Smart Blogger

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Barrelhouse began as an idea between writers in the back room of a bar in 2004, and is now a print and online literary magazine that seeks to “bridge the gap between high-brow literary tastes and the mid-brow appreciation of daily joys like good music, bad television, and a decent hot dog.”. Books, blog posts , speeches, and more.

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ProBlogger

MAY 8, 2017

The Things Successful Bloggers Do to Build Their Blogs Into Businesses. In today’s lesson, I want to talk about some of the things that successful bloggers are doing to increase the conversions of their website. Resources for 3 Key Things Bloggers Do to Grow Their Blogs into Businesses. Michael Hyatt.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 16, 2020

And I hope it moves you to take more action on building your blog and your business. Back in 2004, a lot of people told me, “Don’t give up your day job”. I’d been blogging for about a year and a half, and I was starting to see that it was possible to make money blogging. I became a full-time blogger.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

The post International Start a Blog Day Class of 2019 appeared first on ProBlogger. I thought I was too late to start blogging in 2002. But I started a blog anyway. I also loved seeing my blog grow and the community that built around my blog. And In 2019 it’s still not too late to start a blog.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 7, 2019

The post How to Get Products to Review on Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Whether your blog is all about reviewing products or you want to review them occasionally, it’s not always easy to get your hands on them. I faced this problem in my early blogging days when I ran a camera review blog.

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Smart Blogger

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It’s highly rated by bloggers, business mavericks, and eCommerce gurus alike, and it’s the web host we’ve used and recommended to our students for years. SiteGround (affiliate link) hit the scene in 2004 after a group of Bulgarian schoolmates recognized the need for an easier, faster, and safer web hosting provider.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 15, 2011

One of the requests that I’ve received a fair bit lately from readers here at ProBlogger is for me to write a little more on the team I’ve put together to help me run and grow my blogs. Blogging: from hobby to job. June 2004: May and June continued to see the income grow and it passed $1000 in a month for the first time.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 15, 2019

The post How to Make a Full-Time Income From Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. While there are no guarantees, earning a full-time income from your blog can be a realistic goal provided you’re willing to: get specific about your money goals. What’s the exact figure you’d need to quit your job and totally focus on blogging?

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

This is actually a question I often ask full time bloggers who I meet because I love to hear the back story about how their blog broke through to have enough readers to make a living from. What I’ve found in asking the question is that there are many different pathways to full time blogging.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 11, 2012

As a blogger, however, it’s almost impossible—all you want to be doing is writing great content and generating traffic, right? Since 2004, SEOmoz has been one of the most highly respected sites online when it comes to providing top-notch SEO analysis, advice and knowledge. Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 26, 2014

What is your blog about? It’s a question all bloggers get asked from time to time. Every time I run a Q&A webinar over on ProBlogger.com , I get questions around whether bloggers need a niche. Every time I run a Q&A webinar over on ProBlogger.com , I get questions around whether bloggers need a niche. I often do!

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ProBlogger

JULY 16, 2010

Your first post – the first post I ever wrote on ProBlogger (I’d been posting on other blogs for a couple of years before this) was in September 2004. It was actually a post that I’d written on another blog which I imported onto this one. A post which had a great discussion – Does a Bloggers Age Matter?

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 29, 2017

Do you email your blog readers regularly? I was talking about bloggers having similar concerns nine years ago.). The truth is, email is still one of the best ways (if not the best way) way to connect with your blog’s readers. Some bloggers send out their newsletter once a month. Which is nothing new, by the way.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2016

In today’s 100th episode of the ProBlogger podcast, I take a retrospective walk down the lane of memories from my last 13 1/2 years blogging. I hope to share with you the top 10 things that might help you on your own blogging journey. Thank you for riding along not only on the podcast journey, but on my blog journey, too.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 9, 2017

How to Start a Blog in 5 Easy Steps. As I said, my name is Darren Rowse and I’m the blogger behind problogger.com; a blog, a podcast that you’re listening to now, an event, a job board, and series of ebooks all designed to help you as a blogger to grow your audience. Becoming a ProBlogger – A story in Many Parts.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The post How to Start a Blog When You’re Not an Expert: 11 Ways to Make it Work appeared first on ProBlogger. Is it okay to blog about a topic you’re not an expert on? I wasn’t an expert blogger when I started ProBlogger, or an expert photographer when I started Digital Photography School. Definitely. But it didn’t matter.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

I want to tell you about one morning in 2004 when I realised my blog, which I’d recently established as my full time source of income, had hardly any traffic coming to it. It was one of the biggest wake-up calls I’ve had in my career, and it changed the way I blogged from that day forward.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Is it to signify professional behaviour, or is it about the profession of blogging? I’m Pro Bloggers – I love bloggers. I’ve explored many forms of communication over the years but when I stumbled across blogs for the first time in 2002 I knew I’d found something special. It’s about the Profession of Blogging.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2020

The post The Pros and Cons of Having Multiple Blogs appeared first on ProBlogger. As you probably know, I have two main blogs – ProBlogger and Digital Photography School. But while are definitely benefits in having two well-established blogs, those benefits come at a cost. My first blog. The rest of my blogs.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 4, 2020

It’s such a common problem for bloggers, and it can really mess up your plans of having a successful blog if you don’t learn how to beat it. A while back I received an email from Sally, who asked: ”Do you have any tips for bloggers with blogger’s block? This post is based on episode 83 of the ProBlogger podcast.

