Darren Rowse

In this post Alyssa Gregory from avertua, LLC shares some tips for business bloggers wanting to become more engaging with readers. People are busy, and in order to gain and keep readership as a blogger, you need to provide your readers with information that makes their lives better, easier, and ...more

One of the books that I’ve been reading off and on over the last 12 months (it’s a good one for dipping into a little at a time) is Hot Button Marketing (by Barry Feig). It’s an interesting read that caught my attention in the book shop because it puts ...more

Debates in blogging circles have raged for years now on many topics. Should a blog have full feeds or partial feeds? Is a blog a blog if it doesn’t have comments? Frequency of Posting – Should a blog post once a week, once a day or 20 times a day? ...more

Today I received what seemed like a fairly generic email from the website Dummies.com. I won’t republish the email (I’m not into that) but it was a fairly generic ‘could you link to our website’ type email asking for a link because they’ve redesigned their site. It even included a ...more

Today at SMX Sydney Rand Fishkin and I had a pretty cool chat about how Twitter (and other factors) might have changed the landscape of blogging and the way that people link up to one another. I was going to sit down tonight to write up some reflections on the ...more

In this guest post Sherice Jacob from iElectrify and author of Get Niche Quick explores a question I get a lot – how should a blog be niche focused or not? At one point or another, all bloggers have had to sit down and make a crucial decision with their ...more

While I’ve delayed the start of the 31 Day Challenge until next week I wanted to show you a glimpse behind the scenes of my signup process using one of the features that Aweber gives those using it’s email newsletter system – Web Forms. The idea is simple – Aweber ...more

This is just a short post to let those waiting for the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog project to start tomorrow that I’ve had to delay it until next week. This isn’t an April Fools prank (beware, some bloggers have started theirs early this year) but a genuine ...more

Today Hendry Lee from BlogBuildingU explores the power of combining blogging with email. Most people think email is dead, at least for marketing. A few years ago when blogging was just reaching mainstream, some aggressive marketers claimed that blog would replace email in its marketing role. But that never happens. ...more