Darren Rowse

“Darren, I have been blogging for 6 months and have tried to build traffic through social media, networking and buying reviews. I have attached a screen capture of the last 2 months of traffic (above) where you will see I have some good days in traffic, but it always flat ...more

Over on Plurk HCI Blogger asked me – “How do you decide when to start publishing a newsletter?” I’m sure other bloggers with newsletters will have different opinions to me on this one but if I were starting a new blog today I’d start a newsletter to go with it ...more

Over the last few months I’ve had a rise in the numbers of people asking me about the why and how of writing and publishing Ebooks. So when Mary Jaksch from the blog Goodlife Zen and Ebook From Tragedy to Triumph: Winning Through a Life Crisis offered to write a ...more

WordPress today announced that it has just released its newest version WordPress 2.6. Here’s their video tour of it.

Yesterday Mofuse (a service that allows bloggers to launch and manage a mobile version of their blog) announced that they are making their ‘Pro’ service free for everyone. There was previously a free version and Pro version with the paid version allowing you to point users to your own domain ...more

I’m excited today to announce an exclusive special offer for ProBlogger readers from Chitika (my own #2 income earner) that could be worth up to $100 for some of you. If you’ve previously not been accepted into Chitika or have a site that is product focused and didn’t work well ...more

Is Your Blog a Networking Tool? In this post Jennifer Gniadecki from Everyday Networker explores this question. One of the most frequent questions I’m asked during the Q&A at live speaking engagements is, “So…yeah….I’ve been thinking about starting a blog…is a blog a networking tool?” I thought it was a ...more

I’m so confused! The 193 entries into my ProBlogger Book competition were all so great that I’ve spent the last hour agonizing over who to choose. I didn’t know whether to choose winners based upon quality of the comment, the blog of the commenter and how much help it needed ...more

Just a short note to let those of you who have not subscribed to the ProBlogger weekly newsletter know that next week’s edition has a couple of great offers for readers – only one of which will be posted here on the blog. One is a way to make up ...more