Darren Rowse

Happy Christmas – I hope that you’re having a good one. I’ve got a bit day of family fun planned – but wanted to leave something here on the blog for those of you with a little more time on your hands to enjoy. I thought I’d take this opportunity ...more

Over the last week we’ve held a competition here at ProBlogger where five active readers (those leaving comments) win a free copy of the Premium News Theme (for WordPress blogs) – designed by Adii. 375 readers put themselves in the running for the competition by commenting on the initial post ...more

The following post on the motivations of customers is by Dean Rieck from Direct Creative. Do you understand the motivations of your blog customers? Hold on. Did I just say, “customers”? If you’re like most bloggers, you talk about “subscribers” or “traffic” or “page views.” The term “customers” may not ...more

There’s four emails in my inbox today which all ask the same question. ‘What do You Do with Your Blog When You Go on Vacation?’ I’ve written about it previously (links below) but I thought it might make a good reader discussion question (and topical too as many of us ...more

Zookoda users woes are continuing with Zookoda announcing in the last few hours on their Zookoda Blog that they’re suspending all Broadcasts due to spam abuse. Ted Murphy (founder and CEO of Izea, formally PayPerPost, who owns Zookoda) writes: “Today we’re stopping Zookoda broadcasts. The system will remain live, but ...more

A few weeks ago I encouraged readers to get their blog ready for Christmas. I’d be interested to hear how people have gone with it. Have you done anything different on your blog this holiday season? Perhaps it’s been posts you’ve written, design elements, getting your ads and affiliate programs ...more

A few blogging links from the last couple of days. Enjoy I’ve recently been enjoying Pajama Professional – a blog by Sara Christensen. She’s been writing some nice posts including The Three Cs of Blogging. Daniel at Daily Blog Tips has written a helpful post outlining 7 Characteristics of Good ...more

With the Festive Season approaching I wanted to take a few minutes out today to give a shout out to the sponsors of ProBlogger that have been so supportive over the past month or two. This group of companies and individuals help me to keep my eye on blogging rather ...more

update – thanks for everyone’s entries but this competition is now over. Just a quick note to let you know that there’s just 16 hours to go in this week’s competition – Win a WordPress Blog Theme for Your Blog. To enter you need to 1. leave a comment on ...more