Darren Rowse

If you had to choose 5 blogging tools that were the only ones you could use for the next 12 months what would they be and why? I’m asking this because I want to put together a short list of recommendations on blog tools for a presentation I’m doing in ...more

If you’re one of the many people who have emailed me to say that you’d love to come to Elite Retreat but couldn’t pull the money together for it in time – then I’m pleased to announce that the organizers are putting together a competition to give one person free ...more

Last week I wrote a post talking about simple posts and how they can be a powerful thing to include in your blog. I followed that post up with one looking at the balancing act that longer term bloggers have when it comes to working out where to pitch their ...more

Raj writes an interesting post over at Performacing on The Dangers Of Too Many Sites: Blogger’s Dilemma where he outlines some of the options open to bloggers who have too many blogs and not enough resources to run them all. On a similar note, here’s the first post in a ...more

Three links for you today. Alex writes Technorati 100: What’s Hot in the Blogosphere – a detailed analysis of what type of blogs are dominating Technorati’s top 100. natnit shares 5 steps to spice up your free blog Shoemoney posts an email from someone trying to extort money from him ...more

“How do I make money your way Darren?” This was a question I was asked today by a seminar that I was attending recently so I thought I’d put together a little list of links that might be useful in answering the ‘how to make money from blogging’ question that ...more

Brian has just emailed me to let me know about a new feature that Alexa have just added to their site whereby they are selling T-Shirts with a website’s web ranking on them. When you go to your blog’s Alexa ranking page (here’s mine) and scroll down you’ll see at ...more

Yesterday I posted about how it’s often the simple posts aimed at the basics that get most attention on a blog. The challenge with this is that for those blogging on established blogs with longer term and more advanced readers suddenly posting a lot of posts at a beginner level ...more

After being the victim of a Spammer hijacking my newsletter for their own purposes earlier today there are a few lessons that I’ve learned: 1. People Hate Spam No really – they HATE it. The hatred and anger that has ended up in my inbox today from recipients of the ...more