Darren Rowse

See the full sized version of this video at YouTube – Expand Your Blog By Adding a Book. A couple of weeks back I introduced a brainstorming exercise that gets bloggers to think about how to expand their blog. I followed that post up with an exploration of adding a ...more

Over the last three months on ProBlogger it’s been a pretty busy time – here are the most popular posts – judged by mixture of factors including traffic and comments. 9 Things to Do To Make Sure Your Next Blog Post is Read by More than Your Mom 8 First ...more

A couple of days back I tweeted this question: “Question: what’s your #1 blog tip in 140 characters or less? GO!'” Over the next hour or two a lot of great responses came in – so I thought I’d post a link to them today because I think in the ...more

One of the techniques that I’ve employed in my blogging over the last 6 months behind the scenes is to create Reader Profiles (or Personas). The technique is simply – open up a word document and begin to describe a type of reader that you’re either attempting to write for ...more

This is another guest post from Robby G at Shite I Like.com where he gives expert dating advice for both men and women, amongst other advice. I’ve only recently realized the benefits of good Karma. Greed and blogging doesn’t go well together at all. Right off the bat I wanted ...more

Update: This sale is now over – thanks everyone for participating. The ebook is still available at $19.95, an affordable price considering it’s 31 days of content about improving your blog! — I just realized that yesterday was ProBlogger’s 5th birthday (I imported a lot of previously written posts onto ...more

This post is a collection point of links in a long series that I’m writing on principles of successful blogging. It was originally stimulated by a presentation that I gave at the MarketingNow conference here in Melbourne. I shared my story of blogging and then explore 25 or so lessons ...more

This week I’m featuring a short series of interviews with successful bloggers looking at a popular post on their blog and why they think it went viral. Today Leo Babauta from Zen Habits has agreed to dissect the popularity of one of his site’s most popular posts. 1. What is ...more

Last year I wrote a post exploring how I use Social Media to promote my blogs – the post looked at the idea of creating Home bases and Outposts (a metaphor that I picked up from Chris Brogan). In this video I extend the idea a little and talk about ...more