How to Troubleshoot WordPress

This guest post was written by Neil Matthews, a WordPress consultant at WPDude. Over the years, I’ve developed a troubleshooting methodology while working with my WordPress technical support clients.  My methodology helps  to solve the majority of WordPress crashed sites I’ve come across, and I wanted to share it with you, the good readers of ProBlogger. I cannot claim that I invented the process, but I have brought together a number of useful tips from the WP community and combined...

A Question of Money-back Guarantees and Marketing Your Online Products

Over the last 12 months, I’ve continued to shift some of my own online business activities to producing products to sell on my blogs (I wrote about some the process here). This has been a profitable move for me, but has also been one that has meant making a fairly significant mind shift in the way that I operate. In fact, it’s probably more accurate to describe it as a series of smaller mind shifts. I’m not alone—in talking to many bloggers who...

Say Hello to the New ZacJohnson.com Genesis Blog Theme

Since going live with the blog nearly four years ago, I’ve also prided myself to have one of the best themes around. This not only means having a great theme, but also changing it up year after year, and hopefully for the better. The latest theme change is my favorite yet, which a much cleaner, faster and user friendly design. The new ZacJohnson.com theme is run off the Genesis Framework theme from StudioPress and was put together by one of their...

Is Your Low Social IQ Dooming Your Blog?

What’s wrong with my blog? That’s a very frustrating question that many bloggers ask. You’re passionate about your topic and you provide great advice to solve reader’s problems. You wrap up your posts with interesting questions, inviting readers to share their opinions in the comments. You offer clear calls to action.  Unfortunately, no one seems to be listening.  Post after post reveals no more than a handful...

6 Ways to Sell a Website, and 4 Ways Not to Sell One

This guest post is by 0Mathew Carpenter of Sofa Moolah. It’s gotten harder and harder to generate a stable income as an affiliate over the past two years. From Facebook’s decidedly anti-affiliate mindset, to the lengthy list of regulations that search engines such as Google have released, generating stable, consistent, and stress-free paid traffic isn’t as simple as it once was. For thousands of affiliates, it’s been a major frustration and a potential business killer. But alongside the “Google...

A Second Look: 6 Types of Twitter Tools That Come in Handy

TweetWe go over so many tools here are Blogging Tips that many of them are often forgotten as they’re buried deeper into the archives. I thought it would be nice to go over a few Twitter tools that are useful and definitely worth a second look. If you’re an avid Twitter user, it’s a good idea to use a tool from each of these categories to help with productivity, build your brand and get the most out of Twitter. Since this list only includes past...

Are We Having Fun Yet?

This guest post is by Justin P Lambert of Words That Begin With You . Quick question: are you having fun? I mean, you’re sitting here reading Problogger, so you’re likely a blogger, or at least thinking about jumping in. And you’re likely interested in making some money from your efforts. There’s nothing wrong with that at all. But are you having fun? Courtesy of Douglas R. Witt (flickr) Maybe you’ve been at it for a while, or maybe, like...