Darren Rowse

“What is the main thing that you’re trying to get readers to do when they visit your blog?” Last week during a conversation with an ad network executive I was asked this question as it pertains to my photography site. It was a good question to be asked because it ...more

Since launching 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook there have been many reviews written by other bloggers of the resource. I’ve not really linked up to too many of them as I’m naturally a little shy about promoting my own work – but today was challenged by another ...more

Today, Adam Steer from Better’s Better and BodyweightCoach.com offers up some tips to prevent common overuse injuries associated with work in the digital age. Make sure you take advantage of his exclusive free offer for Probloggers at the end of this post. The myth of the internet lifestyle depicts the ...more

Today Ali Hale from Aliventures shares some thoughts that build upon a recent post I wrote on finding your blogging voice. Darren’s recent poll on How Long Have You Been Blogging suggests that over half ProBlogger’s readers have been blogging for under a year (and of those, a sizeable proportion ...more

This is a guest post from Leo Babauta of Zen Habits, and author of the best-selling book The Power of Less. Leo has just released a free report for bloggers called How I Got 100,000 Subscribers in Two Years: Lessons from Zen Habits. One of the things I’m proudest of ...more

Today I spent a little time digging around in my AdSense earnings stats to see how they’d been performing over the last 6-12 months and particularly was interested in how the RSS advertising was performing. I decided to pull out some of the data that I found and chart it ...more

One of the most common questions I’m asked by readers starting out with blogging is around blog design and how they can get an affordable but unique blog design. The irony of this is that I’m a self confessed dud when it comes to blog design. These days I hire ...more

Stuck for ideas to write about? Here’s a quick and easy to use tool from Google to help you identify topics within most niches. View this video at full size to get all the visual details in the video here on Facebook. PS: a number of people have been asking ...more

Have you ever read a blog post that just seems to have ‘it’? You arrive at the page, begin reading and immediately feel drawn into what the blogger is communicating. You can’t really put your finger on why – but there’s something about the way that they write that connects ...more