Darren Rowse

Two days back I explored the myth that all you need to do is write great content on a blog for it to get readers and introduced the idea of ‘seeding’ content rather than ‘forcing’ it upon readers. Today I want to take the ‘seeding’ idea a step further and ...more

Lately there’s been a lot of talk about Trust here on ProBlogger. Over the weekend we published a post on how to develop bulletproof Trust – last week I talked about Trust as an essential part of good affiliate marketing – the week before we linked to a great book ...more

One of the common misconceptions that some new bloggers start out with is that in order to find readers for their blog all they’ll have to do is regularly write quality content. “Great content will market itself” – a statement I heard one speaker make at a blogging conference last ...more

A Guest Post by Steve Martile from Freedom Education. It’s normal to have a bad day, right? Well sure. But what if you have a bad week or a bad month? I’ve been blogging for just over a year. And if there is one thing that I’ve learned is that ...more

A Guest Post by Johnny B. Truant writes from Learn to Be Your Own V.A The other day, while we were on the phone, a client sent me $500 via PayPal for a series of tech consultations. Toward the end of the call, I noticed that I hadn’t received the ...more

A Guest Post by Pamela Wilson from WriteSmart. When I was a second-year cadet journalist on an Australian newspaper, my chief-of-staff gave me a coveted assignment. ‘I need you to interview Australian cricket captain Allan Border for a story about daylight savings,’ he said.   I grabbed my pen and ...more

If you’re in Melbourne Australia (or can get here) on 22-23 September you should check out the Marketing Now conference. I’ve mentioned it previously but since doing so there have been some changes. Previously this conference was $1000+ to attend – the organizers were going to donate the profits to ...more

A guest post by Andrew Hansen from http://1000NewVisitors.com If you’re a new blogger, particularly one who’s looking to make money from your blog you’ll know that generating traffic to your blog is, at least initially, priority number one. But something that gets talked about much less is generating the right ...more

Later today I’m speaking to a couple of groups of business people about the power of blogging and social media to help market a business. One of the question I’ve already been told to prepare a question for is – How do you find Readers for a blog? The question ...more