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Hey there friends, it’s Darren Rowse from ProBlogger here. Welcome to episode 280 of the ProBlogger podcast.
It’s been a while since we chatted and I do apologize for that, I needed a little time to get my headspace right and work on a couple of other projects, but I’m glad to be back. I’m particularly glad to be back at this time that we find ourselves in. We currently find ourselves in a bit of a crazy time with COVID-19, CoronaVirus, and all t...2020-03-2337 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging275: How One Blogger Quit Her Job and Started a Lifestyle BlogHow One Blogger Took Action, Left Her Job, and Began a Lifestyle Blog
Today marks the end of our series featuring stories from new bloggers. We really hope you’ve enjoyed them.
Jackie Baker recently started a lifestyle blog that celebrates the beauty in everyday life. She considered blogging as a business because she needed a career change that would both challenge her and leave time for a vacation once in a while.
But what would she write about? Jackie narrowed her blog’s focus to a few topics that bring joy...2019-02-0116 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging273: How One Blogger Turned a Painful Situation into a Life-Changing BlogHow One Blogger Found Encouragement in Difficult Times
Our new bloggers series continues with Melissa, who started Living in the Wait.
Her blog serves as a resource for those waiting for something in their lives, whether it’s a job, spouse, home or something else.
Melissa discovered you can still live life during that time of waiting for something your heart desperately desires.
In Melissa’s case, she and her husband were waiting for a family due to infertility. It’s a painful topic to talk about, but Melissa felt like it was...2019-01-2818 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging272: How Networking and Interviewing Helped One Blogger Build Her BlogHow One Blogger is Making the Most from Networking and Interviewing
Our series of stories from new bloggers continues with Penny Wilson, who started Lingo Mama to blog about language learning and travel.
Penny’s reasons for starting a blog:
Return to her passion for language learning
Establish accountability and discipline with language learning
Share love for language learning with others
Inspire others to learn a second language
Starting a blog involved a huge learning curve for Penny, especially when it came to the technical aspects of managing it.
Fo...2019-01-2512 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging271: How One Blogger Simplified Starting a Blog by Sharing the Load
How One Blogger Worked With Others to Start a Blog
We continue our series featuring stories from new bloggers who have recently completed our free Ultimate Guide to Starting a Blog course. We hope they’ll inspire others as part of our International Start a Blog Day on February 7.
Today’s story comes from Jacob West, who started the blog Live Life Liberated. His blog questions social norms and traditional ways of thinking.
Jacob’s blog doesn’t tell you what to think or do. Instead, it provides a friendly and open-minde...2019-01-2311 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging270: How One Blogger Changed Her Life by Starting a BlogHow Starting a Blog Helped Transform the Life of a Blogger
Happy New Year!
This first episode of 2019 launches a series of stories from new bloggers who started their blogs after completing our free Start a Blog course.
The course features seven steps, which makes it a perfect way to celebrate International Start a Blog Day on February 7.
The first story comes from Denise Bumby, who took our course last year and launched her Does Size Matter? blog about six months ago.
Denise was searching for a wa...2019-01-2116 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging268: How Anita Diversified Her Blogging Income and Depended Less On Page ViewsHow a Blogger Expanded Her Income Streams and Engaged Readers in a New Way
As a blogger, do you feel like you’re on a hamster wheel? Do you need to continually feed the machine to keep your blog generating traffic and income?
We continue our Blogger Breakthroughs series with Anita Joyce, who experienced the same problem with her Cedar Hill Farmhouse blog.
Anita was working non-stop on her blog. She didn’t even have time to go to the grocery store or relax with her family.
But the...2018-11-0522 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging265: How One Blogger Grew His Traffic Tenfold Without Producing New ContentOne Blogger’s Experience of Growing Traffic Without Producing New Content
If you’ve been blogging for a while you’ll relate to Todd Tresidder’s story in this episode of our Blogger Breakthroughs series.
A blog that’s been around for a year or more ends up looking messy, and gives readers an inconsistent user experience. Content is old and repeated. Links are broken. Content comes in different styles and voices. Graphics look dated.
A blog can become a house with many extensions that hasn’t been architecturally designed with any clear tho...2018-10-1517 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging264: How One Blogger Builds Engagement and Makes a Difference with an Online Community EventHow One Blogger is Using Online Events to Build Engagement and Make a Difference
We continue our Blogger Breakthroughs series with a story from Trixi Symonds, whose Coloured Buttons blog teaches kids how to sew. She also created Sew a Softie Day.
Trixi started her blog in 2009 to post kids craft projects. After a few years, she started posting more hand-sewn, well-designed and simple projects that kids could do.
She soon discovered that kids love to sew. They feel empowered when they can make their own bag, cushion or soft toy...2018-10-0812 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging260: How One Recipe Blogger Turned Her Blog Around with a Simple MindshiftHow a Mindshift Changed One Blogger’s Perspective
This episode of our Blogging Breakthroughs series features eight-year blogger Sarah Cook. Her blog Sustainable Cooks shares recipes, gardening tips, and real food for food people.
Sarah describes how a simple and practical mindshift recently ramped up her efforts as a blogger. She changed her mindset from “me” to “we”.
Most bloggers put the emphasis on themselves, which is natural. But if you want to build a big audience and monetize your blog you should focus on your readers.
You can still injec...2018-09-1016 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging259: How This Home Cooking Blogger is Replacing Her Lawyer Income with Her Blogging IncomeHow a Lawyer’s Home Cooking Blog is Helping Her Replace Her Law Income
Libby Hakim features in the fourth episode of our Blogging Breakthroughs series, where listeners share stories about traffic, income, mindset, and other blogging areas.
Libby has a new blog, Cooking with Nana Ling, which focuses on home cooking based on her great-grandmother’s recipes.
Before her blog, Libby was working a part-time legal job and had two small children.
