Darren Rowse

Have you ever had a blog post that you put a lot of time, energy and thought into – that completely flopped? Nobody comments on it, nobody bookmarks it on Digg, nobody tweets a link to it…. it’s almost like it was never written. If so – here’s a few ...more

What was the best and the worst thing that happened to you in your blogging this week? Image by hebedesign I was reading the blog of fellow Aussie blogger Mia Freedman this week and saw her weekly post ‘Best and Worst of the week‘ in which she asks her readers ...more

How do you rate when it comes to credibility? But more importantly, how do you go about getting credibility if you don’t have any or not much of it? Important question for bloggers – Andrew Rondeau from We Build Your Blog shares some tips on building credibility as a blogger. ...more

Got a messy sidebar on your blog? It’s time to clean it up (like I cleaned up my sock drawer today). Check out the full sized version of this on YouTube, MySpace, Blip.tv and Viddler.

Over the last few days I’ve been running a number of impromptu video streaming sessions on ustream (on my ProBlogger channel). The sessions have largely been Question and Answer times with a lot of the questions being the kind of questions I get asked a lot – so today I ...more

It’s time for another @ProBloggerDeals giveaway – this time we’re giving away 20 Gold Passes to the Affiliate Summit East 2009 – they’re each worth $399. This conference is one that I’ve been wanting to attend for a while now (maybe next year) but while I can’t get to this ...more

Over the next few months I’ve got a few speaking commitments so rather than random Tweets about them I thought I’d create a post listing them. If you’re in the same city as any of these events I’d love to meet you. Of course they’re mainly Aussie events – I’m ...more

In the last week I’ve had 3 emails from makers of Automated Blogging tools, scripts and plugins (or RSS to Blog tools) asking me to promote their plugins and systems. These tools all claim to be able to help you create content for your blog without you having to do ...more

“How do I find affiliate products to promote on my blog?” Last week I spoke with a small group of bloggers here in Melbourne over a coffee. One of the topics that a number of them were interested in talking about was affiliate marketing. They were struggling with the advertising ...more