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ProBlogger

MAY 14, 2018

Starting a Blog on a Topic Where You’re Not an Expert. Can you start a new blog when you’re not an expert on the topic you’ll be writing about? You can blog about any topic you like. But should you blog about a topic you don’t have any expertise in? How to Use Embedded Content on Your Blog [Challenge].

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ProBlogger

MAY 16, 2013

Recently I had opportunity to sit with a small group of Pre-Bloggers – people about to start their first blogs. One of the question I was asked was for advice on how much content to have written before launching a new blog. OK – here’s what I’d do if I was strategising for a new blog with a clear mind.

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ProBlogger

MAY 8, 2016

Do you update old posts on your blog? Lately I’ve spent quite a bit of time here on ProBlogger in my archives updating old posts – perhaps even more than creating new content for the ProBlogger blog and podcast. Most bloggers change in their opinions over time – it’s human to do so. Changed Opinions.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 19, 2015

Most people have heard of the success of Perez Hilton’s blog and that he makes somewhere between $200,000 to $400,000 each month blogging about the latest celebrity gossip. Still, you can make a decent living from blogging, if you know how to go about it. You can make money blogging. How does AdSense work?

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ProBlogger

JUNE 12, 2013

“ONE DAY I’ll be a full time blogger!” ” ‘V’ – my wife – must have heard that statement 100 or more times in 2003-2004. Back in those days I spent a lot of time dreaming about my future as a full time blogger. Me posing for my first ever press photo in 2003. in 9 years time.

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ProBlogger

JULY 25, 2016

Pamela, one of our readers asked this question: “ Darren I’ve been blogging now for 12 months and I’ve seen some growth in my traffic and more recently income – but I’m finding it hard to know whether I’m going well or not because I don’t know where a 12 month old blog should be at? There are many factors that go into blogging.

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ProBlogger

MAY 16, 2019

The post How to Grow Your Blog’s Traffic and Income by Setting Goals appeared first on ProBlogger. What does it take to make a full-time living for your blog? I know some bloggers who managed it with hundreds of daily readers, while others needed tens of thousands of daily readers. How I Started Setting Goals for My Blogging.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 20, 2013

When crafting your blog, it is easy to neglect how it might look to someone who wants to print your articles and posts. After all, with huge monitors, smart phones, tablets, and the bevy of other ways people can access your content, who’d want to print it out on a piece of paper like it’s 2004? This guest post is by Dunya Carter.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Many bloggers that I meet start out with a goal of having a successful blog, but have little idea what that actually means. Good things do sometimes just happen to people, but more often than not, the people who achieve most with their blogs have in mind some goals that they’re looking to achieve.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2017

The Pros and Cons of Having More Than One Blog. In today’s lesson, I want to talk about having more than one blog on the go at once. Regular listeners of this podcast know I have two main blog – ProBlogger and Digital Photography School. The pros and cons of having more than one blog or business.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 20, 2017

How do you build a successful fitness blog? What does it take to start a blog and grow the traffic to 100K monthly visitors in less than a year? If you have a fitness blog or planning to start one or even if you are just curious on how you can grow your blog’s traffic fast, then this post is for you.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 9, 2017

How to Start a Blog in 5 Easy Steps. As I said, my name is Darren Rowse and I’m the blogger behind problogger.com; a blog, a podcast that you’re listening to now, an event, a job board, and series of ebooks all designed to help you as a blogger to grow your audience. Becoming a ProBlogger – A story in Many Parts.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 9, 2017

How to Start a Blog in 5 Easy Steps. As I said, my name is Darren Rowse and I’m the blogger behind problogger.com; a blog, a podcast that you’re listening to now, an event, a job board, and series of ebooks all designed to help you as a blogger to grow your audience. Becoming a ProBlogger – A story in Many Parts.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 19, 2014

In 2004, I created this blog on ProBlogger.net as a place to share what I was learning about making money from blogging and in the hope of connecting with others on that same journey. In the last decade we’ve seen many tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of bloggers have found ways to make a living from blogging.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2017

The Pros and Cons of Having More Than One Blog. In today’s lesson, I want to talk about having more than one blog on the go at once. Regular listeners of this podcast know I have two main blog – ProBlogger and Digital Photography School. The pros and cons of having more than one blog or business.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 15, 2012

From its early beginnings in 1993 to its inevitable rise in the last few years, blogging has become part of our daily lives. Almost everyone has a favorite blog, a blog that they read first thing in the morning while taking the coffee, or a blog they wonder off to after reading the front page of the New York Times.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 28, 2012

As we’ve already seen today , affiliate marketing is a relatively trouble-free way for bloggers and other website owners to earn money. In fact, they offer over a million products from which you can choose to monetize your website or blog. Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Google Affiliate Network. ClixGalore.

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