But with her blog, Libby has experienced four mini breakthroughs:
Mindshift: Presumed she would never make...2018-09-0317 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging256: How One Blogger Landed a Book Deal That Launched Her CareerHow a Book Deal Launched the Career of a Blogger
We’re kicking off our Blogging Breakthroughs series, where a variety of bloggers share their stories of breakthroughs they’ve experienced over the years with their blogs.
We received submissions from numerous bloggers. And today I want to introduce you to Andrea Vahl.
When Andrea started getting into social media, she realized nobody was teaching it in an entertaining way. So she invented a character: ‘Grandma Mary: Social Media Edutainer’.
She’d even show up at events as Grandma Mary – a g...2018-08-1318 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging246: 9 Ways to Accelerate the Growth of Your Blog9 Things I Wish I Knew About Blogging That Will Accelerate the Growth of YOUR Blog
In today’s episode I want to share my keynote at this year’s Social Media Marketing World – 9 Things I Wish I Knew About Blogging that Will Accelerate the Growth of YOUR Blog.
Here are the slides from my talk:
9 Things I Wish I Knew About Blogging that Will Accelerate the Growth of Your Blog from Darren Rowse
Keep focusing on the pillars of pro blogging:
Profitable blogs are built on great...2018-05-0753 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging241: Trends in Social Media – Where Should You Focus Your Energy?Social Media Trends – Where Should You Focus Your Energy
In our last episode I covered seven trends in social media and blogging. In today’s episode I want to discuss where you should focus your energy as a blogger.
There’s so much we could do.but what should we do?
Don’t become overwhelmed and perplexed. Instead, be inspired about where to put your effort.
Should you focus on:
live video?
bots and messenger marketing?
Facebook advertising?
long-form video?
Instagram stories?
blog?
all of the above?
And how...2018-04-0231 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging232: Collaborative Blogging – How One Blogger Started a Blog with Over 200 CollaboratorsCollaborative Blogging – One Blogger Shares How She Started a Blog with over 200 Collaborators
Today’s episode is the last in our series where I handed the podcast over to you, the listeners, to tell your stories and tips of starting and growing your blogs. It was all part of our Start a Blog course, which launches tomorrow.
Today’s episode features blogger Chrissann Nickel from Women Who Live on Rocks. She shares her challenges and insights when it comes to collaboration, not listening to critiques, and working with multiple writers.
Links and Res...2018-01-0916 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging231: From Imposter Syndrome to Tech Influencer – One Tech Podcaster Shares His StoryFrom Imposter Syndrome to Tech Influencer – A Tech Podcaster Tells His Story
Today’s episode continues our series where I hand the podcast over to you, the listeners, to tell your stories and tips of starting and growing your blogs.
Today’s blogger is Neil Hughes from Technology Blog Writer. Neil shares how he started out writing articles on LinkedIn, and talks about some of his struggles, accomplishments, and goals.
Links and Resources for From Imposter Syndrome to Tech Influencer – One Tech Podcaster Shares His Story
Technology Blog Writer Blogger Neil Hug...2018-01-0818 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging230: How a Blog Helped Grow My Voice Coaching BusinessHow a Blog Helped Grow a Voice Coaching Business
In our continuing series of blogger stories I’m handing the podcast over to you, our listeners, to tell your stories and tips of starting and growing your blogs.
This series started in episode 221, and is helping us launch our new (and completely free) ‘Start a Blog’ course that will go live on 10 January 2018. You can sign up to reserve your spot in the course at problogger.com/startablog.
Today’s short and sweet episode comes from My Happy Voice blogger Vahn Petit, and...2018-01-0518 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging229: 2 Finance Bloggers Share their Tips for Building Blogs from Hobby to a Full Time Business2 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.
Since episode 221 we’ve been hearing from our listeners about their blogs as a lead up to our new (and completely free) ‘Start a Blog course’, which goes live on 10 January 2018. You can sign up to reserve your spot in the course at problogger.com/startablog.
Today we’re we’re featuring ano...2018-01-0425 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging228: From Crying in the Bathroom at Work to a Multi Six Figure Online Business – A Writing Blogger Shares Her StoryLeaving Her Job to Create a Multi Six Figure Online Business – A Writing Blogger Tells Her Story
We’re continuing our series of blogger stories, and handing the podcast over to you so you can tell your stories and tips of starting and growing your blogs.
This series, which started with episode 221, is all part of the launch of our new (and completely free) ‘Start a Blog’ course, which goes live on 10 January 2018. You can sign up to reserve your spot in the course at problogger.com/startablog.
In today’s episode we...2018-01-0317 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging227: 3 Travel Bloggers Share their Stories and Tips3 Travel Bloggers Share Their Tips and Stories
Once again I’m handing the podcast over to you, our listeners, to share your stories and tips of starting and growing your blogs.
I started this series towards the end of last year with episode 221: From 0 to 500,000 Page Views a Month – A DIY Blogger Shares Her Story
Today I’ve got three blogger stories for you. And like our ‘tech blogger’ episode 222, I’ve put together stories from three travel and tourism bloggers.
Links and Resources for 3 Travel Bloggers Share their Stories and Ti...2018-01-0227 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging226: From Passion Project to Over $100,000 in Advertising Revenue – a Dating Ideas Blogger Shares Her StoryOver $100,000 in Ad Revenue – a Dating Ideas Blogger Tells Her Story
It’s the beginning of January, and I want to wish you all a Happy New Year. You may want to kick off the new year with our Start a Blog Course.
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.
Kristen Manieri from Orlando, Florida started a blog with no real plan to make money. Kristen writes about d...2018-01-0114 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging225: How One Nutritionist Uses Her Blog to Grow Her BusinessHow One Nutritionist Uses Her Blog to Help Grow Her Business
Here’s another episode where I hand the podcast over to you, our listeners, to tell your stories and tips of starting and growing your blogs.
