Smart Blogger

JUNE 5, 2023

Facebook was created in 2004, and since then, it’s consistently annoyed sections of its user base with every change in function or policy. Ello Known as the “The Creators Network, ” Ello is dedicated to connecting artists, brands, publishers and their fans. Ready to find your “new Facebook”? Why Use A Facebook Alternative?

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 9, 2020

The post 4 Reasons Why You Should Start a Blog in the New Year appeared first on ProBlogger. At a recent Christmas party a friend asked me a series of rapid-fire questions about blogging. “Do you think I should start a blog this year? Or have I missed the boat with blogging? Why I Started Blogging.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 4, 2018

2 Finance Bloggers Share their Tips for Taking Blogs from a Hobby to a Full Time Business. Once again we’re handing the podcast over to you, the listeners, to tell your stories and tips of starting and growing your blogs. Today we’re we’re featuring another two bloggers from the same niche. Facebook Group.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 4, 2023

For example, freelancers who simply need a place to publish their writing portfolios so they can attract writing clients would likely appreciate WordPress.com’s simplicity (though they’d probably be better off using Medium to house their writing samples ). Check Out AwardSpace Back to Top 6. For example, a portfolio site.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 27, 2022

The post 6 Reasons Your Blog Traffic Might Be Declining [And What to Do About It] appeared first on ProBlogger. I’ve read a few comments here on Problogger from bloggers who are feeling low because they’ve noticed a plateau or even a decrease in the traffic coming to their blog. Photo by Luismi Sánchez on Unsplash.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 13, 2023

Wondering which social media sites your business, brand, or blog should be on in 2023? We’ll look at standout features for each social networking platform, go over who should (and should not) use them, and provide insights that’ll help you determine which ones are best for your business, brand, or blog. You’ve come to the right place.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Yesterday I shared the story of how back in 2004 I almost losing my business overnight. Over the next week, I want to suggest a number of ways I’ve tried to diversify my business since 2004, to build something that isn’t quite so reliant upon any one thing. Identifying WHO I Wanted to Read my Blogs.

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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

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

AUGUST 5, 2015

When Heather Armstrong from Dooce decided to wind back blogging after 14 years, it became headline news – New York Magazine even ran a piece called “ Dooce Talks Life After Mommyblogging “, which gave us a glimpse into how someone so successful could leave that life behind. Will you shut it down? Is this the new normal?

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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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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

In October 2017, Magic Leap announced the partnership with online comic book publisher Madefire. He founded the Start Today company in 1998 and online fashion retail website, Zozotown in 2004. He launched Palantir Technologies, an analytical software company, in 2004 and continues to serve as its chairman as of 2017.

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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

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

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

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

If there’s one thing we can all learn from Facebook’s recent spat with the Australian Government, it’s that you should never rely on a single source for all your blog traffic. It also affected a lot of bloggers who use Facebook to bring traffic to their blogs. As I discovered back in late 2004. And so had my traffic.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Last week I wrote about the experience of almost losing my online business as a result of having too many eggs in one basket and then followed up with a post on what I did to diversify the traffic sources coming into my blog to become less reliant upon Google. How I Diversified My Blogging Income. Making Money BECAUSE of my Blog.

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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

MAY 28, 2013

Recently, I attended an event and heard a speaker talk about how they’d build a passive income from blogging. The person sitting next to me leant over toward me and at whispered: “Based on your Twitter Stream, I’m not so sure that blogging is ‘passive’ – is it?” Even years into the future.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 2, 2017

10 Things I Wish I Knew About Blogging and Content Marketing When I Started. Today, I want to share the audio of a keynote I gave at a conference early last year about 10 things I wish I’d known about blogging and creating content for content marketing when I started. 059: What Should I Blog About? Full Transcript.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

AUGUST 8, 2019

The post How to Relaunch Your Blog After it Becomes Dormant appeared first on ProBlogger. Today I want to answer a question I get regularly from listeners: How do you relaunch a blog that’s died or become dormant? I’ll lay out two scenarios for relaunching a blog, and then give you 11 things to consider during a relaunch.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Are you struggling to stay motivated with your blog writing about the same thing again and again? In the old days of blogging, bloggers were often advised to be very specific – define a niche on a very narrow topic (e.g. Of course, bloggers still need some sort of niche. My blog received less than 20 visitors a day.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

How to Relaunch a Dormant Blog. In today’s episode, I want to answer a question I get regularly from listeners: How do you relaunch a blog that has died or become dormant? I want to talk you through two scenarios for relaunching a blog, and give you 11 things to consider during a relaunch. Join our Facebook group.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

17 Types of Evergreen Content for Your Blog. Today I want to talk about Evergreen content, and suggest seven types of evergreen content you might like to try on your blog. Some are from my blogs, but there are also a lot from listeners who put examples of their own evergreen content in our FB group. How to Start a Blog.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 4, 2016

This is the 3rd challenge in ProBlogger’s 7 Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back Challenge that we kicked off a couple of episodes ago. To recap – every day for the next week I’m going to suggest a particular style of blog post for you to create. Write your post – publish it. Why a Review Post.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

This can lead to webmasters/bloggers losing all their traffic overnight. In previous posts, I have talked about some of the tactics I’ve learned and used to build a Google-less approach to attracting blog traffic. Here’s an example: I published a guest post on Blogging Wizard in April two years ago.

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ProBlogger

JULY 31, 2017

How Ordinary Things Can Lead to Extraordinary Results With Your Blog. This week and I’m excited to be spending time face to face with quite a few ProBlogger podcast listeners and blog readers at our Aussie blogging events. Links and Resources on 6 ‘Ordinary’ Things That Will Grow Your Blog into Something Extraordinary.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 19, 2013

This week Google’s AdSense program celebrated its 10 year anniversary with a post on their blog and a G+ Hangout. I had been blogging for around 11 months by that point and had begun to experiment with the Amazon Associates Program as a way to help me cover my costs of hosting, domains and design.

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