Darren Rowse
Has the Economy Impacted Your Earnings?
The news continues to be full of economic gloom and doom (although here in Australia we seem to have avoided being in recession and there seems to be some confidence around) yet I continue to talk to bloggers whose income is actually on the rise. But is this just a ...more
Reader Questions
Outbound Links – An Endangered Species? [And Why I Still Link Up]
Yesterday on Twitter I made this remark: “A change I’ve noticed from the ‘old days’ of blogging – people don’t link when they quote you as much as they used to.” The replies to my tweet were quite varied – some agreed while some disagreed – some argued that a ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Forums – How to Expand Your Blog #1
Yesterday I share with readers an exercise to brainstorm 10 ways that they might expand their blog in the coming years. The reason I suggest the exercise is not that there’s anything wrong with being ‘just a blog’ but because as I look at a lot of top blogs going ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Brainstorm 10 Ways to Expand Your Blog [HOMEWORK]
In this post I’d like to share a simple exercise that helped me to grow ProBlogger beyond being just a simple blog {image by deserttrumpet}. How are you planning on expanding your blog?
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
The State of the Darren-Sphere
In this post I’d like to give an update of the different sites that I work on, how they’re going and what I’m working on with them. 3 questions that I get a lot are: You seem to do a lot of ‘stuff’ – can you give me a quick ...more
Case Studies
Why Did You Start Blogging?
In the last post on ProBlogger Kevin talked about starting a blog based upon one of your hobbies as a great way to start blogging. As I mentioned in the introduction to that post – Kevin had really described much of my own motivations for starting my photography blog (and ...more
Reader Questions
Hobby Blogs: Making Profits from your Hobby
In this post Kevin Sanders shares some introductory reasons to take a hobby and blog about it. In effect this is the way that I personally got into blogging – there was no intent of my blogs being anything more than hobbies in my early days – but out of ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Want a Crash-Proof Site? A Paint-by-Numbers Guide to Using (and Surviving) Amazon S3
By Mary Jaksch from GoodlifeZen. Do you dream of creating a post or Ebook that goes viral? If you do, you might run into a problem. People flock to your site. You’re ecstatic about the spike in your visitor numbers. And then your site crashes. The problem is that your ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
A Simple Way To Funnel New Traffic & Sales From Buried Blog Archives
In this guest post internet marketer and full time blogger Lynn Terry of ClickNewz shares one of her newest tested blog marketing strategies. On the current theme of Content Marketing, I have a super simple strategy I have been testing to increase exposure and profit that you’ll really enjoy. It’s ...more
Blog Promotion