Darren Rowse

If there was one emerging trend spoken about more than anything else in the Make Money Blogging track at Blog World Expo it was ‘membership sites’. A number of sessions were directly on the topic while quite a few others touched on the topic (including the ones I spoke on). ...more

In this post David Wright and Sean Platt from direct response copywriters share some suggestions on indicators of when your blog might be on the road to success. Starting a blog was one of the most exciting things we have ever done. Building a loyal audience, gathering intelligent subscribers with ...more

One of the challenges that bloggers face is what to do when others want to use your blog for their own gain by either taking your content or spamming your comments section. The more I talk to bloggers about how they deal with these issues the more I realize how ...more

By Mary Jaksch of Goodlife Zen. Do you want to create posts that sparkle, dance, enthral, touch the heart, and inform? Do you want your blog to stand out, and subscribers to scramble in at the door? Then I suggest you check out what the New York Times, Reuters, the ...more

A Guest Post by Patrick Riddel from Must Know Investing. Darren has debunked the myth that great content markets itself. There are countless blogs that produce quality content that don’t get read. Why is that? Because no one knows about them. He followed up with a post on 9 things ...more

Have you ever found that you’ve been leaving money on the table? It’s a frustrating feeling and one that many of us can relate to. I discovered that I’ve been doing it for the last few months – here’s my story. I run Chitika Premium ad units on some parts ...more

Have you ever had a moment in your life where everything changed? You might not have known it at the time - but the moment was defining, it changed the course of some area of your life in a way that turned things upside down. I had one of those ...more

Today I’m running two competitions here on ProBlogger – both centre around the Blog World and New Media Expo happening in Las Vegas next week. The first (in this post) gives one lucky blogger an opportunity to get a last minute pass to attend – the other (which I’ll post ...more

The gang over at Carsonified has released the following video this week by Kevin Rose talking about taking a web app from 1 to 1 million users. While the video talks more about web applications and not specifically about blogging – some of the principles that Kevin talks about I ...more