When Being the Number 1 Blog in Your Niche is Not Enough
How To - Move From WordPress.com To WordPress.org
Moving a Blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org is something Ive had a lot of questions about - today Jeff Chandler shares tips on how to do it. Everyday it seems like I find a story or two from a cities local online newspaper which delves into the topic of blogging a[...]
A Time for Talk and a Time for Action
I really like this post by Chris Brogan - Whats in a Name. You worry about names. You think long and hard about titles. You put boxes around what youre doing, if that suits you. Ill be over here just doing. Thinking, planning, doing, and observing my results. Im always [...]
How Much Money Do Bloggers Make Blogging?
Over the last two months Ive had a sidebar poll running here at ProBlogger that asked readers to tell us how much their blog earned in October of 2008. This is an annual poll that weve run for a number of years now so it is always interesting to see the results. As usua[...]
69 Questions to Ask to Review Your Blog
With the end of 2008 hurtling towards us many bloggers are beginning to cast our minds forward into the new year ahead to set goals, make resolutions and come up with strategies and plans to grow their blogs in 2009. While looking forward and planning to improve your bl[...]
How to Write Fast
Alisa Bowman from projecthappilyeverafter.com shares some tips on writing fast. So you havent quite monetized your blog. That means youre still working 8 or so hours in the non-virtual world for that paycheck. You may also have many other time commitments. They are call[...]
WordPress Plugin: CommentLuv
CommentLuv is a great way to reward your blog readers who leave a comment on your blogs. If your commenters leave their blog URLs on their posts, this plugin would parse the URL for the RSS feed and automatically find and include in the comment the latest blog post of y[...]
Top 10 WordPress Plugin Developers for 2008
As the year ends, its time to see which plugin developers created the most sought-after WordPress plugins for 2008. Fortunately, W-Shadow.com has compiled a list of the top WordPress plugin developers using rankings from the number of downloads from the wordpress.org pl[...]
Blog Tips
Pownce Joining Six Apart, Closing
Microblogging service Pownce, once touted as Twitter’s heir apparent, is closing down on December 15. The Pownce team has joined SixApart, and they will be bringing their technology with them. The team is now working on an export tool that will let users transfer their posts to other blogging services such as Vox, TypePad, or [...]
Integrate Plurk to Firefox with Plurkybar
Those who have switched microblogs from Twitter to Plurk have been disappointed at the lack of Firefox add-ons available. Need proof? Off the top of my head, without googling, I can name a few Twitter add-ons for our favorite browser: Twitterfox, Twitbin, TwitKit, Twitterbar and so many more. Plurk, on the other hand, has very [...]