Darren Rowse

Here are a few links that caught my eye over the last week. I hope something in them inspires, teaches, motivates, informs or connect with you: Scott Karp writes a fascinating post on how Drudge Report (a site that links out a lot) has a higher reader engagement level than ...more

You’re slaved over your post – crafting titles, opening lines, adding depth, designing the post to be eye catching and more – you select the perfect time for your post to go live and hit ‘publish’! It’s over – another post ‘released’ into the wild – there’s nothing more you ...more

I’m doing a little promotion with WidgetBucks while at BWE this year. They’re giving me some 70’s style ‘baseball cards’ with my face on them to give out (why they chose that picture I’ll never know) and are offering ProBlogger readers (whether you get a card or not) a $50 ...more

Over the last few weeks we’ve been looking at important times to pause in the writing and publishing of a post. Each of these stages in the development of a blog post can contribute to whether a post makes it big around the web or not. Today we’re considering the ...more

Last week we ran a ‘reader review‘ competition where we gave you a link to a blog – Girls Just Wanna Have Funds – and asked you to leave a ‘review’ to help the blog improve. Chitika came to the party and offered a Tomtom One LE GPS unit to ...more

Do you want to grow your blog’s audience? Today Chris Brogan shares some strategies on just how to do that. It took me years to start figuring out how to grow my blog’s community such that it was steady and sustainable. A few years back, I figured out how to ...more

Over the past month since AdSense have released AdSense for Feeds to the wider publishing community I’ve noticed a lot more of the bloggers that I’m tracking each day are including ads in their RSS feed. When they first started appearing I noticed most bloggers had the ads positioned at ...more

Yesterday I challenged myself to grow my Digital Photography forum membership numbers by 500 new members in 24 hours. I only got just over 400 in the end – but learned a few things a long the way about growing forums – some of which can be applied to blogging. ...more

Have you ever wished that you could get more details of how your AdSense performance is going and wondered why Google AdSense and Google Analytics don’t have some way of talking to one another to give you more effective metrics? Well it seems that the time is coming soon where ...more