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It’s almost time for the 2008 BlogWorld & New Media Expo.
And yes, I will actually make it this year. Really.
BlogWorld is happening September 20-21 (Executive and Entrepreneur option on the 19th) in wholesome Las Vegas, Nevada. You can check out the entire conference schedule here.
I’ll be participating on two panels:
Making Money Online with a Blog [...]

Who is Hosting This has put together a great little study into the blog hosts of the top 100 bloggers (according to Technorati).
On top of the list is Media Temple, Datagram, BlogSpot and Six Apart.
Yes you heard it, 8 of the top 100 blogs use Blogspot and 4 use Six Apart to host their blogs. [...]

Today I want to point out a useful tool for bloggers wanting to do a little research into topics to blog about (or even what topic to choose for your next overall new blog). The tool is a free one from Google - their AdWords Keyword Tool.
This tool is one that Google offer their advertisers [...]

Today I received an email from one of the advertisers on the ProBlogger Job Boards. They reflected back to me that they’d had a lot of ‘low quality’ job applications and made some suggestions for those looking to apply for a blogger job.
I’ll include their suggestions below.
Let me say that I get a variety of [...]

I think there should be a notice that appears when installing WordPress or setting up your shiny new account with Blogger.
It would show up somewhere before you complete the final steps of setup, but before the long drawn out terms of use that nobody ever reads.
“WARNING.”
“Blogging is not easy. You may experience unexpected droughts [...]

Titles change the destiny of your posts.

Those few words at the beginning of your blog post can be the difference between the post being read and spread like a virus through the web like a wild fire and it languishing in your archives, barely noticed.

This month we’ve been talking about how to ‘craft’ blog posts [...]

Many bloggers come to a point in their blogging after they’ve been at it for a sustained period of time where they need to make a decision about repeating content and posting on topics they’ve already covered. Here’s a recent question from a reader who wished to remain anonymous:
“I would like to get your opinion [...]

Now that’s an odd question, right?
We all know that websites don’t smell (at least not literally).
But if you’ll bear with me, I’d like to demonstrate the importance of emotion in your copy, and what types of emotional imagery your copy needs to conjure up.
To understand why emotion matters so much when selling online, all you [...]

I finally had a chance to organize the Toronto meet-up I’ve been promising so many people since I arrived here.
As a lucky coincidence, John Chow is also in town, and like we did with the Vancouver meet-up and his Dot Com Pho regular gatherings, we decided to combine meet-ups for T-dot too.
If you are in [...]

List Posts have always been a popular format of post for bloggers. Today Ali Hale examines how to write the perfect list post and gives some great examples along the way of list posts that have done well on blogs.

List posts are ubiquitous – and hugely popular – in the blogosphere. As bloggers, we love [...]

Does this sound familiar?
You’ve picked a topic that your ideal readers are dying to know more about. You can write about the topic with authority. You’ve even chosen an interesting angle. In short, you’ve got a killer post that should bring your blog thousands of new readers.
You’re also smart enough [...]

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Live on the Radio in California
Last week I got an email from MZ, a DJ and radio owner who had a last minute drop-out [...]

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Yesterday I wrote about how to choose a topic to write about for blog posts and today in this video post I want to follow up this topic with [...]