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| Punctuation, Spelling and Grammar - Quality Control for Bloggers | | In our series on crafting blog content we’re at stage 7 (of 10) and having chosen our topic, crafted a title, written an engaging opening line, written a meaningful post, added a call to action and added depth - we’re finally ready to hit ‘publish’!
Or are we?
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Today I want to talk about Quality [...] [..] Read complete article |  | Published 05-Sep-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| 12 Tips To SNAP Readers Out of Passivity with Calls to Action | | The vast majority of visitors to your blog are paralyzed by passivity.
They never comment, they don’t vote in polls, they won’t subscribe to your feed or newsletters, they won’t buy the affiliate products that you recommend, they won’t email a friend about your blog, they won’t vote for you in social bookmarking sites and most [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 28-Aug-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| Show Off Your Title Creation Skills - Rework These Post Headlines | | In the last few days we’ve been talking about how to write good blog post titles here at ProBlogger.
We’ve talked about the theory of it - so now it’s time to get a little more practical.
In the next couple of days I’m going to launch a group writing project that picks up the topic of [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 23-Aug-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| 11 Ways to Open a Post and Get Reader Engagement | | ‘Hi Michael, it’s nice to meet you’
These were the first words my wife spoke to me.
Not the most spectacular start to a relationship…. considering my name is Darren.
Opening lines matter - particularly when it comes to blogging. If you don’t get them right your posts will go largely unread.
Do you want to discover how [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-Aug-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| The Why and How on Repeating Content on Your Blog | | 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 [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 18-Aug-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| 10 Steps to the Perfect List Post | | 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 [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 16-Aug-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| How to Choose a Topic for Your Next Blog Post | | Today I’d like to talk about choosing topics for blog posts as part of our series on how to craft a blog post.
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Choosing the right topic to write about on your blog is vital if you want to write a post that engages your reader.
Rushing the choice of topic can set you [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 13-Aug-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| How to Craft a Blog Post - 10 Crucial Points to Pause | | It hits you like a TON of BRICKS! It’s an idea for that KILLER blog post that is just bound to bring you all the traffic that you’ve ever dreamed of.
With the idea fresh in your mind you sit down at your keyboard and BANG it out - desperate to hit publish as quickly as [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 11-Aug-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| Nine Signs of an Effective Blog Post | | In this post Dustin M. Wax explores what it takes to write an effective blog post. Learn more about Dustin at the conclusion of this post. Image by B Tal.
You sweat blood all night, hunched over your keyboard, typing away at your blog’s next masterpiece. Finally, you click “Publish”, the post flies into the ether, [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 09-Jul-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| The Beauty of Imperfection | | Today Chris Brogan shares with us one of the secrets of his blogging.
I’m not sure what it is about Darren’s blog that makes me confess my blogging secrets. I did it once before when I discussed how I promote my blog using Twitter, and here I am back to give away another of my secrets [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 08-Jul-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| Why Being a Better Writer Affects the Performance of your Blog | | Amrit Hallan from Content Blog writes today about how improving your writing can improve the performance of your blog - Image by The Trial.
Why are writers banned and persecuted in undemocratic countries? Because the written word is stronger than the entire governments and the ruthless forces they wield upon their masses. Effective writing can awaken [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 26-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| The Power of Getting Personal on Your Niche Blog | | This time last weekend I was sitting in a delivery suite in a Melbourne hospital waiting for the arrival of my second son Henri. It would be another 12 hours til he was actually born but after he’d come along and we’d had a little recovery time I managed to get online and post that [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 20-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| Don?t Let Emotion Be MIA In Your Content | | Too many times, bloggers focus on their content without stopping to think about how they’re presenting it. Today Dave Hughes takes a look at creating memorable content by injecting Emotion into it.
