Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Why Succeeding As a Blogger Is Simple but Hard. Becoming a successful blogger is a lot like becoming a successful weight-loss story. Successful blogging involves writing quality posts on a regular basis and promoting them through methods like guest posting, commenting, social media etc. It really is that simple.

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Content Powered

JUNE 16, 2022

One of the most common pieces of advice for bloggers is to avoid writing about themselves. Your goal with a blog is to write long-form content that focuses on showcasing your expertise and helping your users. You identify a reader's goal in searching for a topic and write original content that satisfies that goal.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 19, 2012

I recently secured the position of Resident Blogger at PLUS Hostels , a large hostel and camp site chain based in Europe. I approached PLUS about becoming their Resident Blogger. I remembered they’d said they would be considering bloggers in April, and would get back to me then. This guest post is by Jane of Runaway Jane.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 1, 2018

Over $100,000 in Ad Revenue – a Dating Ideas Blogger Tells Her Story. Today we’re resuming our series of blogger stories where I hand the podcast over to you, our listeners, to tell your stories and tips of starting and growing your blogs. But I was also voted best blogger by Orlando Magazine last year.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 3, 2012

Usually you spend years in your industry, soaking up its knowledge for a decade before you write your own “how to” manual. You don’t start freelancing by writing a book. And I didn’t write just any old nonfiction “How to Run a Business” book – I wrote a fiction thriller novel.

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ProBlogger

JULY 4, 2017

This opened my eyes to the potential of hosting guest posters on my blog – but I also got feedback from many of the contributing bloggers that guest posting on ProBlogger was hugely positive for them too. One blogger even told me that it led to them getting a dream job. Bloggers I’d never heard of would pitch to post on my blogs.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 5, 2017

Blogger Nikki Parkinson Shares How She Built a Business Around Her Blog. In today’s episode, I have recorded an interview with one of Australia’s better known bloggers – Nikki Parkinson from the style and fashion blog – Styling You. It must have been 2011, maybe 2010. Expand to view full transcript. Darren: Hi there.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 15, 2021

If you really want to be a full-time blogger, you need to escalate this.”. Today I’m living the dream of being a full-time blogger. One of my strategies for increasing my traffic was working out who I was writing it for. And that’s when I got really serious and started creating deadlines for things. Be an action taker.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 5, 2016

In 2011, the U.S. Can you apply the 80/20 rule to your blogging efforts and become a better blogger ? The principle can easily be adopted as a tool for bloggers and marketers. He spends four times as many hours promoting his content (including both new and old writings). United States Medical Care. Absolutely.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 5, 2017

Blogger Nikki Parkinson Shares How She Built a Business Around Her Blog. In today’s episode, I have recorded an interview with one of Australia’s better known bloggers – Nikki Parkinson from the style and fashion blog – Styling You. It must have been 2011, maybe 2010. Expand to view full transcript. Darren: Hi there.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Things like going back and optimising older posts for SEO, thinking about my blogging origins and how they’re influencing my blogging future, and getting back to my first love: writing. So take a minute to think beyond the surface of create content/promote that content, and think a bit bigger picture. Where are you at?

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

You write a blog post. You tweet, Facebook, Digg, Stumble, and perform every other type of online promotion to supersize your presence. Promoting “offline” using a major influencer like a national magazine can bring a blizzard of traffic to your blog. Why should I use national magazines to promote my blog? You post it.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 1, 2010

I dissed another blogger. There are a couple bloggers out there who, because of outrageous, totally misplaced egos, really piss me off. . My site isn’t remotely funny, I write about effective storytelling standards and processes, and how to get it published. And always chose self-deprecation over self-promotion.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 6, 2013

There are two types of bloggers: those with realistic expectations and those with a pipe dream. But a lot of bloggers are totally lost on the recipe. Just because you know how to write good articles and promote them to people doesn’t mean you can make money. Let’s take a little walk, shall we? Say hello on G+.

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Men With Pens

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Of course, you can teach writing courses, as I do. You can also use your experience to teach on topics such as productivity, personal finance, balancing work and life, self-promotion and marketing, or anything that allows you to position yourself as an expert. The key is leveraging your teaching as an asset to your writing career.

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ProBlogger

MAY 3, 2013

This is a guest contribution by Marya Jan, blogging coach from Writing Happiness. I did meet Darren Rowse, Sonia Simone, Chris Garrett, Tim Ferris and Annabel Candy at the Problogger Conference in 2011 but I was so new that I was too scared to even introduce myself properly. Promote that content. I don’t know anyone online.”.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Like many bloggers out there, my blog is often sidelined by my full-time job and other commitments. I made this excuse for years, and while I always got my freelance writing work done my blog was embarrassingly neglected. I never struggled to think of things to write about. I just wasn’t making time to write them.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 17, 2012

For beginner and more advanced bloggers, one of the most important questions we must ask is, “How will my blog stand out in my niche?” It’s a wise move—according to the 2011 State of the Media report , over 140 million people watched online video in 2011. Create compelling content. Build an audience.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 1, 2012

Stephen Pepper is insurance administrator by day, youth worker and blogger by night. Over the last year or so, we’ve realized that we need to be well-prepared when it comes to writing posts about particular times of the year. This includes blogging 6 days a week about youth work. On our blog, we did something similar.

