ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

After taking some time off over the holiday season on my blog, I’ve been thinking about things I normally don’t have time to – and I think those things have been reflected in today’s roundup! Optimizing Meta Descriptions, H1s and Title Tags: Lessons from Multivariate SEO Testing at Etsy | Etsy.

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Fat Joe

AUGUST 23, 2023

On-Page On-page elements like meta tags, titles, and headings contribute to how search engines understand and rank a website. Even if you’re outsourcing content writing , there are a bunch of tasks you need to perform for every piece of content you publish. A bunch of thin and outdated blog posts from 2011 won’t add any SEO value.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 15, 2018

It took me nearly seven years of blogging to create my first products: two ebooks, one for ProBlogger and one of Digital Photography School. Between juggling two growing blogs and a growing family (we had just had our first child), I wasn’t sure how I’d ever write an eBook. Does any of that sound familiar to you?

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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. Building a blog is very much like building a model plane – and here are the top 5 lessons I’d like to share with you. When you set up your blog, you’ll face a similar array of options for various skill levels.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 20, 2021

Let’s take lessons from BuzzFeed. Don’t just schedule your latest blog links and product updates. Here are some of the customizations that you can include: Custom tabs Email capture forms Podcasts Video players Quizzes Polls Landing pages Apps to run contests Appointment schedule apps Blog and RSS feeds Ecommerce tabs.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 2, 2016

When it comes to finding new blog post ideas, it is important to not only write but to write things that people actually want to read. If you are producing blog posts that don’t appeal to anyone, then you are really just wasting your time. Strategy #1: Google Analytics + Your Blog. By Jerry Low. Be creative.

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ProBlogger

MAY 3, 2016

It doesn’t really matter what the policy update is this time (although we’ll get to that, and key lessons, soon). Lesson #1: Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. It’s the golden rule of blog monetisation – diversification of risk. Lesson #2: The rise of the influencer is a force to be reckoned with.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 20, 2016

If you aren’t already blogging, 2016 is the year to start. Blogging means improved visibility, more traffic, and more natural links. However, while blogging is still incredibly valuable, keep in mind that the blogging landscaping is constantly evolving, and in order to please your readers, you need to keep pace with the changes.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Everything you’ve already learned and experienced can be used to create infinite and original ideas for your blog. Almost anything you’ve learned in school, on the job—even life’s lessons in general—can be turned into useful analogies or comparisons. Using my personal experience to blog better.

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ProBlogger

JULY 25, 2010

If you want to put ads on your blog, do it. Confusing? :) How about this: there are too many normal people with normal blogs and normal writing. Yeah, it took me a good 6 hours to write out those postcards, but it was worth it. Gaga writes ridiculously good pop hits. Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

“I’m having trouble deciding what topic to blog about.&#. I’ve written numerous times about how to choose a niche or topic to write about but it struck me while talking to the Brisbane folk asking the question that the biggest factor in helping me to narrow in on my own niches was having a personal blog.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 11, 2017

In fact, earlier this year Google suggested that syndicating articles solely for the purposes of link building was inadvisable and provided a variety of best practices to avoid a penalty, including adding those “no-follow” tags to links. The sales team can’t tell the editorial team what to write. truetrae Click To Tweet.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

6 years ago today I imported a series of posts that I’d written about blogging on my previous blog over to the ProBlogger.net domain – ProBlogger was born. I look back on that time and while I was almost making a full time living from blogging there was so much about the medium that I didn’t yet know.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 5, 2010

It’s no surprise that I have found the same holds true for blogging. Or, you can think outside the blog. Here are seven ways to find inspiration by “thinking outside the blog “ 1. Writing about the subject du jour in a way that is interesting, useful, and in keeping with your niche can be quite the challenge.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 1, 2010

Blogging is like life itself. . Every day we are presented with lessons. That said, most of us mess it up – both our life and our blog – on a regular basis. . Here then, after fourteen months online with my blog, are a few tries and stumbles of my own, and what became of them. That’s the lesson. That’s the lesson.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

You might want to write eBooks, print books, memoirs, autobiographies – a thousand ideas, but realistically not a lot of time in your schedule for your one (or many!) You might stop blogging over a certain period, or you could burn the candle at both ends… the choice always depends on the person making it. I prioritize it.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts). The most important thing to remember is that guest posts are a win-win situation for the host blog and guest blogger. Lesson: Have a strong understanding of the blog you want to write for.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 22, 2010

A Guest Post by The Blog Tyrant. And while I don’t think these addictions are particularly funny, I do think we can learn a lot of valuable lessons from WoW that we can apply to our blogs. In this post I am going to show you how you can make your blog addictive just like World of Warcraft. It is that bad.

