ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2024

The post Can You REALLY Make Money Blogging? 7 Things I Know About Making Money from Blogging appeared first on ProBlogger. Is it really possible to make a living from blogging? Is it just a small number of people making money from blogging? It takes grit, creativity, and a bit of blogging savvy.

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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. My 43 DOs of Blogging. Do create a blog that is meaningful to you. Do set yourself some goals and objectives for your blog. Do back up your blog!

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 2, 2018

At a recent Christmas party a friend asked me a series of rapid-fire questions about blogging. “Do you think I should start a blog in 2018? Or have I missed the boat with blogging? If blogging is still relevant, how could it benefit me? I guess I’m trying to work out… why should I start a blog?”

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Every now and again I am pulled aside at a conference or am emailed and/or tweeted by someone wanting to get the “real” scoop on whether it is possible to make money blogging. Is it really possible to make a living from blogging? Is it just a small number of people making money from blogging? It is possible.

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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. It’s also great writing practice!

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 5, 2016

If you apply the principle to blogging, you could improve your efficiency and maximize your efforts. 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. Applying the 80/20 to Blogging. A Little History. Absolutely.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Writing for three blogs on a regular basis, with the odd request for a guest post elsewhere, my writing plans are already tight. But because I write for overlapping fields of interest, my plans can also tangle. The most common: Snag A: The topic could be of use to any blog I write for. Whose blog first?

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 5, 2015

When Heather Armstrong from Dooce decided to wind back blogging after 14 years, it became headline news – New York Magazine even ran a piece called “ Dooce Talks Life After Mommyblogging “, which gave us a glimpse into how someone so successful could leave that life behind. I was just going to write stories until forever.

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Quick Sprout

JULY 12, 2022

After research comes web property development, where NetReputation creates or adjusts assets your company owns, such as blogs, websites, social media profiles, business directory listings, and YouTube channels. The final step is content promotion through email lists and blogs, organic feedback, and paid ads. Visit SEO Image.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

How Many Live Posts Do You Need When You Launch Your Blog. Today, I want to answer a question almost every blogger asks when they start blogging: How many posts should I have live before I launch my blog? So if you’re starting a blog for the first time, or thinking of starting a second blog, this podcast is for you.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

“I’m having trouble deciding what topic to blog about.&#. I’ve written numerous times about how to choose a niche or topic to write about but it struck me while talking to the Brisbane folk asking the question that the biggest factor in helping me to narrow in on my own niches was having a personal blog.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 16, 2018

Tools and Techniques for Blogging While Travelling. Today I tackle a question from a listener about blogging on the road. Carmen Fellows asked about technicalities such as how to get content online and ways to access your blog. How can you balance blogging while traveling for work or vacation? Blog on the road.

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ProBlogger

MAY 22, 2018

Open up a new tab in your browser and go to the homepage of your blog. And if you’ve been blogging for a long time, it might be how you expect a blog’s homepage to look. Could a Static Homepage Be the Next Step for Your Blog? How Does Your Blog Make Money? What do you see? Absolutely.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 12, 2011

Blogging is no more a mere hobby; it has become a full-time profession for many bloggers, including myself. I had a website that I registered early in the year of 2002 and used to receive web designing gigs from it. This is how my blog was born. This guest post is by Joshu Thomas of NapIncome.com. How it started.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 15, 2011

One of the requests that I’ve received a fair bit lately from readers here at ProBlogger is for me to write a little more on the team I’ve put together to help me run and grow my blogs. Blogging: from hobby to job. I began to slowly give up other work as the blogging income grew.

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ProBlogger

MAY 4, 2014

Corinne runs the successful blog skinnedcartree.com, and consistently gets genuine engagement from her readers and community across the board. I only started blogging late December 2012. The only two things I knew were: I wanted to write. Then I would look at who else commented, visit their blog and find something to contribute.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 30, 2013

We are mining ProBlogger content this week for super-useful information to kick-start your blogging year with gusto. This post “Is it Really Possible to Make Money Blogging? [7 7 Things I know about Making Money Blogging] first appeared in November 2012. . Is it really possible to make a living from blogging?

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Grammar Underground

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Consider this reader email sent to longtime Atlantic and Boston Globe language columnist Barbara Wallraff and published in her 2002 book “Word Court”: “I am writing this note on a Wednesday. The words “next” and “last” are trouble. In my mind, next Tuesday is six days away and next Thursday is eight days away.

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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

MAY 14, 2020

As I mentioned in last week’s blog post , I started my first blog back in 2002. Then I started reading it and cringed again at all the spelling mistakes, and in some cases the naivety of what I was writing back then. Every blog post on both of those sites has at least one image. (We The primitive web.

