Darren Rowse

Oh My Goodness – our 3rd Birthday Prize Bonanza is over (well it will be shortly – because there’s one more giveaway that all of you can enter below). Over the last week we’ve given away over $54,000 in prizes (in fact it’s been closer to $60,000 because we added ...more

The biggest single time saver in my blogging is a plugin that many of us take for granted – but which has literally saved me days and days of time. What it’s done for me can be summed up in this little screen capture taken from the back end of ...more

Last week I asked ProBlogger readers this question: How Many Unique Visitors Does Your Biggest Blog Get Per Day? Considering that a previous poll found that over 50% of my readers have been blogging for less than a year the following results don’t surprise me (as it generally takes 2-3 ...more

Chitika have launched a premium publisher program in the last week. Chitika publishers will now fit one of three categories – Silver – Gold and Premium. Each level has it’s own privileges – from what I can tell most publishers are Gold publishers (I’m not sure why there’s a Silver ...more

Time for this week’s poll. This week I’m asking a pretty basic demographic question: How Old Are You? I’m asking this because I’ve heard a number of people recently speak about blogging as a young person’s thing – however in talking to many ProBlogger readers I’ve found that the age ...more

Amit has a great tip to help you keep on top of whether a post from your blog might have been submitted by one of your readers on Digg. It basically entails searching for your URL on Digg and then subscribing to the RSS feed of that search. Sometimes it’s ...more

Here’s a quick shout out for a charity project that I’ve been supporting lately. Along with a number of other bloggers we’re trying to raise money for public education projects via LitLiberation. It’s also a bit of a competition between those participating – we’re up against the communities of other ...more

Here’s a few links that caught my attention over the last few days: I wrote a number of months ago about getting unconfirmed subscribers to your RSS feed to confirm their subscription – Techie Buzz has developed a plugin to help you do this. ReadWriteWeb profiles 10 Chat Widgets that ...more

Earlier in the week the WidgetBucks launched (read our first impression review here) with a fair bit of fanfare around the blogosphere. Since it was announced I’ve had a number of readers ask me why they are not seeing any income in their reports despite there being clicks on the ...more