Darren Rowse

It’s time for a little discussion – lets talk blogging tools. Over in the ProBlogger.com forum there’s been a lot of talk about different tools, applications, platforms and plugins that helps to improve blogs. I’m loving the different opinions and experiences and thought it’d be a good question to open ...more

A guest post on backing up your wordpress blog by Jason Tarasi Do you want to see your blog on the side of a milk carton? No? Then keep reading because… It is very likely this will be the most important article you read all year. Of course you can ...more

Do you want to learn to blog in a way that goes beyond just conveying information and helps people to take action on what you’ve written? Last night as I was watching the new Australian version of The Apprentice I saw a very short segment featuring public speaker Brett Rutledge. ...more

Since I announced ProBlogger.com mid last week the ProBlogger Community Forum has grown to well over 1300 paid members (note the member numbers are reported as higher but also include people who have yet to confirm their membership with a payment). Because it’s a private, walled community it can be ...more

Long term readers of ProBlogger will know of Andy Wibbels – the two of us put together a course a couple of years back called Six Figure Blogging – one of the best learning experiences of my life. Funnily enough we’d never met until this time last year at Blog ...more

I love hear bloggers talking about their journey of blogging and some of the discoveries they make alone the road. Today in this guest post Renee Mayne from Bra Queen does just that. Everyone has a purpose, a reason as to why they start blogging.   Mine was because I ...more

Here’s a quick review of a book that I’ve been reading – The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web – through over the past few weeks by Tamar Weinberg. It’s a great read! Apologies to Tamar for mispronouncing her name – should have been more like ‘Tuh-MAR’!

What would happen if the thousands of bloggers who read ProBlogger each day decided to work together to improve their blogs? This is a question that has been on my mind lately – I thought it was time to find out what the answer is. So far 800 1200+ bloggers ...more

I’m regularly asked about local domain names and whether they are worth using on a blog. My answer usually revolves around the question of ‘what audience are you trying to reach?‘ Let me explain. When I first secured my own domain name I chose a .au (Australia) domain without really ...more