All Entries in the "Blogging" Category

Do you Write Outlines for Your Blog Posts?

Do you plan your posts or do you just write them free flow as they come?
This is a question that one of our members at ProBlogger.com (Mark Dykeman) started off a conversation with in the last week.
Mark talked in the thread about how he does both (sometimes he uses bullet points for his main points [...]

3 Lessons I Learned Building 4,000 Subscribers in 12 Months

I’ve read a lot of blogging success stories in my four-year blogging history. Sadly, they’ve always been about other people, rather than me. And, when I do see them, although they are real, I get a sense that the owner didn’t have to work as hard as I have. I see people getting big on [...]

Are We Obsessed With Aesthetics?

If you have the habit of visiting social bookmarking sites you probably know how popular web design related stories are. Every single day you can find a list with “the best collection of free textures,” “free icon sets,” “examples of stunning typography” and so on.
I do believe that design is an important part of the [...]

Blogging is Rocket Science

Do you ever have those moments when seemingly random, unrelated thoughts kind of merge together in your mind? This happened to me a couple of weeks ago.
I remembered a documentary I watched on the space shuttle years ago. Something was said about the percentage of fuel it burns within the first two minutes [...]

How to Make Your Blog Feel Like Home

Despite having already quit my job, I recently attended a “escape the rat-race” type workshop for people who were looking to start their own businesses. My main reason for going was to see the process that people teach in order to help others successfully transition out of the cubicle and into their own company.
After all, [...]

How To Get Google Sitelinks

I am very happy because my blog got Google Sitelinks. For your information, the blog is 5 months old and written in Indonesian laguage.
My question: what is the benefits of sitelinks for a blog?
First things first, what are the Google sitelinks? They are those links that appear below the first result when you search for [...]

Six Ways To Make More Money As An Affiliate

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that affiliate marketing is the easiest way to make money online. You don’t have to create a product or develop a service, you don’t need huge amounts of focused traffic the way you do with AdSense, (I started using AdSense a year ago and just [...]

The Paint By Numbers Guide To Artful Blogging

Britannica Online defines art as “The use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others.”
If you’re a blogger, then by definition, you most certainly engage in the following activities during the creation of content:

Creative Writing
Web Page Design (Aesthetics)
Idea Development (Novelty)
Social Media (Shared Experiences)

When we [...]

Exploit Scanner WordPress Plugin

Last week I was reading the official WordPress blog and I came across an interesting plugin: WordPress Exploit Scanner. It basically scans your database entries and site files looking for suspicious lines of codes. On top of that it also looks for suspicious plugins, posts, pages, users and WordPress settings.
Here is a screenshot:

It is worth [...]

3 Steps to Help You Choose a Topic for an E-Book

Todd – Good question. For me it was partly just about blogging for a number of years in my niche and starting to just get a hunch for what would work. I guess in that time I began to see patterns in what was working and what was not working in my niche. I also [...]