In today’s episode I’ve got Aussie blogger Nina—one of the attendees from our recent events in Australia. She came to our mastermind day, and I really enjoyed getting to hear a little bit of her story there. And I wanted to include her story today because it illustrates another model of building an income a...2017-12-2212 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging224: From 5 to Over 1,000,000 Readers a Month – A Finance Blogger Tells His StoryFrom 5 to Over 1,000,000 Monthly Readers – A Finance Blogger Shares His Story
Once again I’m handing the podcast over to you, our listeners, to tell your stories and tips of starting and growing your blogs.
In today’s episode you’ll hear the story of Robert Farrington, a finance blogger. After a couple of fairly unfocused years where he made no money from his blog, Robert managed to turn things around through storytelling and taking his readers on a journey. In his third year he made $30,000, and today he earns a high seven-figure income fro...2017-12-2115 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging223: From 0 to Six-Figure Blogger in Two Years – A Recipe Blogger Tells Her StoryFrom 0 to Six Figures in Two Years – A Recipe Blogger Shares Her Story
In today’s episode we continue our series of blogger stories where I hand the podcast over to you listeners to tell your stories and tips about starting and growing your blogs.
We kicked off the series three episodes back with a DIY blogger, and yesterday we featured two tech/Microsoft bloggers. Today I’m introducing you to Erin Chase, a friend of mine.
In 2008 she started a blog where she documented what she was having for dinner each n...2017-12-2018 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging222: From Corporate Desk Jobs to Full-Time Bloggers – 2 Tech Bloggers Tell their StoryFrom Corporate Desk Jobs to Full-Time Bloggers – 2 Tech Bloggers Tell their Story
In today’s episode we’re continuing our series where I’m handing the podcast over to you as listeners to tell your stories and tips of starting and growing your blogs.
It started yesterday with the story of Brittany Bailey, a DIY blogger who grew her blog to hundreds of thousands of readers a month.
Today I want to introduce two tech bloggers whose blogs have allowed them both to leave their corporate jobs to start their own business...2017-12-1927 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging221: From 0 to 500,000 Page Views a Month – A DIY Blogger Shares Her StoryToday is the first episode in a 12-part series we’re running on the ProBlogger podcast over the next few weeks. We’re handing the podcast over to you – the listeners and readers of ProBlogger – to tell your story of how you started your blog and what’s happened since.
As I said a couple of weeks ago, in the second week of January we’ll be releasing a brand new (and completely free) course on how to start a blog. And in the lead up to that we wanted to feature stories of bloggers who’ve already...2017-12-1817 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging218: How to Set Smart Blogging Goals for the New YearUsing the SMART Approach to Set Your Blogging Goals for 2018
It’s that time of year where many of us are reviewing the year gone by and setting our blogging goals for 2018.
Goal setting is really important in any venture. Without goals, your actions tend to be aimless and random. By setting something specific to aim at, you’ll be motivated and more focused in your efforts.
A lot has been written about goal setting over the years. But one way to set your goals is to use the SMART approach, where S...2017-11-2725 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging216: How to Create a Style Guide for Your Blog (and Why You Should)How and Why You Should Create Style Guides for Your Blog
In today’s episode, I talk about style guides for blogs – why they’re important, and what elements you should include in yours.
Links and Resources for How to Create a Style Guide for Your Blog
AP Stylebook
The Chicago Manual of Style
Virtual Tickets
Facebook group
Further Reading and Listening for How to Create a Style Guide for Your Blog
10 Writing Tips to Help You Sound More Human
How and Why to Create a Blog Style Guide
How to Cre...2017-11-1332 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging215: Simplify Your Business and Make More Money BloggingWays You Can Simplify Your Business and Increase Your Blogging Profitability
Today, I want to share two big lessons I learned this year at our Australian ProBlogger events. They were lessons I think apply to many aspects of blogging and online business.
It’s all about simplifying what you do while making more profit.
I’m heading to Dallas for our Success Incubator event and to speak at FinCon in a few days time. So I’ll be taking a couple of weeks off the podcast to travel and focus on the eve...2017-10-1636 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging213: Blogging and Content Marketing: 10 Things To Know10 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.
In episodes 204 and 205 I shared some recordings of keynotes I’ve given, and the response from many of you was that you wanted to hear more of that style of podcast. So today I dug out a talk I gave at the Super Fast Busi...2017-10-021h 08ProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging210: Launching a Blog: How Many Posts Do You Need?How Many Live Posts Do You Need When You Launch Your Blog
Today, I want to answer a question almost every blogger asks when they start blogging: How many posts should I have live before I launch my blog?
It’s a common question I get, and while I’ve mentioned a few approaches in other episodes today I’m tackling the topic specifically.
So if you’re starting a blog for the first time, or thinking of starting a second blog, this podcast is for you.
Links and Resource...2017-09-1124 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging203: How to Approach Influencers in Your Niche
How to Connect With Influencers in Your Niche
Today I want to share some teaching on how to approach influencers and other well known people in your niche (or outside it too).
One of the most powerful ways to grow your profile, audience and brand is to connect with others in your niche. The benefits of doing it can be many and varied – the opportunities that flow from these interactions can be pretty cool for the growth of your blog….
BUT doing it the wrong way can also hurt your blog and...2017-07-2449 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging202: Advice from a Veteran Blogger (Chris Garrett) on How to Build a Successful BlogVeteran Blogger Chris Garrett on How to Build a Successful Blog
Today’s episode is #202 and in it I have my good friend and co-author of the ProBlogger book – Chris Garrett on the show to talk about the changes in blogging since we wrote the book.
Chris and I wrote the first edition of the book in 2008 and it went through 3 versions – the last one being 5 years ago in 2012 – so I thought it might be interesting to get Chris on to talk – among other things – about how we’d update the book if we were to do...2017-07-171h 17ProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging201: The Secret to Building a Blog with Big Traffic and ProfitHow to Build Traffic and Profit into Your Blog
On today’s episode I want to talk about a key to creating a blog with lots of traffic and profit.
