Blogging Coach

These tips will give you the skills you need to create a blog that achieves your goals. They’ll keep you motivated and show you how to connect with other bloggers.

How to Keep Blogging When Business is Booming

How to Keep Blogging When Business is Booming

Whatever you’re doing, keep doing it because you’re red hot right now. The phone’s ringing, emails enquiries come in every day and more people than

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Posterous Blog to Wordpress transfer

Need Help Switching Your Posterous Blog to WordPress?

If you’re reading this you’re probably one of the thousands of bloggers who’s affected by Posterous shutting down and now ready to switch Wordpress. It’s

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Wordpress Blog Hosting: When Only the Best Will Do

WordPress Blog Hosting: Why You Need the Rockstar Treatment and How to Get it

Looking for the best Wordpress blog hosting solution? Blessed as I am with a Wordpress wrangling husband who takes care of all the techie stuff I struggle

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Blogging for Freelancers and Consultants

5 Best Blogging Practices for Freelancers and Consultants

Are you using blogging to start or grow your freelance or consultation business? There are many ways to monetize blogs but blogging for business is the

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Blog advice - First Blog Posts, Wordpress.com and How Much to Invest in Blog Design

Blog Advice on Writing the First Post, WordPress.com and Design Costs (Q&AA)

Here’s a new addition to Successful Blogging in which you get to quiz me about anything you like and star on the blog if you wish. Q&AA stand for Question

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Make Blogging Progress Faster: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck

Make Blogging Progress Faster: 5 Ways to Get Unstuck

If you’re like me your blog’s partly experimental. You never know exactly what will work and what won’t until you try it. I started blogging four years to share

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Incapsula Review: a New Way to Stop Spam and Speed Up Your Blog

Incapsula Review: a New Way to Stop Spam and Speed Up Your Blog

Spam comments getting you down? Endless spam and web security issues seem to be a growing problem and not just for big sites and household brand

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How to Find a Good Web Designer

5 Reasons Most Web Designers Suck and How to Find a Good Web Designer

Web design isn’t rocket science but it’s still hard to find a good web designer. In fact I’m sometimes embarrassed about telling people I’m a web designer

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Blogging thank you

Hey! There’s Something I Want to Tell You

2012 has been an exciting year for me on the blogging front. Not least because Successful Blogging was listed in the Top 10 Blogs About Blogging by a

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how to sell out for bloggers

How to Sell Out and Come Up Smelling of Roses

Are you scared of making money from blogging and being called a ‘sell out’? Maybe because you’ve heard negativepress about bloggers and advertising.

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What it Takes to be a Creative Success

What it Takes to be a Creative Success

I started the year with a bang, boldly announcing my intent to be a creative success in January and writing: ‘I’m making 2012 the year of the book.’ Well, actually

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how to use your blogging influence for good

Your Blogging Influence and the Power of We

The power of blogging influence is scary. I’ve personally met people who’ve booked a holiday in Japan or even moved to Australia based on my recommendation.

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Mobile Friendly Wordpress Blog

Do You Need a Mobile Friendly WordPress Blog?

Have you ever thought about how many people read your blog on a mobile phone? As a web

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Guest post guidelines

Guidelines for Handling Endless Guest Post Requests

Is your email inbox awash with people wanting to write for your blog? Mostly those requests are from brands and websites who want to be featured

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23 Blogging Tips

23 Hot Blogging Tips From Glen Allsopp, Siri and Me

Happy news! Successful Blogging has been listed one of the Top 10 Blogs About Blogging by the A-List Blogging Team. It’s fantastic recognition

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Blogging mistake

Will You Make this Blogging Mistake?

The road to blogging success is strewn with abandoned blogs. Most bloggers quit blogging after three months yet the benefits of blogging are rarely seen for the first 6-12 months of blogging. So why

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Blog headline writing formulas

5 Blog Headline Formulas Readers Can’t Resist

Would you like to master the art of writing hot blog headlines? After all, there’s no doubt your headline is the most important part of your blog post. While

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Social media tips

How to be Social Media Smart in 19 Words

Are you still nervous about social media? Not sure what to say, where to go or who to talk to? Constantly wondering if you’re doing the right thing and, as a consequence, not doing much

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Write a blog with global appeal

Write a Blog With Global Appeal! 11 Tips That Work Wonders

Does your blog have readers from all over the world? If so then your writing and blog style need to have global appeal. For most bloggers having

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University social media course

Free University of Newcastle E-Business Marketing Webinar

The good people at Australia’s University of Newcastle are running an e-business marketing course which starts soon with a free webinar on January 19th so business people can get

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Best blogging tips 2011

Best of Successful Blogging 2011

Here’s a round up of the most popular blog posts on Successful Blogging in 2011. Check out the posts you missed and reread your favorites then action the tips. That should keep you

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Blogging tips for happy holidays

Happy Holidays Bloggers

Many thanks to all of you for reading Successful Blogging. Every visit, tweet, comment, Facebook share and email has motivated me to keep sharing blogging tips here. Thank you especially

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Why use Wordpress and Thesis for blogging

Why I Use WordPress and Thesis

Wordpress is the biggest and best blogging platform because Wordpress is easy to use so beginners and non-techies can start playing round with it and updating their blogs straight away

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How to Do a Blog Giveaway

How to Do a Blog Giveaway (Video Post) and Our Cash Winners Are…..

This was my first giveaway and I’ve learnt a lot from it. 1. It’s fun running contests and giveaways because

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Podcasting guide FAQs

The Ultimate Podcasting Guide for Bloggers: Part 3

Still stuck with podcasting? Here are some of your questions and other frequently asked questions answered

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Podcasting Guide for Bloggers

The Ultimate Podcasting Guide for Bloggers: Part 2

Sometimes reading about something just isn’t enough. You need to actually see how it’s done and be walked through it step by step.

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How to get noticed by bloggers or social media influencers

6 Ways to Get Noticed and Loved by Social Media Influencers

Are you gagging to get noticed by the big bloggers or other social media influencers? Whatever niche you’re in there are bound to be some bloggers who stand out from the crowd and

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7 Days Left on the Cash Giveaway for Bloggers

In case you missed it just a quick reminder about our cash giveaway which ends 28 Nov. Find out how to enter here.

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Podcasting guide for bloggers giveaway

The Ultimate Podcasting Guide for Bloggers: Giveaway

The Podcast Guy Dave Thackeray clearly loves the Successful Blogging team – or maybe he’s getting soft because Christmas is coming. Either way it’s good news for you because he’s

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Podcasting for bloggers

The Ultimate Podcasting Guide for Bloggers: Part 1

“Podcasting is a way to turbo-charge your static content.” Dave Thackeray, The Podcast Guy

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