Darren Rowse

In this post Dustin M. Wax explores what it takes to write an effective blog post. Learn more about Dustin at the conclusion of this post. Image by B Tal. You sweat blood all night, hunched over your keyboard, typing away at your blog’s next masterpiece. Finally, you click “Publish”, ...more

I was chatting with a blogger yesterday about search engine traffic. They asked me how much traffic I got to my blogs from Search Engines each day and when I told them that it was between 6000-8000 unique visitors a day (to Digital Photography School) their reaction was: ‘Can you ...more

Today Chris Brogan shares with us one of the secrets of his blogging. I’m not sure what it is about Darren’s blog that makes me confess my blogging secrets. I did it once before when I discussed how I promote my blog using Twitter, and here I am back to ...more

Over at the ProBlogger Room on FriendFeed Keith asks a good question that has stimulated a whole stream of thought for me. He asks: “If you have a blog post that clearly outperforms all other posts (more than double the traffic in my case) do you capitalize on it by ...more

Today the recently announced Google Affiliate Network (formerly DoubleClick) launched a new interface to publishers. You can access it at Connect Commerce. The look and feel of the site is very ‘Googlesque’ and at a first look it all seems fairly straight forward to use. Ultimately the interface is secondary ...more

This guest post is part of a two part series (see part 1 here) written by Kelly Phillips Erb, a tax attorney who blogs for b5media at taxgirl.com. You can find out more about Kelly here. For more information about tax and blogging, check out her handy list of prior ...more

I’ve just celebrated a month of playing with Plurk (join here if you’re not already a Plurker) over this last weekend so I thought it might be a good opportunity to spend a little time analyzing my experience with this new(ish) social messaging tool. Summary of My Experience Let me ...more

Have you subscribed to the ProBlogger Newsletter that I relaunched last week? If not – you’ve only got 24 hours or so to sign up if you want to get the first one. I’ve almost finished writing it and in this first edition you’ll get: Free 1 hour Podcast – ...more

Every week I’m asked by readers to recommend a WordPress template. I thought it’d make an interesting discussion – which WordPress templates are your favorites? I know it always varies from blog to blog when you’re choosing the best template for the job but I’d love to see some of ...more