The topic comes from a conversation I had this morning with a new blogger who was asking me about how to create content that would go viral and as I look back at the growth of my own blogs I think it’s an important lesson to my own business’s growth.
Links and Resources on The Secret to Buildin...2017-07-1023 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging196: Blogger Spotlight – Nikki Parkinson from Styling You, Shares How She Built a Business Around Her BlogBlogger 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.
I first met Nikki at one of our first ever ProBlogger events. While a newish blogger at that time she stood out to me as a blogger to watch – partly because of her journalistic background (she was one of the first journalists I’d seen make the switch) but also because she was someone who was blog...2017-06-051h 08ProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging190: How to Overcome Failure in 6 StepsHow to Move Through Failure in 6 Steps
In today’s lesson, I want to talk about failure in business and how to move through it.
I’ve been asked questions on this topic a number of times in the last few weeks and while it’s a topic most of us probably don’t want to have to learn about – it’s something that we all will need to deal with at one point or another because it’s a part of any business story.
We all fail – in fact failure is an essential...2017-04-2425 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging186: A Step-By-Step Guide to How I Write a Blog PostHow I Write a Blog Post – My Step-By-Step Process
Today, I want to walk you through my step by step process for writing a blog post!
I get asked about this regularly over in the ProBlogger podcast listeners Facebook group. So today I put together some notes on the workflow I use and want to run you through.
Before I do – and speaking of the Facebook group – I wanted to let you know that I’ve shared some exciting news with members of that group in the last week – particularly about an event th...2017-03-2730 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging185: How to Get a Blogging JobHow to Apply for a Blogging Job
In today’s lesson, I want to talk about finding a job as a blogger – particularly how to apply for a blogging job.
Back in 2006 I noticed I started getting a lot of two types of emails:
People wanting to hire bloggers would email me asking if I knew anyone suitable for a blogging job that they had.
Bloggers would email asking if I knew anyone looking to hire a blogger.
After months of getting these kinds of emails and manually playing matchmaker I deci...2017-03-2023 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging184: 2 Blog Monetization Strategies that Have Increased My Blogs Earnings by over 40%Strategies to Increase Your Blog Earnings
In today’s lesson, I want to talk about two things I’ve been doing on my main blog to increase the profitability of the blog – both have been working really well!
I’m going to talk about 3 income streams in particular – AdSense Ad network (although this will be relevant to other networks too), Affiliate promotions and selling our own products.
So if you want to increase the profitability of your blog – this show is for you.
Further Resources on 2 Blog Monetization Strategies that Have In...2017-03-1325 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging183: 9 Types of Questions to Ask On Your FaceBook Page to Get More CommentsThe 9 Questions You Can Ask to Increase FaceBook Engagement
In today’s lesson, I want to give you some really practical things that you can do to increase engagement – particularly to get people to comment – on your Facebook page and if you have them – groups.
Most bloggers spend a lot of time on Facebook and it’s for good reason. The amount of potential readers for our blogs who are on Facebook on a daily basis is staggering. It’s where people are online and so it makes sense to have a presence there. 2017-03-0637 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging180: 7 Types of Facebook Live Videos that Grow Your Audience, Build Your Brand and Make MoneyWays to Use Facebook Live to Grow Your Blog
In today’s lesson, I want to talk about Facebook live video which is a technology that has been around for a while now on Facebook and that I think continues to be something that bloggers could get a lot of value out of.
We’ve seen Facebook continue to develop it over the last 12 months. Initially, it was only available to larger influencers and verified account holders, then they opened it up to everyone and in the last few weeks they’ve made it so...2017-02-1321 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging178: How to Get Products to Review on Your BlogStrategies to Get Products to Review on Your Blog
In today’s lesson, I want to share 7 strategies that I used to get products to review on my first ever commercial blog – a camera review blog.
It’s not always easy to get products to review in the early days of a blog when you perhaps don’t have a big profile so in this episode I rewind the clock to when I was just starting out and share how I did it.
So if you’d like to create more product re...2017-01-3026 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging176: How to Create Scannable Content: 19 Techniques in 19 MinutesTechniques to Create Scannable Content for Your Blog
In today’s lesson, I want to share a simple way to write content that is much more likely to be actually read, understood and acted upon by your readers.
We’re going to talk about techniques for creating more scannable content for your blog.
As bloggers, we put a lot of time into carefully choosing the right words for our blog posts but many times what stops people really engaging with our content is the way those words are arranged on the page...2017-01-1621 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging175: How to Quit Your Job and Build an Online BusinessHow to Think About Giving up Your Day Job for an Online Business
In today’s lesson I want to tell you a story – a story of advice I was given when I was starting out that I ignored – a story of regret and a story that I hope might move you to taking some action!
Listen in the player above or here on iTunes.
Further Resources on How to Quit Your Job and Build an Online Business
Becoming a ProBlogger – A story in Many Parts
How to Start a Blog in...2017-01-0912 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging174: An Alternate New Year’s Resolution That Will Transform Your Blogging for 2017An Alternate Resolution to Transform Your Blogging in 2017
In today’s lesson I want to talk about New Year’s Resolutions and Goals and want to suggest setting a goal that I think will help to set your blogging up for a great year of blogging.
In fact – I’m really excited about this episode because it’s an alternative way of thinking about New Year’s goals and resolutions – something I’ve never really considered before that I am really excited to try myself.
So if you’re looking at the new year and ar...2017-01-0210 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging173: How to Use Quotes in Your Blog Content Legally and EthicallyUsing Quotes in Your Blog Legally and Ethically
In today’s lesson, I want to talk about using quotes on your blog.
I’m regularly asked – particularly by new bloggers – what the etiquette and legalities are around using content that others have written in your own content – or the practice of quoting others.
