Darren Rowse

Today is Blog Action Day – the day where thousands of bloggers around the world are all blogging on the same topic – this year it’s ‘the Environment’. So on a day like today I thought it might be good to have some discussion around the topic rather than me ...more

Here is a quick question for your discussion. I’m writing a short column on the topic for a magazine (ironically) and while I’ve already written most of it thought it’d be a better article with your ideas. The topic: Will the growing popularity of digital user-generated content pose a threat ...more

Google Reader have just started showing how many readers are subscribing to an RSS feed in a similar way to the way that Bloglines have been showing subscriber numbers for years now. The subscriber numbers can be seen simply by doing a search for a blog’s name after clicking the ...more

It’s time to ‘get something off your chest’ about blogging. I listen to a sports radio station here in Melbourne and every Wednesday morning while I’m dropping my son off to his Grandma’s house for the day a segment comes on called ‘get something off your chest’. In the segment ...more

Did you know that there’s an International Blog Cup going on at the moment. I just got an email from a reader saying that it’s on and that ProBlogger’s made the Quarter Finals (I didn’t even realize I was competing :-) ) There’s even a ‘Virtual Blog Cup’ for the ...more

AdSense have made a change to their referral program by putting a validation periods on publishers when they display non Google products. In this period publishers earn a lower conversion commission while AdSense works out if your conversions are ‘valid’. Once the validation period ends you then will earn the ...more

It’s time for the first ProBlogger Community Blog Consulting Session. I’ve explained what this is in my last post and would ask you to read it before you leave a comment below. The blog that we’re going to look at this week is Sourcebench. Thorsten is the blogger behind this ...more

Today I’d like to try something a little new here at ProBlogger and want to invite you to engage in a little blog consulting and work shopping on a reader’s blog. Let me explain why I’m doing this: I get asked to look at a lot of blogs – to ...more

Mani got my attention with this post today – What would you do if you owned ProBlogger.net? There’s some great answers in the comments section – would love to hear more of your ideas! PS: I actually think it’s a good question to ask others about your blog. In fact ...more