Darren Rowse

It’s time for another ProBlogger Poll. What is the Biggest Source of Traffic to Your Blog? Is it search engines? If so which one? Is it RSS subscribers and loyal readers? Is it Social Media sites (and which one is it)? Do other blogs and sites send most? Or is ...more

OK – time for a ‘comical’ interlude. I was just over at the ProBlogger Book page at Amazon and scanned down the page to see this: OK – so what ProBlogger reader is searching for ‘no show briefs’?

In this post Gala Darling from iCiNG shares some of her experiences of growing her blog and getting readers involved with comments. “When you started iCiNG, how did you make it known? And goodness I’m gonna sound pretentious but how long did it take for you to start having constant ...more

This past few days have seen me experimenting with a new type of post here at ProBlogger – Speed Posting. I set myself the challenge to answer 20 or so questions from my Twitter followers in no more than 3 minutes per post. I then handed each post over to ...more

LeftTheBox asks “Hey Darren I know you post daily but do you try to post at a certain time each day?” I certainly do! I not only set myself minimum post numbers each day but I’ve taken it a little further and narrowed down some daily posting windows that I ...more

iamluc asks “How much traffic should you have to offer advertisements on your blog?” “When should you put advertising on your blog?” Funnily enough I’ve been asked this question four times in the last 24 hours so it’s probably a good time to answer it. Before I answer the question ...more

HaraldJohnsen asks “As a quality control, what are the most important questions to ask before hitting ‘submit’ / posting a blog post?” Great question Harald – I actually think that most of us as bloggers could improve many of our posts by pausing before hitting ‘submit/publish’ and asking a few ...more

@SmallFishMedia asks about ‘”How To Be More Positive On A Daily Basis” What a great question and one I never expected to write about here at ProBlogger – it’s a little off topic but as I was asked it – here goes. Firstly, I’m no expert on being positive. I’m ...more

@eMarv asks – “how do you establish trust online?” I’ve touched on this with a few of my other answers this weekend but let me share three thoughts: It’s not something that happens quickly – I wrote a post a while back titled ‘Do you kiss on the first date? ...more