7 Hot Posts on My Blog this Month, and Why They Were Successful
I always find it fascinating to look at which posts go viral (or at least, which get shared the most) on my blogs. It isn’t always the ones that you expect! Here are a few of the recent posts on dPS that have done better than others over the last month, along with some reflections [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 21, 10:00am
How to Use Data to Enrich Your Content
This guest post is by Conor Powers-Smith of Factbrowser.com. Blog posts, whitepapers and other shareable content rely on supporting data—not because people just love a good color-coded pie chart (though they are pretty), but because numbers give stories shape. They add scale. They provide perspective. They quantify that something meaningful is happening. Think about it: which [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 20, 4:07pm
Use Monroe’s Motivated Sequence to Call Your Readers to Action
This guest post is by Sean Davis of SDavisMedia.com. Blogs do not produce income. Simply writing and publishing content does not increase your bank account balance. The idea that money is a direct result of blogging is a myth that the best bloggers have dismissed, but most choose to treat it as a law of [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 20, 10:02am
Video Starting Points: Make and Share Your First Video
This guest post is by Neil Davidson of My Web Presenters. In November of 2011 David Hsieh, VP of Marketing at Cisco famously stuck his neck out by proclaiming that 90% of internet traffic will be viewing video in three years’ time. The actual figure is [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 19, 10:00am
Blog Better by Slowing Down
This guest post is by Timo Kiander of Productivesuperdad.com. Are you afraid that you’ll never reach blogging success? Are you working your backside off on top of your day job to produce articles, ebooks, videos, and podcasts, and learn everything about Pinterest (or any other social network for that matter)? Do you feel you are [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 18, 10:00am
What Blog Tasks are You Embarrassed to Admit You’ve Overlooked?
Over the last few days we’ve been talking about taking your blog to the often-elusive “next level.” We’ve seen tips for developing your voice and message, creating stronger calls to action, and increasing traffic. If you’re already working on those aspects of your blog, and are happy with your approach, you’ll probably be hungry for [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 17, 4:01pm
How I Increased My Search Traffic by 200% in 6 Months
This guest post is by Bamidele Onibalusi of YoungPrePro.com. Guest blogging is currently among the most popular marketing tactics, and you can be sure find guides on guest blogging almost anywhere you go online. The problem with guest blogging is that it is being used by so many people today that if you donít have [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 17, 10:01am
5 Effective Tricks to Create a Killer Call to Action
This guest post is by Greg Digneo of Sales Leads in Thirty Days. Here’s the dirty little secret: there are actually two steps to building an extremely popular blog. The first and most popular step is to drive traffic by guest posting, social media, and SEO. The far less sexy step is to convert that [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 16, 10:04am
Get Obsessed with Your Message
This guest post is by Danielle LaPorte of DanielleLaPorte.com. Blog = up? Posts = rolling? It’s time to get obsessed with your message. A quick dictionary moment, to differentiate between your voice, your topics and your message. Your voice is what makes your writing distinctive, compelling, unmistakably you. You’ll carry your voice from your blog, [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 15, 4:01pm
On the Elusive “Next Level” of Blogging
We’ve all heard of it—the elusive “next level” that so many bloggers talk about online. But what is the next level? How many levels are there? Is there an end point in leveling up? These are all worthwhile questions—especially for more experienced bloggers who have spent a lot of time and energy in reaching the [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 15, 10:04am
Grab Your BWE Virtual Ticket for $100 Off—24 Hours Left
Wish you could get to Blog World Expo this year, but can’t make it to New York? Me too. I’ll be in Queensland with the winners of my blogging competition, but I know there are plenty of bloggers from other countries, as well as within the States, who won’t be able to attend Blog World [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 14, 8:09pm
Install Your First WordPress Theme
This guest post is by Karol K of ThemeFuse. Seeing a headline like “How to Install a WordPress Theme” on ProBlogger might seem strange at first. This doesn’t sound like a “pro”-thing at all, right? If you’ve been dealing with WordPress for a while then this is probably even more than obvious to you. However, [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 14, 10:09am
How to Select the Perfect WordPress Theme for Your Blog
This guest post is by Karol K of ThemeFuse. Selecting a WordPress theme is one of those tasks that seem fairly easy at first How hard can it be? you ask yourself. You simply go to Google, type in “best free WordPress themes” and you’re good to go, right? I’m sure you already know where [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 13, 4:08pm
How Do You Tailor Content to Different User Levels?