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Men With Pens

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

She graciously accepted to write a post just for you, dear readers, so be nice. John is still writing reports for various corporate clients, John Jr. is now in fourth grade and is playing soccer, and Sarah is in 2nd grade and starting piano lessons…”. Wouldn’t it be nice to write a letter like that? So write it.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Go read any post from a major blogger on what it takes to be successful at blogging and you’ll find that certain tips get repeated ad nauseam. One of these tips is that your blog should have appealing web design. Let that saying be a lesson to you or anyone else thinking of starting a site, a blog or even a business.

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Neil Patel

AUGUST 4, 2020

Blogging is so effective that there are over a billion blogs on the web. Just think about that… that’s roughly 1 blog for every 7 people. Sure, we don’t really need any more blogs, but people still create them because they can be such effective marketing channels. Lesson #1: Getting Started.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Are you hoping to take your blog to the next level? Well, there are several strategies that make the top marketing blogs in the industry successful. In this post, we’re going to dig into the finer details of these top marketing blogs. With each one, we’ll inspect a particular aspect you can emulate that makes the blog thrive.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 8, 2013

you might be scratching your head trying to remember all the important lessons you learned last year. We do try to cover a range of topics on the blog, and meet the needs of bloggers at all stages of the blogging journey. Blogging in Brief: Looking Good, Saving Face, Tags and Lags. of tag clouds.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 27, 2010

I’m talking about blogging and writing here, but really this can be applied to just about anything. For me, that means appreciating the fact that I have 250 subscribers that read my blog already ! Mistakes are not failures they are lessons learned. Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. You with me? Share This.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 14, 2011

I’m not going to go through all of the details of the tweet exchange—you can read about how I wound up not meeting him after all on my blog. Chris was notified, and he retweeted it to his followers, with the tag, “Very nice story.”. Have you had any experiences like this, where a small contact led to a traffic burst for your blog?

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Neil Patel

APRIL 16, 2021

Instead, I’m going to take a deep dive into something that most people don’t talk about: a tiny slice of content marketing called H1 tags. That can be a problem though; we’re so used to hearing about H1s, using H1s, and talking about H1s, that we don’t stop and think about how to write them in a way that appeals to users and search engines.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 24, 2014

Just to set things straight… I’m not talking about writing 42 300-word posts. In September last year, I did write 42 web articles in total. Well, I keep a complete record of everything I write. Those 42 posts were meant for 3 clients and 2 blogs of my own. I also knew how many posts I should write (roughly).

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Throughout my blogging career, I’ve worked hard on my writing style. I’ve improved over time, and I’m at a point now where I believe I have perfected my ability to write link bait articles. It also means additional targeted traffic is attracted to your blog, which can mean more subscribers.

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ProBlogger

JULY 31, 2010

This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts). Every time you sit down to write a post, you make choices. Unsurprisingly, the blog of news organization Reuters is written in third person in “ Dalian oil spill is all cleaned up ” and most of its other posts.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 17, 2010

My side project was a blog: womeninbusiness.com.au. Establish a personal blog. I started blogging on clarelancaster.com before I launched my consultancy. I had a clear objective for the blog—that was, to demonstrate my knowledge and start to build my online reputation. Ten steps to sustainability.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 17, 2012

Anyone can create a video and upload it to their blog or onto YouTube. Think Batman and Robin, and consider tag-teaming with a partner. Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. This guest post is by Marco Montemagno of Presenter Impossible. This approach is natural and super-effective. Partner up. How long should the clip be?

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Neil Patel

MARCH 30, 2021

One of the biggest challenges that bloggers and content marketers face is writing content that’s optimized for search engines, yet will also appeal to people. If you want to build your blog audience , you’re going to have to get smarter with your content. To thrive, your online business must go beyond simply “writing content.”

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Join us for the price of a coffee a month at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Joanna Penn writes non-fiction for authors and is an award-nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author as J.F. Introduction On 8 December 2008, I published my first blog post on www.TheCreativePenn.com. Do you have any questions?

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Bramework

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Your blog post goes live, you share it to the world and wait for everyone to read it. We are going to review the ways you can keep your blogs alive with 21 ways to repurpose content successfully. We know how important each blog post is to your business. Then what happens? Guest posting has a lot of value if you do it right.

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Credible Content

JUNE 9, 2023

The importance of content writing in brand positioning. When it comes to building a strong brand and brand positioning, content writing plays a crucial role. Content writing is all about creating valuable and engaging content that resonates with your target audience. This is achieved through content writing and other media.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 1, 2010

Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach´s last blog. Sally B´s last blog. Great content takes time to write Reply Kelly March 2, 2010 at 6:46 am James, I was reminded of a little story when you wrote this part: Even if you lose clients, you’re earning more per job than you were before, which means that yes, it does all even out.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The post How To Write Excellent Blog Content – What We Wish We Knew appeared first on ProBlogger. Image created in Canva This post is part of the ‘ What we wish I knew when I first started Blogging’ Series. Read more about using Titles Effectively on Blogs.

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