Darren Rowse

The old say that “There’s more than one way to skin a cat” can certainly be applied to the topic of making money blogging. Everyday I hear of a different example of a blogger who has managed to make a buck (or two) from the medium in a different way. ...more

Today John Chow just made a post reflecting upon a competition that he ran with Shoemoney to see who could get the most new RSS readers in a month. Over the month both John and Jeremy had some great success at increasing their numbers – both by over 4600 and ...more

In last week’s Reader Poll I asked bloggers whether they had ever written a paid review on their blog. Paid reviews on blogs have been something that have been going on for numerous years – however it’s only been in the last 18 months that they’ve become more mainstream as ...more

I’ve written previously about my love for the Comment Spam plugin Akismet (and how it’s literally saved me months of work). Of course it’s not perfect and does let some spam through – so today when I read on the Akismet blog that they’ve got a competitor launching (Defensio) I ...more

Just in case you were pining for yet another Top Blogs list – Bloglines today announced their one the Bloglines Top 1000 (they used to have a Top 200). They report that at the heart of the metric is how many ‘active’ subscribers that a blog has (with some other ...more

This week’s Reader Poll asks bloggers how much they earned from blogging in October. This is a poll that I ran in 2006 and I’m interested to see whether there has been much of a change in the results. Before you vote – here are a few things to keep ...more

Yesterday I wrote about Leo Babauta launching an ebook (Zen to Done) as a way to monetize his blog. In that post I promised to try to get an interview with Leo to explore both the wild success of his blog (over 21500 subscribers in 6 months) and the journey ...more

Chitika have today announced changes to their Chitika LINX ad unit. Now instead of it just being a text based ad unit they’ve added an image and styling (it’s much better than the old one). I’m not sure that I’ve really featured this ad unit here before on ProBlogger – ...more

One of the comments on this week’s post – The Power of Commenting on Blogs – was from The Great Seducer who asked: “Do you have any suggestions for commenting in a way that will draw interest to you? Obviously an insightful comment is the best plan…. but when there ...more