Darren Rowse
Using Examples to Give your Posts Depth
Late last year I began the process of hiring a handful of writers to help create new content for Digital Photography School (I wrote a little about it here). I ended up taking on 6 new writers on a trial basis to write one post each per week. It’s been ...more
Writing Content
The Curse of the ProBlogger – Time Management and Scaling Yourself Up
I love my work – but if there’s one thing that I struggle with more than anything else it is that I get to the end of each day and wish there were a few more hours. image by Erik It was a couple of years ago that I first ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Blogging as a Job – The Perceptions of Others – Convincing Those You Love that You Can Be a ProBlogger
In my recent question box Nick from Put Things Off asked me a number of questions that I thought I’d answer together as a single post as they almost read like a mini-interview – with questions revolving around the legitimacy of blogging as a career, helping others to accept it ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
4 Reasons You Should Encourage, Foster and Harness Dissent on Your Blog
Guest Post: Muhammad Saleem is a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. Over the past couple of years I have had many dozens of incredibly negative comments on my posts which I have often marked as spam and not posted. After I do ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Chitika Introduce Viral Branding Units
Chitika today have announced a new type of ad unit that I was fortunate enough to get a sneak peak of a few days ago. It’s called the Viral Branding Unit (VBU) and you can see it in action on their VBU page but it looks like this: This unit ...more
Advertising
40% of Bloggers #!%@’ing Swear on their Blogs [POLL RESULTS]
Last week’s poll looked at swearing on blogs and asked readers whether they did it or not. 968 readers have voted so far. Here’s how the results turned out: Total Yes to No vote – 40% to 60%.
Reader Questions
Shopzilla Publisher Program – First Impression Review
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been experimenting with a couple of new advertising networks and am really excited by the initial results that I’m seeing. The first one that I want to introduce readers to is the Shopzilla Publisher Program. You won’t learn a lot about this program ...more
Advertising
Blog Design Competition Winners
Last week I ran a little competition here at ProBlogger asking readers to nominate their favorite blog designs to put them in the running to win one of five copies of Web Design for ROI: Turning Browsers into Buyers & Prospects into Leads. This has been one of my favorite ...more
Blog Design
The Road to ProBlogging is Not Always Obvious; Or, How I Came to Be Editor of a Top 1000 Blog
The following post is by Peter Clemens from Peter is the founder of Iwillchangeyourlife.com. I still vividly remember being dazzled by the idea of making $1,000 a day from blogging. That was a little over 9 months ago, and the particular article I refer to is Steve Pavlina’s How to ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips