ProBlogger Podcast: Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging

Learn practical strategies to build a culture of community on your blog. Discover the importance of writing in a conversational voice, inviting interaction, and using interactive mediums. Explore the benefits of forums, video, and live streaming. Utilize projects, challenges, and real-life events to connect with readers. Put your readers in the spotlight to strengthen the blog community.

Learn why building a community on your blog is crucial, including enhancing reader engagement, usefulness, and social proof. Discover how it attracts advertisers, helps create and sell products, generates user-generated content, and improves personal blogging satisfaction. The podcast also discusses the challenges, costs, and potential risks of building community.

Discover how to decide on the focus topic for your blog by asking yourself 15 questions, such as your interests, experiences, expertise, passions, dreams, and pet peeves. Explore questions about your superpowers, frequently discussed topics, and your mission in life. Having a clear focus for your blog is important to attract and engage readers.

This podcast explores the pros and cons of using timestamps on blog posts and discusses whether or not to include dates. It also explains why some bloggers choose to include dates for a certain period and then remove them. Different solutions for displaying timestamps on blog posts are discussed.

Learn how to overcome challenges in blogging including technological inexperience, fear of looking stupid, finding focus for your blog, blogger's block, avoiding burnout, dealing with personal attacks, building readership, and monetization strategies.

Learn how to end your blog posts effectively to leave a lasting impression, build relationships, and deepen reader engagement. Discover seven strategies to get people to comment on your blog, as well as how to get them to share your posts. Find out how linking readers to other posts on your blog can keep them interested, and learn how to build anticipation for future posts. Get examples of incentives to encourage readers to subscribe, and uncover ways to guide readers towards taking desired actions.

Learn how to promote yourself without being annoying or arrogant. Discover strategies for providing value, stimulating conversation, and attracting new readers. Understand the power of crediting others, accepting help, and knowing when to stop talking about your offerings. Explore the importance of creating a positive impression, avoiding toxic comparisons, and becoming a great influencer. Gain insights into self-promotion with authenticity, giving credit, building meaningful relationships, reading the mood, and being generous.

This podcast explores how fear can hold bloggers back, but also how it can be harnessed for success. The speakers share personal experiences of overcoming fear and offer strategies for recognizing and facing it. They discuss the importance of asking important questions when facing fear and how focusing on the best possible outcome can help overcome it.

Discover how the speaker made over $500,000 with the Amazon Affiliate Program, including practical tips for success. Learn about understanding reader intent, optimizing earnings, and promoting high-quality products to maximize income.

Beth Dunn, Product Editor-in-Chief at HubSpot, shares 10 practical tips for bloggers to build their brand through effective writing. She discusses the impact of word choice, conveying honesty and humor, and using pronouns to connect with readers. The importance of proofreading, creating a style guide, and finding an editor is also highlighted.