Darren Rowse

OK – that heading sounds like a bad joke (and it could be) but I had confirmation this week that Jeremy from ShoeMoney is joining our ‘make money online with a blog‘ panel at Blog World Expo. This makes the lineup – Brian Clark from CopyBlogger, John Chow, Zac Johnson, ...more

The subject of live blogging has come up for me three times in the last 24 hours so I thought it might make a good reader discussions. “How would you go about live blogging at a conference?” That was the question I was just asked – how would you do ...more

In our series on crafting blog content we’re at stage 7 (of 10) and having chosen our topic, crafted a title, written an engaging opening line, written a meaningful post, added a call to action and added depth – we’re finally ready to hit ‘publish’! Or are we? Image by ...more

Yesterday I shared 5 lessons on making money with affiliate programs on your blog. As I read through the comments on that post and pondered it some more thoughts came to mind that I think are worth adding: Test and Track Results I’ve written numerous times on ProBlogger about testing ...more

In the last 24 hours I’ve been interviewed 3 times and on each occassion I was questioned about affiliate marketing and how to make money from it. Here are 5 lessons that I found myself touching on in each interview. Image by foundphotolj 1. Relevancy between Audience, Product and Content ...more

A couple of weeks ago I received a package in the mail from internet marketer Joel Comm. The package contained his new book – Click Here to Order. With a new baby in the house it’s been difficult to find time to read the whole book but having got halfway ...more

What do you see when you look at this image? Image by Lord V OK – so it’s two flies right? Yes it is…. but look a little harder. Have you ever used one of those crazy eye cross eye 3D multidimensional pictures? This is one of them. Relax, cross ...more

Jeremiah Owyang has written a good post today on how to get noticed. Getting noticed is a major problem for most bloggers starting out (and most who have been going for years also). Jeremiah’s suggestions are great: Have a goal, Develop a unique brand, Get personal, Attend local events, Lead ...more

In our last ProBlogger Poll I asked readers whether they run RSS ads on their main blog. The results are in – 66% of you don’t run RSS ads on your blog. What I find interesting is that 18 months ago I ran this same poll. The results were that ...more