10 Ways to Make Money BECAUSE of Your Blog (9)
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What if I told you that there’s a way to make money as a result of your blog where you don’t need to have a single ad on your blog, where you don’t have to run any affiliate programs and where you don’t have to write any paid reviews? Would you be interested? Image by iDream_in_Infrared Much is written about how bloggers make money through selling advertising space or running affiliate programs on their blogs. ...
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Jeffrey said:
great options for extra money making
12 Tips To SNAP Readers Out of Passivity with Calls to Action (18)
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The vast majority of visitors to your blog are paralyzed by passivity. They never comment, they don’t vote in polls, they won’t subscribe to your feed or newsletters, they won’t buy the affiliate products that you recommend, they won’t email a friend about your blog, they won’t vote for you in social bookmarking sites and most of them will never come back. Image by Aaron Jacobs Depressed? You’re not alone. Some days it gets me ...
A Downside of Getting to the Front Page of Digg (5)
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The Holy Grail of incoming links for many bloggers is an appearance on the front page of Digg. It has the potential to send tens of thousands of visitors and bring about a lot of secondary links from other sites who see it. However the downside of a site the power of Digg linking to one of your articles is that it is an authoritative site in the eyes of Google. Yesterday one of my ...
Does Your Next Blog Post Matter? (12)
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If your next blog post doesn’t matter - don’t publish it until it does. In our series on How to Craft a Blog Post we’ve been talking about ‘points to pause’ while writing a blog post. So far we’ve looked at choosing a topic, titles and opening lines and today we’re going to get into the meat of your actual post. Here’s the question that I think we should all be asking before we hit ...
Google Launch Ad Manager (an Ad Server) (14)
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Google AdSense announced the beta launch of their Ad Manager Ad Server product back in March. At that time I heard from a number of publishers in the beta program that they were finding it to be an effective way of managing their ads. Today on the AdSense blog they have announced that Ad Manager is now available to everyone. It’s still in beta but is obviously stable enough to be opened up to everyone. ...
10 Ways to Hurt Your Blog&8217;s Brand by Commenting on Other Blogs (4)
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Ask popular bloggers for 10 ways to build traffic to a new blog and I’ll guarantee that almost all of them will mention the importance of commenting on other blogs as part of their answer. Much has been written about commenting as a strategy to build traffic (because used correctly it is a powerful tool) - but very little has been written on the dangers of it. Over the past few months I’ve noticed some ...
Killer Titles - Group Writing Project [WIN A PRIZE] (5)
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This week I’m running a ‘Group Writing Project’ here at ProBlogger where you have the chance to win a $2000 identity design (logo) from logo designer David Airey. You can see a portfolio of the graphics and logo design that David has previously done. Thanks to David for this fantastic prize. Please read the instructions below carefully to enter. What is a Group Writing Project In brief (I outline it fully below) - these projects ...
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lorfel said:
the next challenge in pipe line already..
The Power of Story on Blogs (10)
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One book that I find myself delving into every six months or so is The Story Factor by Annette Simmonds. She writes about a topic that is close to my heart - the power of storytelling as a way to be influential. One of the points Annette makes early in her book that resonates with me most is that: people don’t need more information - they need ‘faith’ and that stories have the power to ...
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Kcrystina said:
It's what @Ed_Dale has been teaching during the 30 Day Challenge.
Show Off Your Title Creation Skills - Rework These Post Headlines (1)
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In the last few days we’ve been talking about how to write good blog post titles here at ProBlogger. We’ve talked about the theory of it - so now it’s time to get a little more practical. In the next couple of days I’m going to launch a group writing project that picks up the topic of blog titles - but before that (and to help us ‘warm up’ for the project) I thought it ...
11 SpeedLinks for Professional Bloggers and Web Workers (14)
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I’ve been doing most of my ’speed linking’ on Twitter lately - but here’s a collection of links from around the web for bloggers and web workers that got my attention today: Screen Casts Rock - Here’s Who’s Rocking Them Now - RRW showcases great Screen Casters 7 Tips for New Twitter Users - From Shel (don’t forget my Twitter tips for Beginners) Why a Footer in 43 Folders Feed Items? - Merlin Mann shares ...
