ProBlogger

MARCH 21, 2013

Fast forward 4-5 years to 2002 and when I came across my first blog and wondered if I too could start one I remember feeling again that perhaps it would be beyond me. Being able to engage with readers and build community on your blog. I didn’t let the feeling stop me this time though and began to investigate.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Putting a picture of yourself ‘out there’ for all to see is something I remember pondering for a few days, before I did when I started blogging back in 2002. Because of that, it generated more interest and more engagement. I totally understand V’s hesitation with the post. I also worried about doing it.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 4, 2014

As I prepared for a recent mini ProBlogger event event in Perth, I created a little list of some of the ‘dos and don’ts’ of blogging that I wish I’d known back in 2002 when I started. Do write in an engaging voice. Do spend time ‘off’ your blog engaging in the places where your potential readers gather. Don’t sell out.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Driving traffic to your blog – as a result of your engagement, you will often get people checking out your blog. Idea generation – often, when you engage in conversation in other blogs comments, you get ideas for your own blog posts. In fact this advice is Day 20 in our 31 Days to Build a Better Blog workbook.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 2, 2014

This week on my main blog – Digital Photography School – we launched our 24th photographic eBook ( a guide to post production of portrait images ) and it got me thinking back about some of the changes in my blogging since I started back in 2002. What Have You Learned About Launching Products?

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ProBlogger

JULY 17, 2012

In 2002 the ball started rolling in California, with Senator Joe Simitian , who authored a bill to require that businesses notify customers when a successful breach of their security occurs. His mission is to help businesses present their online message in an engaging and compelling way so they’re noticed and remembered.

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ProBlogger

MAY 22, 2018

In the podcast episode on 3 Key Things Bloggers Do to Grow Their Blogs into Businesses , I talked about how blog homepages have evolved over the years – from the long list of full posts that was standard when I started in 2002, to the portal-like static homepages that are becoming increasingly common today. Here are a few examples.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2024

On some levels I was at the right place at the right time—I got into blogging early (in 2002 … although I felt I was late to it at the time) and have been fortunate enough to have started blogs at opportune times on the topics I write about.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

I think back to my first blog, back in November 2002, it all happened very, very quickly. I wrote on that first personal blog even back in 2003, 2002, I started to write about my journey in making money from blogging. If I was to do a survey of the listeners of this podcast, I’ll suspect most of us do this first approach.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 16, 2018

Mobile phones were certainly around when I first started blogging but when I started blogging in 2002, there weren’t too many smartphones. That’s what I did back in 2002, 2003. Engaging with people on social media, responding to comments, responding to emails, those are the types of things you can’t really schedule.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

November 2002 – I get an email from a friend that says, check out this blog. I built engagement with my readership. This was a culmination of years of building engagement and putting it all together. Not a lot of engagement, and I didn’t feel like I was contributing a lot of value. Let’s walk back in time to 2002.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 9, 2017

He told me as we caught up for this coffee that when he saw me starting my first blogs back in 2002, 2003, 2004, that part of him wanted to do the same thing. It was that moment in our conversation that I just felt like jumping up from the table and shaking him because I had those same feelings back in 2002, 2003.

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ProBlogger

JULY 16, 2020

As you may well know, I started blogging back in 2002. Engage with your audience, and find out what they need. Not did help me build engagement and relationships with my readers, it also helped me understand who they were and what they needed. So how do you build engagement? The first step is to be engaging yourself.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 12, 2020

I wrote my first guest post back in 2002, before guest posting was even a thing. You still need to get those people interested, connected, and engaged (which I’ll be talking about over the next few weeks). Back in 2002 I wrote a post for ProBlogger called Can You Really Make Money Blogging? They didn’t create that audience.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 5, 2020

Today I’m kicking off a series of blog posts designed to help you move your readers from feeling cold towards you, your brand and your blog, to being fully engaged and becoming raving fans. Because unless they become interested in what you’re doing and what you have to say they’re never going to connect and become engaged.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 8, 2017

In 2002, Darren read an article about “blogging.” You can not only target your ad to a very specific audience, but you can also look and learn more about the people that shared your post, liked your post, or somehow engaged. ” By the next day, he’d started a blog of his own. Affiliate winners.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 6, 2019

When I started my first blog in 2002, it looked like 99% of the blogs on the internet. They engage with their audience through social media , answering questions but also simply getting to know them. In fact, the key to your success will be relentlessly creating great content, being highly engaging, and promoting yourself.

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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. If I think back to my first blog in 2002 and my blog back then was pretty much the same as 99% of blogs back in 2002.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2018

Take ownership of building engagement with your readers. And here are 9 accelerators to grow your blog faster: Understand and engage with your audience. Focus less on the number of eyeballs, and more on engaging the hearts of the right readers. Teach and engage readers through challenges using various mediums.

