Darren Rowse

The following guest post on measuring a blog’s success has been submitted by Mark Seall. A guide to systematically troubleshooting your blog’s performance by focusing on the measures that make a difference. Apparently it’s really easy to get zillions of subscribers to your blog – Just follow a few simple ...more

The New York Times has an article this week revealing that the advance of the book deal announced on the blog Stuff White People Like last week is worth $300,000. We’ve seen a number of bloggers sign book deals over the last year but this kind of money is beyond ...more

After what seems like a very long test period AdSense today have announced that they’ve added scrolling ads to all CPC text ads. They announce it on their blog here. We started seeing them back in December. These ads have been appearing increasingly on many publishers AdSense units of late ...more

Just a quick post/tip to followup on the April Fools post update that I did yesterday. While in general I find the day to be a distraction more than anything else (I’m sure many of us spent more time filtering pranks than doing much else yesterday) it is one of ...more

After the success of last week’s Re-Tweet project where I asked my Twitter followers to submit posts around a theme I thought I’d give it another go this week. This week I asked followers to submit their best post title (and URL) from the last month on their blogs. My ...more

Last week I put out the call for video posts on the topic of ‘Why I Blog’. This is a ‘group project’ of sorts and my hope was to see bloggers experiment with producing videos all around the same topic. The result was 36 bloggers tackling the challenge and submitting ...more

In today’s video post I want to show you a technique that can help those of us struggling to come up with ideas to post about on our blogs to discover post ideas that are relevant to what our readers are looking for information on. In the few minutes that ...more

Just after midnight last night (as it ticked over here to 1 April) I posted that I was launching a new ProBlogger service – PayPerTweet – a service that pays Twitter users to Tweet about products, services and websites. Of the 100+ commenters to respond to the post so far ...more

This is a guest post from Leo Babauta of Zen Habits, a blog about simplicity and productivity. Darren has told us that his ProBlogger email inbox can often be overwhelming, and with a couple of extremely successful blogs, running a large ad network, and multiple other projects, it isn’t hard ...more