Darren Rowse

“What’s the most common mistake made by new bloggers? How can we avoid it?“ – asked on Twitter by @alisonkerr. Here are a few quick mistakes that I see new bloggers making (some of which mistakes I made myself). They’re listed in no particular order and I’d love for you ...more

Join over 14,000 other bloggers and Give your Blog a Kick Start with this 31 Day Challenge. Regular readers of ProBlogger are familiar with the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog project that we ran here recently. The concept was simple: bloggers set aside 31 days to be intentional ...more

Two quick notes for ProBlogger readers of a ‘social persuasion’: 1. Got a Question? Ask it on Twitter – if you have a question that you’d like me to answer as a post on ProBlogger please feel free to ask it on Twitter with the hashtag of #pbquestions. I can’t ...more

“how important is it to buy both the .net and .com of the same domain name?” Over on Twitter TragicDog asked me this question domains. Different bloggers will have different approaches to this one but my personal preference these days is to secure the .com version first and then to ...more

It’s been a few years since services like PayPerPost (and others) controversially came onto the scene and gave bloggers the option to be paid for writing posts about products, companies or services. So I thought it’d be interesting to see how many bloggers have done paid posts (and how many ...more

Finding RSS Subscribers is something that many bloggers spend a lot of time thinking about – so in this video I thought I’d put together a few thoughts on how to grow your subscriber numbers. See the full sized version of this video here at YouTube. PS: in the post ...more

Much has been written on the topic of how to get readers to visit your blog and how to make your blog sticky so that they stick around once they’ve arrived – but I’ve not seen too many written about how to lose readers. Image by Lst1984 It might seem ...more

One of the most common requests that I’ve had since launching the ProBlogger Book is from people wanting to buy a copy for their Kindle. Until recently this wasn’t an option but in the last couple of months Amazon made it available for Kindle. For those waiting for it – ...more

This guest post is by Johnny B Truant from Learn to Be Your Own V.A. and The Economy Isn’t Happening. Back in early April, partially at the suggestion of Naomi Dunford of IttyBiz, I wrote a free e-book intended to make launching a standalone blog easy, fast, and cheap. It ...more