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Well it’s finally here! The third edition of the Problogger book is now available to order. (You might have already seen the news at Problogger). The first edition came out May 2008, co-authored by Darren Rowse and myself, and published by Wiley Publishing. We released the second edition in 2010 to expand and update the …

Have you noticed I have been a bit quiet lately? There are two reasons. The first, of course, is that I have been moving country. These things tend to constrain your time a little … I can happily say I am typing this from our rental home in Canada 🙂 Today’s post is about the …

I just got off a call with my NLP coach. We swap services, so I give him advice about internet stuff, and he helps me with my (many) “issues”. One of the things he is helping me work through is my fear of moving my family thousands of miles away to live in Calgary, Canada. …

You might have already seen some of my fellow bloggers talking about this product. So much that I actually avoided posting about it because I felt with my Authority Blogger launch you might have gotten sick of hearing me toot my horn, until Michelle gave me an email bottom-kicking … So here I am telling …

It’s time to announce the winners of our Copywriting Success Summit 2009 Competition!

Want to be a successful freelancer copywriter? Or successful freelance anything for that matter? Read on, there is some great business building content up for grabs and all you need to “pay” is your email address!

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The first Northern UK Bloggers Meet-up took place last friday at the Old Broadcasting House, Leeds. Well, half of it, the other half was in the Dry Dock pub (see a picture of the Dry Dock in daylight) - great venues, both!
I think it is fair to say a good time was had by all.

Jamie did an excellent talk about Woopra and gave out beta invites (which it seems we might not be …

Why people blog was one of the blogging survey questions I most wanted to get numbers on. We blog for many reasons, and I was fully aware "Why We Blog" might well be different from, say Darren's readership.

Turns out way different to how I imagined. It seems I have very few "make money online" readers. We are split pretty much between "for pleasure" and "for business".

Why People Blog …

Blogging survey results, as promised! Even though we didn’t quite get to the magic 1,000 mark once junk entries were taken into account, I am going to start rolling out my survey results. Hopefully I will be able to get through them before my vacation so I can incorporate any feedback required to make them …

Last week I mentioned my Global Blogging Survey and your chance to win one of 10 ProBlogger books. Well we are just over half way to the magic 1000 submissions mark, can we get some more?
If the total can get to 1000 or more then the results will be more reliable and statistically "ok". It's always better to draw conclusions from a good base rather than infer something that might not be based on …

As you read this I will be either on my way to Chicago for SOBCon, or landed and trying to recover from jetlag, depending on where in the world you are right now. Hopefully one of the two, I am trying not to think of the unfortunate alternative scenarios!
I am excited and nervous, and not just about the usual long haul travel logistics. It's a while since I attended any event like this, let alone …

If you subscribe to this blog via email you might see some strangeness while the list migrates from FeedBurner to Aweber but hopefully the end result will mean a much better email experience :)

I woke up to find that today was a new world holiday invented by Darren We’re in it together, blogging is about collaboration and together going further than we can by ourselves – so why not help another blogger today by shooting them a word of encouragement, a pep talk, a congratulations, an idea to …

While I often recommend that bloggers “link out generously and often” I don’t take my own advice quite enough so here is a roundup of some links you will love: Is it really 2 years since we launched Performancing? Ryan is doing a fun treasure hunt to celebrate. Want to win $1000? Put a value …

Two pieces of news to share with you today: Recall the free Teaching Sells ebook I mentioned before? Well, Brians course has launched along with some new free articles. I have been looking through and I know you will like it. In fact my Authority Blogger e-course plans have changed already because of the material …

Teaching Sells? It certainly does! I have long maintained that bloggers can sell by educating and building trust, it is a large part of my AuthorityBlogger concept. Brian Clark of CopyBlogger fame has produced a free ebook telling you why you should have your own product and how to go about it. Whether blogging is …

Blog Action Day is here! It seems like only five minutes since I was invited to join in. From the first mention I thought it was a great idea so I am so pleased the project is already a success with some fantastic blogs and backers involved. This Blog Action Day has been dedicated to …

My first round of October free guest posts are up, a couple even got to the Digg front page 🙂 5 Skills That Boost Your Design Career My Top 5 Biggest Freelancing Mistakes 5 Tips For a Less Stressful Moving House Experience WP_Submission WordPress Plugin Makes Reader Submission Projects and Blog Carnivals Easy Hopefully more …

I’m still lacking internet access so please forgive me for offloading blogging duties to some links today 🙂 Thankfully there is much goodness around for you to see! seodigger – Find out if your site ranks for searched-for keywords. Nice tool that helps you discover where and what keywords your site shows up for. 22 …

I’m thinking now I have a few of these I need to do some sort of a page for linking to interviews. How would you do it? This sort of thing is still new to me so I am not sure what the “done thing” is 🙂 Anyway, Bloginite has just posted up a quicky …

When I wrote a post explaining how to get more Digg users to subscribe to your blog there were quite a few people who doubted me. “Impossible”, “waste of time”, “Diggers don’t subscribe”, “etc”, people said. Well, I feel a little vindicated today. Yesterday Codswallop was featured on the Digg homepage, today I see we …

If you recall I waffled on for too long so the original interview was split into two parts. I just heard that you can now go and listen to Part 2 🙂 Again I am telling you about it before I listen myself so I just hope I don’t come over too badly!

You may have noticed a small addition to my footer (if I manage to work out the CSS bug that keeps hiding it!). It’s a Creative Commons button. What is that all about, you ask? Read on in my post “Creative Commons For Bloggers” …

I haven’t even listened to this myself yet (I hope I don’t sound like a complete prat) but Sara has informed me that part one of the Random Bits Podcast featuring me is up and ready to listen to. Sara split the interview into two parts because I jabbered on far too long so the …

The blogging forum just broke 1000 posts! Not bad for a brand new forum, it’s only just over a week since it was announced (of course it helps that it is free to join and full of wonderful people) 🙂 When you sign up make sure you add your details and blog URL to the …

I know you can’t get enough of me, right? Right? Well, OK, maybe you can 🙂 Anyways … I’ve just been listening to the ProBlogger Confidential call I had with Andy Wibbels and his listeners. I’m not too ashamed of how I sound. More “ums and ahs” than I would hope for but at least …

Since my Blogging forum Announcement over 200 people have signed up! Thanks to everyone who has joined and taken part in the discussions 🙂 If you haven’t joined in yet, see what you are missing at the Authority Blogger Forum now!

After Darrens post revealing a “service” allowing unethical companies to buy Spam Comments Wendy Piersall has decided to put no-follow back on her links. I am considering doing the same. It’s a shame when legitimate comments will get the same link-condom as fake comments but sometimes when you get a lot of messages in your …

Thanks all for your Branding Posts. I am compiling the round-up now so please, to avoid disappointment, do not send me any more. The post will be going up in the morning, it looks like it should be good 🙂

What does an Authority Blogger do when he joins an existing blogging team on an already running blog? I guess we are all going to find out, today I started blogging at Crestock. As it is a stock image and photography company I will be focusing on the photography side, in particular how to be …

Adriaan Pienaar has posted his short interview with me. There are interesting questions covering topics from new media through to my opinion of blogging to position yourself as a niche expert. Check it out!