Darren Rowse

Amrit Hallan from Content Blog writes today about how improving your writing can improve the performance of your blog – Image by The Trial. Why are writers banned and persecuted in undemocratic countries? Because the written word is stronger than the entire governments and the ruthless forces they wield upon ...more

Today Lightening talks us through the process of deciding whether to monetize her blog and how she involved her readers in that process. I recently went through the process of deciding whether or not to monetize my personal blog Lightening Online. Personal Blogs seem to be a whole different ball ...more

Two Australian AdSense team members, Mel Ann and Tim, have put together a good introductory guide to optimizing AdSense. It’s not advanced but if you’re just starting out with AdSense it’s worth a watch.

Today Mike Henry explores Facebook pages (as opposed to profiles) and how they can be use to promote their blog, business, product or profile. Darren wrote a post recently on 12 tips for building relationships with other bloggers. They are all great tips that could be expanded into individual posts ...more

Much has been written on the topic of how to utilize social bookmarking and networking sites to promote your own blog posts. Submitting your posts to sites like Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit – posting about your posts on Twitter and Plurk…. All of these techniques can work to drive significant ...more

This post on Imposter Syndrome and Bloggers was written by Clarke Scott from Positive Blogger a blog about leveraging Positive Psychology to improve your blog. Image by Steffe Do you suffer from Impostor Syndrome (or IS)? Those who suffer Impostor Syndrome are convinced that friends or colleagues grossly overestimate their ...more

This week my guest post at ScribeFire is all about building community and conversation into your blog. It struck me today that the barista in my local cafe is not only one of the best coffee makers that I know – but is also really great at building community (albeit ...more

If you’re just getting your first message from a public relations (PR) professional, and you are wondering why you’re being graced with our august presence, this article is for you. And, if you’re among those who receive dozens of seemingly pointless emails from PR people, and you’re wondering what in ...more

Last week we ran a competition here on ProBlogger where our kind sponsors First Blog Media offered to give three lucky ProBlogger readers a year’s worth of free podcasting recorded professionally. To win readers needed to answer why they would like to have a podcast on their blog. Brian from ...more