Darren Rowse

Today’s task in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog project is to go Shopping! OK – I can hear what you’re probably thinking: “What? The ProBlogger has lost his mind – what does shopping have to do with blogging?” Stick with me for a second and let me ...more

This guest post has been submitted by Sara Ost from www.healthbolt.net and www.marksdailyapple.com. Do you find yourself dreaming about writing posts that aren’t quite the right fit for your current blog? The dilemma: you have a successful blog with a specific style and you want to depart from it and ...more

One of the biggest sources of traffic on the web is Google (and it’s fellow search engines). As a result it makes sense that a blogger interested in building traffic to their blog would take some time to learn how Search Engines Rank sites. Today’s task in the 31 Day ...more

We are entering the last week in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog project and I’m continuing to enjoy both writing my own tips and reading those being submitted by readers. Today I’ve got another 97 reader tips for you (taking us to a total of 456 submissions ...more

Today your task in the 31 Day Project is something that most bloggers who have been blogging for a while could probably benefit from doing – go on a dead link hunt. Blogging is built on the ‘link’. One blog links to another blog who links to another who makes ...more

I was chatting with two friends last week – one of them is a blogger and the other was considering starting a blog. My blogging friend was dispensing a few words of wisdom on how to start out (the usually kind of beginner blogging tips) when he said something out ...more

Click To Play play_blip_movie_352933(); First impressions matter in the day to day real life relationships that we all have. Like it or not, people are making decisions about who you are in the first few seconds that they meet you. The same is happening when they come to your blog ...more

If you’re using Blogger as your platform and have wanted a way to put AdSense ads between posts then Blogger have added a widget that makes it easy. Get the full details at the AdSense blog’s post on Getting inline. I can think of a few bloggers that will be ...more

One of the most basic principles of search engine optimization is that the words that other sites use within the text of their links to you (called the anchor text) have an impact upon how your site ranks for those words. For example – if you want to rank well ...more