How To Write a Blog Post: Style and Format Guide (2021)
If you just took the life-changing leap to start a blog, then you’ll have a lot of ideas waiting to get out. How do you fill those white screens on…
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Success: What Bloggers Must Do To Promote a Blog on the Home Front
Anyone who frequents Dear Blogger knows I try to keep the focus of my blog posts niche narrow. Specific ways to master weird facets of blogging, like upsells or G+. But every now and then I’ll come out with a piece of cornerstone content that seems to cover it all. This post would definitely fall…
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5 Common Blogging Mistakes that You Can Fix
“I feel so inspired today. I’ll write a blog post. Two, even! Then I’ll take the month off blogging and wait for inspiration to strike me again.” In an ideal…
Keep Your Eye on These Small Business Marketing Trends for 2018
2018 is unfolding, new trends and marketing technologies that marketers should be aware of are emerging.
5 Blogger Networking Blunders and Corrections
I have been online for almost 10 years. The sheer number of blogger networking blunders baffles me. Most bloggers have no idea how to network. Why would you know how…
A Fresh Take On Reverse Guest Blogging and It’s Practical How-To-Guides
As what the name itself suggests, reverse guest blogging is the opposite of guest blogging. So, while guest blogging is a means of offering your contents to other sites to…
YouTube Website Showcase – I’m So Excited to Feature Your WordPress Websites and Blogs!
200+ videos and a few long blog posts later, we finally have something to show for all our hard work in creating WordPress blogs and websites: an official Showcase Website…
How To Build Your First 10 Backlinks with Examples
After working long nights you'll inevitably have this "worthy piece of content" and at that very same time you're ready with content I want you to have a strategy laid…
Video Update: Unity – The WordPress Experience Club
Hitting my best golf shot yet (which isn't saying much) then talking about why you need to join our new WordPress Experience Club.
Impress Your Website Guests: Choose a Responsive Theme
You only get one chance to make a good first impression. Your website is your virtual calling card, and making it great is up to you. Your success depends not…
How To Create a Popular Blog Under a Nickname (a Pseudonym)
There's a lot that can do to make a blog popular these days. But if you can choose the perfect nickname aka a pseudonym before you start a life-changing blog…
Why Clever Post Titles Are Killing Your Blog
I had recently had the opportunity to sit down with a blogging client and help her improve her blog’s design. She had all the writing talent and content of a…
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…
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…
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…
Guest-Posting and Guest-Hosting: Best Practices
Guest posting. What is it, and why do it? What are the pros and cons? What qualities do great guests and hosts have? What are the rules? Who makes them…
So, You’re Back at it: How to Take Advantage of a Post-Holiday Blogging Buzz
Another vacation is in the books and that means you’re fired up! Guess what, your readers are too! Here are 10 best practices to write your usual amazing content AND…
Guest Blogging Guidelines: Dear Blogger Style
Dear Reader, No more excuses. No more polite rejection emails. It’s time to start publishing the work of a few Dear Blogger readers. That means you! And on a blog…
The Email Template that Works on Anyone
Welcome to my First Blogging Bootcamp. Click the link to read more from this series. The blogosphere is composed of people. Real people like you, who have wants and needs.…
Twitter Basics and “All is Well so Far”
The SMS service of the internet…short bursts of unsequential information…chirps from a bird!” “Twitter” has got a lot of meanings. For us bloggers, Twitter = traffic. But also, interestingly, Twitter…
Success: What Bloggers Must Do To Promote a Blog on the Home Front
Anyone who frequents Dear Blogger knows I try to keep the focus of my blog posts niche narrow. Specific ways to master weird facets of blogging, like upsells or G+.…
Google Plus: An Easy Guide to the 3rd Social Network
I know I already disclosed my New Year’s resolution to the email club (it’s to “ask for more” this year). Here’s another one: Totally dominate Google+ in 2013 Why? What’s…
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.…