Darren Rowse

I mentioned earlier in the week that there was one more response to come in from bloggers responding to my 1 Question interview on how they improved their blog in 2007. Today I’m happy to present it – a response from Frank Warren – the blogger behind the wildly successful ...more

One blogger that I read regularly and have come to respect over the last few years is Benjamin Yoskovitz from Instigator Blog. Yesterday Ben and I were chatting on skype and he mentioned that today he was launching a new design on his blog. I liked what I saw of ...more

I just read an interesting post by Terry Dean outlining Which 10 RSS Feeds He Actually Reads. Terry used the ‘Trends’ feature on Google Reader to analyze which blogs had the highest % of posts that he actually read. The list of blogs that he mentioned were all great blogs ...more

My coworker at b5media Chad Randall (he’s the head of our ad sales team and one of the people to chat to if you want to Advertise on ProBlogger or one of our 300 other blogs) has put together a useful post – 7 Reasons You Should be Advertising On ...more

Just a quick note to let readers know that it’s almost certain that I’ll be at south by southwest (interactive) in Austin Texas this coming March (just as an attendee). I’ve eyed this festival off for a while now and am really excited to be able to go. Quite a ...more

Over the last week I’ve run a 1 Question Interview Series here at ProBlogger. There have been some great responses (links to the full series are listed at the bottom of this post) but it’s not over yet. Today I want to post the last two responses (actually there might ...more

Looks like Technorati have been hit by spammers targeting the Top 100 blogs by favoriting them. Read about it at Technorati Favorites Spam. Here’s how the latest ‘favorites’ section on ProBlogger looks: Apparently it’s the same for all Top 100 blogs at the moment. I guess more people will just ...more

Over the last couple of weeks I ran a poll here at ProBlogger which asked readers who designed their blogs. 1828 readers responded in total (thanks everyone). DIY – The results showed that 57% of you either considerably tweaked a free template (35%) or designed your blog from scratch yourself ...more

Here’s a quick tip if you’re looking to get on the radar of another blogger (big or small). Bookmark their work using StumbleUpon. Two quick stories: Story 1 The other day I got an email from a blogger that I’d never had direct contact with before. The message was simply ...more