Darren Rowse

This post is an excerpt from the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook Your task today is another writing oriented challenge and is all about expressing an opinion. There are many factors that set great bloggers apart from the rest but one that I’ve seen continually cropping up ...more

Regular readers of ProBlogger will be familiar with Yaro Starak. He’s been a guest blogger here and I’ve linked up to his work many times. Many hundreds (it could be thousands by now actually) of you have also have also been a part of Blog Mastermind (a fantastic course for ...more

Today’s task is to create a Sneeze Page for your blog. What is a Sneeze Page? The term ‘sneeze page’ is one that I came up with for the 2007 version of the 31 Days to Build a Better blog and is a concept that I’ve been using as a ...more

AdSense today announced at Adspace and on their blog that they’re developing a much requested feature for publishes – category filtering. “Category filtering will give publishers the ability to block ads that fall into specific categories such as dating, religion, and politics. Regardless of how ads are targeted, they’ll be ...more

I’ve had a lot of people email and tweet me today asking for my opinion on a Wall Street Journal article – America’s Newest Profession: Blogging. In it the journalist writes about how there are almost more people in America making their living from blogging than as lawyers and that ...more

This post is an excerpt from the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook New readers to your blog are making decisions within seconds of arriving at your blog that will determine how (and if) they’ll use your blog. In the same way that first impressions can be vital ...more

Looking for some cool blog tools and applications to help you be a more productive? Today Shankar Ganesh from Killer Tech Tips shares 7 to check out if you’re a Windows based blogger. If you’re a blogger, you’ll be using a variety of applications that aid you in your daily ...more

Today’s task in the 31 Days to build a better blog project is a ‘writing’ oriented task and it is all about solving problems. Your task is to write a post that solves a problem that your readers (or potential readers) have. This is a task that most successful bloggers ...more

I wanted to take a few minutes today to let you know about an event that I’m excited to be participating in that is fast approaching. The event is the Social Media Success Summit 2009. The event is a live online event (although you have access to recordings if you ...more