ProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging

Today, we are talking about family and blogging. One of the reasons I was attracted to blogging was because it seemed like something that would allow me to have some flexibility in my life and time for family. On today’s episode I provide tips on finding the balance between family life and your blogging life.

Do you have any systems or tools to help you manage incoming email? Email is an area I need to work on. I will tell you how I deal with email, but my incoming email has grown exponentially. Today, I’m going to share (with a little bit of trepidation) how I deal with email.

Today I talk about writing great sales copy, whether that would be blog post, sales emails, creating sales pages, or even selling on social media. A lot has been written about the topic particularly focusing upon techniques to use in headlines or titles, how to use particular keywords or power words, how to get your call to action right, how to use video or change the color of your buttons or split test your pages. One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever had when it comes to writing sales copy is something that doesn’t really involve writing at all. It doesn’t even involve saying anything or communicating anything. I talk about what that is today. The advice I want to give you today is to shut up and listen.

Today, I talk about an obsession that many bloggers have - an obsession with creating NEW content and want to suggest that we all take a little step back from spending quite so much time on that task and pay attention to something that might have a better payoff for us.

This is 7th and final challenge in ProBlogger’s 7 Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back Challenge that we kicked off back in episode 137. Today my challenge for you is to create a piece of content that links to someone else’s content. A link post.

My challenge for you today is to start a discussion and to create a piece of content that attempt to get your readers engaging in some way. Now this might be a bit daunting for some of you just starting out who might not have much of a readership yet - but it’s something that I used to do in the very early days of my blogs that I’m glad that I persisted with.

Welcome to challenge five of my Seven Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back challenge where everyday for a week I'm nominating a different style of blog post for you to write within 24 hours of you hearing my challenge and then sharing it over in our ProBlogger Challenge Group in Facebook. Today, your challenge is to publish a piece of content that is how to in nature, a how to whatever it is that you write about.

Today, I want to issue you with a challenge to publish a story on your blog, a story post, a piece of content that is about a story or at least that includes a story. As always, you can create a written story, use video, use audio, use visual content, be as creative as you’d like. Stories are my favorite type of content and they’re very effective for a number of reasons.

Today, I want to issue you with a challenge to create a piece of content that is in some way a review. You choose the topic, I choose the style. My challenge is to create and publish that content within twenty-four hours if you can and then to share it over in the ProBlogger Challenge Group which I’ll link to on today’s show notes. Once you’ve shared it there, to check out some of the other posts that others who are participating in this challenge have also shared.

This is the 3rd Challenge of our 7 Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back Challenge that we kicked off a couple of episodes ago. This is day two or the second challenge in our seven days to get your blogging groove back challenge that we kicked off a couple of episodes ago. One of the easiest ways to find something to blog about that connects with your readers, that actually brings about change in their life is to answer their questions, particularly questions that more than one of your readers is asking.

This is part 1 of our 7 Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back Challenge that we kicked off in the last episode of this podcast. Today’s Challenge: Write a List Post. This is the easiest type of post that I could come up with for day one to help you ease into this particular challenge. The challenge today, write and publish a list post. Head over to our Facebook group. If you haven’t already joined, search for ProBlogger Challenge Group on Facebook or look for the link in today’s show notes and look for the update there that I’ve done where I call you to share your list posts.

Have you lost your blogging groove? Today is for you. In fact, this whole week is for you because this episode starts a week long daily series that is all about getting back into the groove of creating great regular content for your blog. Whether you’re feeling disillusioned, uninspired, uncreative or just a little bored with your blog - over the next week I want to invite you to tune into this podcast for a series of short daily challenges to create some great pieces of content.

"If you could only write one type of content on your blogs - what would it be?" I was asked this question while on a Q&A panel back in 2007 while at a conference in Las Vegas. It’s a question that I go back to again and again, and the answer hasn’t changed a bit. I also think writing this type of content is why I have had success over the last 13 years. One of the most important things I’ve done in my blogging has been to focus on writing one particular form of content above all others - that being evergreen content. Today, I'll discuss the importance and use of evergreen content.

Today’s podcast is about setting goals to grow your traffic and income. I do think it is useful to have goals. Today I’m going to make some suggestions on how to set those goals based on how I did it back in 2004 when I began to monetize my blog.

Today I’m going to help you decide if you should start on that new social network or that new medium like a podcast or a YouTube channel. As bloggers, we are constantly bombarded with choice as to how we can spend our time. There is an unlimited amount of things we could be doing to support our blogs, but not all of them are right for us. Today, I am going to go through some areas where we can ask questions to determine where we really should focus our energy.