Darren Rowse

Using Local Newspapers to Promote Your Blog Offline
This mini guest post is from Harry Maugans the co-founder and lead developer for Desktop Nexus. One of the biggest problems for local newspapers is finding things to write about. Email or call 5-10 of your closest local newspapers and explain you have an explosive new website that will revolutionize ...more
Blog Promotion

How Many Blogs Do You Post to Each Week
Time for a Reader Poll – the question is – ‘How Many Different Blogs Do You Personally Post to Each Week’. Note – this isn’t about how many you own, or how many blogs you have that are inactive – I’m looking for how many you actively are a blogger ...more
Pro Blogging News

Gala’s Lessons in Blogging
Yesterday I introduced you to Gala Darling and talked about her transition from having a blog with a niche topic to having a blog more with a niche demographic. Today I want to hand ProBlogger over to Gala for a post and have asked her to share a few of ...more
Case Studies

Speedlinking – 26 July 2007
Read WriteWeb points to the relaunch of one of my favorite organizational tools – Backpack. Anne shares some ways that Writers (and I guess that means us bloggers) can help stop global warming. b5media is currently hiring for 5 new positions including server ninja, junior tech support, editorial director, executive ...more
Pro Blogging News

Does Your Blog Focus Upon a Niche Topic or a Niche Demographic? – a Mini Case Study with Gala Darling
Last week I had a coffee with Melbourne blogger Gala Darling (pictured) to talk blogging. Gala blogs at iCiNG). We had a great chat that covered a lot of topics – from how to make money from blogs, to adding features to blogs to take them to new levels, to ...more
Case Studies

More Pillars of Exceptional Blogs
Rory Sullivan has written a great companion post to one that Leo Babauta wrote here at ProBlogger (4 Pillars of Writing Exceptional Blogs). The main point of Rory’s post is to point out that to build a great blog it takes more than just writing great content – to put ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

SketchCasting
Here’s a nice idea that I’d like to see more bloggers experimenting with – Sketchcasting! I think it’s got some great possibilities.
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

“If you had a Gun against your Head to Double your Readership in Two Weeks, What Would you Do?” – An Interview with Tim Ferriss
Two of the most popular posts on ProBlogger over the last couple of months were an interview that I conducted in April with author Timothy Ferriss who wrote the best selling book The 4-Hour work Week. Tim’s also been developing a blog as part of his 4-Hour Work Week site ...more
Pro Blogger Interviews