How Do You Keep Motivated?

This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question just send it via the contact form. Lye Kuek Hin asks: You have been blogging since 2006. How do you actually keep your motivation at a consistently high level to maintain your blog? Actually I have been blogging since 2005. That year I started FutureTechWeb.com, which was my very first blog about technology. I still remember purchasing the domain on GoDaddy, getting...

Online Marketing … Without the Arrogance

This post was written by the Web Marketing Ninja—a professional online marketer for a major web brand, who’s sharing his tips undercover here at ProBlogger. Curious? So are we! There are many less-respectable professions than internet marketing, but even today I get a glare—“so you’re one of those guys”—when I’m introduced to someone for the first time. For many, the word “marketing” conjures images of people whose sole job is to convince others to spend money they don’t have on products they...

My 5 Biggest Blogging Blunders

Recently I posed an article about the 5 mistakes every blogger will make at some point. For the most part, they were all fairly minor mistakes, in part because they are so common, but they are all also mistakes that one’s handling of could prove far more damaging than the error itself. Still, I wouldn’t call any of them fatal or even blog-changing errors, just trials that every blogger has to go through at some point. But that raises the question,...

7 Self-doubts New Bloggers Can Beat

This guest post is by Scott McIntyre of Vivid Ways. You’ve just launched a shiny new blog and you’re buzzing with excitement about sharing content and building an audience. At first, it requires a lot of time and effort to get things off the ground, but your confidence is sky-high that this blogging thing will take off and push you straight up to the A List. Image by R'eyes Then, slowly but surely, you begin to doubt what you’re doing. Success...

15 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Blogging

I built my first blog back in 2005, and today a large part of my online income is generated from my blogs. Over these years I made many mistakes and figured some things out. Below you’ll find 15 of them. 1. The domain name matters When I started blogging I didn’t pay much attention to the domains of my blogs. As a result I ended up with some long and boring domains (e.g., FutureTechWeb.com, which was my first tech blog). This is a big mistake...

Speaking The Language of Money

How to make cash on the multilingual web. The internet offers a myriad of money-making opportunities for those with the guile and grit to make things happen. But in an increasingly competitive market, with literally billions of web-pages flooding the so-called cyber-highway, how can budding businesses and entrepreneurs get one-up and put themselves at a competitive advantage? English and the Global Web Well, the Web – by its very definition – is...

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Nielsen Numbers Glitch Results in Low Traffic Numbers

When it comes to online marketing, traffic is everything. It determines what marketers pay per click, which web sites get which ads, and if traffic is low enough, it may keep a site from getting ad dollars at all. That’s why the latest faux pas from The Nielsen Company may be bigger than it seems. On Thursday, the company sent out a note to all of its clients saying they had been undercounting traffic for the past three months. The problem was...