It’s a good question because quoting others and building upon their ideas with your blog can be one way to improve the quality of your content, serve your readers and build relationships with others (the ones that you quote).2016-12-2627 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging171: How I Doubled My Blogging Income and Had My Most Profitable Month EverHow I Doubled My Blogging Income to Achieve the Most Profitable Month
In today’s lesson, I want to talk about my blogs monetization strategy that is responsible for our biggest month of profit every year.
Back in December 2010, I rather impulsively did something on my photography blog that led to our biggest month of earnings ever. It almost doubled a normal month of earnings on my blogs.
It was our very first 12 deals of Christmas campaign.
In this episode, I want to walk you through exactly what I did that fi...2016-12-1243 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging170: How to Stay Inspired and Avoid Bloggers Burn OutHow to Stay Inspired and Avoid Bloggers Burn Out
In today’s lesson I want to talk about blogger burnout and how to avoid it.
Most bloggers start out blogging with an incredible burst of passion, excitement and energy with their blogging, but usually at some point within the first year or two, many bloggers come up against their first bout of blogger burnout.
It can happen in different ways and for different reasons. Some bloggers push through it and others get stopped in their tracks by it. Most successful bloggers go...2016-12-0539 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging169: How to Transition from a Single Author Blog to Multi Author BlogTransitioning From Single Author Blog to Multi Author Blog
In today’s lesson, I want to talk about hiring writers for your blog. In order to do so, I want to share a case study of how I took my own photography blog from a single author blog, publishing 3 posts a week, to a blog that now has around 50 writers, and I don’t write anything.
Most bloggers start out blogging as single author blogs and many remain that way. Even so, I’m regularly asked by bloggers how to add new writers to the...2016-11-2951 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging168: How to Edit Blog Posts in 7 Easy StepsEdit Your Blog Posts With Seven Simple Steps
A lot is taught about the importance of writing great blog posts, but it is in the editing of your writing that your post can really be made to shine. If left unedited, it can create a very different impression that can hurt people’s view of you and your blog.
In today’s episode, I want to share with you a simple 7 step process to editing your posts. We’re going to talk a little about proof reading but also some bigger picture editing too – because really fi...2016-11-2126 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging166: Editorial Strategy – 11 Factors to Consider When Shaping the Content Strategy for Your BlogFactors to Consider When Shaping Content Strategy for Your Blog
In today’s lesson, I want to share 11 factors to consider when thinking about developing your blog’s editorial strategy and thinking about your blog’s editorial style.
The success of your blog hinges on many factors but among the most important of them is your content. Putting thought into what content you want to focus upon creating is crucial. What I share with you today will help you to create a framework for content that not only serves your current readers, but will hopefully make y...2016-11-0735 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging163: 3 Productivity Tips to Help You Build Healthy Habits3 Tips to Help You Increase Your Productivity
In today’s lesson, I want to chat about how to be more productive in your blogging (and life) through building good habits and systems into what you do.
It’s so easy as an online entrepreneur to slip into bad habits when it comes to using our time or to lead a life where we spend our time frantically moving from one urgent thing to another without really putting much thought into what we need to get done.
So today, I want to shar...2016-10-2723 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging160: Challenge: How to Write an Opinion Post on Your BlogChallenge: Write an Opinion Post on Your Blog
In today’s episode, I’m issuing you with a challenge to create a piece of content that centers around your opinion on a topic relevant to your audience.
Adding your opinion to your content is such an important way to make your blog more useful to your audience, and it also makes it stand out from the crowd.
Today, I’m going to share with you not only why opinion posts are so important, but I also want to give you some practi...2016-10-1724 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging159: How to Build Hundreds Links to Your Blog in 5 Minutes a DayLink Building Tip – Generate Hundreds of Links for Your Blog in 5 Minutes a Day
In today’s lesson, you are going to learn a simple technique that has generated 100 new links for my blogs in the last month.
This technique is fairly simple, and it only takes me about 5 to 10 minutes to do it. Yet, this technique is quite powerful.
Incoming links to your blog are important because they drive traffic to your site from other parts of the web, and they also help you to rank higher in search engines like...2016-10-1320 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging158: How to Get Moving Again When You’re Feeling StuckFeeling Stuck? How to Regain Momentum
Are you feeling stuck with some area of your blogging or business life? If so, today’s episode is for you because I’m going to talk about getting unstuck and building momentum.
What we are going to talk about today applies to many areas of life, but we are going to focus particularly on blogging and business. I am going to share with you a simple tip to help you get unstuck.
Take imperfect action is a theme that came up numerous times...2016-10-1015 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging155: 5 Tips from Full Time BloggersThe 5 Top Tips from Full Time Bloggers
Today, I want to give you some advice. It’s not advice from me. It’s advice from about 50 full-time bloggers that I surveyed about two years ago.
I was testing a survey software, and I sent the survey to some bloggers that I knew. I asked all of them one simple question
What is the number one tip you would give a new blogger who is just starting out and dreaming of becoming a full-time blogger?
In Today’s Episode 5 Tips from Fu...2016-09-2913 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging154: How to Grow Your Blogging IncomeGrow Your Blogging Income
Today, I am going to continue on from episode 153 where I outlined a timeline of how I added different income streams over time.
I felt like there was a little more I could say about diversifying your income in that way and growing your income.
I think there are some principles that you can pull out of the story. I hope that you find these observations and words of encouragement helpful.
Further Resources on How to Grow Your Blogging Income
How I Diversified My B...2016-09-2620 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging153: How I Diversified My Blogging Income and Became a Full Time BloggerMy Blogging Income Streams
Today, I’m going to talk about my income streams. In episode 150 I talked about how I make money blogging and broke it down by percentages.
Today I want to follow that episode up with the context. People may think that my report seems big and unattainable. People also have a tendency to compare themselves which isn’t a fair comparison because it is just a snapshot at the end of a journey.
In today’s episode, I am going to walk you through the last 13 years of my...2016-09-2224 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging149: Series of Blog Posts vs Long Blog Posts – Which is Better?The Pros and Cons of Long Posts
Today, we have a question from Emma Cameron.
