Darren Rowse

Christian decided to do a follow up post to last week’s Blog Polls series in which I mentioned a number of blog poll tools. He took the tools I mentioned and has done a comparative review of them at Comparison of Services to Create Online Polls.

There comes a time in many blogger’s lives when they are faced with the decision of whether to let a blog die or whether to continue with it. This week I want to explore the why and how of letting blogs die. You see there are many great resources around ...more

Quick Online Tips has started a Giant Blogging Terms Glossary – head over and let them know what you’d add or subtract.

The submissions for the ‘Blogging Goals’ Group writing project have begun to flow in over night (29 already). Don’t forget that you can submit your posts (following the guidelines) up until Thursday this week. Here’s the first batch of submissions: Why Do Blogs Exist? by James Martin Keeping Realistic and ...more

I am regularly asked by readers for my opinion on one variety or another of ‘traffic generation’ programs. These programs come in all shapes and sizes – some are paid services whereby you pay money in return for a certain amount of impressions, others are traffic exchange programs where you ...more

I’ve written on a number of occasions on the topic of developing goals for a blog over the past few months. I’ve also written on a number of occasions about making some of your blogging goals public as a way of adding accountability and motivation to reach them. I find ...more

I thought I’d have a little more fun with the website graphs and have plotted some competing sites against each other: First Google (left) vs Yahoo (right) – very interesting to see how simple Google keep their homepage in comparison to Yahoo Secondly the battle of the tech blogs – ...more

I want to apologize to those readers who have been complaining of loading problems with ProBlogger of late. I’ve had a number of issues to deal with and think that I’m slowly identifying the problems. One of the issues was that i was running Google Analytics on my blog which ...more

Andy Merrett has a post on how to Blog on slow news days where he gives a few options of what to do on days when there is very little happening in your niche: Do nothing Post opinion / forum / consumer views Stray from your niche Revisit old news ...more