Darren Rowse

If there’s a question that I get asked more than any other it’s about how to promote a blog. Here’s some of the most popular posts that I’ve written on the topic of promoting blogs: How to Market your Blog in 2007 – Tony Hung has some great ways to ...more

Just a short note to let those who may have received spam from a problogger.net email address today that this was not actually sent by me. A spammer who is using a legitimate email that I sent from one of my other blogs as a cover for his ads then ...more

One of the semi regular tasks that I set myself is to analyze the questions that readers are asking to find my blogs. I use a simple method that I’ve outlined previously that utilizes 103bees metrics. Today it struck me afresh just how many of the visitors coming into my ...more

It’s been months since programs like PayPerPost and ReviewMe launched – offering bloggers money to review products, sites and services. In that time there’s been a lot of controversy around the ethics of paid reviews and whether disclosure should be compulsory or not. I don’t really want to get into ...more

An increasing number of bloggers are landing deals with publishers and writing books and one of the crucial aspects of a book’s success can be how it goes at Amazon. Chris Webb has put together a list of 10 Simple Ways Authors Can Help to Increase Sales at Amazon.com which ...more

Skype today announced a new beta version of their Windows offering (v3.1.0.134 beta). It’s main new feature is Skype Prime (beta) – something that will appeal to many entrepreneurial bloggers. “In short, it enables paid Skype-to-Skype voice and video calls. You can charge other people for calling you either a ...more

Another blog to go the job board route is the Gawker blog Lifehacker who today announced theirs. It runs in conjunction with Gizmodo’s (also announced this week). Quite a few bloggers have gone this route and looking at the number of jobs being advertised on them it seems that they’ve ...more

ShoeMoney and MediaWhiz (the owners of Text Link Ads) have today launched a new ad service – Auction Ads (aff). I’ve been lucky enough to dig around the back end of Auction Ads this last few days and it’s a professionally designed ad service that I think will suit some ...more

Last week I published the results of an informal survey that asked for Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Blogs. There’s been a lot of discussion about the results – particularly the almost contrasting most common reasons: Too many posts Infrequent Posting The above responses are fairly general and unquantifiable – ...more