Darren Rowse

Do you have a headshot handy that you could send to a media organization quickly? Today I got an email from a rather large media publication requesting a picture of me for an article that they might include me in (they were being a little cagey and wouldn’t actually say ...more

Click To Play play_blip_movie_553468(); As we continue to settle into our new house, a new routine and new surrounds in our suburb I’m being constantly inspired by the lessons I see around me and how they apply to blogging. In today’s video I want to talk about Grass (Turf that ...more

Quick blog promotion tip – Twitterfeed.com is a service that will automatically twitter any post that you publish on your blog. I’ve started doing it on my Twitter account and have seen quite a few visitors come across from it so far. Thanks to cat-laine (blog) for the tip.

update – thanks for everyone’s entries but this competition is now over. I received a lot of positive feedback from last week’s giveaway of the WordPress for Dummies book. One of the things that happened as a result of the giveaway is that I had a number of other people ...more

I’ve just spent the last couple of hours devouring How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer – a brand new resource by Cyan and Collis Ta’eed from the wonderful Freelance Switch blog. I’ve been an avid reader of the blog since it started and when I met Collis recently at Melbourne ...more

Time for a new Poll. Who designed your blog? I’m sure there will be other options to those that I included. If you don’t feel your situation is covered feel free to leave a comment below and tell us your answer. {democracy:28} I’d also be interested to hear about your ...more

Mani from Daily SEO Blog just shot me a screen cap of an unusual AdSense ad unit that he saw: It’s a 336×280 pixel ad unit. Looks like AdSense are in a bit of a testing frenzy at the moment with new ad formats being reported every few days by ...more

Last week I ran a five day competition here at ProBlogger where every comment that you left on the blog put you into the draw to win a copy of WordPress for Dummies by Lisa Sabin-Wilson. The post that I announced the competition on got quite a few comments in ...more

Are you one of the people who have bought a ProBlogger T-Shirt? If so – I’d love to get a picture of you wearing it to post here on the blog. I’ve just done a little analysis of the purchases so far – and the clear winner in terms of ...more