CategoryFinding readers

This is a guest contribution from Sam Bowman (details below) Link building is one of the most popular and effective ways to expand your growth online. It is also considered an essential SEO step for bloggers.  Having other blogs linking back to your own is a way of convincing Google you’re ...more

“What are the first steps to optimizing my blog for searches?” – question submitted by @monedays using the #pbquestions hashtag on Twitter. Much has been written on the topic of search engine optimization for bloggers – but let me give you a few basic first steps: 1. Content is King ...more

By ProBlogger Writing Expert Ali Luke. Has your blog got a grand total of three subscribers? (You, your test account, and your mum?) Maybe you’ve got a little bit further than that. You’ve got 10 or 20 or 50 readers signed up to read your posts or your newsletter. But ...more

If you want to have a blog that makes a difference in the lives of those who read it, I would highly recommend getting clarity around these three simple (yet powerful) questions: Who are your readers? What do they need? How will they change as a result of reading your ...more

This week I’m introducing the first of five ways that I’d promote a new blog to new readers if i was starting out again. Perhaps one of the most powerful ways of exposing your writing to a new group of people is to put some of your best content on ...more

    This post is based on episode 70 of the ProBlogger podcast. Last week I talked about creating an opt-in incentive to increase your email subscriber numbers. I also mentioned that one of those incentives could be a series you deliver over a number of weeks. Well, this week I want ...more

This post is based on episode 69 of the ProBlogger podcast. Note: This article contains affiliate links, which means that if you purchase anything via my link I may earn a small commission at no cost to you. (And in some cases, ProBlogger has negotiated special deals for our readers with these ...more

This post is based on episode 68 of the ProBlogger podcast. Note: This article contains affiliate links, which means that if you purchase anything via my link I may earn a small commission at no cost to you. (And in some cases, ProBlogger has negotiated special deals for our readers ...more

This post is based on episode 35 of the ProBlogger podcast. With so many blogs out there (not to mention all the other types of websites), you’ve only got a few seconds to convince a first-time reader that yours is worth coming back to. So how do you do that? By ...more