50 Timeless Resources to Make Your Blog More Profitable

September 11th, 2009 by Easton Ellsworth

These 50 evergreen resources will help you raise or make more money with your blog, no matter whether it’s a personal, business or non-profit blog.

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Improve Your Blog Content for More Blog Profit

1. 37 Viral Post Ideas You Can Use Today – Or tomorrow, or the next day, or on March 13, 2047. Remember, this is a list of timeless resources.
2. 10 Killer Post Ideas – Not to be confused with “10 Post Ideas for Killers.”
3. 40 Ways to Deliver Killer Blog Content – Not to be confused with … hey, how’d you know?
4. 7 Steps to More Coherent Blog Posts, More Readers, and More Subscribers – How about making the readers and subscribers more coherent too? Because sometimes I wonder.
5. The Art of Linkbaiting – Yes, it’s an art. Yes, there’s science in it. No, you can’t have a bite of my granola. Keep reading.

Enhance Your Blog Design for More Blog Profit

6. 9 Things You Can’t Forget When Designing a Blog – Because if you do, the boogeyman’s stepmother is gonna getcha.
7. 30 Ways to Improve Readability – I’ll tell you how I improved my read ability. I just kept reading and reading. Oh wait, readability, not read ability.
8. 50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog – Oh, you are so busted. How many of these tips are you not following? I bet at least 25.
9. Web 2.0 How-To Design Guide – Ooh shiny. If there is one article on this list that deserves an ooh shiny from yours truly, it’s this one. So thus I say, ooh shiny.
10. Are You Making These Common Blog Layout Mistakes? – Or are you making all these other common and not-so-common mistakes?

Strengthen Your Blog Community for More Blog Profit

11. 10 Techniques to Get More Comments on Your Blog – Wish it was titled “10 Ninja Techniques.” I just like inserting the word “ninja” in things.
12. How to Improve Your Blog Community – Yes, I wrote this one. It’s pretty good though, I couldn’t just exclude it from this list!
13. 8 Steps to Growing Your Blog Community One Person at a Time – Slower but easier to count than if you try to do two or three people at a time.
14. Adding a Newsletter to Your Blog – Remember when a newsletter was a printed thing? Remember when you used to write with a stick in your hands?
15. How to Expand Your Blog with a Forum – Great for when you’re fresh out of helium tanks.

Increase Your Blog Traffic for More Blog Profit

16. 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic – I just wanted to be the 1,000,000th person to link to this article.
17. How to Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself – Easy … just install lots of traffic lights and look both ways every time. (Ouch, that one was bad.)
18. How to Increase Blog Traffic with Your Blog Content – Or just skip this one and pour honey all over your blog instead.
19. How to Build Blog Traffic Using the Visionary Blogging Method – It’s my method and I’m sticking to it.
20. How to Build a High-Traffic Blog – A plentiful plethora of palatable palabras from Pavlina.

Boost Your Blog Subscriber Count for More Blog Profit

21. 5 Tips for Gaining Subscribers to Your Blog – Are you following them? Tsk, tsk.
22. 10 Effective Ways to Get More Blog Subscribers – As opposed to the slightly less popular list, 342 Ineffective Ways to yadda yadda.
23. How I Attracted My First 100 Newsletter Subscribers – Have you bagged your first 100 yet?
24. 19 Strategies to Help Turn New Visitors into Loyal Readers – If you haven’t read Skellie’s stuff, you either didn’t know about her or you don’t know how to read. But I doubt the second one for some reason.
25. 10 Ways I Got 4,700 Subscribers in Three Months – I *so* wish I could write this headline on my blog and have it be true.

Improve Your Blog SEO for More Blog Profit

(SEO = Search Engine Optimization)

26. Improve Your Search Rankings with Internal SEO – First clean the inner vessel.
27. Improve Blog SEO with Internal Linking Structure – Next time you’re out with friends, use the phrase “internal linking structure” in a random sentence.
28. Simple SEO Changes to Improve Unexpected Rankings – If the unexpected is expected, does that make the expected unexpected?
29. 101 Ways to Build Link Popularity – Can you guess which ways I’m using with this article?
30. Linkbaiting for Fun and Profit – Throw that man a fishing pole!

Improve Your Blog’s SMO for More Blog Profit

(SMO = Social Media Optimization)

31. 6 Beginner SMO Tips for Social Media Marketers – Trust me: NOT just for beginners.
32. 13 Rules of Social Media Optimization – Break ‘em and weep.
33. The 5 Pillars of Social Media Optimization – Not to be confused, of course, with Shahada, Salah, Zakah, …
34. 5 Tips for Getting More From Social Media Marketing – Get mo’ from yo’ SMO.
35. An Essential Marketing Principle: Give Before You Try to Get – Do you know how long it took me to figure out what “dosh” meant?

Improve Your Blog Monetization/Conversion Rates for More Blog Profit

36. 7 Tips for Increasing Your Conversion Rate – Because without conversions, you have zero, zip, zilch. Nada.
37. Increase Conversion Rates with a Visitor-Friendly Website – As opposed to a friendly visitor website. (“Welcome to the one-stop shop for friendly visitors – hi Bob!”)
38. 101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Web Site – Don’t do all 101 in one sitting unless you have precisely 8 hours and 25 minutes to spare.
39. 10 Ways to Monetize Your Blog – “Monetize” = geek speak for “make wads of cash with.”
40. 5,623 Words on Starting a Profitable Blog – If each word were a foot long, you’d have to walk more than a mile.

Other Tasty Resources for More Blog Profit

41. 100 Ways to Improve Your Blog – In case you were still hungry for more.
42. 21 Surefire Tips for a Successful Blog Launch – For getting started or restarted the right way.
43. 100 Awesome Articles to Get You Fired Up and Motivated About Blogging – Can I get a witness?
44. Rabid Blog Audience Building: 4 Steps You Must Follow – Because rabies isn’t all bad.
45. 50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Writing Skills – Would you like a glass of water to help you swallow that pride?
46. 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better – A blogger’s mind is a terrible thing to waste.
47. 50 Different Ways to Vastly Improve Your WordPress Blog – And you thought there were only 37.
48. 10 Ways to Become a Better Writer – Channel your inner J.K. Rowling.
49. The Ultimate Guide to Blog Usability: 36 Tips and Resources – If it ain’t usable, it ain’t gonna get used.
50. The 130-Point Blog Improvement Checklist – Somebody had way too much time on their hands.

Super Bonus Resource for the Truly Profit-Minded Blogger

51. How to Become Truly Happy Forever About Your Blog By Simply Clicking Right Here – Cue the angel choirs. (Easton starts running for the exits.)

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