Darren Rowse

Every year over at Digital Photography School we have a massive 12 Days of Christmas sale in which we put our photography eBooks (and a few from friends) on sale in the lead up to Christmas. I’ve had a few ProBlogger readers asking me on Twitter if there will be ...more

Two days ago I wrote about the power of longer-form content on a blog, and gave a few examples of some posts that I’ve published this year that have been between 4000-7500 words that have done really well. Today I’d like to talk about an experiment that I’ve been doing ...more

Last week I was involved in a number of conversations with readers about blog post length and whether it was better to write long posts or short ones. My short answer to the question was to write ‘useful’ posts, and to use as many words as were necessary to do ...more

This week was a busy one for me in the lead up to our big Christmas promotion over at Digital Photography School, that we will kick off later in the week. But in the middle of it all, I did something on the spur of the moment that I will ...more

Over on the ProBlogger Facebook page I was asked a great question by Aman Tandon, who asked for some tips on ‘how to stay alive using white hat techniques?’ when competitors in his niche were being ‘foxy’. It’s a great question and one that I know many bloggers face in ...more

Last week I wrote about the experience of almost losing my online business as a result of having too many eggs in one basket and then followed up with a post on what I did to diversify the traffic sources coming into my blog to become less reliant upon Google. ...more

Earlier this week Facebook published a FYI update about more updates that they’ve been making (and are about to make) to what will show in users news feeds (thanks to Jen at FBAdslab for the tipoff). The information is particularly relevant to those of us with Facebook pages who are ...more

Yesterday I shared the story of how back in 2004 I almost losing my business overnight. That big blip made me realise that I had too many eggs in one basket when it came to both traffic and income. At that time the basket that all my eggs were in ...more

It was 17 December 2004 and my dream was falling apart, right before my eyes. I had just celebrated the 2nd anniversary since I started to blog and I was on the tipping point of my part-time earnings becoming a full-time income. I’d quit my only other employment to devote ...more