Darren Rowse

Earlier today I was asked to take a look at a blog of a reader to give it a critique. On arriving on the blog I immediately noticed that at the top of every article on the front page of the blog there was a copyright notice which ascribed the ...more

Around a month ago regular readers will know that I wrote that I was about to start an online video making course at WebVideoUniversity. Around 10 other ProBlogger readers signed up with me and have been partaking in this four week course over the month of May. I said that ...more

After my post a few days back about my love hate relationship with Akismet I was pleased to see Six Apart announce another option for bloggers looking to stem the tide of comment spam – TypePad AntiSpam. While I’m yet to try it the reports coming in about it are ...more

Image by Michael Sarver Over the last two days I’ve been writing about building relationships with other bloggers including tools and techniques for building blogger relationships as well as general principles of building relationships. Today I want to finish this series on building relationships with bloggers with some tips from ...more

I’ve been playing around with Shopzilla publishers network for a few months now but it’s only been in the last week that I’ve had time to take it for a full run on my blogs. Today I checked my stats and am kicking myself that I didn’t take this program ...more

In my weekly column over at ScribeFire this week I started a series on Offline Blog Promotion (ie promoting your blog through means that have nothing to do with the internet). You can read part 1 (it’s a 3 part series) here. In this post I introduce why offline blog ...more

Today I was chatting to Leo from Zen Habits who told me that he’s just launched a new site. When Leo tells me he’s starting something new I always take notice – he’s got a habit of making things work and has built his blog from 0 to over 50,000 ...more

Image by Michael Sarver Yesterday we looked at 12 techniques and tools for networking with other bloggers. Today I want to move on to look at some general principles of building relationships with bloggers that I think are important. I’ve covered these previously here on the blog but have updated ...more

As mentioned in my last post – today saw Karen, Neerav and myself featured in an Aussie national news story on channel TEN. Many international readers have asked to see the story so Neerav has posted it on Google Video for you. If you’d like to see the full sized ...more