Introduction Since starting my website 3 months ago I’ve gone from effectively talking to nobody, to receiving 140,291 pageviews from 83,930 visits, from 62,162 different people, looking at 53 different posts. In this post, I’m going to walk you through, month by month, all the notable moments of my…
Category: Blogging
6 Steps To Writing The Ultimate Top List
This is my absolute top way of driving traffic to my website because everyone loves a list, packed full of useful information, and if someone disagrees (and they will) with what you’ve written, they’ll be sure to tell you and others all about it, driving even more traffic…
Why You’ve Not Yet Become an Authority in Your Niche
This is the perfect post for anyone who’s been blogging for a while and struggling to find the inspiration after exhausting the depths of their knowledge, trying to come up with topics to write about, but still not reached the authority status they’ve been after. Avoid…
How To Produce Engaging Content Your Audience Will Love!
So you want to create more engaging content – Content that will turn first time visitors into regular visitors! You have tried all the tricks in the book to make your content engaging, but it doesn’t work. You even tried all the strategies taught by the…
What to Put on Your Blog’s Homepage
What’s the point of your homepage? If your homepage simply features a list of your latest blog posts, you’re making a big mistake. It’s important to get your homepage right because it’s going to be one of the most viewed pages on your blog, but people…
Blogger Profile: How Matt Inman of The Oatmeal Built a $500k Blog
Some bloggers toil for years trying to get noticed. Others, like Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal, attract five million monthly readers before their blog’s first birthday. Below, I’ll profile Matthew Inman, tell the story of how he started The Oatmeal, and how he’s turned it into…
25 Lessons, Quotes, and Productivity Tips from WordPress Founder Matthew Mullenweg
You know about Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) and Jack Dorsey (Twitter). But what about the guy who’s in charge of the platform that powers “18.9% of the top 10 million websites”? That would be Matt Mullenweg, the 29-year-old at the heart of WordPress. With 60 million websites built with WordPress (including…
Unusual, Cheeky and Fun Ways To Get Inspiration For Your Blog Posts
How I Get Inspiration and Ideas for Blog Posts Today I am going to talk about Inspiration and in particular my strategies for getting Inspiration for Blog Post Ideas and overcoming Writers Block. According to The Google Dictionary Inspiration is: A feeling of enthusiasm you get…
Top 40 Blogging Quotes
These are the top quotes about blogging from many of the world’s most successful bloggers. They range from motivational to humorous — covering everything from social media to monetization. Mostly they seek to define what blogging is, what makes it so important, and how to blog…
15 Editing & Proofreading Tips Every Blogger Should Know
Fact is many of us have ended up writing and blogging for a career almost by accident. Now, in the early days of the Internet this did not matter much – indeed it almost was an ‘advantage’ to not be a professional. But times have changed…
The Ultimate Guide To Guest Posting
Oh man, a guest post about guest posting? This is so meta. Hopefully we don’t cause a tear in the fabric of the universe with this post. One of the easiest and FASTEST ways to get exposure online is through leveraging other people’s audiences. Be it…
10 Tasks For Your Brand New Blog
When I started blogging, I didn’t really have any clue of what I was doing, I just thought that if I was writing good content, then people would find me, but unfortunately it’s not like that anymore. If you want to do well, then you need…
10 WordPress Tools Guaranteed To Boost Your Results and Productivity
I was inspired to create this post when I found that there are some pretty weak top 10 lists about WordPress on the web. I spent so much time searching for the ideal list that I felt a strong desire to compile one myself. 1. How…
How to Write a Legendary Blog Post
As a blogger, you dream of writing that post that shatters the status quo. The post that causes people to stop whatever they’re doing and makes an everlasting impact on everyone who reads it. But the problem is that most bloggers don’t understand the fundamentals of…
Blog Spring Clean | Things To Remove From Your Blog
Regular readers will know I’m a true believer in perfection and bulletproofing. Removing things that aren’t important is vital to make sure your website is converting as well as possible. If you have links going away from your website or you have any distractions, this is…
Top Content to Write in the New Year
The new year is here now, and with that comes the anual tradition of the new years resolution, which for many of you will have something to do with working hard on your website. We all set ourselves targets for the new year, but we rarely…
How To Use Photos In Your Blog To Make It More Interesting
Why you Should be using Images in your Posts If there’s one thing I’ve learnt from writing blog posts, it’s that people barely ever read the whole thing (the majority of people won’t even read this); they read titles. Images are a great way of sparking…
7 Quick Tips to Make Your Blog Design More Readable
If you’ve ever read a book at the beach, you’ll understand that your environment plays a big role in how enjoyable it is to read. The same applies to your blog, except, you control every element that makes up the environment. One of the easiest ways…