Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 10, 2018

presidential election, and NASCAR dads, which became a target audience in the 2004 elections, are closer to personas, though too thinly described. Does Mike need a blog post on six tips to improve productivity at work? He needs a post about six lifesavers to make sure nothing slips through the cracks. And millennials?

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 27, 2018

When I started ProBlogger in 2004 I’d been blogging for a couple of years, but hadn’t been making money from blogging for very long (less than a year). If you decide to blog about a topic you’re not yet an expert in, or even one you’ve just started learning about, it’s important to: #1: Be Transparent and Ethical.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 29, 2017

In the blogging world, you’ll hear people talking about “email lists” and “email newsletters” as if they’re synonymous. You might think of an email newsletter as a weekly content-rich email complete with feature article, links to your recent blog posts, and maybe a round-up of what’s been going on in your niche.

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Production, the second category of the AI framework, relates to marketing activities like these: creating, curating, and optimizing content, including blog posts, emails, landing pages, videos, and advertisements. Please note: All tools included in our blog posts are suggested by authors, not the CMI editorial team.

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ProBlogger

MAY 8, 2016

I know my approach to my topic is different today than it was back in 2004 when I started ProBlogger and so posts written back at that time might advise things I don’t agree with today. For example, in the Make Money Blogging post I mention above I originally linked to an ad network that has completely changed its model.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 11, 2017

6 Reasons Why Your Blog Needs an Email Newsletter. Other Podcasts On Similar Topics: PB117: Case Study – How One Blogger Used a Blog Post, SlideShare Deck, Lead Magnet, Email Sequence and a Webinar to Earn Over $28,000. When I started doing email, I think it was back in 2004, 2005, there weren’t really that many tools.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Today is my 10th anniversary of starting blogging and to celebrate I’m offering all ProBlogger eBooks at just $10 each – that’s a 50-90% saving on their normal price. 10 Years of Blogging. Ten years ago when I hit publish on my first blog post I could never imagined how that moment would change my life.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 3, 2016

This is the 2nd Challenge of our 7 Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back Challenge that we kicked off a couple of episodes ago. To recap – every day for the next week I’m going to suggest a particular style of blog post for you to create. Some of my most popular blog posts have been in response to reader questions.

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ProBlogger

JULY 16, 2010

Your first post – the first post I ever wrote on ProBlogger (I’d been posting on other blogs for a couple of years before this) was in September 2004. It was actually a post that I’d written on another blog which I imported onto this one. It was titled – Get to the Point.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 12, 2013

” ‘V’ – my wife – must have heard that statement 100 or more times in 2003-2004. I’ve since published over 3800 posts and developed a team of writers. The site is now 10 times bigger than any blog I had at the time I started it. Like how I got the ProBlogger hard cover Book published.

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ProBlogger

MAY 8, 2017

Last week on ProBlogger, we published a fantastic post by John Stevens, a guest post. In this post that John wrote, John analyzes how some very well-known bloggers have built successful businesses around their blogs. What happens above the fold on your blog post is really important as well.

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ProBlogger

MAY 8, 2017

Last week on ProBlogger, we published a fantastic post by John Stevens, a guest post. In this post that John wrote, John analyzes how some very well-known bloggers have built successful businesses around their blogs. What happens above the fold on your blog post is really important as well.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

What I ’ m going to share with you today is based upon a recent income report I did do over on the ProBlogger blog. It ’ s a couple of months ago that I published that. I will say when I did the blog post, someone tried to calculate it based upon some of the publicly available information as well. They ’ re both ebooks.

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Smart Blogger

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Smart Blogger has a robust library of free blog posts and other resources to help you improve your copywriting skills. Be sure to check out their blog content that is loaded with helpful tips for writers and entrepreneurs at any experience level. Publishing company McGraw-Hill says Bob is “America’s top copywriter.”.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

The company has enjoyed almost unparalleled revenue growth from 2004 to 2020 — $8 billion to $2,274 billion. Publish those testimonials on your site. For some sites, the going rate for a blog post is $10, or even less! Respond to comments on your blog posts – carry on a conversation.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As I discovered back in late 2004. I was blogging full-time, having quit my part-time job about three months before. But back in 2004 there were only a couple of options – email and forums. They’d then send me the link to it, and I’d publish a post with all the links. Started networking more.

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Backlinko

JUNE 27, 2023

Once you’ve gleaned competitors’ blog posts for keyword ideas, or used search engines to uncover long-tail keywords, what do you do with them? You can use it to analyze over a day, a week, a month, a year, the past five years, and so on—all the way back to 2004! What is Keyword Analysis?