“Hi Darren, I love your podcast!
I found your 7 day intensive blogging series very helpful, and it led me to write a post I might never have gotten around to otherwise. In answering my most frequently asked question, which is ‘What is Art Therapy’? This has turned into an incredibly long post which covers things which are not easily found elsewhere online.
I have a question for you: is it better to leave it as a single...2016-08-2927 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging144: How to Create a Link Post [Challenge]
Challenge: Create a Link Post
This is 7th and final challenge in ProBlogger’s 7 Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back Challenge that we kicked off back in episode 137.
You can listen to this podcast in the player above or here on iTunes (please take a moment to give us a rating and review if you could).
If you’re new to the challenge – this week I’m nominating a different style of content for you to create each day over the week and the challenge is to create a post within 2...2016-08-0818 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB127: How to Write in a More Personal and Engaging VoiceWriting That Develops a Personal Connection With Your Readers
Have you ever felt a personal connection with a blogger who you’ve never met and have no real reason to feel a connection with?
You read their blog day after day and in time come to feel like you know them—as if their blog posts are almost written as private messages to you.
This has happened to me numerous times over the years. I almost end up feeling that the blogger is my friend, even though I’ve never actually had per...2016-06-2727 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB117: Case Study – How One Blogger Used a Blog Post, SlideShare Deck, Lead Magnet, Email Sequence and a Webinar to Earn Over $28,000Note: this episode can be listened to in the player above or on iTunes or Stitcher.
A Blogger Shares How She Made $28,000 Using The 4 Stages of Warming Her Readers Up
Today I’m wrapping up the mini series we have been going through that is all about warming your readers up. We have been talking about how to take readers from being completely unaware of who you are or cold to being fully engaged with you or warmed up.
I’m going to wrap this series up by sharing a case study...2016-05-2356 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB106: How to Go Full Time as a BloggerNote: this episode is available to listen to in the player above, on iTunes and Stitcher
7 Things That Contributed to Allow Me to Be a Full Time Blogger
Today I’m going to talk about going full time as a blogger. I received this question from Charlotte.
“When did you make the transition from blogging being just a hobby to blogging as a profitable business? What was the turning point for you and/or what were the major changes you made to get where you are now?”
Today I’m going to...2016-04-1423 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB102: How to Blog from the HeartNote: this episode is available to listen to in the player above, on iTunes and Stitcher.
Blogging From the Heart and Soul
I had a recent meetup with two local bloggers and they both said that they wanted to give up blogging. They each had different reasons for wanting to give up their blogs and different reasons for starting their blogs. Their blogging strategies were also opposites.
Blogger #1 was under the impression that all she needed to do is blog from the heart and everything else will take care of itself...2016-03-3124 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB094: 5 Mistakes Bloggers Make with SEO and What To Do About ThemWhat New (and Old) Bloggers Need to Know about SEO
In today’s episode we talk about search engine optimization, and in particular, the five mistakes bloggers make with SEO and what to do about them.
My guest today is Jim Stewart from Stewart Media. Jim has years of experience with SEO and has helped me with my SEO for ProBlogger and Digital Photography School.
He is currently helping us with SEO while we move ProBlogger to a new domain, and he is also going to be a speaker at this ye...2016-03-0339 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB093: How to Create Blog Posts that People RememberDo you want to create content that lives on in th ememories of those who read it? If so – this episode is just for you.
This episode is brought to you by the ProBlogger Training Event. Sign up to be notified when tickets go on sale here. Tickets go on sale 27 April 2016.
Create Content that Makes a BIG Impression on Your Readers
I get to meet a lot of ProBlogger readers at conferences and often when I meet one who has been reading for a while I ask them if there’s a blog...2016-02-2920 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB088: The Most Important Thing You Will Ever Do as an EntrepreneurNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How Doing This One Thing Will Help You Become a Successful Blogger
In today’s episode, I share the most important thing you’ll ever do as an entrepreneur. Thirteen years ago I opened an email that changed my life forever. I share the story of what it was I read, why it changed me, how it helped me become the entrepreneur I am today, and how it can help you to become the successful blogger and entrepreneur you want to be.2016-02-1108 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB087: 9 Questions You Should Ask Before Hitting Publish On Your Next Blog PostNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How to Beat Blogger’s Block: Part 5 – How to Finish Every Blog Post Every Time
Today’s episode is about how to get into the habit of finishing what you start. It’s part 5 in a mini-series of podcasts that looks at how to be more productive with your blog and beat common blocks. In today’s episode, I’m sharing how I managed to switch from regularly starting but not finishing blog posts, to finishing and publishing them most times. I share my stra...2016-02-0824 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB086: How to Get into the Flow of Creating Great Content for Your BlogNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How to Beat Blogger’s Block: Part 4 – 10 Ways to Get Your Writing Flowing
Today’s episode is about how to get into the flow of regularly writing great content for your blog. It’s part 4 in a mini-series of podcasts that looks at how to stop blogger’s block. I get asked about it all the time and suffer it too! In today’s episode, I’m tackling the challenge of hitting the wall in terms of creating content, traditionally known as ‘writer’s block’. I...2016-02-0426 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB083: Battling Blogger’s Block – Where do you get Stuck?Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How to Beat Writer’s Block: Part 1 – Working Out Why You’re Stuck
Today’s episode is about how to beat writer’s block. It’s the first in a mini-series of podcasts that looks at how to prevent writer’s block holding you back from making your blog a success. Writer’s block is very common. I get asked about all the time and suffer it too! In today’s episode, I share tips about how you can work out why you are stuck in...2016-01-2512 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB080: What to Write When You Feel Like You’ve Got Nothing Left to SayNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
Why Your Story Will Always Be Interesting to Someone
Today’s episode is about how to work out what to write about when you feel like you have nothing left to say. It’s a short and sweet podcast episode, designed to be quick and easy for you to listen to even if you’re incredibly busy or having a lazy holiday.
