Darren Rowse

One of the books that I’ve been enjoying lately is Web Design for ROI: Turning Browsers into Buyers & Prospects into Leads. It might surprise regular readers who know that I’m a self confessed web design dummy to know that I’ve been reading (and enjoying) a book about this topic ...more

‘How do I find new subscribers for my blog?’ This question hits my inbox so regularly that I that I’d answer it publicly rather than retyping my answer to each person who asks – it’s a topic that is on the mind of many bloggers these days so lets tackle ...more

This guest post was written by Mark Seall from TalkClimateChange and EcoWorldly. Image by Aaron Jacobs ? Blogging is often more of a lifestyle choice than a hobby or a business model, and that choice often has its cost. Time spent writing content is the easy part – the total ...more

Guest Post: Muhammad Saleem is a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. Image by Charles and Clint Before we discuss your role as a commenter, you should know that there are many ways in which you can actually hurt your ‘brand’ by commenting ...more

This post on growing Organic Search Traffic to a Blog is by Ciaran McKeever who is the author of Chance Favors. Image by James @ NZ Although I’m not very tech savvy, for reasons that are beyond the scope of this post I have a very good working knowledge of ...more

What have you paid for when it comes to your blogging? One of the things that I hear a lot of people talk about when speaking about the virtues of blogging is that it has such low overheads and barriers to entry in terms of cost. In many ways I ...more

Here’s a question that I get quite a bit that I thought might make an interesting question for discussion: When choosing domain names do you get a keyword rich or more brandable name? What do I mean by keyword rich vs brandable names? Let me explain further with a segment ...more

Last week I had a quick conversation with Seth Godin via email about Twitter and in passing I mentioned his Twitter account. I was shocked to get a response to him saying that he doesn’t use Twitter and that the account I was referring to was actually being run by ...more

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