Darren Rowse

This post is based on episode 173 of the ProBlogger podcast. Are you confident you’re using quotes legally and ethically on your blog? Quoting other people’s words, whether from books or blog posts, can be a great way to improve the content on your blog. It’s also a great way to ...more

This post is based on episode 161 of the ProBlogger podcast. Are you limiting the potential of your blog by ‘forgetting’ a few things? There’s a lot to think about when you’re blogging, and so it’s easy to forget (or know you should be doing them but never quite working out ...more

This post is based on episode 183 of the ProBlogger podcast. Do readers engage with your Facebook page? A lot of people spend time on Facebook. And as bloggers, it makes sense that we want to reach them. Unfortunately, it’s increasingly difficult to grow your audience using Facebook – especially if ...more

This post is based on episode 192 of the ProBlogger podcast. A couple of years ago we published a fantastic guest post from John Stevens on the nine conversion habits of the world’s most successful bloggers. To build a business around your blog you probably need to work on certain things. ...more

Do you struggle with managing your time? As an online entrepreneur it’s easy to slip into bad habits – moving frantically from one urgent thing to another, or responding to other people’s agendas without much thought about what we need to get done. In this post, I’m sharing six things that ...more

This post is based on episode 148 of the ProBlogger Podcast. One of the things that attracted me to blogging was the flexibility it offered. I’d be able to work and still be involved in my family and raising my kids. Before we had kids, my wife Vanessa and I planned ...more

This post is based on episode 135 of the ProBlogger podcast. What does it take to make a full-time living for your blog? I know some bloggers who managed it with hundreds of daily readers, while others needed tens of thousands of daily readers. The amount of money you make from ...more

This post is based on episode 133 of the ProBlogger podcast. In interviews I often get asked something like, “What’s your number one secret to making money online?” That’s a hard question to answer, because ultimately there’s no one ‘secret’ and no single way to make money online. People use lots ...more

This post is based on episode 159 of the ProBlogger podcast. Incoming links to your blog are vital. They not only drive traffic to your blog from other websites and blogs but also help you rank higher in search engines, which again leads to more traffic. The method I’m about to ...more