Today on ProBlogger, we’re publishing the first in a little two-part series of posts on WordPress themes. The first is on choosing a theme, and the second is on installing themes. Now, some ProBlogger readers might wonder if professional bloggers need this kind of information. Of course there will always be pro bloggers who haven’t [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 13, 10:08am
Take a New Road with Your Blog
This guest post is by Lars Holdgaard of Gode Karakterer. So you have a blog which has some kind of self-defined success. You are maybe making a good portion of money and you can see the visitors numbers rising. Your position in Google is also doing better and better every month, and everything is progressing. [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 12, 4:06pm
9 Steps to Take When You Loathe Your Own Blog
This guest post is by Ryan Barton, author of Smart Marketing. You’ve got an editorial calendar, you’ve scheduled blog posts weeks in advance. Look how professional you are. Well done. You’re an inspiration. You press Publish and bask in retweets, praise, and a flood of comments. You’re “resonating” with your “tribe.” You’re prolific. You’re a [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 12, 10:09am
3 New Tools That Can Help You Create Better Content, Convert More Readers and Conquer Higher Search Rankings
This guest post is by Neil Patel of Quick Sprout. Anybody can be a content marketer … but not everyone can be a good or even great content marketer who creates articles that convert and rank high in the search engines on a consistent basis. Over time experience will teach you how to do this, but [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 11, 4:09pm
The Must-have Blog Post Topic Generation Tool
This is a guest post by Eric Siu of Evergreen Search. Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes—Napoleon Hill Unfortunately, sometimes it’s very hard figuring out how to come up with blog post ideas. And based on that quote, if you can’t come up with ideas, then it doesn’t look like you have a [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 11, 1:00pm
What Makes Good Content Marketing Great?
Content marketing—using content to promote our product or service—is a favorite promotion method of today’s bloggers. Many of us are in the content business, so content marketing makes sense. The activities that come under the umbrella of content marketing are broad. They cover everything from guest posting to uploading content to purpose-built networks (like YouTube [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 11, 10:05am
Early Bird Tickets On Sale for Melbourne ProBlogger Event – #PBEVENT
Over the last few years I’ve hosted 2 events here in Melbourne for bloggers. What started in 2009 as a quickly pulled together and very cramped and crowded event for 150 bloggers has grown considerable. Today tickets have gone on sale for our October Event and it is going to be big – both in [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 11, 1:37am
How to Create White Papers From Your Blog Posts and Use Them Effectively
This guest post is by Mitt Ray of The White Paper Blog. With the rise in inbound marketing, more and more blogs are using white papers to promote themselves effectively. Blogs can use white papers as part of their marketing campaigns to spread expertise, generate leads, get more subscribers, and to take advantage of many other [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 10, 4:06pm
Build Blog Products That Sell 6: Tell the World
This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Welcome to the final installment in our hexalogy, concerning how to sell blog products in an era when people are reaching into their pockets and finding mostly lint. So far, we’ve discussed how to plan out products drawn from your expertise, create them, distinguish yourself [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 10, 10:06am
How to REALLY Follow Your Passion to the Bank: The $100 Startup Model
This guest post is by Chris Guillebeau of ChrisGuillebeau.com. More than a decade ago, I began a lifelong journey of self-employment “by any means necessary.” I never planned to be an entrepreneur—I just didn’t want to work for someone else. From a cheap apartment, I watched what other people had done and tried to reverse-engineer [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 9, 10:00am
5 Simple Ways to Discover What People Are Dying to Read
This guest post is by Brad Smith of FixCourse.com. Blogging doesn’t have to be hard. It takes a lot of hard work and perseverance, but it’s not technically difficult. Anyone can (and should) do it. One of the hardest challenges to overcome is figuring out what your audience wants to read. You know, the type [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 8, 4:03pm
5 Unexpected Benefits of Adding Podcasts to Your Blog
This guest post is by Carol Tice of Make a Living Writing. Are you having trouble keeping your blog readers interested in what you have to say? If interest is waning, it may be time to add some variety to what you’re giving readers, besides just writing blog posts, week after week. Back in July [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 8, 4:01pm
8 Ways to Get More Out of Your Facebook Fan Page Today
This is a guest post by Raag Vamdatt of The WordPress How To Blog. If you have been paying even the slightest attention to the blogosphere lately, you would have noticed that it’s abuzz with talk about the new Facebook fan pages. And there is a reason behind it—the Facebook fan page’s new timeline view [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 7, 5:09pm
Build Brand Awareness and Business with Creative Video Blogging
This guest post is by Ryan Critchett of RMC Tech. We all know that video blogging is a powerfully effective tool for business lead generation, but does everyone have what it takes to execute on it? We can all get in front of a camera, hit record, and start talking about our products and services [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 7, 11:44am
Register Today for a Free Podcast With Ana White
This Wednesday at 9pm (Pacific Time in the US) I will be spending an hour with a DIY carpentry blogger I’ve admired for some time now by the name of Ana White – and you’re invited to listen in via a webinar (register here). Ana is the blogger behind the popular Ana White Homemaker blog [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 7, 10:06am
Blogging Success and the Law of Averages
