Darren Rowse

This post was submitted by Chris Garrett from ChrisG.com Valuable content. Most people know this is the way to be successful in blogging. Sure there are other important factors too. Traffic, design, usability, community … All the good stuff. Whatever reason people have for visiting, they stay for the content. ...more

Jennifer asked – “I know a better layout would be more useful to my readers. Is it better to redesign early in the game?” Two main thoughts come to mind: 1. Design does matter – I’ve written on why previously but I think it is one strategy that can really ...more

Jennifer asked – “I just started a new blog a week ago. I’m writing one post a day, in the mornings before I go to work. I have a problem with obsessively checking my blog stats and comments during the day at the office. Surely I’m not the only one! ...more

As of…. now ProBlogger.net is officially in ‘guest blogger’ mode. As this post goes live on ProBlogger I’ll be winging my way to New York where I’ll be for the next week and a half. While I’m gone ProBlogger will continue to be active. I do like to keep the ...more

Reader Questions for the weekend: When was your biggest day of traffic? Where did the traffic come from? What (if anything) did you do in order for it to happen? Leave your answers in comments below or write a post about it on your blog and leave a comment here ...more

update – I’ve updated this with an explanation at the bottom of this post. I’m currently packing my bags and getting last minute things together to leave for New York in 36 hours so this post is a little unthought through – but it’s definitely something that caught my attention ...more

LifeHack.org has a useful post today with 17 Firefox Extensions That Make Blogging Easy – broken down into Collecting, Writing and Images. I hate lists like this – I end up spending half my day having to install and test great new tools which are supposed to make me more ...more

Two weeks ago I asked ProBlogger readers – Which Feed Reader is Best? 219 responses were left with 37 different ways of reading RSS feeds suggested. Today I counted them all up and graphed the top 11 responses (these were the ones that had 4 or more votes). This reinforces ...more

Adverblog has an interesting report on a campaign by Toyota in Greece who offered a number of Greek bloggers week long test drives of their new model car. Bloggers also were given free cameras (as a gift) to help them capture the test drives. All of the reviews were written ...more