blog World Expo in Las Vegas in October.Darren Rowse managed to get me a spot on his problogger training day at the expo that he and co-author Chris Garrett are running on Thursday October 14th. I’ll be spea...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 31 Aug 2010 | 1:36 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
Update: we’ve just launched the new version of this resource and the price is now $29.97. Congrats if you got it at the launch price. To those who missed out – the resource is still value – you get 100 pages of teaching and resources to help you optimize your posts for readers and ...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 30 Aug 2010 | 9:30 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
A Guest post by Akila from The Road Forks Last week, I had a revelation when, after spending ten minutes fiddling around with a VPN in Podunkville, China, I opened my email and found four link exchange requests, including one asking to exchange links with “The Toad Forks” rather than our website...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 29 Aug 2010 | 8:47 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts) – Darren I went tandem skydiving for my birthday in June. As the small plane packed with adrenaline junkies climbed, my blood pressure did the same. The air felt thin in m...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 28 Aug 2010 | 9:23 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
The most common question I’m asked lately seems to be: “How do you get so many things done?” To be perfectly honest – it’s a question I would never have anticipated anyone would ever ask of me – as I’ve mentioned here before, before I got into blogging I us...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 27 Aug 2010 | 8:28 am CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
Income Report: I’m A Million Dollar BloggerBack during the early days of this blog I used to write income reports on a semi-regular basis. John Chow made the idea of reporting your blogging income popular, and before him guys like Darren Rowse and Shoemoney would show pictures of checks they h...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 27 Aug 2010 | 2:39 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
Yesterday I asked readers to suggest their favourite free WordPress plugins. The response was great and I’ll pull together a compilation of the most mentioned ones in the coming weeks. However I’d also love to get your suggestions on the most useful Premium WordPress Plugins. Over the la...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 26 Aug 2010 | 9:37 am CDT

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger
Carl Ocab
Make Money Online
This article is guest posted by Sarah Wallace. The secret is out; affiliate sites are a great way to make money online. But like any juicy secret, once it gets out there’s no stopping the fall out. In this case the rampant success of some internet entrepreneurs has caused a flood of affiliate site...

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger | 25 Aug 2010 | 10:50 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
It has been a while since we had a survey on the topic of WordPress plugins so today I’d like to kick one off. What are your favourite FREE WordPress Plugins? Try to keep it to your top 5 so that things don’t get out of hand – but please share which free WordPress plugins are most ...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 25 Aug 2010 | 9:36 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
Is your blogging getting a little dry? Perhaps it is time to become a bit more playful as a blogger. One of the things that I’ve learned over the years is that the more I ‘play’ and experiment with my blog the more I learn that helps me to make my blog better. Experimentation he...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 24 Aug 2010 | 9:09 am CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
It’s been a few days since I launched the latest ProBlogger eBook – Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers. Since that time we’ve seen over 1000 purchases of the book and have had some fantastic feedback. Here are of the first reviews so you can hear what others are saying about it. 1....

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 23 Aug 2010 | 9:10 am CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
What’s the most common and simplest marketing advice for attracting traffic to your blog?Leave comments on other blogs.Yep, it’s easy, it’s quick, and because of that, nearly everyone does it wrong. However because so many use blog comments to pretty much just leave spam, if you us...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 22 Aug 2010 | 10:51 pm CDT

ProBlogger Blog Tips
Darren Rowse
ProBlogger.net
A Guest Post by The Blog Tyrant photo credit: andronicusmax World of Warcraft has over 11 million subscribers paying monthly fees. It is one of the most addictive video games of all time. In fact, there are several websites devoted to just helping people quit the game. There is even a “detox...

ProBlogger Blog Tips | 22 Aug 2010 | 9:05 am CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
In a previous articles I discussed the importance of having a thorough understanding of your customer psychology. Knowing why your customers are motivated to do what they do on an emotional level means you can intimately communicate with them, demonstrating you know their problems better than they d...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 17 Aug 2010 | 1:34 am CDT

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger
Carl Ocab
Make Money Online
This article is guest posted by Jason Acidre. If you consider yourself an advanced affiliate marketer you may be on the lookout for the latest and greatest tools to use for your online business. Having the proper tools and services to use to your advantage can increase your profits and make you a mu...

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger | 16 Aug 2010 | 9:57 am CDT

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger
Carl Ocab
Make Money Online
This article is guest posted by Shaun Connell. I’ve been professionally blogging for a little over a year now. In June of 2009, I was working full-time on my blogs for the first time. Whenever people ask me what the key to me going full-time was, I always give them the same answer: passive sea...

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger | 15 Aug 2010 | 4:26 am CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
Back in 2006 I decided it was time to build my first email list.I had been blogging for just over a year at that point, and had over five years experience running websites already under my belt, yet I had never created an email newsletter or list of any kind.Finally, after repeat recommendations fro...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 12 Aug 2010 | 8:21 pm CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
I recorded this video for you from the Botanic Gardens in the Brisbane CBD for a change of scenery.The video starts with a brief chat about how I can easily pack up my video recording equipment and head to the park to record a video like this, all thanks to Gideon’s Rapid Video Blogging set-up...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 10 Aug 2010 | 2:02 am CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
If you haven’t yet downloaded your copy of Gideon’s brand new report and training video series on how to create online video blog posts super fast, make sure you opt-in here to get the free goodies!The Rapid Video Blogging Report by Gideon Shalwick******Three years ago I started a projec...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 5 Aug 2010 | 10:13 pm CDT

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger
Carl Ocab
Make Money Online
This article is posted by Valerie and sponsored by ForumLinkBuilding.com. The Internet has created incredible opportunities for businesses of all shapes and sizes.  It has made it possible for small businesses to operate within a global marketplace, increasing the potential for profitability and su...

Make Money Online With The Kidblogger | 4 Aug 2010 | 9:30 am CDT

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Yaro Starak
Entrepreneur's Journey
Inside the Blog Profits Blueprint I talk about a key distinction, the difference between strategies and tactics when it comes to online marketing and building a blog-based business.Here’s a relevant quote from the Blueprint:Strategies are in place to educate your mind about why things happen. ...

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak | 4 Aug 2010 | 12:28 am CDT