A Compact Disc of Blogs
Back in 2008 when I was a new blogger, black hat bloggers hacked page 1 of Google to rank low quality articles, let alone cruddy blog posts. Seems crazy now, eh? Especially for current day newbie bloggers, believing Google would actually rank poop seems outlandish. But alas, bloggers shoveled crap that Google simply accepted, back …
I can barely type these words. My fingers seem to temporarily fail me. Observe the effects of cold weather combined with a stiff breeze flowing off of the river. Welcome to New Jersey during the coldest winter months. My wife and I walked for 100 minutes around town in 0 C temperatures. Wearing no gloves …
Does that title sound like a mind bender to you? Blog by yourself but do not blog alone. Some aspects of blogging require an intimately personal journey of solo choices. For example, I sat here on a rainy afternoon deciding to write and publish this guest post. No one made the decision for me. I …
For the longest time I refused to write and publish a high volume of guest posts. I resisted doing this for any number of reasons. But the reasons did not matter; the resistance did. Any time you strongly resist some piece of blogging advice or following some blogging path, resisting the advice or path tells …
Be Careful About What You Resist Doing Blogging-Wise Read More »
Smash it. Tap the publish button. Bloggers fear publishing blog posts for a litany of reasons. You fear nothing seems to be quite perfect; wait on the blogging sidelines to edit the post for the 10th time. Re-read the post again. Be with the errors. Make the post better. Make the post more acceptable. Make …
You have likely heard the saying: “If you build it, they will come.” The basic analogy is if you build something helpful, useful or beneficial, people will arrive, visit and prosper you. Think of stores, businesses and other various buildings. But people often forget to include one key element in the building process when it …
Bloggers tend to make mountains out of tiny little ridges in the ground. Do you focus on blogging small potatoes? Do you imagine huge problems within these tiny, seemingly non-issue events that cripple you only because your ego creates the problem? Imagine yourself attempting to pick a blogging niche. After 2 weeks of research, analysis …
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Do you want more blogging fights? Hold on to combative bloggers. Do you want more peace in your blogging life? Let go combative bloggers. I do not mean letting go bloggers who only fight you, per se. Of course; let these bloggers go. I mean bloggers in your friend network who rarely if ever fight …
As a rule, I never blame anyone or anything or any entity for my blogging problems. Blaming people or things for my blogging problems enslaves me to those people or things. Imagine blaming Google for your traffic problems. Google changed their algorithm. After changing their algorithm, your blog traffic dropped big time. Why blame Google? …
I learned a key skill over 12 years of being a pro blogger: make blogging friends. Blogging friends make your life easier and easier. Blogging buddies promote you around the clock, endorse you, buy your stuff, hire you and expand your blogging reach. On the flip side, not making blogging friends guarantees every person you …