In This Episode
You can listen to today’s episode above or in iTun...2016-01-1403 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB079: 11 Quick Tips to Get More Comments on Your BlogNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How to Get People to Comment on Your Blog Posts
Today’s episode is about how to get more comments on your blog. I share 11 tips you can use to get more attention and interaction. Today’s podcast is a challenge to myself – to include as much high quality advice as I can in just 3 minutes! These are tips you can keep coming back to in future to keep improving your relationship with your readers.
In This Episode...2016-01-1104 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB064: Content Marketing – Secrets From an Entrepreneur Who Has Used It to Build a Successful BusinessNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How to Build Your Business with a Content Machine
Today’s episode is about how to build your business using content marketing. It’s an interview with Dan Norris, a serial entrepreneur and popular blogger. Dan has used content marketing as his key strategy to building his successful businesses. He shares his experience and insider tips so that you can turn your blog into a successful business too.
In This Episode
You can listen to today...2015-11-2357 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB060: Why You Should Make Building Community a Priority in Your BloggingNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How to Make Your Blog Stronger by Interacting With Your Readers
Today’s episode is about how to deepen relationships with your readers on your blog. One of the most common questions I get from my readers is “how do I get my readers to interact with me?” Not all bloggers spend a lot of time trying to build community but most of the successful bloggers I know of do. This is the first of a two-part episode. Today is about why bui...2015-11-0925 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB058: Should I Use Timestamps on My Blog?Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How to Decide Whether to Include the Date on Your Blog Posts
Today’s episode is all about how to decide whether to include the date on your blog posts. I received this question from a listener, who noticed that I use timestamps on one of my blogs, but not on the other. Dates can either add or take away from your blog. I share how I decided what to do with each of my blogs and tips for you to wo...2015-11-0211 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB057: 9 Hurdles I’ve Faced as a Blogger and How I Got Over ThemNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How to Keep Growing a Successful Blog When It All Seems Too Hard
Today’s episode is about how to face the things that you are struggling with on your blog and how to make it successful despite the challenges. There are many hurdles to building a successful blog. Every blogger encounters their own unique combination of challenges. I share 9 of the major hurdles I’ve faced with my blogging and how I’ve got over them.
In This...2015-10-2932 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB056: 8 Effective Ways to End a Blog PostNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How to Finish Your Blog Posts in ways that leave Lasting Impressions, Build Relationships and Deepen Reader Engagement
Today’s episode is all about how to finish each blog post. How you end your blog post determines people’s final impression of you and whether they will choose to take action, like buying one of your products or connecting with you on social media. It’s an opportunity to deepen the relationship between you and your reader. I share 8 ways you can fin...2015-10-2618 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB054: 3 Questions to Ask When Facing FearNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How to Improve Your Blog by Facing Your Fears
Today’s episode is all about fear. Fear holds a lot of people back from engaging. If you let it, fear can hold you back from being an effective blogger, podcaster, live streamer or social media user. I share some strategies for recognising, harnessing and overcoming your fear so that you can use it to your advantage.
In This Episode
You can listen to today’s epis...2015-10-1917 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB051: How to Make Money As a Blogger Through Affiliate MarketingNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
My Tips for Making Money As a Blogger Through Affiliate Marketing
Today’s episode is all about how to make money as a blogger through affiliate marketing. Making money through affiliate marketing is not easy money, but there are things you can do to increase your chances of earning a regular stream of income from it. I share insider tips about what’s worked for me in making money through affiliate marketing on my blogs.
In This Episod...2015-10-0834 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB048: How to Make $30,000 a year BloggingNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How to Make a Full Time Income From Your Blog
Today’s episode is all about how to make a full time income from your blog. There are no guarantees, but earning a full time income from your blog is not an unrealistic goal if you’re willing to get very specific about your money goals, be patient and consistent, and break the work down into achievable chunks. I share my own personal journey, and my tips for how you can work...2015-09-2820 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB046: Do You Recognize These 21 Blogging Mistakes?Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How to Avoid Making These 21 Blogging Mistakes
Today’s episode is all about the mistakes I see bloggers making, and an honest look at the mistakes I’ve made along the way in my own blogging journey.
Big Mistake by Frank Daske on 500px
In This Episode
You can listen to today’s episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we’d also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a...2015-09-2142 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB045: 7 Habits of Lucky EntrepreneursNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How to Develop the 7 Habits of Lucky Entrepreneurs
Today’s episode is all about how to increase the chances of lucky things happening to you. Some people believe luck is random or based on personality, but I believe luck is a choice. You can choose to increase the chances of lucky things happening to you by creating conscious habits. Today I share the habits you can choose to develop to grow your own luck as a blogger and entrepreneur.
2015-09-1730 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB044: How to Use Blab Live Streaming to Grow Your BlogNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
What I’ve Learned From Using the Blab Live streaming Service
Over the last few weeks I’ve been experimenting with a new live streaming service by the name of Blab – a tool that I think has the potential to be as useful (if not more useful) than Periscope.
In this episode I share my experiences of Blab so far and talk about how it differs from other Live Streaming tools.
Update: in the next 24 hours I’m doing...2015-09-1524 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB043: How to Create Great Content For Your Blog – Q&A, Part 2Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
We Answer Your Questions About How to Create Great Blog Content
Today’s episode is all about answering your questions about how to create great content for your blog. We’ve had so many questions on this topic that we’ve had to split the answers into two episodes. This is part 2. You can listen to part 1 here. Don’t be shy about asking us questions in the comments below! Your question could be featured next time.
Question...2015-09-1026 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB042: Behind the Scenes of our Latest Six Figure Product LaunchNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How to Launch a New Product Successfully
Today’s episode is about how we reached six figures launching a new product. We share what worked and didn’t work, and some of our takeaway learnings for future launches.
