A Blogger’s BluePrint: Tools that Ensure Our Success Online
I've spent today laying out a blueprint to every tool we use at DearBlogger.org, to guide you across the treacherous waters of trial and error.
Category: blog traffic
How To Reindex a Blog Post so Google Re-Notices
Updating and re-using old content is a key time saving step in almost every blog niche. But each time you update a post, you should reindex a blog post in Google. This article explains how.
Hello From DearBlogger: Blogging 2018 Predictions
Do what you do best. Do more of it. Do not mimic others. Dig deeper. Do more of what made you GREAT in 2017. At the end, I'll propose a challenge for you guys. Can't wait to see you there!
9 Tips to Turn Your Blog Into Traffic Converting Machine
When I started my first website online - I made a lot of mistakes when it came to converting traffic. Now, after lots of trial-and-error and plenty of mistakes, I've made a success of things and learned how to convert…
Medium Blogging: 7 Beneficial Reasons Why You Should Publish a Blog on Medium
I wrote my stories. I wasn’t always regular, but still, I did what Hemingway suggested and I bled onto the paper. But then, I listened and all I heard was silence. I wondered if anyone was out there.
10 Ways to Rapidly Increase Your Blog Comments Today
In this post I'll show you how to beat out other blogs published each day and make sure you attract comments to your blog posts.
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 major blogger, but lacked the technical insight that can only…
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 page and we were de-indexed from Search. Let me say…
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 are experiencing health problems that prevent you from doing your…
“Search Engines Follow People” and Other Reasons I’m So Happy With Year #1
Dear Reader, This blog turns 1 year old this weekend! (The weekend of September 29th, 2013, but don’t worry it’s not too late to congratulate us!) And while I have little to complain about since we launched last year, that…
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 is microblogging. I’ll show you how to do that a…
Social Proof: How to Pass the Popularity Test in Blogging
Let me make a far-fetched assumption: If you blog on WordPress you probably want to feel popular online. You want the likes, tweets, and +1’s. Nearly all of us do. In this post I’d like to break down something called…
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…
Why Blogs Fail to Get Traffic
The days of easy Google traffic are over and I hear the complaints all the time. How can I attract more traffic? Will Google ever notice my blog posts? Well the answer is YES, you can attract great traffic and…