Darren Rowse

Today Patrick O’Keefe from iFroggy Network and the author of the book Managing Online Forums shares how appreciation can help grow the community on your blog. As online community managers and administrators, bloggers and general social media participants, we sometimes get so caught up in growing our community, that we ...more

Today is Day 31 in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge. Congratulations to those who have made it through to this point – I hope you’ve found it to be a helpful experience. To those just starting, part way through or who are yet to start (you ...more

If you run AdSense on your blog and are looking to attract advertisers to target it specific with their ads then you’ll want to check out a new tool that AdSense have just announced on their blog – Google AdPlanner’s Publisher Center. Ad Planner is a tool that advertisers use ...more

Yaro Starak has just launched his new site – the Membership Site Mastermind Coaching Program. Last week I linked up to a free report that Yaro Starak had released outlining the way that he makes money from setting up membership sites (get the report here if you missed it) – ...more

Today your task in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog is one that should help you think a little strategically about where you spend time online building your online profile. One of the ways that many successful blogs build a readership and profile is by spending significant time ...more

Today’s task in the 31 Days to Build a Better blog is another writing challenge – I’d like you to write a ‘review post’. I know that many bloggers already write ‘reviews’ on their blogs but you can never have enough practice on this type of post. The web is ...more

Today your task in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Project is something that most bloggers who have been blogging for a while could probably benefit from doing – go on a dead link hunt. Blogging is built on the ‘link’. One blog links to another blog who ...more

This post is an excerpt from the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook When was the last time you made someone else’s blog better? Today’s task in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog is to do just that – to improve a blog that is not ...more

Regular readers of ProBlogger know that I’m a fan of Chris Pearson and his popular Thesis theme for WordPress. I’ve been using Thesis on TwiTip since I started that blog back in November and have been very satisfied with it. Chris has just launched version 1.5 of Thesis – a ...more