In This Episode
You can listen to today’s episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we’d also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). Today we talk about:
How p...2015-09-0731 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB041: How to Create Great Content For Your Blog – Q&A, Part 1Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
We Answer Your Questions About How to Create Great Blog Content
Today’s episode is all about answering your questions about how to create great content for your blog. Don’t be shy about asking us questions in the comments below! Your question could be featured next time.
So Many Questions That Answers My School by Alice Zed on 500px
In This Episode
You can listen to today’s episode above or in iTunes...2015-09-0327 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB040: 7 Productivity Tips For BloggersNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How to Become a More Efficient and Productive Blogger
Today’s episode is about how you can create more time to create great blog content by becoming more efficient in the way you manage your blog.
Procrastination by Dina Belenko on 500px
In This Episode
You can listen to today’s episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we’d also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a momen...2015-08-3129 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB039: What Is Your Why?Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How Getting Clear About Why You’re Blogging Can Grow Your Blog
Today’s episode is about how getting clear about why you’re blogging can help you and your readers.
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In This Episode
You can listen to today’s episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we’d also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). Today we talk about...2015-08-2720 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB038: The Biggest Lesson I Learned About Building a Profitable Blog in 2015Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How One Humiliating Experience Gave Me a Wake Up Call That Helped Me Build a More Profitable Blog
Today, I talk about the humiliating wake up call that changed my life and my blog.
In This Episode
You can listen to today’s episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we’d also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). Today I talk about:
My humiliating wake up call
3 simpl...2015-08-2536 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB036: Find Readers for Your Blog Through Commenting and RelationshipsNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How to Find Readers for Your Blog Through Commenting and Relationships
Today’s episode is about how to find new readers for your blog. It’s the question I get asked most by bloggers, so this is the forth of a series of podcasts on this topic.
In part one we looked at two really important questions to ask before you go hunting for readers to read your blog.
In part two, we talked about how to use two...2015-08-1738 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB035: Turn Surfers into Blog Readers by Building a Sticky BlogNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How to Turn Surfers into Blog Readers by Building a Sticky Blog
Today’s episode is about how to find new readers for your blog. It’s the question I get asked most by bloggers, so this is the third of several podcasts on this topic. In part one we looked at two really important questions to ask before you go hunting for readers to read your blog. In part two, we talked about how to use two types of content to find...2015-08-1330 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB034: 2 Types of Content that Help You to Find Readers for Your BlogNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How to Use 2 Types of Content to Find Readers for Your Blog
Today’s episode is the second part of our series on how to find new readers for your blog.
It’s the question I get asked most by bloggers, so this is the second of several podcasts on this topic.
In part one we looked at two really important questions to ask before you go hunting for readers to read your blog. Today we talk about one o...2015-08-1021 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB033: 2 Questions to Ask to Help You Find Readers for Your BlogNote: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes.
How to Find Readers For Your Blog
Today’s episode is about how to find new readers for your blog. It’s the question I get asked most by bloggers, so this is the first of several podcasts on this topic. We will be getting into some tactical and very practical ways to build readerships over the next few episodes, but before we do that, today we look at the two questions you must ask yourself if you really want to get blog...2015-08-0622 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB028: Write a Review Post [Day 28 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog]How to Write a Review Post
Today’s episode is about how to write a review post. Reviews are used many millions of times every day by people looking to make sense of the array of choices that they have, and to help them to make a decision. Writing reviews can help you to help those people, but also help you to grow your blog.
Decision by Alan Crosthwaite on 500px
In this Episode
You can listen to today’s episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we’d also LO...2015-07-2713 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB026: Improve Another Blog [Day 26 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog]
Challenge: Spend 15 Minutes Improving Someone Else’s Blog
Today’s episode is about how to help another blogger to achieve their goals in some way. This might seem a little counter-intuitive, but if you help others you create a good impression that just might come back to help you improve your own blogging.
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In this Episode
You can listen to today’s episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we’d also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have...2015-07-2509 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB022: Pay Special Attention to a Reader [Day 22 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog]How to Pay Special Attention to a Reader
Today’s episode is about how to deepen engagement and interaction with your readers by making at least one reader feel a little bit special and loved. Paying readers a bit of extra attention is a great way to grow your community.
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In this Episode
You can listen to today’s episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we’d also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you hav...2015-07-2112 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB021: Conduct a Policy Review [Day 21 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog]How to Conduct a Policy Review For Your Blog
Today’s episode is about some policies or operating standards you might like to consider for your blog. Having policies can save you time, help you to make better decisions, and make you more transparent to your readers.
Terms & Conditions by Chris Yates on 500px
In this Episode
You can listen to today’s episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we’d also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). Today we talk abo...2015-07-2012 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB015: Find a Blogging Buddy [Day 15 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog]How to Improve Your Blog by Partnering with a Blogging Buddy
Today’s episode is all about finding another blogger (or bloggers) to help you improve your blog. Blogging doesn’t have to be a solo venture – in fact it can be incredibly social and when we grasp this idea of doing it together it can lead to all manner of great things.
In this Episode
You can listen to todays episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we’d also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have...2015-07-1410 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB013: Improve Your Blog by Visiting the Mall [Day 13 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog]How Going Shopping Can Improve Your Blogging
Today we’re going shopping!!!
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Yep – you heard me, we’re going to the mall!
If nothing else this challenge is going to get you away from your blog for a bit – but there’s more to it than that.
Today we’re doing some observation exercises that could bring a lot of life to your blog.
In This Episode
You can listen to todays episode above or in iTunes or St...2015-07-1208 minProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money BloggingPB000: Welcome to the ProBlogger PodcastI’m super excited today to welcome to the First ProBlogger Podcast!
This has been a long time coming and I’d like to thank all of you who have encouraged, nudged and at times nagged me to get this podcast going. I hope you enjoy it!
In this Episode
Today’s episode (find it here on iTunes or listen to it above) is all about setting the scene for the month of podcasting that is ahead.
In episode 0:
I share why I decided to start podcasting
I talk about 2 traits...2015-06-2617 min