Darren Rowse

It is day 7 in the 31 Day challenge and today’s task is to write a ‘link post‘ – a post that links up to at least one other blog. Someone asked me recently to name a few ways that I built a readership on my first blog. One of ...more

Today your task in the 31 Day challenge to Build a Better Blog is to do some learning from successful bloggers. To do this I’ve asked nine bloggers that I know and respect to nominate a few posts from their own blogs archives that they believe would be most helpful ...more

Today’s task in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge is all about building community on your blog and making an impression upon readers by giving them some personal attention. The task is simply to email a new reader (or more than one). While the tip sounds simple ...more

You task today in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge is to spend some time on a successful blog in your niche. The purpose of this task is not to promote yourself on the blog – but rather to spend time watching, listening and observing how the ...more

Yesterday’s task in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge was to write a ‘list post’ on your blog. Hopefully you’ve had a chance to write that up and publish it by now. Today we’re going to take that post and attempt to drive some readers to it. ...more

I’ve had a few questions being asked quite a bit by those participating in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge so thought I’d post here some answers: 1. Missing Emails – I’m afraid that for some reason a number of those participating are reporting not getting emails. ...more

Today your challenge in the 31 Day project that we’re running here at Problogger is focused around writing a post and is to write a ‘list post’. Today’s Teaching: Using ‘lists’ has always been a popular and effective technique among bloggers wanting to write content that gets spread from one ...more

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Welcome to Day #1 of the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge. As on each day of this project today I’d like to present you with two things: Some Teaching/Theory A Task to go away and Do Teaching Today’s task (outlined in full below) is to develop an ...more