How to Waste a Year of Your Life Blogging for Free

Yoda

If you are starting to blog with even the slightest hope of blogging for money one day, please, start the right way from day one. Don’t build a free blog, rather make a plan on how you will build it, grow it and make money from the get go. A big, very big percentage of [...]

Do You Blog Local?

images of what makes a good local blog

One of the statements I often hear at networking events is “you can’t make money blogging“. And if that’s their attitude to start with, then I guess they are right; they won’t make money blogging. My main blog is a hyper local transport blog that earns well into six figures. You see using blogs and [...]

12 Bloggers To Learn From When It Comes to Growing Your Blog

12 great bloggers

The great thing about blogging is that you get to meet so many smart people. While a post might start the conversation, the comments take it in a whole new direction altogether, and makes a post better for it. As well as blog comments offering the opportunity to read the views of these smart people, [...]

How to Grow Your Blog (And Business) One Building Block at a Time

Grow your blog and business

Why are blogs so good when it comes to growing your reputation and awareness of you or your business? Simple – they’re your property (self-hosted blogs) and offer an excellent way to share your thoughts, ideas and offerings to not only your readers, but also their readers. Which, in turn, can lead to potential leads. And [...]

If You Want A-Lister Traffic You Need to Blog With an A-Lister Mindset

A-List Blogger

A quick disclaimer – I’m not a huge fan of the term A-Lister, at least not as a generic one, because I’m a firm believer that everyone is an A-Lister to someone. However, I also recognize the fact the bloggers can become defined as an A-Lister for a number of reasons – quality of content, [...]

How to Get More Blog Readers By Having Your Content Syndicated

Syndicate

For most (if not all) bloggers, one of the key metrics on how their blog has grown comes from how many readers it has. These don’t necessarily have to be subscribers, either, although I’m a fan of subscribers being more a metric than readers for success, since these are folks that are investing their inboxes [...]

Your 10 Point Checklist for Growing Your Blog in 2012

Grow your blog

As with any New Year, there are always resolutions. For many bloggers, this is usually tied into blogging goals – growing your blog, monetizing your blog, attracting more readers and more. While the intent to make changes is always a good one, often it can be easier said than done. Things get in the way, [...]

How to Grow Your Blog By Nurturing Your Community

Nurture your blog

There’s been much written about what makes a good blog community. Some of the smartest and best bloggers around have all shared their views, and they all make great points. So I’m not going to talk about that today. Instead, I’d like to offer some ideas on how you can best engage your blog community [...]

5 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub – Day 1: Defining Your Hub

Social media profiles

Social media is a pretty big thing. But it can also be a pretty fractured thing as well. New platforms spring up, old ones wither and die, some are more beneficial than others and some will just take up valuable time and waste it. And it doesn’t matter if you’re using social media personally or [...]