Darren Rowse

This video has been around for over a year now (I made it just after ProBlogger was last redesigned) but I think it’s particularly relevant for this time of year when many bloggers are looking at refreshing the look and feel of their blog. First impressions matter both in real ...more

This is a guest post from Leo Babauta of Zen Habits, author of the new best-selling book, The Power of Less. If you’re like most bloggers, you probably want to grow your readership as quickly as possible, but don’t have much time. Unfortunately, blogging usually takes a lot of time ...more

Last week on Twitter I had a discussion with a number of followers about landing interviews with other bloggers as a way to generate interesting content for your blog. One of the responses I had via a direct message from a follower was: “I’m too shy to approach big bloggers ...more

In this post Mara Rogers of http://www.SecretsForMoney.info shares a reflective exercise to help you grow your blog. To be objective about his or her blog tends to be a challenge for most bloggers. Often bloggers are in love with the ‘idea’ of their blog, so taking an impartial look at ...more

“I’m the number 1 blog in my niche but I’m not getting much traffic – do you have any words of advice?” This question hit my inbox earlier today and I thought I’d repost part of my reply here as I think it could be relevant to more than the ...more

I really like this post by Chris Brogan – What’s in a Name. “You worry about names. You think long and hard about titles. You put boxes around what you’re doing, if that suits you. I’ll be over here just doing. Thinking, planning, doing, and observing my results.” I’m always ...more

Over the last two months I’ve had a sidebar poll running here at ProBlogger that asked readers to tell us how much their blog earned in October of 2008. This is an annual poll that we’ve run for a number of years now so it is always interesting to see ...more

It is New Years Day here in Australia so I wanted to take a moment to wish you all a Happy New Year. Thanks for your readership in 2008 – I’ve really enjoyed continuing to develop ProBlogger and have appreciated your continued support and involvement in the ProBlogger community. As ...more

With the end of 2008 hurtling towards us many bloggers are beginning to cast our minds forward into the new year ahead to set goals, make resolutions and come up with strategies and plans to grow their blogs in 2009. While looking forward and planning to improve your blog is ...more