Darren Rowse

As a follow up to my own productivity tips for bloggers I asked readers to submit some of their own tips for keeping productive. The response was fantastic with over 40 responses already. As promised in the call for tips I said I’d be publishing some of my favorite submissions. ...more

Drawing on other niches in your blogging can have benefits. On the weekend I wrote a post here at ProBlogger titled 9 Lessons You Can Learn about Blogging by Watching Me Sell My House which was a post that I hesitated to publish for a day or two before putting ...more

Want to see where readers of your blog are geographically? maps.amung.us might be a tool (toy?) that you find useful. Here’s the ProBlogger reader map (it could take a little time to populate – but it is supposed to be flash based so it won’t need to refresh the page ...more

Last month was a pretty massive month here at ProBlogger with a record level of traffic (Google Analytics shows it at about 650,000 page views and our server side stats place it at 1.3 million – so it’s somewhere in between), 3959 comments (a new record) and 107 posts (the ...more

Last week I decided to run a small experiment on the ProBlogger reader community (please forgive me for making you a guinea pig). In my post revealing a batch of reader blog tips in the 31 day project I inserted a CrazyEgg tracking code to track what links in the ...more

Over the coming month or two I’m wanting to get as practical as possible here at ProBlogger and as part of that I’m wanting to base as many posts as possible on real questions from readers. So – the ‘question box’ is open. I can’t guarantee that I’ll answer them ...more

I just came across an interesting tool that explores connections between different websites using Google. All you have to do is put in a keyword and it’ll graph the top results in Google for you. I did it with ProBlogger.net as the keyword and got this graph (click to enlarge): ...more

The 31 Days to Building a Better Blog is over and it’s time to post the final reader tips. In today’s batch there are 98 tips in total which means that I’ve now posted links to 626 reader blog tips on the central 31 Day Project Page. Please note – ...more

In my last post I shared a few of my own blogging productivity tips – but I’m just one of millions of bloggers and I’d love to hear yours! So lets have some discussion on the topic of productivity. How do you keep your blog ticking over? Do you have ...more