A long time ago, I went through Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger archives and went all way the back to the beginning of his blog – to see what kind of stuff he talked about when he first got started. I actually kinda wondered if he noticed somebody going through his entire archive. It was me.

I had a lot of questions about how his blog progressed toward popularity. When the blog first started he was cranking out a lot of quick posts that weren’t nearly as well written as the stuff he writes today. After a while he started posting consistently and over time his posts became better and better.

The post that stood out in my mind in the very beginning was called something like “The Rules Of Blogging”. I thought it would be pretty cool to write a post like that here in 2012 and share some of my philosophy about the dos and don’ts of blogging. So here goes. (more…)

As you may have heard, content marketing is becoming a lot more popular since Google’s Search updates for this past year crippled so many sites. Blogging is, and always has been a great way to gain exposure and get some Pagerank flowing through your site. If you’re like me or if your site is new(like mine), sometimes you might have a hard time coming up with topics to write about. This post is going to solve all the content problems you’ll ever have but, first, I want to talk a little about why I’ve been struggling with content and give some insight into the biggest problem you may encounter. (more…)