Archive for Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Written on October 22nd, 2009 at 11:10 pm by Darren Rowse
Learn How to Create Your Own Membership Site – Free Report
If there was one emerging trend spoken about more than anything else in the Make Money Blogging track at Blog World Expo it was ‘membership sites’. A number of sessions were directly on the topic while quite a few others touched on the topic (including the ones I spoke on).
It seems more and more bloggers [...]
Written on October 22nd, 2009 at 01:10 am by Darren Rowse
Community – Principles of Successful Blogging #4
Today’s principle in our series on successful blogging is all about building community on your blog. Let me share how I discovered that community was possible in the online space with a story:
I discovered the power of online community on the very first day that I went online (I think it was in 1996).
Up until [...]
Written on October 21st, 2009 at 01:10 am by Darren Rowse
5 Ways to Know if Your Blog is on the Right Track
In this post David Wright and Sean Platt from direct response copywriters share some suggestions on indicators of when your blog might be on the road to success.
Starting a blog was one of the most exciting things we have ever done. Building a loyal audience, gathering intelligent subscribers with insightful comments, and making plans for [...]
Written on October 20th, 2009 at 01:10 am by Darren Rowse
Stop Scrapers and Spammers Fast
One of the challenges that bloggers face is what to do when others want to use your blog for their own gain by either taking your content or spamming your comments section. The more I talk to bloggers about how they deal with these issues the more I realize how many different approaches there are [...]
Written on October 16th, 2009 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
Usefulness – Principles of Successful Blogging #3
Today we continue my series in principles of successful blogging by looking at something that is at the heart of my own philosophy of blogging (and business) – usefulness.
I’ve said it many times on ProBlogger but if your blog is not solving a problem or fulfilling a need or desire among your readers then you’re [...]
Written on October 15th, 2009 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
The #1 Reason My Blogging Grew Into a Business
Have you ever had a moment in your life where everything changed?
You might not have known it at the time – but the moment was defining, it changed the course of some area of your life in a way that turned things upside down.
I had one of those course changing moments early in my blogging. [...]
Written on October 12th, 2009 at 09:10 pm by Darren Rowse
Win a Weekend Pass to Blog World Expo Worth $495
Today I’m running two competitions here on ProBlogger – both centre around the Blog World and New Media Expo happening in Las Vegas next week. The first (in this post) gives one lucky blogger an opportunity to get a last minute pass to attend – the other (which I’ll post about in a few hours) [...]
Written on October 10th, 2009 at 01:10 am by Darren Rowse
How To Backup Your WordPress Blog In Three Easy Steps
A guest post on backing up your wordpress blog by Jason Tarasi
Do you want to see your blog on the side of a milk carton? No? Then keep reading because…
It is very likely this will be the most important article you read all year. Of course you can choose to skip this article, but you [...]
Written on October 5th, 2009 at 08:10 pm by Darren Rowse
Free Hour Long Call with Andy Wibbels on Blogs and Social Media
Long term readers of ProBlogger will know of Andy Wibbels – the two of us put together a course a couple of years back called Six Figure Blogging – one of the best learning experiences of my life.
Funnily enough we’d never met until this time last year at Blog World Expo but it felt like [...]


