Darren Rowse

Just a short note to let you know that we’ve put off the launch of the new ProBlogger design for 24 hours. It’s almost ready to go but we felt it would be wiser to do it when b5media’s tech/hosting team were all not traveling to Gnomedex :-) Plus it ...more

Over the last month or two I’ve mentioned on a number of occasions that I’ve had a small team working on a redesign of ProBlogger. I’m happy to say that some great progress has been made and we are aiming for a release of the new design tomorrow (all going ...more

Todays task in the 31 Day project is to do an Advertising Audit on Your Blog. I know that not everyone doing this project is making money through advertising – be there are enough tasks from other days in the project that you can always go back and redo one ...more

The 31 Day Blogging Project Rolls on (we’re at Day 8) and the last 3 days have seen another great bunch of 70 reader blog tips submitted. That brings the total of reader submitted tips to 151 with still 23 days in the project. There is some seriously good reading ...more

Two good posts leapt from my RSS feed at me this morning that I think complement one another quite well. Wendy writes – How I Grew My Blogging Profits While My Traffic Numbers Went Down and identifies 6 key lessons: I have truly learned the value of a targeted visitor. ...more

Today your task in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project is as simple as they come. In fact it’s a tip that gets included in almost every post ever written on how to grow a blog’s traffic – comment on a blog that you’ve never commented on ...more

Glen just wrote me an email to let me know about a post that he just published that researched how many times the Top 100 blogs at Technorati hit the Digg home page. There’s a definite correlation there – particularly among the very top five blogs who make it to ...more

Looking for a Blogging Job? Check out the latest blogs on the ProBlogger Job Boards where there have been 13 new blog jobs advertised since the beginning of the month just 7 days ago. Here’s what’s on offer: Leadership Blogger – Blogging and Web Dev Bloggers – Celebrity Diet/Exercise Blogger ...more

I’ve been asked numerous times blog bloggers what to do with a blog on a day that they’re sick. As I woke up with a pounding head and numerous other flu ailments I thought today might be a relevant day to answer the question: Ask a Question – one of ...more