ProBlogger

OCTOBER 5, 2016

In 2002, then-CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer announced that the 80/20 rule was not only applicable to the company’s product features – it applied to bugs, as well. Sander Biehn revealed that he spends approximately three hours each week producing new blog content. 80/20 in Today’s Life. Image credit: Live the 80/20 rule.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 4, 2014

Eleven and a half years ago when I hit publish on my first ever blog post, I had little idea what I was doing and what was going to unfold for me over the coming decade. Do pay attention to your archives – update and promote them regularly. Don’t become too promotional. Do push through bloggers block.

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ProBlogger

MAY 21, 2020

When I first started blogging back in 2002 I was a technological Luddite. I still have dozens of unpublished blog post drafts.). And so I began experimenting with different types of affiliate promotions, as well as creating my own products. So let’s start with the first hurdle I faced….

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 3, 2023

And so then really sort of 2002, 2003, I guess. I did a blog post all about it. In the story, I used some text helped by ChatGPT and SudoWrite, and I documented it all in this in this blog post. You can also subscribe to the Written Word Media email newsletter for book marketing tips. Was that in the 90s?

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ProBlogger

MAY 4, 2014

I only started blogging late December 2012. I knew nothing about growing an audience or how to promote myself. I understand there’s more to successful blogging than simply getting comments, but I wanted engagement. Twitter is great for getting traffic to your blog, yet I find it’s not so fantastic at encouraging engagement.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

In fact this advice is Day 20 in our 31 Days to Build a Better Blog workbook. 7 Benefits of Leaving Comments on Other People’s Blogs. Driving traffic to your blog – as a result of your engagement, you will often get people checking out your blog. Next we have the spammy self promoter.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2020

So this week I want to talk about both the benefits and the costs of having multiple blogs so you can decide whether it’s worth doing. But first, I need to talk about how these two blogs came to be, and about the other blogs that were discarded along the way to get to this point. My first blog. Still, it was growing.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

This is what I’ve done in most occasions when I’ve launched a blog too. I think back to my first blog, back in November 2002, it all happened very, very quickly. I think that’s also a very smart way to go about it too, because in that first week, you do need to spend some time promoting and responding to comments that are left.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In Today’s Episode How I Diversified My Blogging Income and Became a Full Time Blogger. November 2002 – I get an email from a friend that says, check out this blog. I liked what I saw, and I began blogging. I had no idea that you could make money from blogging. Promoted eBooks and products for other blogs.

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ProBlogger

MAY 8, 2017

As I think back to 2002 and look at how blogs are today, what he’s highlighted are really some of the key changes that have taken successful bloggers to be successful business people. The other thing I want to encourage you to think about above the fold is what’s happening on your blog post pages.

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ProBlogger

MAY 8, 2017

As I think back to 2002 and look at how blogs are today, what he’s highlighted are really some of the key changes that have taken successful bloggers to be successful business people. The other thing I want to encourage you to think about above the fold is what’s happening on your blog post pages.

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ProBlogger

MAY 10, 2011

In 2002 I published my first ever blog post. In the hours that followed hitting Publish, I quickly realized that writing my first post was only a small part of what I really needed to do if I wanted my blog to be successful—but knowing that left me feeling quite confused. Master the components of a blog post.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 21, 2017

Today, I want to take you on a tour of my iPhone and iPad, and talk about the apps I use most in my blogging and online business activities. One of the biggest changes that has happened in my blogging since I began back in 2002 is the technology I use. I use the Post one a lot. Things were so simple.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In Today’s Episode How I Diversified My Blogging Income and Became a Full Time Blogger. November 2002 – I get an email from a friend that says, check out this blog. I liked what I saw, and I began blogging. I had no idea that you could make money from blogging. Promoted eBooks and products for other blogs.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2017

Two blogs that are established with thousands of blog posts already in the archives and a decent readership with multiple income streams, that’s what you see as the snapshot. To go back in time, 2002 is when I started my first blog. That first blog’s name was The Living Room. That’s why I did it, it worked.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

In Today’s Episode How I Make Money Blogging – My Profit Streams Revealed. On dPS we do two big promotions every year. This is something I have done from time to time over on the ProBlogger blog. I know some of you don ’ t read the blog and prefer to listen. The question was almost always, “ What ’ s a blog? ”

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2017

Two blogs that are established with thousands of blog posts already in the archives and a decent readership with multiple income streams, that’s what you see as the snapshot. To go back in time, 2002 is when I started my first blog. That first blog’s name was The Living Room. That’s why I did it, it worked.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Today I want to talk about style guides – how to create them for your blog, and why you should create them for you blog as well. Style guides in my opinion are one way that you can really lift a good blog to a great blog by building more consistency across your content, across from one blog post to another.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2017

Two blogs that are established with thousands of blog posts already in the archives and a decent readership with multiple income streams, that’s what you see as the snapshot. To go back in time, 2002 is when I started my first blog. That first blog’s name was The Living Room. That’s why I did it, it worked.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 2, 2017

15 Questions to Ask to Help Identify Your Blogging Niche or Focus. 033: 2 Questions to Ask to Help You Find Readers for Your Blog. 011: Create 10 Blog Post Ideas for your Blog [Day 11 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog]. 084: How to Come Up With Fresh Ideas to Write About On Your Blog.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2018

Having said those things, I want to talk about these nine things that have helped me to accelerate the growth of my blogs over the years, things I wish I knew back in 2002 when I started out and I hope that that will help you in your journey as well. I started blogging in 2002. This is a picture of my first blog.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

Someone asked me that same question but they asked me to go back to the very start of my blog and said, “What has changed in your blogging since you started?” ” Now, I started blogging in 2002. There’s lots of things have changed since 2002. The way we’ve been in 2002 is changing.

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ProBlogger

MAY 1, 2017

Each are important types of content to be able to create for your blog – but one that is increasingly important today is visual content. When I was looking back at some screenshots of my very first blog from 2002, recently, I was amazed by how boring it looked. I was also like, “Who reads a whole blog post on their phone?”

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ProBlogger

MAY 1, 2017

Each are important types of content to be able to create for your blog – but one that is increasingly important today is visual content. When I was looking back at some screenshots of my very first blog from 2002, recently, I was amazed by how boring it looked. I was also like, “Who reads a whole blog post on their phone?”

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