Darren Rowse

Guest post by Deb Ng from Freelance Writing Gigs. While going over my stats last summer, I learned something important: If I stopped blogging each day, I would still earn enough each month from my content to draw a salary and pay the bloggers who write for my network. I’m ...more

A guest post by Larry Brooks of Storyfix.com. Image by [phil h] We are all storytellers. Whether we’re writing a blog, an ebook, a cheesy novel or a killer screenplay, even an essay, article or report. Without some semblance of a story at the heart of it all, what’s left ...more

A Guest Post by www.lewishowes.com on driving traffic to your blog with LinkedIn. LinkedIn is the most powerful, yet under-utilised social networking platform on the web. Whether you just created your first blog, or you are considered one of the top bloggers in the world like Darren Rowse, Chris Brogan, ...more

Back in 2005 I asked my readers a question that surprised some for a blog like ProBlogger – I asked readers to talk about what was wrong with blogging. I introduced the question by sharing a story of a debate between a Christian group and Pagan group where each group ...more

Have you ever heard the statement – “Write for People not Search Engines“? It’s a teaching that many bloggers have heard that encourages bloggers not to compromise the quality of their blog posts in order to get search engine traffic. The temptation that some bloggers fall into is writing the ...more

Update: this post has been updated and compiled with other similar posts into ProBlogger’s Guide to Your First Week of Blogging – a week long guide into getting your blog going on the right foot. “What should a blogger do in their first week of blogging to get their blog ...more

Guest post by Nicholas Cardot from Site Sketch 101. When I was a child I often traveled to magical faraway lands, explored daring new worlds, violently clashed swords with famous pirates, adventured with a talking mouse named Ralph, and traveled through the very fabric of time itself. I’ve raced around ...more

Next week here on ProBlogger I will be beginning a series of posts with tips for bloggers in the first week (or month) of their blog. I’m halfway through writing it (I’m hoping it’ll be useful to established bloggers starting second blogs too) already and have a heap of content ...more

Over the last few weeks I’ve had three conversations with readers regarding different sources of traffic. In each case I had a number of email exchanges with each blogger (all on the same day) and ended up laughing to myself at the common theme but extremely different opinions being expressed ...more