Monday, January 3, 2011

How to Make Your Blog Load Faster than ProBlogger

This guest post is by Devesh of WP Kube. If you’re regular reader, you know that how much time problogger.net takes to load. Would you like to make your blog load faster than ProBlogger? Today I’m going to share eight simple tips to increase your blog speed. But first, you’ll need to know how quickly your blog is loading right now. How to test your blog’s speed So you can do a before-and-after comparison, take a moment to check how quickly your...

5 Reasons Online Collaborations Can Help You Beat Out The Competition

The dictum that two heads are better than one can apply to many things, including blogging. I collaborate with my brother on five websites, which makes me uniquely qualified to explain the benefits of online collaboration. Here are 5 reasons collaborating with a partner can help you beat out the competition. 1. More variety in your writing. Single-authored blogs with the exception of guest posts will always be based on the standpoint of one author. Having a partner that writes posts with you ensures...

Saturday, January 1, 2011

My Journey to Blogging Celebrity

This guest post is by Shawn Tyler Weeks of 344 Pounds. In January of 2009, I weighed 344.2 pounds.  In July of 2009, I weighed 244 pounds.  I eventually reached my lowest recorded weight in my adult life in early 2010 when I weighed in under 200 pounds.  Today, I weigh a little bit more than 200, but also carry a lot more muscle on my frame. In just about six months I changed my life forever. But my body wasn’t the only thing that underwent a transformation. When I started my journey...

Friday, December 31, 2010

Blogging Success Summit 2011

If you’re looking to take your blogging up a notch in 2011 with some great training then you’ll want to check out Blogging Success Summit 2011. This is a completely online/virtual event and it is currently 50% off (a limited time early bird rate). It includes teaching from 23 successful bloggers including: Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra Scott Monty (head of social media, Ford) Brian Clark (Copyblogger) Debbie Weil (author, The Corporate Blogging...

Thursday, December 30, 2010

The Best of Copyblogger 2010

Every year on the 24th of December, we tell you we’re taking the rest of the year off. And every year, we instead slip in a “Best of Copyblogger” post before New Year’s just in case you missed something from the past year. Sneaky, huh? So here are the best Copyblogger articles from 2010, based on your enthusiasm via comments, links, retweets, and indecent propositions made to our writers for creating exceptional content (I hear it happens … how’s...

How to Supercharge Your Blog

Tweet2010 is coming to an end and now is the time for bloggers to begin to have new plans for moving their blog ahead in the new year. Many of us have invested a lot of effort into our blogs and we’re now reaping the rewards and many of us have wasted a lot of time doing things that contribute nothing to the success of our blog in the year 2010. It is time to revise your blogging plan and this article will be giving you some tips to supercharge...

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

How To Create Link Bait Content

This guest post is by Brandon Connell of BrandonConnell.com. Throughout my blogging career, I’ve worked hard on my writing style. I’ve improved over time, and I’m at a point now where I believe I have perfected my ability to write link bait articles. A link bait article is an article that makes many readers want to reference it within their articles, or link to it as a general resource. The thing I love about link baiting is that it allows your blog to build some quality backlinks and increase...