11 Ways to Open a Post and Get Reader Engagement (19)
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‘Hi Michael, it’s nice to meet you’ These were the first words my wife spoke to me. Not the most spectacular start to a relationship…. considering my name is Darren. Opening lines matter - particularly when it comes to blogging. If you don’t get them right your posts will go largely unread. Do you want to discover how to make opening lines effective? In my last post in this ‘how to craft a blog post’ ...
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Mark said:
This is a great read, especially number 2
Is Writing Great Content Enough to Build a Successful Blog? (24)
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At times you could be forgiven for thinking it is - if you read a lot of blogs on ‘how to blog’ that is. One of the first thing that most of us who write about blogging advise those starting out is to work on writing useful and unique content. Certainly at the core of most great blogs is useful and unique content that draws readers in and generates links from other blogs, builds the ...
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Kcrystina said:
If you're still having problems understanding how to write content for your blog that will grab people's attention, this is a great post on doing just that.
Blog Hosting - Which Hosts Top Blogs Use (2)
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Who is Hosting This has put together a great little study into the blog hosts of the top 100 bloggers (according to Technorati). On top of the list is Media Temple, Datagram, BlogSpot and Six Apart. Yes you heard it, 8 of the top 100 blogs use Blogspot and 4 use Six Apart to host their blogs. It goes to show that while most (including me) would advise you set up your blog on your ...
AdWord Keyword Tool How to Use it to Hone Post Titles and Choose Blog Topics (16)
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Today I want to point out a useful tool for bloggers wanting to do a little research into topics to blog about (or even what topic to choose for your next overall new blog). The tool is a free one from Google - their AdWords Keyword Tool. This tool is one that Google offer their advertisers (looking to work out what keywords to target on Google) but is also useful for bloggers wanting to research ...
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Darnell Clayton said:
This is a really neat tool! I think I am going to start using it (as I may start advertising my blog more).
The Buzz about Yahoo Buzz (8)
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I opened my inbox this morning to find quite a bit of mail on the one topic - Yahoo Buzz which today opened up its doors to the public and started allowing other sites outside of it’s initial closed test to submit stories to it. Yahoo Buzz is a social bookmarking/voting site (quite similar to Digg) and some of it’s top stories even get to the front page of Yahoo. Sites that have been to ...
Applying for a Blogger Job? Treat it Seriously (3)
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Today I received an email from one of the advertisers on the ProBlogger Job Boards. They reflected back to me that they’d had a lot of ‘low quality’ job applications and made some suggestions for those looking to apply for a blogger job. I’ll include their suggestions below. Let me say that I get a variety of feedback from advertisers on the job boards. Most tell me that they get great applications and generally quickly ...
How to Craft Post Titles that Draw Readers Into Your Blog (23)
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Titles change the destiny of your posts. Those few words at the beginning of your blog post can be the difference between the post being read and spread like a virus through the web like a wild fire and it languishing in your archives, barely noticed. This month we’ve been talking about how to ‘craft’ blog posts and are looking at key moments in the writing of blog posts that it is important to pause ...
Join me in Blog Action Day - 15 October 2008 (1)
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20 Types of Pages that Every Blogger Should Consider (4)
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When you use WordPress you’re given the choice when publishing between doing it as a ‘post’ or as a ‘page‘. Posts go up on your blog while ‘pages’ are static pages that you can publish without it having to go up on your blog. There’s a lot of reasons why you might choose a post over a page or a page over a post (that’s for another post) - but today I thought I’d highlight ...
The Why and How on Repeating Content on Your Blog (9)
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Many bloggers come to a point in their blogging after they’ve been at it for a sustained period of time where they need to make a decision about repeating content and posting on topics they’ve already covered. Here’s a recent question from a reader who wished to remain anonymous: “I would like to get your opinion about content repetition. When you have an audience that is always changing, it would seem that you would need ...
