Darren Rowse

This post is based on Episode 185 of the ProBlogger podcast. Whether you’re looking to become a full-time blogger, want to supplement your blogging income, or simply want to make a bit of money to support your own blog as it grows, finding a paid blogging job can help you go further, ...more

This post is based on Episode 108 of the ProBlogger podcast. One day, you come across someone else’s blog online that has surprisingly familiar content. Very familiar content. Yours, in fact! In most cases, they’ll have taken entire posts for your blog – images, links and all – by “scraping” your blog’s ...more

When you launch a new blog (especially if it’s your first), there’s so much to do it can feel overwhelming. Having spent so much time and effort selecting your theme, pre-writing posts, and maybe even setting up your email list, you probably just want to make it live as soon as possible so you can ...more

Tell me if any of these scenarios sound familiar: You sit down in front of a blank page to write a new blog post. You make a start, but you’re not sure where to go next. You often find yourself completely rewriting your draft posts because they just don’t seem ...more

Are you struggling to stay motivated with your blog writing about the same thing again and again? Or are you flitting around between lots of different topics, trying and failing to find one thing you want to write about? In the old days of blogging, bloggers were often advised to be ...more

It’s a problem every new blogger faces, and it can seem insurmountable. How do you build an audience when no-one knows who you are? There’s plenty of good advice out there (so much that it might seem a bit overwhelming). So in today’s post I’m sharing seven straightforward but effective ...more

Do you feel confident using images in your blog posts? While there’s no absolute rule that bloggers need to include images, most bloggers will include at least one eye-catching image in each post (normally at or very near the start). However, it’s easy to make mistakes with images. We’ve already covered how ...more

Our team has just finished watching this video of Pat Flynn’s from earlier this year. It’s all about using Facebook groups, and he shares 27 different tips and hacks for Facebook marketing within your groups. We think it will give you a lot of great ideas for your own Facebook ...more

In the past we’ve taken a look at why your blog needs an email newsletter and what you should include in your email newsletter. But people have been asking for more detail on how often you should send emails to your newsletter subscribers. So we’re adding this post to round out ...more