Darren Rowse

Sometimes after you’ve been blogging on your blog for a while it’s easy to forget that not all of your readers have been reading your blog since you started. While you’re familiar with every aspect of your blog and how to use it – your more recent loyal readers may ...more

I recently wrote a post with 8 things to do with your blog when you get sick – number five on the list was to find a guest blogger to lend a hand. This week on noticing a fellow blogger, Blog Bloke, was having a bad run with illness I ...more

One more post on the ‘respond to comments‘ post that I wrote yesterday. If you’re a WordPress user there are a number of WP plugins that can help with managing your comments and responding to readers. Here are some that might be worth exploring. 1. Better Comments Manager – this ...more

Do you want to be famous? Do you want to be noticed? Do you want people to know who you are? Do you want to have more influence? I did an informal survey of bloggers at a workshop and asked them why they blog. The majority of answers had something ...more

Today I was asked about a post from a few months ago on Savvy Affiliate that did a little analysis of the Alexa graphs of four blogs (including ProBlogger) which had surges in traffic that were the beginnings of sustained traffic growth. In the post Scott observed a surge in ...more

Jay from Dumb Little Man (a blog that’s seen incredible growth of late) has posted an insightful post on How He Blogs. It has all kinds of great glimpses into his blogging and how he does it while still maintaining a full time job (warning – his schedule is a ...more

Your task today in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog project is to ask your readers how you can improve your blog. At least once a year I like to write a post on my blogs inviting my readership to comment on a number of areas of my ...more

When I started this months 31 Days to Building a Better Blog and decided to invite readers to submit their own blog tips I’m not sure what I was really expecting – but the results have been fantastic. I’ve just spent the last two hours surfing through the latest batch ...more

In my last post on responding to comments on your blog two readers, john – from fat to fat and Lynnae, both post the question of whether a blogger should respond to comments via email or via comments? I’d like to throw this open as a reader question – what ...more