Darren Rowse

Today’s task in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challengeis to ask your readers a question. 10 Reasons to ask Your Readers Questions Asking readers questions is a fantastic way to grow you blog for a number of reasons – here are 10. It gives readers a sense ...more

Are you looking for some fresh design, marketing and even story or headline ideas for your blog? Today’s task in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge that might just help with this. This is an off line activity – all you need to complete it is a ...more

If you’ve got 15 minutes to spare today (and want to hear a couple of Aussies talking blogging) check out this quick podcast of an interview that I did this week with Clayton Bjelan on the morning show local Melbourne radio station – Light FM. In it I talk a ...more

Today’s task in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge is another writing oriented one – it’s to write a post that contains some kind of a ‘Call to Action’. While this type of post might not be one that you’ll use all of the time it is ...more

Today your task in the 31 Days to Build a Better blog is to Make a Reader Famous. The Task – Choose one (or more than one) of your current readers and do something out of the blue that acknowledges them, shows them that you see them as valuable and ...more

On Friday I posted about that a great free 72 page report by Yaro Starack called Membership Site Masterplan was about to be released. Yaro’s just old me that it’s now available for you to download. The report contains some great information on how Yaro uses membership sites to build ...more

This post is an excerpt from the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook Let me be a little presumptuous and blunt – not every post in the archives of your blog is up to scratch. I know this because the statement is true of my own blogs. No ...more

We’re at Day 20 (almost 21) in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge and at two thirds of the way through the project I thought I’d give a quick update with a few random highlights, updates and thoughts: 1. We’ve got over 12,000 people signed up and ...more

This post is an excerpt from the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook “Leave comments on other blogs.” If there’s one piece of advice for building traffic to a blog that is given to new bloggers more than any other it is about leaving comments on other blogs. ...more