Archive for: July, 2009
Written on July 31st, 2009 at 06:07 am by Darren Rowse
Run a Competition to Find Your Next WordPress Blog Design
One of the most common questions I’m asked by readers starting out with blogging is around blog design and how they can get an affordable but unique blog design.
The irony of this is that I’m a self confessed dud when it comes to blog design. These days I hire others to do custom designs for [...]
Written on July 31st, 2009 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
How to Use Google’s Wonder Wheel to Find Topics to Write about
Stuck for ideas to write about? Here’s a quick and easy to use tool from Google to help you identify topics within most niches.
View this video at full size to get all the visual details in the video here on Facebook.
PS: a number of people have been asking about how I made this video and [...]
Written on July 30th, 2009 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
How to Find Your Blogging Mojo – Experiment with Different Voices and Styles of Writing
Have you ever read a blog post that just seems to have ‘it’?
You arrive at the page, begin reading and immediately feel drawn into what the blogger is communicating. You can’t really put your finger on why – but there’s something about the way that they write that connects with you – that makes [...]
Written on July 29th, 2009 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
How to Create Compelling Content Through Reader Interaction
This week at ProBlogger I’m writing about principles of creating Compelling Content on a blog. Read principle #1, Being in Tune with Your Readers Needs here.
Sometimes what makes a blog post compelling is not so much what the blogger writes but how the post is interacted with by readers.
The real action on many successful blogs [...]
Written on July 28th, 2009 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
How to Get In Tune with Your Readers Needs [and Produce Compelling Content]
Compelling – “having a powerful and irresistible effect; requiring acute admiration, attention, or respect”
Image by margolove
Compelling content is a cornerstone of all great blogs. But what is it? How do you write it? Why do some blogs have it and others don’t?
Over the next week at ProBlogger I’ll be exploring a number of important principles [...]
Written on July 27th, 2009 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
How to Make Money (Passively) With Your Blog
Today, Shaun Connell from Learn Financial Planning explains how to build a passive income from your blog without sacrificing value.
Trying to get the most “bang for your buck” has been behind the invention of the wheel, light-bulb, the Internet and pretty much every other major technological advancement in history.
True to this desire for efficient productivity, [...]
Written on July 26th, 2009 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
What is Compelling Content to You?
Over the next week here on ProBlogger I’ll be exploring the topic of ‘compelling content’.
I’ve identified 7 principles of compelling content that I’ll be sharing (actually it could blow out to 9 as the more I think about it the more I realize there’s to say on the topic) but before I do I wanted [...]
Written on July 25th, 2009 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
Does Search Engine Optimization Make a Difference?
Earlier today I had a debate via instant messaging with another blogger who told me that Search Engine Optimization doesn’t make any difference any more. They argued that you just need to provide good content and search engine rankings look after themselves.
While I see where the blogger comes from and I agree to a point [...]
Written on July 24th, 2009 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
What You Do With Your Blogs Over the Weekend [RESULTS]
Over the last few days I asked the question of – what do you do with your blog on the weekend? There were a lot of great responses so I asked Lara Kulpa to compile the results for me.
Everyone answered in their own way but she managed to make some sense of it and came [...]
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