Is Blogging a Passive Income?
Blogging for passive income is an aspiration for people starting a new blog or niche site. Is blogging really a passive income?
Blogging advice and tips from Chris Garrett
Is Blogging Dead? Blogging vs Vlogging
Is blogging dead? In the era of video, video, video, does written content have a place? Should we be blogging or vlogging?
How to Get Your Blog Noticed (SparkyFace5 Blog Critique)
Getting your blog noticed - how with some simple tweaks you and your blog will get the attention you deserve.
Better Blog Branding: What’s In a Name?
Naming your blog is one of the most critical considerations when launching. How do you choose a great blogging domain?
Better Blog Branding: Domain Exclusivity
You put a lot of effort into choosing a domain. What happens when someone registers "your" name? How much damage can they do to you?
My Blog Launch Mistakes on the Way to 10,000 Page Views Per Month and How to Avoid Them
Launching a professional blog takes knowledge and planning, but even after all this time I still make mistakes when I launch a blog. Let me share my lessons with you so you can avoid them!
How to Create Link Bait for Topical Authority
Link bait is misunderstood as a search engine optimization tactic due to abuse of the idea. How to create ethical and brand safe link bait
Authority Websites vs Niche Websites: Which to Start?
Authority Sites and Niche Sites have taken over the website creation conversation lately.
But what exactly are niche or authority sites?
Getting Started Vlogging Using Your Smartphone
Vlogging can be challenging, scary, technical, but it doesn’t need to be. More people are starting to create video using just their smartphones. Let’s take a look!
How to get more people to sign up, and keep them subscribed to your list long term
Do you want more email subscribers and readers? What is stopping your list from growing? How do you keep people from leaving? I will tell you there is always something you can improve when it comes to growing your subscriber base, and the answers are not always difficult or complex … once you see what …
3 Essential (But Often Missed) Elements to Growing Your List
Why do some people with so-so content seem to easily grow their community, while other much better writers seem to struggle to get a few opt-ins? I believe there are three factors that set a growing list apart from a struggling one, and many people either overlook the necessity or are unaware of it. When …
Grow Your Authority With Your Geekiness
How do people really connect and build friendly relationships? What is it that causes people to want to hear from you more than anything else?
Want to Know What Makes Content Truly Successful?
What is the secret to getting your content read, shared and acted on? Is your content really useful versus just well-written? Why do some writers get real results from their articles, while other writers work just as hard, or harder, and don’t seem to get noticed? Of course there are many reasons, but a key …
How to Use Your Website to Get Clients Offline and Into Your Office
How do you use the web to gain face to face clients? It’s a question I get asked a lot, and it is a growing part of the world of marketing online. Think about your own buying behaviour. Would you buy a car now without at least researching online? ย Or even a TV? The web …
How to Make Your Site the Destination for Your Market
Why do you blog? Is it for traffic and attention? If you blog to get more visibility, then you have a lot of company. One of the major reasons companies and individuals create content is to increase their share of attention, to build credibility, and to grow an audience. HubSpot researchย indicates companies that blog generateย 55% …
Authority Blogging for Artists (New York Daily Photo Critique)
What should a blogger do when they want to profit from their creativity, knowledge, experience and skills, but not by teaching “how to”, but instead from the results of their work? As you no doubt know, my strategy for building a profitable blog around what you know is called Authority Blogging. Build an audience of …
When Should You Start Selling from Your Blog?
How do you know when your audience is ready to buy from you? Should you wait to “monetize”? How big does your audience need to be? These are common questions and the answers have been debated over the years. I am going to share an answer I gave George from the Man Up Blog during …
Why You Shouldn’t Drive Traffic
In the first 7 days of this blogs life, 20,000 visitors checked it out. Sounds like a pretty nice result doesn’t it? I was super happy, but a little disappointed in one specific respect. Only 500 people subscribed. Now, don’t get me wrong, I loved and nurtured those 500 subscribers and 500 subscribers in any …
How to know what your audience really wants
Your audience does not want your content. Your audience probably does not want to hear from you at all. If you think that because your website looks great that people will want to visit it … think again. What do they really want? Your audience and potential customers know who they are and probably have …
How to REALLY make money from a website
As much as I tell people to seriously reconsider buying too much into the hardcore “Make Money Online” hype, I can not argue against its allure and the fact that, well, people DO make money online. The problem is, there are the usual caveats: These are challenges facing Roman who asked me for a blog …
The Importance of Standing Out in a Crowded Market – YoungPrePro Blog Critique
This critique will be useful to you if you believe you are doing all the right things but are still not getting the results you want. I get a lot of clients come to me with similar situations and many are on the verge of giving up due to this frustration. Fact is, you could …
Is Generosity Killing Your Business?
