How To Start a Travel Blog: Your Ultimate Guide to Travel Blogging
So, you’d like to learn to blog? Oh yeah, and you love traveling. Me too. Well, the second one. There’s a lot of so-so advice online on travel blogging these…
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My Site Was Hacked: How to Prevent WordPress Hacks
If you run a blog in the 20-teens then you could get hacked. Dear Blogger was hacked just a week ago, meaning anyone visiting the site saw a 403 error…
40% Off HostGator Hosting Coupon Code 2015
THe 40% HostGator coupon code or 2015 is now active! Please use coupon “dearblogger2015”.
How I Quit My Government Job to Blog for a Living Forever
If you run a blog in 2014, then you need to consider blogging for a living. Stop spending time on the small things and get serious. Sure, you might need…
Use EVERY Google Font in WordPress – No Plugins!
In this post we’ll learn how to make our writing more gripping – with Google fonts! If you enjoy it or want any other videos, let me know in…
How To Make Custom Widgets for Your Sidebar
I hope you enjoy this blog post where we use the new post editor and a blank text widget to add cool things in the sidebar. Let me know…
How to Take a Summer Break from Blogging (without Feeling Guilty)
Taking a summer break from blogging is not something all bloggers do. Last year, I took no breaks at all. This year, I stopped posting twice a week and…
How To Get Advertisements on Your Blog for Free
I hope you enjoy this blog post that shows you both how to put Adsense ads and direct/custom ads on a blog. Let me know and comment below. In this…
Dear Community: Share Your Best Blog Post Here Below
Time for a “survey” on how you’re doing 😉 When I first started blogging, my “best blog post” was a common concern. I was pretty paranoid about shares. I’d check…
Why Two Blogs Are Better Than One
Dear Reader, This is a post about bringing more money, time, productivity and health into your life. However, it’s not just about starting a blog. Because we’ve been there done…
The Almost Complete A-Z List to Get You More Blog Comments
We all want ’em. It’s lonely without ’em. In this long overdue post, I’d like to explain some of the things I keep in mind while building content to make…
Blur Effect: How to Beautifully Make Text Stand Out in Your Images
Dear Readers, I know your images are beautiful as is. But what if you need to write some text on an image to create an advertisement or a button or…
How to Hide an Affiliate Link from Google (Video + Coding Tutorial: Part 2)
If you engage in affiliate marketing on your blog or website, you’re going to be embedding third party links given to you from the affiliate program. While these links are…
Springtime Computer Clean-up: Closing Tabs and De-Cluttering Bookmarks
Today Lorraine Reguly, from Wording Well, will teach you some strategies to use for closing open tabs and de-cluttering your bookmarks. I really could have used this two weeks ago…
Special Demo: Make The Niche Website…of Your Dreams!
What would bring to me the point of whispering “come on…come on…you can do it!” to my computer, while periodically blasting Britney Spears oldies this past weekend? (don’t ask) Just…
19 Dos and Don’ts to Help You Juggle Work Life and a Blog
One of the hottest allures of blogging is how it can free you from the confines of a normal job. But what if your current job is so demanding that…
Finally Published! The Dear Blogger Toolbox
As you know, I regularly recommend products, to provide answers, both at the blog and on social media. For a while now I had been thinking of creating a “toolbox”…
7 Reasons Why WordPress is the Best Blog Site (and How To Start a Blog)
With WordPress, you can run a successful blog about Fashion, Education, Social Media, Finance, Fitness and more. You can rank well in Google and earn monthly income from Adsense with…
What No One Tells You About Moving Websites
Are you a blogger who has his/her own site or are you thinking of getting one? If you fall into the first category, do you remember some of the problems…
How to Place Your Ad Units Above the Fold for Over 50% More Clicks
Dear Readers, The top left corner of your blog posts is one area that’s proven to maximize click through rates on your ads. Problem is, unless you’ve got a premium…
The 6 Steps to Automatically Send Your eBook (While You Sleep) to Entice New Subscribers
Dear Readers, If you start an email list, the best way to promote it is simple: Give a free eBook to new subscribers. Sure, a newsletter is nice, but the…
Donut Productivity: How to Write ANY Article Faster
There’s an infinite source of productivity tips online. Top 5 lists, top 10 lists, top 100 lists . . . (because you all have time for those . . .…
Can You “Pause” Your Blog? 7 Solutions for Coping with Unexpected Sickness
What do you do when you’re too sick to blog? I’m not talking about when you’re sick and tired of blogging, but rather when you are in physical pain and…
Guitar Zero: Why 2000 Subscribers Are Waiting for You
My blog is growing slowly and I get inconsistent traffic. It’s an issue me and Mr. Coffee hear most mornings. If you started a blog and have been at it…
9 Answers to “Why Do You Blog?”
What makes you a successful blogger? Can’t anyone blog? Why do you blog? I heard the age-old questions coming my way across the GQishly decorated gazebo at a reunion over…