Problogger Blogging Tips

GRAB Your Readerâ€™s Attention and HOOK them into your blog
	Do you want to learn how to SNAP readers out of their zombie like surfing and HOOK them into your blog? If so - read on…. Image by Essjay in NZ Before I was a blogger I did a lot of public speaking. I did a number of courses in public speaking and used to spend a [...] ...»

Winners of the Flip Video Camera and ProBlogger Books
	Earlier in the week I offered ProBlogger readers signing up for the BlogMastermind Blog Mentoring program the chance to win a Flip video camera and 5 ProBlogger books. The 48 hour window to win is up and the winners (selected randomly) are: Winner of Flip Video Camera (I just bought one for myself too) - Becky [...] ...»

How Social Media Helped Me Get Unbanned from a Social Media Site in 1 Hour and 44 Minutes
	In my last post I wrote that I’d just discovered that StumbleUpon had banned me. I’m happy to announce that 1 hour and 44 minutes after posting that - I was unbanned. How did it happen? I put it down to Social Media. Here’s the story: I had a number of people Tweet me 30 or so minutes [...] ...»

ProBlogger is Banned from StumbleUpon
	This story has been updated at the bottom of this post. This morning a number of readers have emailed or tweeted me to let me know that when they try to bookmark a post on ProBlogger that it leads them to a page saying that ProBlogger has been banned from StumbleUpon (thaks to @Fussypants on Twitter [...] ...»

Talking Blog Networks
	There has been ALOT of talk around the blogosphere about blog networks lately - ALOT! Some of it is as a result of the closing of the Know More Media blog network, some of it as a result of AOL and Gawker making changes to the way their networks pay bloggers and some of it is…. [...] ...»

8 Useful Tips for Building Your Mommy Blog Into a Business
	Today Vered DeLeeuw from MomGrind suggests ways for turning a mommy blog into a business. These tips are not limited to mommy blogs: they can be applied to personal blogs in general. Image by KellyandApril. MomGrind is a personal blog. It chronicles my thoughts and struggles. It is where I share a laugh with my readers, [...] ...»

12 Hours To Go to Win a Flip in the BlogMastermind Competition (plus a new bonus)
	36 hours ago I announced the re-launch of Yaro’s BlogMastermind Blog Mentoring program. As part of my promotion of it I offered any ProBlogger reader who signs up the chance to win one of six prizes. First prize is a Flip Video Mino Series Camcorder (worth $179) and 5 runners up will win a copy of the [...] ...»

Add These Plurk Users as Your Friends
	Today the Social Media Love-In here at ProBlogger continues with a list of 145 bloggers who use Plurk. So far we’ve presented you with bloggers who use Digg, some that use StumbleUpon and a lot of them who use Twitter. Today’s list is smaller than the others but I think it is just as worthwhile as [...] ...»

Win a Full Conference Pass at Blog World Expo!
	One of my biggest regrets of 2007 was not being able to attend Blog World Expo. The reports that came out of BWE from thousands of bloggers were quite amazing. Rich networking, great teaching, showcases of services and tools for bloggers and much much more. This year Blog World Expo is on again (20-21 September) in Las [...] ...»

Blog Hosting Recommendations - Who Hosts Yours?
	“Can you give me advice on which host to go with to host my blog?” It’s a question that I’m asked a lot - but one that I can’t offer a lot of personal advice on as my blogs have been successfully hosted on b5media’s servers for a couple of years now. We use LogicWorks at [...] ...»

BlogMastermind Launches With Bonuses and Prizes for ProBlogger Readers
	As this post goes live the doors at the BlogMastermind blog mentoring program are opening again for the first time in many months. Signup for the six month package and I’ll give you a bonus one hour consulting/coaching session with me. Read on below for more details. When he first launched BlogMastermind I was really impressed by [...] ...»

Performancing Ad Network
	In the last week a new ad network has launched - PerformancingAds. Bloggers who have been around for a while will know that this isn’t the first time Performancing have ventured into the ad network space - they previously launched a network back in 2006 but closed it down last year during a period where they [...] ...»

Conversations On Relational Blogging Continue
	A week ago today I published a post asking ‘has Blogging has lost its relational focus?‘ It was a post that generated some great conversation in comments and one that sparked other bloggers to pick up on the thread and write about it on their own blogs. Today I thought I’d point out some of the [...] ...»

Call for Prizes - Group Writing Project Coming Soon
	It has been a while since I’ve run a group writing project here at ProBlogger so I thought it might be time to another one (if you’re new to ProBlogger and don’t know what a group writing project is I’ll describe it below). While I’m getting things ready I’m looking for prizes from up to 3 [...] ...»

Surprise Surprise - Google Knol Ranks Well in Google!
	Last week Google announced their ‘Knol’ service and I (among others) questioned whether it would have a significant impact upon smaller publishers ability to rank well in Google’s search results. Initial results show that Knol articles are already ranking very well (here and here for example) - and with as little as a link or two [...] ...»

Offers for Bloggers That Will Expire Soon
	Over the last few weeks there have been a number of offers and deals for bloggers - some exclusive to you as Problogger readers. As some of these expire at the end of the month I thought I’d give a brief recap of three of them with cut of dates that are approaching: $100 Signup Bonus from [...] ...»

If you only had one hour a day to blog what would you spend it doing?
	If you only had one hour a day to blog what would you spend it doing? A reader recently sent me a question asking how I’d approach blogging if I only had one hour a day. I can’t find the email for the life of me (if it was you please email me and I’ll give [...] ...»

Hundreds of Bloggers to Interact with On Digg and StumbleUpon
	It’s time to release into the wild another two of our Social Media Love-In lists - this time it’s all about social bookmarking. The opportunities for collaboration and cooperation on sites like Digg and StumbleUpon are amazing. They can be powerful tools with the potential to drive significant traffic to a blog. One of the keys that [...] ...»

Passion, Honesty, Content and Light-Footedness - Ingredients of Successful Blogging
	Yesterday I linked up to an interview with an Australian blogger (Alborz Fallah from CarAdvice.com.au) who has built his blog from a hobby to a million dollar business in just two years. I’ve not been able to get Alborz story out of my mind since as it’s a brilliant example of what is possible with blogging [...] ...»

Twitter for Beginners - 5 Things to Do as a New Twitter User
	Yesterday I added all 538 Twitter users that submitted their details in our Social Media Love In. It took me a couple of hours to do - but I’m glad I did it because already there have been some wonderful conversations emerge. As I was adding new people to follow I noticed that there were a [...] ...»

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