I always tell clients and customers they need to be generous first before taking anything. Sometimes though it can seem challenging keeping up the generosity in the face of bills and expenses. We don’t want to go too far the other way either – who wants to be seen as someone who takes, takes and …
Critique – BankNerd.ca
BankNerd.ca is a Canadian website all about the banking industry. This is an interesting critique for me having recently moved to Canada and have a whole raft of banking type stuff to set up. As you might see from the screengrab above, the site is about everything banking and aims to monetize mainly with advertising. …
Blog Critique: Life on the Buy Side
Getting an outside opinion on your blog is always a good idea, but especially at the beginning, and especially when you have a great deal of expertise in comparison to your average target audience member. Why is this? A little thing called “The Beginner’s Mind”. When we start learning a topic there are all these …
Are You Too Busy to Write? Seven Ways to Blog More Productively
Is finding time to blog something you struggle with? A number of people have asked me how they can find time to blog on top of everything else that I have going on. Writing content is vitally important for your blog. It is your source of direct visitors, plus the meat of what you share …
How I Use My Blog as a Fulcrum and You Can Too
Every now and then the “a blog is not a business” meme will come around again. Each time someone will challenge me about it. Look, I agree. A blog is no more a business than a book is a business if you want to be strict about it. But why does it matter? Rather …
What Makes Real Blogging Success?
What makes a successful blog? What makes a successful blogger? I have been reflecting on these questions as I start planning out the next stage of my Authority Blogger course. It’s important to me that people get real results, and honestly the only way I can do that is by basing my advice on what …
Building Credibility – The Value Shift
It’s Blogworld coming up in a few days. Another big conference with busy halls, packed sessions, and loud parties. That might sound like heaven or hell to you, and believe me I understand both perspectives. I am doing up to six sessions this year. Around six more than my nerves are built to take. You …
Bloggers Mean Business
Here we go again. Another week, another “revolution”, another “rebel” stirrs things up. To paraphrase a line from a movie … “He’s not a rebel, he is a very naughty boy.” Ideas should be free, says the latest link-bait, attack-post, call-to-arms, etc. Whatever. It seems even in 2010 there are still people out there who …
Escape Your Blog to Grow it
I don’t remember exactly when I first shared my “flagship content” concept at Performancing.com but it came from looking at how we were going to achieve growth. We were hovering around the top 20 blogs on the internet, as ranked by Technorati. Each successful website reaches the same stage, but each gets there in its …
How to Sell More From Your Blog (Blog Critique: Steven Aitchison)
Steven Aitchison has a strong blog. Most people would regard his site as a success (in fact he claims it as the “biggest personal development blog in the UK) .. So why would he ask for a blog critique when he is doing so many things right? With stats like these, Steven could be giving …
Medical Practice Trends Blog Critique
Learn how to marry your commercial goals with your reader's mission in today's blog critique for Medical Practice Trends.
Creative Penn Blog Critique
Joanna Penn describes The Creative Penn as a site … aimed at people who are interested in writing, self-publishing/print-on-demand and internet marketing for their books (in print/ebook or audio format). That is a great niche, there are thousands of people struggling to get their book written, published and sold. I know the pull of books …
Free Pursuits Blog Critique
Free Pursuits is a blog about “Lifestyle Design”, or How to Live the Good Life Without Being Independently Wealthy or Retired What this means for you is a blog packed with content guiding you towards living the life of your dreams. Of course what this means for Corbett as a blogger is he is pitting …
Authority Versus Pure SEO
Why are authorities at an advantage in marketing? What is the difference between an authority site versus a pure seo approach for marketing?
Why Email Subscribers?
A couple of people emailed me to ask why my big birthday competition was only open to email subscribers, why did I want email subscribers in particular?
Well first of all I love all my subscribers There are just things you can do for email subscribers that you can not for RSS (currently).
As many guessed, the first advantage of email over RSS is email subscribers are not anonymous. Being able …
How to Create a Blog that People Want to Read
What is the difference between a popular blog and an ignored one? This is a surprisingly complicated question to answer. Great content is a given. No, that’s not where it ends. It is not as simple as “content is king”, no matter how many times that nugget is repeated. There are thousands of well written …
Who SHOULD Blog?
In my last post I took the unusual step of suggesting there are people who should avoid blogging. While I am complete card-carrying, t-shirt wearing, tattooed on my brain blogging advocate, even I realize there are people who would be best off being blog readers than blog writers. It just is not for everybody, and …
Why You Should Not Blog
Yes, you read that right. Why you should NOT blog. Blogging is not for everyone. There are some good reasons I have seen suggested why you should not blog: You don’t have the time to do it justice. Blogging would add nothing to your business or life. Writing is too difficult or unpleasant. Your company …
Humbled Eyes Photography Blog Critique
This blog critique is for Rob Nicholson of Humbled Eyes Photography. Photographers have the following main goals with their blog if they are going to be effective in attracting paying customers: Draw in visitors Generate interest Demonstrate professional ability Communicate personality Build towards action As you can tell from this list, it’s not as simple …