Last week I read a very thoughtful—and thought-provoking—post on Corbett Barr’s blog, called You’re Going to Suck. In it, Corbett makes the point that there’s no growth without failure. We’ve talked about criticism on ProBlogger before, and that’s something that Corbett makes mention of in his post, but failure encompasses so much more than this. [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 6, 10:07am
How to Be a Problogger on Tumblr
This is a guest post by Gregory Ciotti of Sparring Mind. When it comes to blogging, a number of platforms have come and gone. Recently, Posterous was acquired by Twitter, signifying that a shut-down of the platform was imminent. I noticed this in a big way; my blog, called I Love Tumblr, which focuses on [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 6, 10:03am
Weekend Project: Research Your Existing Audience
This guest post is by Logan Marshall of the Free Life Project. You now know a few ways to research the audience you want, but don’t have. If you already have a list, I still recommend you employ those strategies, but there’s more you can do. Much more. In fact, the following strategies will allow you [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 5, 10:06am
Weekend Project: Research the Audience You Want … but Don’t Have
This guest post is by Logan Marshall of the Free Life Project. When I was starting out online, there was something that drove me absolutely crazy. It infuriated me. It made me want to punch a dozen newborn kittens. Okay not really, but it got me mad. Real mad. What am I talking about? Simply this: [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 4, 11:05am
Weekend Project: Get to Know Your Audience
Many of the bloggers I speak to tell me about their audiences. They know their ages, their locations, and how often they visit and comment on their blogs. But as we all know, there’s a wealth of other information that we can access about our blogs’ readers. But actually getting hold of that information, and [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 4, 10:02am
Physical and Free: How to Use Real-World Gifts to Inexpensively Drive Online Traffic
This guest post is by Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing. If you’re reading this, you probably want traffic. And when it comes to traffic, there’s a lineup of “usual suspects” to consider; there’s SEO, PPC, blog commenting, Facebook, Twitter, and the list goes on and on. Except I’m guessing that if you’ve been online for [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 3, 4:04pm
Build Blog Products That Sell 5: Finding Customers
This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. History dictates that the current economic malaise will eventually end, but we’re still waiting for some unambiguous signs. That’s why for the past few weeks, we’ve been learning how to create products that are inspired by (and that tie into) your blog, and how to [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 3, 10:06am
A Checklist for Choosing the Right Monetization Method
If you’ve been blogging for a while, you may already have tried a range of methods to monetize your blog. Some will have worked better than others, of course, but most mid- to long-term bloggers are continuously looking for new ways to meet our readers’ needs through products or services we can sell. Blog products [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 2, 10:08am
Guest Post Hosting: the Surprising Traffic Driver
This guest post is by Shari Lopatin of ShariLopatin.com. We’ve all heard how writing guest posts for other blogs can increase exposure and drive traffic to your site. But what about hosting guest bloggers as a way to increase traffic? New concept, huh? Before we move on, I want you to stop right here and clear [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 1, 4:04pm
5 Tips to Convince Editors to Say “Yes” to Your Guest Posts
This guest post is by Alexis Grant of AlexisGrant.com. You know all the benefits of guest posting on popular blogs. And you’ve decided to start guest posting today. So you want to do your best to crank out awesome content. But smart ideas are only half the battle. The difference between pitching a thought-provoking post [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 1, 1:08pm
Why You Should Start Guest Posting … Today
This guest post is by Jaime of USBundles.com. When they’re done correctly, guest posts can be a true “meeting of the minds”—a way for both the guest blogger and the host website to benefit from association. However, many bloggers may resist the opportunity for various reasons. Let’s examine some of the most common reasons why [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, May 1, 10:01am
Why I Steal Content (And Why You Should, Too)
This guest post is by Adam Costa of Trekity.com. I have a confession to make: for the past few years I’ve stolen content. Lots of it. It’s not something I’m proud of. Hell, I’ve never admitted it to anyone besides my wife (and she’s an even bigger thief than me). But this painful truth must [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, Apr 30, 10:03am
If Your Email Newsletter Isn’t Generating Cash, You’re Doing Something Wrong
This guest post is by Kelly Crawford of Generation Cedar. The most important tool available to a blogger is his email subscriber list. It is the easiest and fastest way to increase sales. You probably already know that the readers who have voluntarily signed up to hear more of what you have to say are [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, Apr 29, 10:09am
27 Awesome Ways to Get People to Listen to You
This guest post is by Nick Thacker of livehacked.com. I’ve been creating stuff lately—blog posts, articles, tweets, videos, ebooks, etc.—and I realized something: The biggest struggle I’ve had during it all was getting people to listen. While blogging and submitting articles, leaving tons of comments, and submitting guest posts, can garner an initial positive result, it’s [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, Apr 28, 10:09am
How to Write a Great Paragraph
This guest post is by James Chartrand of Damn Fine Words. There are eight million posts out there about how to write a great headline. Copyblogger’s written about half of them. I’ve written a few myself. But you know what none of us tell you? What to do after the headline. You know, the actual [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, Apr 27, 4:05pm
Four Reader Myths You Can Safely Ignore
In blogging, we often talk about the reader or the visitor, and what our audiences like (or don’t!). A lot of blanket statements are made around the ways we approach and connect with our audiences. But many of these ideas are little more than myth. Let’s look at four of the most common myths—and why [...]Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger Read more...
ProBlogger Blog Tips, Apr 27, 10:06am