Darren Rowse

Time Magazine have pulled off the Link Bait of the year with their Person of the Year Award. They’ve named ‘You’ (and me) as the winner of the award. By ‘You’ they give the award to anyone involved in user generated content – that’s social media, blogging, video sharing etc ...more

There are a number of tools that I’ve been meaning to test on my blogs over the past few months and so this weekend I’ve decided to get a few of them up and running. The first one that you’ll notice I’m testing at ProBlogger is Snap. I’ve added it ...more

Performancing have officially started running their CPA Network Ads on publishers blogs. Nick writes: “Right now they are very broad in topic, as this is simply a test (but a test with the aim of making you money..), but presuming all goes to plan, we’ll roll out more creatives and ...more

This is my final post in the ‘adding a personal touch to your blog‘ series: This one is more of a personal preference than anything so take it or leave it – but I attempt to make my writing style as conversational as possible. I try to write in a ...more

Go out of your way to publicly (and privately) celebrate and acknowledge your readers and you’ll find the impact is twofold: The readers that you acknowledge will become more loyal to you. It’s pretty simple really – we like it when people value us. Other readers respond well to your ...more

Another way to make yourself more relatable to readers is to highlight your humanity by showing when you’re less than perfect. One of the problems of blogging is that it can create (intentionally or unintentionally) ‘spin’ around a person that gives readers the impression of ‘super hero’ status. Ask yourself ...more

Earlier today I wrote about how adding a Byline to a blog helped increase the personal interactions between blogger and reader. At around the same time we added a photo the blogger I was working with to the top of his sidebar and wrote a one sentence line introducing who ...more

Chris has finished his excellent series of video casts on 7 Essential WordPress Hacks at Tubetorial. Today’s your last chance to vote for ProBlogger in the Weblog Awards – we’re 150 votes behind the leader of the pack and battling for 2nd place so far. Pimp Your Work has a ...more

A few months ago I was consulting with a blogger who was getting a reasonable number of visitors to his blog each day but who was getting very low levels of commenting and reader interaction. Over time we made a number of changes to his blog with some success but ...more