Crazy Stuff I’ve Done as a Blogger, and What I’ve Learned From It All

Written on August 2nd, 2010 at 12:08 am by larrybrooks Miscellaneous Blog Tips Blogging is like life itself.  You get from it what you put into it.  You can’t go it alone, success requires contact with, and some degree of acceptance and approval from, the outside world.  Perserevence and maintainance are mandatory. Every day we are presented with lessons.  Noticing and allowing them to chart the course going forward are part of the Success Equation.  Do the math.  Nobody gets to reinvent the rules.    That said, most of us mess it up – both our life and our blog – on a regular basis.  Thankfully, unless your transgression takes you out of the game altogether, the medium and the masses are forgiving, or at least they are possessed of a short memory.

The Content Producer’s Copyright Checklist

Written on August 3rd, 2010 at 12:08 am by Georgina Laidlaw Miscellaneous Blog Tips Copyright is the content producer’s constant companion. If you create content, you own it, and you want it to stay that way! At the same time, many bloggers link to, quote, and reference other peoples’ work

5 Tools I Am Willing to Pay for [And Recommend] to Improve My Blogs

Written on July 29th, 2010 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse Blogging Tools and Services One of the great things about blogging is that it is very accessible to anyone with internet access.

Source Quality Content … Continuously

Written on July 30th, 2010 at 01:07 am by Georgina Laidlaw Writing Content What does every blogger need more of? Quality content! This is the first of a series of six posts that tackle key content questions.

Christmas in July Special – Get 25% off 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Today

Written on July 24th, 2010 at 02:07 pm by Darren Rowse ProBlogger Site News 7 comments The 25th July is tomorrow and at our place we’ve invited a group of friends over for a Christmas in July dinner (we do it as an annual thing and exchange gifts and do a full Christmas dinner).

Melbourne Blogger Training Day 3 August 2010 – 12 Seats Left

Written on July 19th, 2010 at 11:07 am by Darren Rowse ProBlogger Site News 2 comments Just over a week ago I had the crazy idea to run a training day for bloggers while Chris Garrett was in Melbourne. It was a spur of the moment idea and as a result something that I thought would be quite small, informal and relaxed

Calling all Women Bloggers and Movie Bloggers – Two New 31DBBB Groups Starting Soon!

Written on July 13th, 2010 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse ProBlogger Site News 14 comments If you’re a blogger and looking to work with a group of other bloggers to improve your blog – then there are two new groups starting up to work through the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog workbook together in the coming few weeks.

What Metric or Statistic do You most Watch on your Blog?

Written on July 6th, 2010 at 12:07 am by Darren Rowse Reader Questions 2 comments I tweeted this question a few days back and the variation in responses was quite interesting: What metric or statistic do you most watch on your blog? There’s no right or wrong answer to this: for some it’ll be mainly about traffic – for some it is visitor numbers, for others it will be page views. other bloggers are more interested in subscriber numbers – against there is variation here, RSS and/or Email subscribers

Ten Tips on Avoiding Scams

1. Never pay for the chance to work! The reality of the situation is that any information that you have to pay for is obtainable for free on the internet. You might feel that it is worth a small investment of money not to have to do the research

Strategies for Avoiding Scams

This section will help give you the tools and resources that you can use to analyze work from home opportunities and decide for yourself if they are legitimate or scams.