The trick is to know how to construct an effective bloggerie (or blog post). Luckily, this doesn’t involve deals with the devil, mystic VooDoo [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 19-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| Great Content? Bad Titles - How to Let Your Blog Go #4 | | One problem that I regularly saw in the days that I took on blog consulting work was bloggers who spent hours and hours slaving over the writing of quality posts only to take 5 seconds to slap a very ordinary title on them.
While poor titles won’t have as much of an immediate detrimental impact as [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 19-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| How Blogging made me a Better Writer | | Karen Andrews is an award winning short story writer coming up to the second year anniversary of her blog www.miscmum.com. Her first book, a children?s picture book called Surprise!, will be released in Australia in October. Further details can be found at www.miscpress.com.au
I recently spoke at a writers? festival about the potential confluence of my [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 18-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| Getting Off Topic - How to Let Your Blog Go #2 | | One way that I see some bloggers ‘letting their blog go‘ is to become distracted and move off topic more and more. When I asked readers why they unsubscribed from a blog’s RSS feed they told me that the forth highest reason was when blogs change focus or go off topic.
There’s nothing wrong with a [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 17-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| Lack of Posting - How to Let Your Blog Go #1 | | Perhaps the fastest way to let your blog go is to stop posting to it. It can happen for many reasons whether it be your life getting busy, suffering from a bout of bloggers block or becoming distracted by another project.
Most bloggers go through one or all of these issues at one point or another [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 16-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| What is the Ideal Post Frequency for a Blog? | | In our current reader poll I’m asking readers to tell us how many posts they made on their main blog over the month of May.
It’s only been 12 hours since I posted the poll so it’s early days - however so far category with the most responses so far is 1-10 posts (currently with 30% [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 10-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| A ?Quick? Tip on Landing an Interview for Your Blog | | Image by ItzaFineDay
Over the last month since launching the ProBlogger book I’ve done more interviews with other bloggers and sites than I’ve ever done before. It’s been a lot of fun but it’s also taught me a lot about how to approach people for interviews on your blog.
Perhaps the best piece of advice that I [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 03-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| Should I Publish Free Articles On My Blog? | | Earlier today I was asked to take a look at a blog of a reader to give it a critique. On arriving on the blog I immediately noticed that at the top of every article on the front page of the blog there was a copyright notice which ascribed the copyright to a ‘free article’ [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 30-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| The Power of Blog Projects | | Post Post Post… yawn… Post Post Post… sigh… Post Post Post… eyes glazing over…
Do you ever find blogging a little mind numbing as a blogger?
Do you ever look at other people’s blogs and feel a little bored?
Most bloggers who have been blogging for a sustained period of time go through patches where either they feel [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 05-May-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| What Time of the Day is Best to Post to Your Blog | | LeftTheBox asks “Hey Darren I know you post daily but do you try to post at a certain time each day?”
I certainly do! I not only set myself minimum post numbers each day but I’ve taken it a little further and narrowed down some daily posting windows that I aim for.
Really it comes down to [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Apr-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| 9 Essential Questions to Ask Yourself Before Posting to Your Blog | | HaraldJohnsen asks “As a quality control, what are the most important questions to ask before hitting ’submit’ / posting a blog post?”
Great question Harald - I actually think that most of us as bloggers could improve many of our posts by pausing before hitting ’submit/publish’ and asking a few basic questions about the post. Here [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Apr-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| 5 Ideas to Come Up with Blog Content from Your Daily Life | | Many bloggers suffer from the daily grind of having to find new posts for their blog - but what if there was an easier way? What if your next post was right before you in the activities that you do each day?
One great way to find new content for your blog is to capture things [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 24-Apr-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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| Do You Write From Your Heart ? | | In this post Abhijeet Mukherjee from Jeet Blog (where he writes about tech tweaks, blogging tips and productivity hacks) asks ‘do you write from the heart?’
As professional bloggers, freelancers or writers, sometimes we tend to be skeptical about our own content. We tend to think more about external aspects like marketing etc (which we can [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 19-Apr-2008 by Darren Rowse in writing content
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