This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts). – Darren
You may have heard the stat that for every 100 people who read your post, only one, on average, will leave a comment. The fact is, most of us are lurkers by nature. I know I am; I read dozens of blogs every day but very rarely comment. It doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy the content, just that I didn’t feel the need—or have the time—to join the conversation. So the next...
Saturday, September 11, 2010
5 Ways to Blog Like Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee is the most influential martial artist to ever live.
In the book “Tao of Jeet Kune Do” he shares many of his philosophies on life and fighting. The great thing about his teachings is that they can be applied to just about anything, including successful blogging.
Let’s examine what Bruce Lee can teach us about the art of blogging.
1. Drive to succeed
“You can win if you want to badly enough,” means that the will to win is constant. No...
Friday, September 10, 2010
5 Things Magicians Can Teach You About Blogging
At some level, blogging is really just a stage show. We, as bloggers, are up on a virtual stage giving a performance that goes on for as long as we run our sites. Whether it is a stand-up comedy routine or a serious academic lecture, we’re talking to the world and hope that our audience, no matter how large or small, will listen.
On that front magicians are masters of the stage show. Using nothing but a few tricks, which can range from very simple...
Thursday, September 9, 2010
4 Ways to Use Social Proof (Before Anyone Knows Who You Are)
Have you read the classic post from the Copyblogger archives explaining why you need to leverage social proof on your blog? If so, then I don’t need to convince you how important social proof is for online success.
Social proof is pretty simple. It’s just the human instinct that if someone else is doing something (buying a product, reading a blog, jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge) then it’s probably a good thing to do.
It’s not right and it’s...
Escape Your Blog to Grow it
I don’t remember exactly when I first shared my “flagship content” concept at Performancing.com but it came from looking at how we were going to achieve growth. We were hovering around the top 20 blogs on the internet, as ranked by Technorati. Each successful website reaches the same stage, but each gets there in its own way and on a different timescale.
What happens is you work hard to acquire any attention at all, you determine what works, get...
Bring an Intense Debate to Your Blog Comments
I’ve been trying to clean up the blog here and there, and decided to go with the Intense Debate plugin for my blog comments. The previous comments were a mess. The layout was great, but it wasn’t threading comments and what’s the point of commenting if you can’t reply directly to other comments in a mannerly order. The overall setup with Intense Debate looks great and it’s really easy for anyone to log into their favorite platform to leave a comment,...
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
How to Re-Ignite Your Blogging Fire When You’re Feeling Burnt Out
A Guest Post by Glen Allsopp from ViperChill.
In 2006, at 17, I started a blog about marketing which was very successful from launch. In fact, the first blog post I published was linked to by 4 of the Technorati Top 100 at the time, and I felt like I was on my way to joining the ranks of A-list bloggers.
Yet, within a few weeks, I had already ran out of steam. I had plenty of things to write about, and loved the industry I was covering; yet I simply had no motivation to keep going. At the time,...
Blog World Expo – Fo’ Real
If you're a blogger, you need to come to blog world expo!
This is going to my first year attending Blog world expo. I am excited to attend and learn how I can continue to grow this blog to an even more awesome level of awesome. Haha.
This is also going to be my first time speaking at Blog world expo along side DK, Shoemoney, John Chow, Zac Johnson and Bryn. I think it's a panel where there will be Q&A and some other stuff. Should be a lot...
10 Things Bloggers Should NOT Do
Every now and then I will see a list of things bloggers should do, but I notice people are not that inclined to do what they are asked to do, while they pay more attention to things they should NOT do. That is why I decided to create the list below. Here we go:
1. You Must Not Expect Results Overnight: This is happening everywhere and that is the major reason why a large percentage of bloggers fail. Many bloggers come online unprepared and with the wrong set of expectations. They think blogging...
Hustle like ‘Shanky’
I’m not a sports guy and I hardly ever go to sporting events. However, I did have the chance to go to a special event with my Dad and Grandfather to see the hometown team play an away game. That was a once in a lifetime trip for me because I had never gone on a trip with just my Dad and Grandfather before. We went a baseball game and what was most entertaining for me wasn’t the action on the field but the hustle in the stands.
Because of all this...
Split Testing Your Landing Pages
It doesn’t matter if you are promoting your own product, an affiliate offer or event a contest… the bottom line is, you need a killer landing page! You can send the best and most targeted traffic in the world to your site, but if it’s not designed properly, how much business are you losing? That is why you MUST split test your landing pages.
I’m currently using a service called Conversion Doubler for split testing tracking on my Six Figure Affiliate...
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Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Just Maybe… He Who Blogs Less Blogs Best
A guest post by Larry Brooks, of Storyfix.com
Or she.
Regarding the title… it’s just a saying, no penis required. It’s not your father’s media anymore. Hard to cull the gender-based colloquialisms out of the language sometimes.
She who blogs less blogs best is every bit as gender-biased… but let’s move on.
When we begin our blogging journey, we are overwhelmed with advice.
Most of it terrific, some of it downright confusing.
Like ash from a nearby fire, it all settles...
Earn Cash on Auto-Pilot With WP-Answers
How many times have you asked a search engine like Yahoo or Google a question, then you find yourself at a site like Answers.Yahoo.com where someone is asking that same exact question? It happens quite often, and it’s actually been extremely profitable for companies like Yahoo to run these types of sites. Not only are they actual content generating sites from their users, but they also provide a huge value to anyone searching for a topic, then...
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How Determined Are You to Reach Your Goals?
Do you give up easily? When you fail to get what you want in a short period of time, do you quickly throw up your hands and move on to something else?
The roadblocks you experience on the road to success either lead to ultimate failure or serve as a stepping-stone to your victory. And, the choice is yours. Refuse to give up, and you’ll experience victory.
Setbacks are a natural part of life. They can derail your train to success if you let them,...
Monday, September 6, 2010
5 Clever Ways to Make A Sticky
A Guest post from Stanford from Pushing Social.
No doubt about it – Content is King. However, the formula for successful blogging doesn’t end there. In fact, content is just the beginning. If you want to make money, create a loyal readership, or attract new clients, you need to keep your readers ON your blog.
In a word, your blog needs to be sticky.
A sticky blog compels readers to read more than one post. A sticky blog immerses readers in an experience that results in comments and retweets. Sticky...
Sunday, September 5, 2010
What To Twitter And Include For Google Searches
I came across an interesting article the other day about Twitter and seo in general and I know there’s a constant stream of information about what works and what doesn’t in seo and social media, but this information came about as a result of a seminar hosted by SEOmoz in Seattle recently.
In the ever changing world where people involved with search engine marketing are continually chasing Google’s tail to find out what the search engine is looking...
Blogosphere Trends + Guest Posting
This column is written by Kimberly Turner from Regator (a great tool that gathers and organizes the world’s best blog posts). – Darren
While Darren and his family are on a well-deserved holiday, he has lined up enough pre-written content and guest posts to keep ProBlogger readers supplied with plenty of quality reading in his absence. So it makes sense that, this week, we’ll be focusing on the art of the guest post. The most important thing to remember is that guest posts are a win-win situation...
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