Darren Rowse

There are lots of good posting being written in the blogging space at the moment – here’s 10 that caught my eye over the last couple of days. Philip Liu writes a piece with 17 factors that he’d consider when determining the value of a blog in his post How ...more

One technique that an increasing number of bloggers have been using over the last year to create a buzz on their blogs is to use competitions. In this post I’ll share 9 tips for running a successful competition on your blog – but first why would you want to run ...more

Eric from MyBlogLog has written a post on their blog explaining some of the problems that they’ve been facing on the spam front over the last little while and outlining some of the things that they’ve done (and are going to do) about it. I won’t rehash it all here ...more

Today I got a reader question that I thought might make an interesting discussion topic. I am starting a new blog, and the hardest part so far has been naming it. The domain I like is only available in the .ca format. What is your opinion on using anything other ...more

ProBlogger’s MyBlogLog community has continued to grow in number over the last couple of weeks since I added it to my sidebar however the last few days have given me numerous reasons to wonder if I continue with it. Community Message Spam – I am increasingly spending time deleting spammy ...more

I love learning things from people in other arenas and applying them to blogging so today when I saw SEOrefugee has a post titled 10 Mistakes that Will KILL a Forum I immediately wondered whether the 10 mistakes might also apply to blogging. Lets see: 1. Excessive Ads I’d completely ...more

Two days ago I had a nice little surprise when I opened my inbox. I got a sneak peak at a blogging conference that is running for the first time later this year. Interestingly enough its being run by and featuring a group of bloggers that I know well and ...more

An interesting new monetization strategy for bloggers is emerging today – letting readers subscribe to your blog via Text Messages. TextMarks has launched this new service which allows bloggers to either charge $4.99 or $9.99 per month to their readers to get these instantaneous alerts. It’s currently only available to ...more

Over the last day or two I’ve been testing a tool that bloggers wanting to stay right on top of the news breaking in their niche might find very useful. It’s called Anothr and it’s an RSS bot for Skype users. How does it work? – its pretty simple really. ...more