Darren Rowse

Martin Neumann has put together a great new resource for people wanting a good introduction to RSS by the title of RSS – Beginners Guide. It’s one of the better resources on the topic that I’ve seen and I’m adding it to my own What is RSS page along with ...more

It’s day 13 in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project and this morning I woke up to four emails from readers reporting enjoying different aspects of the month’s activities. The first had recruited 12 friends to do the project with them The second told me about how ...more

The last few days here at ProBlogger have been pretty hectic to say the least. It’s been crazy on two fronts: 1. Complete site redesign 2. We’ve just put our house on the market (yep the one that blogging built) and are building another one (how many freaking types of ...more

Today your task in the 31 Day Project is to carry out a search for an Affiliate Program that fits your blog. Those of you not interested in monetizing your blog might want to go back to one of the previous 12 days in this project to repeat one of ...more

Today your task in the 31 Day Project is to Introduce Yourself to another blogger Email or IM another blogger in your niche to introduce yourself and your blog. You don’t need to ask them to link to you or anything – the point isn’t to get any specific outcome ...more

Today your task in the 31 Day Project is to dig into your blog’s metrics or statistics package. Take some time out today to do a little analysis of your blog’s statistics. There is a wealth of information in them that can be incredibly useful. Here’s a few metrics to ...more

After a few hours of testing, tweaking, tracking down bugs and fixing up a few small glitches I’m happy to say that the ProBlogger Design Relaunch is looking stable and we’re tucking it into bed for the night. Ben has also just headed to bed (after pulling a late night) ...more

Just a short note to let readers know that in the next hour or so you’ll begin to see changes to ProBlogger as we launch the new design. As with all such launches we’re sure there will be a few bumps in the road as the team behind it get ...more

Today’s task in the 31 Day Project is to Declutter your sidebar Blog clutter has a way of creeping up on almost all bloggers. I’ve let it creep up as much as the next blogger and a big task in getting a new design together has been working out what ...more