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ProBlogger

MAY 21, 2020

The post 9 Blogging Hurdles I’ve Faced as a Blogger and How I Got over Them appeared first on ProBlogger. When I first started blogging back in 2002 I was a technological Luddite. So I started by using a free blog platform. In a way I was outsourcing all the design work so I could concentrate on writing content.

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ProBlogger

MAY 1, 2017

Making the Most of Tools, Apps and Services to Create Visual Content for Your Blog. In today’s lesson, we’re going to talk tools for creating great visual content for your blog. Over the last few weeks, we’ve been exploring different types of content that you can use on your blog. Peg’s blog. Join our Facebook Group.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

6 years ago today I imported a series of posts that I’d written about blogging on my previous blog over to the ProBlogger.net domain – ProBlogger was born. I look back on that time and while I was almost making a full time living from blogging there was so much about the medium that I didn’t yet know.

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ProBlogger

JULY 16, 2020

The post 9 Ways to Grow Your Blog Faster appeared first on ProBlogger. As you may well know, I started blogging back in 2002. And over the years I’ve tried all sorts of things to grow my blogs and make them more profitable. So here are nine things I believe will help you grow your blog faster. Some of them worked.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Whereabouts are you on your blogging journey? You may be the very beginning of your journey, and getting ready to create your first blog post. You might be a little further along, and thinking of taking the next step – a second blog perhaps, or maybe a podcast. So much so that on that same day I started a blog of my own.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Is it to signify professional behaviour, or is it about the profession of blogging? I’ve explored many forms of communication over the years but when I stumbled across blogs for the first time in 2002 I knew I’d found something special. I love blogging and I love bloggers and what they do day in and day out with their blogs.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 24, 2018

Even if you haven’t launched your blog yet, you’ve probably come across the term ‘HTML’. My first experience with HTML was back in 2002, when I wanted to change the design of my my first blog. But one look at all the seemingly random ‘code’ on the page and I immediately put designing my own blog in the ‘too hard’ basket.

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ProBlogger

JULY 31, 2017

How Ordinary Things Can Lead to Extraordinary Results With Your Blog. This week and I’m excited to be spending time face to face with quite a few ProBlogger podcast listeners and blog readers at our Aussie blogging events. Links and Resources on 6 ‘Ordinary’ Things That Will Grow Your Blog into Something Extraordinary.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The post Have Blog, Will Travel: Tips For Blogging On the Road appeared first on ProBlogger. If you’re travelling over the holidays – to see family and friends, or just for a vacation – then you might be worried about you’ll keep up with your blogging. When I started blogging in 2002, smartphones weren’t really a thing.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2018

9 Things I Wish I Knew About Blogging That Will Accelerate the Growth of YOUR Blog. In today’s episode I want to share my keynote at this year’s Social Media Marketing World – 9 Things I Wish I Knew About Blogging that Will Accelerate the Growth of YOUR Blog. Take the initiative to drive traffic to your blog.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

My Blogging Income Streams. In episode 150 I talked about how I make money blogging and broke it down by percentages. 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. Paid speaking.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 9, 2020

The post 4 Reasons Why You Should Start a Blog in the New Year appeared first on ProBlogger. At a recent Christmas party a friend asked me a series of rapid-fire questions about blogging. “Do you think I should start a blog this year? Or have I missed the boat with blogging? Why I Started Blogging.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Narrators and characters in novels and other creative writing can talk about whatever they want. Many writers don’t know that the default guidelines for styling the titles of works in fiction and other kinds of creative writing are the same as for works of nonfiction, as laid out in  CMOS  8.156–201. With italics?

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ProBlogger

MARCH 12, 2020

The post How to Get the Word out about Your New Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Well, today I’ll show you how to smash through that first stage: getting the word out about your blog. Well, it can feel just as bad when you create a new blog and no-one seems to be reading it. 1. Write guest posts for other blogs.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 29, 2016

In this post I want to walk you through the basics of how to start a blog, and while I do, I want to answer some of the basic technical questions that many pre-bloggers need to answer to get their first blog up and running. How to Start a Blog. Configure your blog. Design your blog. It is easy to set up.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 2, 2017

10 Things I Wish I Knew About Blogging and Content Marketing When I Started. Today, I want to share the audio of a keynote I gave at a conference early last year about 10 things I wish I’d known about blogging and creating content for content marketing when I started. 059: What Should I Blog About? Full Transcript.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

How and Why You Should Create Style Guides for Your Blog. In today’s episode, I talk about style guides for blogs – why they’re important, and what elements you should include in yours. Links and Resources for How to Create a Style Guide for Your Blog. 10 Writing Tips to Help You Sound More Human. AP Stylebook.

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