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Further Resources on How Procrastination Stopped Me Writing a Million Dollar Blog Post. How to Start a Blog. 10 Surefire Ways to Overcome Blogging Procrastination. It was actually a piece of content that I thought about writing way back when I started ProBlogger in 2004. We’ve published over 8,000 posts.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Further Resources on How Procrastination Stopped Me Writing a Million Dollar Blog Post. How to Start a Blog. 10 Surefire Ways to Overcome Blogging Procrastination. It was actually a piece of content that I thought about writing way back when I started ProBlogger in 2004. We’ve published over 8,000 posts.

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 9, 2023

But, you have everything you need to become one of those seemingly lucky people who do get picked, who do decide to self-publish, who do finally get it done and achieve their dream of being an author. A blog post is a great way to say something new, something interesting, something potentially controversial on your topic.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Case Study – How One Blogger Used a Blog Post, SlideShare Deck, Lead Magnet, Email Sequence and a Webinar to Earn Over $28,000. The 5 Stages of Building a Culture of Community on a Blog [Case Study]. I shared in that episode about how on the day I published that post, it had 100 views on its first day, which was okay.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 5, 2015

Heather needs little introduction – she’s a Trivial Pursuit answer , Queen of the Mommy Bloggers , an author , a speaker , a consultant, and a gal who’s come a long way from that day in 2002 when she was fired for what she wrote on her blog about her workplace. No actually, I never really did it. I kinda failed at that.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Further Resources on How Procrastination Stopped Me Writing a Million Dollar Blog Post. How to Start a Blog. 10 Surefire Ways to Overcome Blogging Procrastination. It was actually a piece of content that I thought about writing way back when I started ProBlogger in 2004. We’ve published over 8,000 posts.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 4, 2016

This is the 3rd challenge in ProBlogger’s 7 Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back Challenge that we kicked off a couple of episodes ago. To recap – every day for the next week I’m going to suggest a particular style of blog post for you to create. Write your post – publish it. Today’s Challenge.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Johnny B Truant started out writing about weightlifting and running for diabetics, used to set up WordPress blogs , and now runs the publishing business Sterling & Stone alongside Sean Platt. 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.

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ProBlogger

JULY 31, 2017

I don’t think I’m actually a perfectionist but when it came to blogging that first blog post, I remember looking at it and thinking, “This is too short in comparison to the one I’ve seen earlier.” But for one reason or another I hit publish on that first blog post 12 years ago.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 19, 2013

I had been blogging for around 11 months by that point and had begun to experiment with the Amazon Associates Program as a way to help me cover my costs of hosting, domains and design. So I signed up as an AdSense publisher and set up my first ad to put on my blog. May 2004 saw me hit over $1000 in a month for the first time.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Previously, I’ve discussed how guest posting is the best way to build sustainable web traffic. Here’s an example: I published a guest post on Blogging Wizard in April two years ago. The post somehow gained popularity, and Mari Smith tweeted about the post. Ask them to collaborate on blog posts.

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Express Writers

JUNE 19, 2024

Researchers at UC Irvine have been conducting a continuous study in trends in the human attention span since 2004. BuzzSumo Publishing platform specialists BuzzSumo recently conducted a study of 400,000 long-form blogs and articles to identify the hallmarks of high-performing content.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 26, 2011

Let’s say, for example, you are writing a post about how to prepare a manuscript for ebook publishing. While you could use the keyword “ebook,” you will be up against the millions of other blog posts about ebooks, even if they are about ebook readers, ebook sales, or ebook marketing. That’s right: never.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Previously, I’ve discussed how guest posting is the best way to build sustainable web traffic. Here’s an example: I published a guest post on Blogging Wizard in April two years ago. The post somehow gained popularity, and Mari Smith tweeted about the post. Ask them to collaborate on blog posts.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Firstly, and perhaps obviously, is we allow each other to create guest content for our blogs. I’ll write you a blog post, you write me a blog post or I’ll just write you one and you post it. I’ve got 20,000 posts that I’ve published on my blogs over the last 14 years.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 12, 2018

Many experienced bloggers are slowing down on new content, while increasing traffic to to their blog by revising posts they’ve already written. Individual blog posts tend to get the most traffic on your site, which means there’s gold in them thar archives. That’s something I don’t do anymore.

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ProBlogger

MAY 7, 2018

Then, we’ve curated some content underneath that, both blog posts and podcasts, that take them through solutions to that pain. Since 2004, when I started ProBlogger, I can see that there have been spikes of activity over those years: spikes in traffic, spikes in engagement and spike to profit as well.

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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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CoSchedule

DECEMBER 19, 2022

A lot has changed since Moz was founded in 2004, so a rebranding was in order. In addition to providing basic information about your company, the About Us page can be a gateway to other areas of your online presence, such as a blog post or a social media profile. To give you some ideas, here are some samples to check out.

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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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