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ProBlogger: Most Popular Posts on ProBlogger 2014: General Tips

ProBlogger: Most Popular Posts on ProBlogger 2014: General Tips

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Most Popular Posts on ProBlogger 2014: General Tips

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 06:35 AM PST

This week we’ve covered the five most popular posts in the areas of monetization, content, social media, and writing tips. Today we bring you the top 5 general tips that readers found most useful. I hope they do to you too! Read it now, or pin for later.

ProBlogger Popular Posts of 2014: General Tips - we covered grammar mistakes, one thing to do daily that will change your blogging, SEO must-dos, project management websites, and if Content isn't King - then what is?

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1. 5 Quick Grammar Tips to Improve Your Writing – Plus Free Downloadable Cheat Sheet

A super-handy overview of apostrophes, when to use that/which/who, when to use “everyday” vs. “every day”, commas, and capitalization. The cheat sheet is perfect for printing out and leaving it in your workspace so you’re never stuck with a grammar issue again.

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Image by zev

2. Spend 10 Minutes Doing This Every Day and You Could Transform Your Blogging

We even started doing it at ProBlogger HQ at our regular meetings.

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3. Publish Your Blog Post Without SEO and Thousands of Visits will be Forever Lost

SEO kingpin Rand Fishkin stopped by ProBlogger to give us the absolute ultimate in SEO advice. Simple things you can do right now to ensure you’re getting the maximum exposure of your work.

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4. Top 10 Web-Based Personal Project Management Tools

You’re looking for a sweet app to streamline your worklife? Us too. Here are 10 of them that will keep you (and your team, if you have one) on track.

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5. Content isn’t King: Here’s What is

I know I’ve made this mistake in 2014 with my own blog. Content is great – but useful content is what gets you places. Are you useful?

 

Did you use these tips this year? Have you figured out a way to serve your readers by meeting their needs with your blog? I’d love to hear it!

Stacey is the Managing Editor of ProBlogger.net: a writer, blogger, and full-time word nerd balancing it all with being a stay-at-home mum. She writes about all this and more at Veggie Mama. Chat with her on Twitter @veggie_mama (cat pictures welcome!).

 

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YARPP is legit

Posted: 18 Dec 2014 07:00 AM PST

You have probably seen on many large & successful websites using a recommend posts type widget at the bottom and sidebar of pages.

Things with images like "Recommended Reading" or "You might also be interested in" sections.

I have tried various ones over the last 10 years and none of them really did a good job of matching content for our niche-focused websites.

The other day when I was browsing around…like I always do…I came across Yarpp.

First of all, Yarpp stands for Yet Another Related Posts Plugin, which I think is hilarious that they can poke fun at themselves like that. Check out these sites and how they use it below…. super slick huh?!?

GoComics.com

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Not only does Yarpp have a great recommendation engine to show other relevant content on your site, it also has a network where you can earn some serious cash by showing other site's content that is relevant to your post. Check out how Arcamax News is doing this:

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It is so simple that you can even do it with a thumbnail video like The Young Conservatives:

YoungConservativesIt has over 3 million downloads with an overwhelming high rating so I gave it a shot. I mean WHY NOT?!?

The basic related Yarpp plugin is free but the pro version (ALSO FREE) adds a ton of features including the ability to make money with it.

I have found it to be truly amazing and if you have a site, which I am sure you do, I HIGHLY recommend you install the pro version now http://account.yarpp.com and give it a shot! What do you have to lose? (Beside the fact that you are missing out on extra cash)

The pro version is super effective cause for me, on some of our niche sites; we only have a couple articles. So this is a great way to monetize the traffic.

Another great thing about the YARPP Pro, is that you can either install it directly from the WordPress dashboard, or from here: http://account.yarpp.com

But the best version of Yarpp has to be Pyvot – http://www.yarpp.com/pyvot – the aggregator/optimizer tool. Check this out – even if you are already running another rec engine, this simple install will yield-manage all of those engines and run only the content that makes you the *most* revenue. And you never have to lift a finger – its will automatically rotate in the best one, every time. This is the dream moneymaker you've been looking for – Easy. Automated. Revenue.