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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. If I think back to my first blog in 2002 and my blog back then was pretty much the same as 99% of blogs back in 2002.

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ProBlogger

JULY 31, 2017

I immediately knew something was happening here because I can see the engagement in the comments. Back in 2002, I started a blog. ” As I looked at my free blogger template, which in 2002 was ugly, I think it was purple and orange, and big ugly fonts. The way you figure yourself out is by making things.”

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

When I began blogging in 2002, it was out of curiosity. Or perhaps you picked a topic that interested you a couple of years ago, but is no longer something you find engaging. So if your blog seems to be growing very slowly, or you’ve tried out a couple of niches that just weren’t right for you, take heart. Including me.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 8, 2016

That was back in 2002 but since that time link sharing has gradually gone to other mediums more and more. Join the Facebook group, stay, engage there and continue to take the challenges. That was back in 2002 when I first started blogging and to some extent that continues today, particularly in some niches.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

November 2002 – I get an email from a friend that says, check out this blog. I built engagement with my readership. This was a culmination of years of building engagement and putting it all together. Not a lot of engagement, and I didn’t feel like I was contributing a lot of value. Let’s walk back in time to 2002.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 23, 2020

I started blogging in late 2002. And in that same year I learned how to communicate and engage with that audience. It was profitable enough, but it wasn’t satisfying for me to run because there wasn’t much engagement. Because I didn’t create them all overnight, nor did I create them all at once. Starting from scratch.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

In 2011 as a response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Masayoshi Son criticized the nuclear industry for creating “the problem that worries Japanese the most today”, and engaged in investing in a nationwide solar power network for Japan. in 2002, he was executive vice president of PayPal. 52 Wang Xing: Investor is worth $3.2

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 9, 2017

He told me as we caught up for this coffee that when he saw me starting my first blogs back in 2002, 2003, 2004, that part of him wanted to do the same thing. It was that moment in our conversation that I just felt like jumping up from the table and shaking him because I had those same feelings back in 2002, 2003.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 9, 2017

He told me as we caught up for this coffee that when he saw me starting my first blogs back in 2002, 2003, 2004, that part of him wanted to do the same thing. It was that moment in our conversation that I just felt like jumping up from the table and shaking him because I had those same feelings back in 2002, 2003.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

I started blogging in 2002, 2004 for ProBlogger, of course things have changed. That’s going to help your readers to engage with you and to build a relationship with you, and to learn from you more as well. That’s a big change that’s happened in blogging. The style of my writing has probably matured in that time.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 10, 2024

On some levels I was at the right place at the right time—I got into blogging early (in 2002 … although I felt I was late to it at the time) and have been fortunate enough to have started blogs at opportune times on the topics I write about.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 26, 2016

My name is Darren Rowse, and I’m the blogger behind ProBlogger.com – a blog, podcast, event, job board, series of eBooks, and a real book, too – all designed to help you as a blogger to grow your blog to create amazing content, to build community and engagement with your readers, and hopefully to make some money from your blog as well.

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 2, 2017

For me, it all started in 2002 with an email from a friend. Okay, It was 2002 and I got this email and it had four words in it and a link. It should inform the content you create, the product you create, the way you engage with people. I was sitting at a desk, one of the part-time jobs that I had, and this email pinged in.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 26, 2016

My name is Darren Rowse, and I’m the blogger behind ProBlogger.com – a blog, podcast, event, job board, series of eBooks, and a real book, too – all designed to help you as a blogger to grow your blog to create amazing content, to build community and engagement with your readers, and hopefully to make some money from your blog as well.

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Jane Friedman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In a story draft, you’ll learn how to employ the elements of storytelling by crafting well-written, engaging scenes that use dialogue, sensory details, and action to bring your story to life. Debra Gwartney’s 2002 radio essay for This American Life led her to write Live Through This : A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

I’ll talk about evolving your engagement with your readers, how to build community on your blog, how to find new readers for your blog, and then, how to monetize your blog. . ” Now, I started blogging in 2002. There’s lots of things have changed since 2002. It’s engagement. A lot of it is dodgy.

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ProBlogger

MAY 1, 2017

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 looked back the other day at my first blog and some screenshots of it from 2002 and I was amazed at how boring it looked. It also gets more engagement back to their posts.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 3, 2023

And why is it important for authors to engage? And so then really sort of 2002, 2003, I guess. We're just going to jump straight in. So you have been running workshops on AI and Your Creative Work: Perils and Promise. What sparked your interest in the impact of AI? Kathryn: Well, I've always been a bit of a technology nerd.

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