What a Start-Up Tutoring Business Taught Me About Email Marketing
Six years ago I launched a small tutoring business that helped pay for my late-teen finances. Much like blogging, the name of the game was networking, and I arrived home…
Author: Greg Narayan
The Landing Page Strategy I Should Have Sold
When I began Dear Blogger a few months ago, I really wanted to get people excited about what I was doing here. I had information on how to reduce bounce…
The Blogger Visits ProBlogger…This Friday
Update: You can read the post here. It’s happening again… It will change things in the blogosphere… The Blogger is hitting the front page of ProBlogger…in less than a week.…
Brief Blogging: How to Get More Points Across with Less
I had a revelation last week. It struck me like a highly charged doornob of static electricity. Youch! It had to do with my blogging, and yours too probably. And…
How I Got Google PageRank 3 in 3 Months with Only 28 Backlinks
This post (published Nov 9, 2012) was inspired by a conversation I had with blogger Ehsan Ullah. Thanks, Ehsan! In this post I’ll answer a ton of questions regarding building…
On Comments, The Golden Age, and a new Social Media
Sometimes life throws you lemons and they hit you square in the face. This past week, I was sent running, actually running, from my NYC apartment as Hurricane Sandy approached.…
The Truth about Premium WordPress Themes
If you’re a serious blogger you’ve probably heard of these things called “premium wordpress themes”. They’re luxurious, flashy, and often expensive. Maybe you’re searching for one right now, or maybe…
How To Make a Niche Review Site that Earns You $1000/Month
What's a review site? Why do bloggers love them? It's a blog or website where you write about your favorite products, like coffee machines, Mac laptops, or even cat toys.…
The 3 Guest Posts that Changed My Blogging Forever
I know it’s hard to believe, but sometimes the blog posts we write away from our blogs are more valuable than the ones we publish on them. Here’s a tweet/question…
Email Marketing 101: All the Basics to Getting Blog Subscribers
What’s the most important thing you focus on as a blogger? Ads, writing posts, Facebook and Twitter? Sure, these are all important aspects of blogging. But the one factor that…
How to Create an Everlasting About Me Page
As I mentioned in my Playboy post at Darren’s blog, the most successful writers on the web do one thing really well. They make every attempt to connect with their…
How to Blog for Money
Update: This post was published in Fall of 2012. Since then it’s helped lots of bloggers and even non bloggers earn good money online. As it brings in lots of…
What Exactly are WordPress Plugins and How do You Use Them?
Answer: Plugins are blog add-ons that do specific things for your WordPress blog like show related posts, count post views, or add Facebook buttons. There is a plugin for literally…
Are You an Entrepreneur? How Does One Become One?
Answer: Pft, hardly. I’m not nearly risky enough. But here are four steps to becoming one. While I don’t consider myself an entrepreneur, not yet at least, I’ve seen several…
Trick: Drop Down Menus in Blog Posts
When my colleagues ask me how I put drop downs in my blog posts I say: Magic 😉 After you blog for a few months you start wanting to show…
How do you Craft Clickable Post Titles?
Answer: Good question. Given that titles are what people read first, they should really pop and explode at your reader. I get a lot of questions on writing compelling post…
Welcome to Dear Blogger (in a British Accent)
Firstly, a few words about other tutorials, blogs, and guides you’ve been using. Forget about them. Chances are they contain lots of fluff, opinions, nonsense, and haven’t gotten you where…
Manipulate and Simplify Blog Post URLs (also called permalinks)
Answer: It’s not hard, you just need the right plugin! I’ll explain the conventional way of changing URLs first, and then my way 🙂 Firstly, by URL or permalink (same…
How to “Set Nameservers” So Your Domain Points to Your Blog
Sometimes you register a domain name at GoDaddy or another registrar before actually setting up hosting and installing your blog. This is common. If you followed my blogging guide and…