Darren Rowse

Late this week here at ProBlogger guest blogger Justin Dupre explored the topic of swearing on blogs in his post – Dropping The F-Bomb: Blogging with Naughty Words. The response to his post was a great discussion with a variety of opinions expressed. I thought a followup poll might be ...more

Just a quick update to my Competition Case Study post from a couple of days ago. One of the best things that I did to promote this competition was to email inactive members of my forum. VBulletin (the forum software that I use) allows me to send emails to members ...more

Wendy at eMoms at Home posted an interview with me today which focuses upon getting advertising to convert into revenue on a blog – particularly CPC ads (cost per click) like AdSense or Chitika. I give a variety of tips in the 3 question interview but here’s the crux of ...more

This guest post on using swearing on your blog was written by Justin Dupre from Blogosis. I’m thinking of a word that starts with F- and ends in U-C-K. There are two answers to this. If you are the good blogger, which I know you all are, (Italics for emphasis, ...more

The Eighth Annual Weblog Awards (the Bloggies) are on and ProBlogger has been nominated in the ‘Best Topical Weblog’ category. The competition is HOT. Oh for the days when they had a ‘best web dev’ award which I did ok in! Also – congratulations to Skellie for her nomination in ...more

As a follow up to my last two posts on Twitter (the Benefits of Twitter and How to Use Twitter – Tips for Bloggers) I thought I’d ask a group of people more qualified to answer the question of ‘how a blogger should use twitter best?’ – my Twitter followers. ...more

Yesterday I wrote about some of the benefits of using Twitter as a tool to improve your blog. I’ve seen tangible benefits of getting into Twitter over the last month – but it hasn’t been as simple as signing up for a Twitter account and then documenting every area of ...more

The following guest post is by Jon Bishop from TechNomads. You can learn more about him at the base of this post. Now that I’m living in China, and having lived in Asia for the past 8 years, I’ve often found myself thinking about Confucianism, and considering certain elements of ...more

I was a little slow getting onto Twitter last year (when so many other bloggers embraced it). To be honest I didn’t think it had much to offer me – I’m beginning to see how wrong I was. In this post I want to explore how I’m using Twitter to: ...more