Archive for: June, 2007

Written on June 23rd, 2007 at 03:06 am by Darren Rowse

How to Write Home Run Posts

Writing Content 28 comments

The following guest post was submitted by John Wesley who blogs at PicktheBrain.com (feed) about motivation, productivity, and self improvement.
The Importance of Home Run Posts
Most of you are probably familiar with the Pareto Principal, also known as the 80/20 rule. The rule states that 80% of results come from 20% of causes. In blogging this […]

Written on June 22nd, 2007 at 10:06 am by Darren Rowse

Blog Mentoring Program Launches

Pro Blogging News 37 comments

I’m really excited to see Yaro Starak finally launch his Blog Mastermind Mentoring Program in the last few days.

I’ve been chatting to Yaro about this program for at least a year now and cannot believe the amount of work he’s put into developing it. He’s done so much research, written so much content, recorded so […]

Written on June 22nd, 2007 at 06:06 am by Lorelle VanFossen

Blogging Tips: First Impressions Count

Blog Design, Blog Promotion, Miscellaneous Blog Tips 19 comments

The following is a guest post by Lorelle VanFossen of Lorelle on WordPress and an excerpt from her popular book, Blogging Tips, Tips Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging.
There are several “first impressions” your blog makes as it struggles to attract and hold on to readers. Few of those first impressions come directly from your […]

Written on June 22nd, 2007 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

Goals to Achieve in a Blog’s Launch Phase

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 24 comments

Brian has put together a Blueprint for a Brilliant Blog Launch which I think will be helpful for bloggers in startup mode.

Brian’s 3 step process of starting a new blog is pretty simple:

Cornerstone - before launching writing some ‘cornerstone’ content that will be a great foundation for your blog. This means that when you launch […]

Written on June 21st, 2007 at 12:06 pm by Darren Rowse

7 Reflections on Scaling a Blog to a Sustainable Business

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 25 comments

Wendy has written a heart felt post on her blog titled The Things That Get You Successful Won’t Necessarily Keep You That Way which is basically about the realization that her current blogging business model is not really scalable. Some of the areas she’s seeing this in:

I cannot respond to the 30-50+ comments left every […]

Written on June 21st, 2007 at 05:06 am by Darren Rowse

10 Techniques I Used To Go From 0 To 12,000 RSS Subscribers In Seven Months - With No Ads Or Leverage

Blog Promotion, RSS 71 comments

The following guest post has been submitted by Trent Hamm from The Simple Dollar
Hopefully, that title got your attention a little bit, but it’s true. I launched The Simple Dollar at the very end of October 2006. I had no pre-existing blog that I could use to drive early traffic, nor did I […]

Written on June 21st, 2007 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse

8.9 Posts Per Week - Too Many? Not Enough?

Writing Content 36 comments

Over the weekend I asked ProBlogger readers to tell us how many posts they’d written on each of their blogs last week.

142 comments were left referring to a total of 181 blogs. Here are a few of the figures:

The average number of posts that bloggers posted to each blog was 8.9 for the week.
The most […]

Written on June 20th, 2007 at 02:06 pm by Darren Rowse

AdSense Publishers Reporting Earnings Slump

Adsense 106 comments

I tend not to report too much on the ups and downs of AdSense performance because from day to day it is quite normal for a publishers earnings to go up or down (for a variety of reasons). However over the last 48 hours I’ve had emails from quite a few readers asking if I’d […]

Written on June 20th, 2007 at 06:06 am by Darren Rowse

Your New Yorker and You - What’s your blogging goal?

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 21 comments

This Guest Post has been submitted by J.T Dabbagian.
When I worked for my community college’s newspaper, I was told a story about a man whose goal was to work for the Los Angeles Times. My teacher stated that it was his New Yorker. Not to be confused with the Literary Magazine The New Yorker, the […]

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