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Dear Facebook Friends, I’ve been wondering when and how to do this for a while now but the time has come for me to bite the bullet and clean up what I’m doing on Facebook. For 99% of you – this means that I’m about to de-friend you from my personal account on Facebook. It is nothing personal [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.  Dear FaceBook Friends, I’m De-Friending Most of You [It's Not You, It's Me] Publ.Date : Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:58:16 +0000
guest post by Kelly Diels warning: there are lessons and even actionable advice in here, but it is buried inside a story. I write stories because I love you and don’t want to bore you and because if you laugh then chances are that you’ll remember the educational bit, too. There’s actual research that this works – [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.  Blog Security: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Scares Me Into Taking It Seriously. Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:01:09 +0000
Over on Twitter last week @JapanNewbie asked me about how to get people viewing old posts on your blog once they drop off the front page. In this video I tackle the question with 5 suggestions including using: Best of Sections Autoresponders Related Links Best of Posts Repost Old Content I’d love to hear your suggestions on how you drive people [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.  5 Tips for Getting Readers Viewing Your Old Blog Posts Publ.Date : Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:52:15 +0000
A Guest Post by Cori Padget from Write Syntax and Big Girl Branding. In a word? Engage. Engage, engage, engage, engage. Get it yet? ENGAGE! OK, I’m thinking you get it now, kinda sorta. But in case you don’t, let’s discuss it further. EN… Just kidding! If you’re a writer, or a blogger, or someone [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.  How To NOT Repulse Readers And Send Them Running Scream… Um…I Mean Clicking Away Publ.Date : Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:17:42 +0000
While I get many questions from bloggers asking for advice on ‘how to blog‘ perhaps one of the biggest questions a new blogger needs to ask themselves before they move on to the HOW to blog question is ‘WHAT will I blog about?’ There is no real right or wrong answer to this question as blogs [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.  How to Blog: Choose a Niche for Your Blog [Why Niches are Important] Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:54:35 +0000
Last week on Twitter I was asked by @southrngurl6489 the following question: If you had to pick only one thing that makes a blog stand out from its peers, what would you pick and why? I thought it’d be a good question to open up to a wider audience as its something I’ve touched on quite a [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.  What Do You Do With Your Blog to Make it Stand Out from the Crowd? Publ.Date : Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:26:43 +0000
Guest post by Jenny McCoy Sometimes it doesn’t matter where you’re going; you just kinda enjoy the ride. This is true of my blogging experience. After sharing my vision of church services optimized for screaming babies and their snoring grandparents, my drinking companion responded with glazed eyes and an outdoor voice, “You should write books or something. I’d [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.  Stick Out Your Finger (Not That One!) and Create a Meaningful Blogging Experience Publ.Date : Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:14:10 +0000
Last week on my Photography Tips site we published a guest post titled Three Lenses Every Photographer Should Own. The author of the guest post emailed me a few days later amazed at amazing amount of comments left on the post. While the average post on dPS gets a reasonable amount of comments this post is [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.  The BEST Way to Generate Lots of Comments on a Your Next Blog Post Publ.Date : Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:32:09 +0000
A guest post by Dustin Riechmann of Engaged Marriage. My life is pretty typical for a 30-year old family man these days. I do my best to maintain a hectic schedule and the demands that come with balancing a wife, kids, a full-time career, a mortgage, church, community service, tee ball practice, my daughter’s [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.  7 Tips to Keep Your Family On-Board for Your Blogging Journey Publ.Date : Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:00:55 +0000
ChatRoulette (warning: this is often NSFW) is a site that has caused a lot of buzz over the last week or so. It’s a webcam site where you login to chat with complete strangers – you are randomly matched with a stranger and you both have the opportunity to find a new person to chat with [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.  Lessons for Bloggers from ChatRoulette Publ.Date : Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:44:09 +0000
A Guest post by Heather Allard from The Mogul Mom. If you’re a regular ProBlogger reader, you know that Darren dishes up heaps of incredible blogging advice 7 days a week, 365 days a year. His archives positively overflow with information on how to build a blog from the ground up, how to engage readers, how [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.  Feeling “Blogged Out?” [10 Pro Bloggers Share Their Advice on What to Do] Publ.Date : Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:08:50 +0000
A Guest Post by Mark Hayward. What the hell am I supposed to write about, I own a {insert your small business here}? Really, who cares about your flower shop, bike shop, auto parts store, or coffee house? Answer: Your customers certainly care. We all know by now that consistent small business blogging can drastically improve your Search Engine [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.  9 Tips for Creating More Small Business Blogging Ideas Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:33:40 +0000
In the last 24 hours we’ve had a lot of new readers to ProBlogger after a couple of links from sites like Yahoo. If this is your first time (or you’re newish to ProBlogger) to ProBlogger.net then I thought I’d put together a quick tour of my online home. Firstly, my name’s Darren Rowse (that’s me posing [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.  Welcome to ProBlogger – A Quick Tour for New Readers Publ.Date : Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:39:50 +0000
This is an unofficial extra task for the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook. Today I spent the morning working on a task that I try to do at least once a month – SEO on individual key posts in my archives. While it’s important to know and practice the basics principles of SEO in [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.  Optimize a Single Post On Your Blog for SEO Publ.Date : Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:34:19 +0000
I recently was chatting with a new blogger and they made the comment that after 3 weeks of blogging that they’d run out of things to write about. They had written 10 posts so far but felt that they’d nothing else to share of value on the topic. What surprised me about their comments was that [...]Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.  What Are You Taking For Granted That Might Be Useful to Others? Publ.Date : Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:55:35 +0000
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