Darren Rowse

In this post Chris Garrett gives advice on what to do when your blog plateaus. As you have no doubt read on Problogger before, the goal for most bloggers is exponential growth. Not all blogs reach this point though. For many of us it is quite difficult enough to find ...more

In this post Leo Babauta from Zen Habits explores the art of minimalistic blogging. I don’t think there’s a blogger among us — from full-time Pro Bloggers like Darren to the part-time, trying-to-squeeze-in-blogging-around-my-full-time-job-and-my-family bloggers like the rest of us — who have unlimited time for blogging. And yet, if we ...more

This post has been submitted by Karen Andrews from www.miscmum.com I am no stranger (nor are you, probably) to how the wider media sometimes depicts bloggers: as closeted wannabees who add to the rise of ‘faux journalism’. Books are currently being published on the subject. This could understandably contribute to ...more

This guest post on a crowded blogging space is by Mark Hayward who blogs over at MyTropicalEscape and Culebra Blog. Will the popularity of blogging lead to its demise? Presently on the internet there are blogs in existence for almost every subject, every demographic, and every topic imaginable and more ...more

Just a short note to let readers know that I’m taking off for a week’s break as of today (we’re going up North to a beach) and that ProBlogger will be in the capable hands of a number of Guest Posters in the coming days. I’ve just uploaded them all ...more

Time for a little reader discussion. This one is inspired by a question from Frederico from Tutorialstream.com who is considering starting a new blog and asks: I was wondering if you think that starting with a standard/free/low quality template and after some time (when I have some kind of readership) ...more

I came across the following video this morning at InsideGoogle. It’s of a presentation that Dan Lyons (aka Fake Steve Jobs) gave at Google recently. It actually goes for 51 minutes (but there’s not a lot visual about it so you can listen to it while doing something else) and ...more

During the week I announced that I’d put together a range of ProBlogger T-Shirts for those readers wanting a little blogger apparel. Shortly after that post Gavin from Australele emailed to offer to help me put together a more integrated Printfection shop. Gavin showed me a range of printfection shop ...more

Just a quick link up to Shoemoney who had a post from earlier in the week that I thought was right on the money. He wrote his Blogging Advice To Connect With Your Readers and made three simple but spot on points: Don’t try to be something you are not ...more