Darren Rowse

It’s time for another poll – this one gets at your motivations for blogging. Why do you blog? {democracy:32} I’m not asking why you started blogging – but what keeps you blogging – what are your motivations? Obviously I’ve only chosen a few reasons for blogging and there could be ...more

This post was submitted by Nick Cernis – the author of Put Things Off, the laid-back productivity blog. Think you’ve heard it all before? It’s true – if you want more subscribers, write great content and target a specific niche. It’s a lovely idea, and guess what? It really works. ...more

Image by Carf A month ago today I got the news that AdSense was making changes to their referrals program that would (in my opinion) be unfair to publishers living outside of some parts of the world. My reaction to this news was one of anger and disappointment – my ...more

Daniel Scocco from Daily Blog Tips has kindly agreed to help tackle some of the questions in the ProBlogger Question Box over the coming weeks. Here’s his first reply: Dustin Brewer asks: How do you work advertising on your site when it comes to the 125×125 banners? Do most of ...more

It’s time for another short and impromptu video streaming session. Feel free to drop by here to say G’day, ask questions and have a little fun. Update: Thanks to everyone who dropped by – as usual it was fun. I managed to record the second half of the session and ...more

Over the last couple of days I’ve been writing about growing the numbers of people subscribing to your blog. Lets do a quick recap: Two days ago I revealed a ‘secret’ of building subscriber numbers as being to build anticipation on your blog. Yesterday I shared how you can build ...more

Just a short note to let readers know that I do know we’re having some server errors at the moment on the site. The tech team at b5media are aware of it too and are working to resolve the issues. In short it’s symptomatic of the massive growth we’ve been ...more

This might sound like a strange question for someone behind a site called ProBlogger to be asking – but do use the word ‘blogger’ to describe what you do? In this post I want to explore some reasons why I’m using the term less.

In my recent First Impression review of Aweber (a newsletter service with some nice features for bloggers) a number of readers mentioned that the thing that was stopping them from using Aweber was that those who subscribe to them using Aweber’s Blog Broadcast option would not be counted in the ...more