Archive for: July, 2009
Written on July 23rd, 2009 at 06:07 am by Darren Rowse
Why Promote an RSS Feed if it Keeps People from Visiting Your Blog?
In the last 15 minutes I’ve had 3 people ask me pretty much the same question:
“Why promote an RSS feed where you share the full posts of your blog when it means people don’t read your blog?”
Rather than write another post on the topic I thought I’d simply share a previous post where I address [...]
Written on July 23rd, 2009 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
79% of Bloggers Pay Nothing for their Blog Design
Over the last few weeks the poll I’ve been running here on ProBlogger has asked people about who designed their blog. The results are in and it looks like that the vast majority of bloggers are not paying for themes.
61% of our readers are using free themes in some way – either using a default [...]
Written on July 22nd, 2009 at 03:07 am by Darren Rowse
How to Treat your Blog like a Business
In this post Robb Sutton – author of the ebook Ramped Reviews. A very helpful ebook that I’ve just read that has some great ideas on how to get products to review on your blog, how to write profitable reviews and much more. It’s a great read on a topic that I think a lot [...]
Written on July 21st, 2009 at 08:07 pm by Darren Rowse
Theme Wars – Where WP Themes ‘Battle’
This is one of the cooler ideas I’ve seen in a while – it’s a WordPress theme site with a twist – ThemeWars.
Each week two WordPress themes are featured and readers are asked to vote for their favorite. While obviously the site’s about selling WP themes it’s also kind of fun and will be interesting [...]
Written on July 21st, 2009 at 11:07 am by Darren Rowse
How Long Have you Been Blogging? [POLL]
It’s been a couple of years since I ran this poll and I’m curious to see if the readership of this blog has shifted since then – so….
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How Long Have you Been Blogging?
I don’t have a blog
Less than 3 Months
3 to 6 Months
6 to 9 Months
9 to 12 Months
1 to 1.5 Years
1.5 to [...]
Written on July 21st, 2009 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
22 Why Reasons People Go Online: Which is Your Blog Connecting With?
This afternoon I came across the results of an interesting study called the Ruder Finn Intent Index which I think makes useful reading for bloggers.
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Written on July 20th, 2009 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
3 Money-Making Magazine Strategies for Blogging Success
In this post Rodricus Kirby shares some strategies of making money blogging by looking at strategies used in the Magazine world.
Magazines have been a medium to contend with for years because of their influence over readers, large subscription bases, and their power to generate big advertising dollars. By maximizing these 3 advertising strategies you’ll begin [...]
Written on July 19th, 2009 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
What is your Weekend Blogging Strategy?
Update: we’ve compiled your answers on your weekend blogging strategy and have posted them here.
What is your weekend blogging strategy?
Do you post less because people are not online as much?
Do you post more to try to keep traffic levels up?
Do you just take a couple of days off and just take a break? [...]
Written on July 18th, 2009 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse
Best and Worst Blogging Experiences of the Week
Almost a week ago I started a new type of post here at ProBlogger by asking readers – What Were the Best and Worst Blogging Experiences You Had This Week?
The response was fantastic. I actually found quite a bit of inspiration in some of the comments left and think that there were some great ideas [...]
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