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ProBlogger

JULY 18, 2019

Back in 2007 I was asked a question: “If you could only write one type of content on your blogs forever, what would it be?”. Now while a lot of blogs are very successful without writing evergreen content, I’ve definitely found it a great basis for my own blog’s success. And I’m not the only blogger who thinks this.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 28, 2012

In fact, I first started by building small affiliate and AdSense sites sometime in mid-2011—a process I wrote about in this post for ProBlogger. Most of these affiliate promotions are gradually drip-fed to subscribers through a series of follow-up emails as part of the free training they receive when they first sign up to the blog.

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Income Diary

APRIL 29, 2024

I will now cover all of this in the following article: How to Write Epic Blog Posts That Rank High On Google You too can write blog posts that rank well… Through 1000 posts, we have learned a lot about writing great online content – particularly content that ranks well with search engines. Sometimes less is more.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

And yet, as I sit here in the year 2011, I have to ask the same question. If you want to entice people to read your blog posts, what about the concept of writing really good content? What about writing about something people aren’t writing a lot about? It was more than a rhetorical question when Elvis first sang it.”.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

After stepping aside as Google CEO in August 2001 in favour of Eric Schmidt, he re-assumed the role in April 2011. He continued writing programs while attending Harvard University in pursuit of a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and began his career as an engineer at OPNET Technologies. billion valuation.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Buy some cheap ads on Google to promote your product. Through consistent posting she was able to foster a community of active discussions and engaged bloggers who were interested in what she had to say. These bloggers in essence became leads for her informational products, which she was able to effectively sell through this medium.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 18, 2011

What originally started as a hobby evolved into much more than that, as I constantly looked to further promote my blog and slowly began to monetize the site. In January 2011, I launched my second blog, BROcrastinator.com in hopes of capturing a large piece of the male college demographic.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 6, 2011

In the Febuary 2011 issue of I nc. Jean is am a blogger. She mostly writes about topics to help you relax, de-stress and change your world. This guest post is by Jean Compton of jeancompton.com. Magazine , Gary Vaynerchuck was interviewed regarding how he runs his many business ventures under the umbrella of VaynerMedia.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2012

I’d say, yes, everyone has what it takes, no, not all content will entertain people, and yes, entertainment with a bit of indirect promotion is a solid way of generating business from video blogging. I started the company in 2011, after having been immersed in the blogosphere and social media for years. The business: RMC Tech.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

I suspect that all the technical information you could ever need to be a successful blogger is out there in the public domain. Firstly, I think many bloggers grossly underestimate the psychological side of blogging and what is needed to get their heads right in the first place. Copyright Mark Aplet - Fotolia.com. Click the link.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 2, 2012

This guest post is by Mary Jaksch of Write to Done. Yet a combination of three booster strategies lifted Write to Done from 23,120 to 34,830 subscribers in under six months. He kickstarted Zen Habits by writing five posts a week, plus five guest posts (whilst holding down a full-time job and raising a family of six kids).

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Men With Pens

APRIL 28, 2011

I learned many lessons while building that F-16, and they served me well when I began writing online. Here are three examples: Own your brand: There are a lot of free blog tools and publishing platforms — Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, Posterous, TypePad… the list goes on and on. Use the kit made for you. I had rushed the process.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Guest posting is a hot topic amongst startup bloggers. It is one of the most widely-adopted blog promotion strategies in existence, and has been made perhaps even more popular by the success of “serial” guest posters such as Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing. This guest post is by Tom Ewer of Leaving Work Behind.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 10, 2011

I launched the Personal Trainer Development Center (PTDC) in April of 2011 and it has become a main resource for personal trainers passionate about getting better. These are folks who charge $200-500 to write elsewhere and give me their article for free. If you write it, they won’t come. Do your research.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 18, 2021

A lot of bloggers I know started out as online coaches. Take a look: How can you use your blog to promote your coaching services business? Become an In-Demand Freelance Blogger. If you’re a blogger, then you already have the skills to become an in-demand freelance blogger. Why coac hin g ? That’s true.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 28, 2011

On March 8, 2011, Guy Kawasaki released Enchantment , his latest book. One day, a lesson arrives in my inbox in which Jon explains that the easiest kind of guest post to get onto a popular blog is a list post, because it just takes so much work to write them, and they tend to be very highly rated because they’re so bookmark-able.

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ProBlogger

MAY 22, 2012

It was July, 2011. Not world-class blogger numbers, but pretty good for a young blog (five months) and with solid forward momentum. I stopped writing, and the fire faded lower and lower until Deep Existence was just a firepit of cold ashes. This guest post is by Stephen Guise of Deep Existence.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 9, 2018

Figure out what products to create, redo or replace, as well as what promotions to include. Come up with themes for your products based on popularity and whether they’re easy to research and write about. My name is Darren Rowse and I’m the blogger behind ProBlogger. The feedback coming in has been fantastic so far.

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