Archive for: 2009

Written on November 14th, 2009 at 01:11 am by Darren Rowse

Why Stress Can Kill Your Success Or Help Your Blog Succeed Wildly

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 69 comments

Today’s post by Rob McPhillips of Stress Management and Beyond.
If you knew that your blog was vulnerable to hacking or some similar security breach, would you take the time to secure it?
I ask, because I want to warn you about a greater, yet almost unknown threat to your blog’s growth and success.
That threat is stress [...]

Written on November 13th, 2009 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse

Does Price Impact Which Affiliate Poducts You Promote?

Affiliate Programs 55 comments

When it comes to affiliate promotions do you tend to promote big ticket items or small ticket items (or both)?
I ask the question because while at lunch with a few bloggers recently the topic came up and I discovered that the answers to the question varied quite a lot.

On one hand some bloggers exclusively promoted [...]

Written on November 12th, 2009 at 01:11 am by Darren Rowse

Getting Over the Blogger’s 6 Month Itch

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A Guest Post by Annabel Candy – Get In the Hot Spot
In marriage they talk about a seven year itch. It’s the time when people get restless and think about giving up on their relationship.
For bloggers that itch and desire to give up comes sooner. In fact, most bloggers give up on their blogs after [...]

Written on November 11th, 2009 at 01:11 am by Darren Rowse

An Important Question to Ask Before Hitting Publish on Your Next Post

Writing Content 81 comments

Here’s a question I’ve learned to ask on a daily basis at the completion of every post I write:
“Would this post work better if I split it into two (or more) posts?”
While the answer is usually ‘no’ for me I do semi-regularly get to the end of a blog post and realise that what I’ve [...]

Written on November 10th, 2009 at 01:11 am by Darren Rowse

ProBlogger.com Price Rise Coming in 1 Week – Lock in the Intro Price Today

ProBlogger Site News 69 comments

Update: The introductory offer ends at 1pm (Eastern US time) on Monday 16 November.
A number of people have been asking how ProBlogger.com (the new community section of ProBlogger) has been going since we launched a month ago – so today I thought I’d give a bit of an update – including giving some news on [...]

Written on November 9th, 2009 at 01:11 am by Darren Rowse

Do you Write Outlines for Your Blog Posts?

Writing Content 117 comments

Do you plan your posts or do you just write them free flow as they come?
This is a question that one of our members at ProBlogger.com (Mark Dykeman) started off a conversation with in the last week.
Mark talked in the thread about how he does both (sometimes he uses bullet points for his main points [...]

Written on November 8th, 2009 at 01:11 am by Darren Rowse

Blogging is Rocket Science

Miscellaneous Blog Tips 83 comments

Today’s post is by Kevin Sanders of Strong and Fit.
Do you ever have those moments when seemingly random, unrelated thoughts kind of merge together in your mind? This happened to me a couple of weeks ago.
I remembered a documentary I watched on the space shuttle years ago. Something was said about the percentage [...]

Written on November 7th, 2009 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse

Six Ways To Make More Money As An Affiliate

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By Johnny B. Truant
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that affiliate marketing is the easiest way to make money online. You don’t have to create a product or develop a service, you don’t need huge amounts of focused traffic the way you do with AdSense, (I started using AdSense a year [...]

Written on November 7th, 2009 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse

The Paint By Numbers Guide To Artful Blogging

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A Guest Post by Greg Hayes from Live Fit Blog.
Do you subscribe to the idea that blogging is an art form? I do.
Britannica Online defines art as “The use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others.”
If you’re a blogger, then by definition, [...]

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