Darren Rowse

Blog Herald has a good post on Understanding Blog and Ping – I’ll leave it to Duncan to explain: ‘The last six months has seen a massive rise in content theft blogs and spam blogs, and there’s one thing these blogs usually have in common, and that’s the whole “Blog ...more

Jen from Jensense.com is making me green from head to toe in envy as she talks about her personalized tour of the Googleplex after a meet and greet event at SES – at the end of the tour she ended up having a relaxed chat about Adsense and other topics ...more

Yesterday I mentioned a post at Thirty Stories Up by the name of 7 Mistakes for your First Week of Blogging as part of the 31 Days project – it’s a worthwhile article to read but I want to mention it again not because of what it says but because ...more

Readers who responded to my A Call for ProBlogger Readers to Unite in Generosity might like to read an encouraging message from Cary who just got back from a few days away to a nice surprise from the ProBlogger Community. Thanks for pitching in friends – I appreciate your generosity.

OneStat reports that Wednesdays are the day that post people surf the web around the world. Not surprisingly the weekend are the days with least traffic. 1. Wednesday – 16.87% 2. Monday – 15.78% 3. Tuesday – 15.28% 4. Thursday – 14.92% 5. Friday – 14.08% 6. Sunday – 11.85% ...more

It’s Day 15 of the 31 Days to building a better blog project and after a very quiet day with only one submission yesterday today I’ve got a treat for you with a variety of submissions from readers – in fact today we have 9 submissions – a record day! ...more

Thanks to Ray for letting me know that my BlogPulse Profile Rank has gone under the magical 100 mark – we’re 71st as this moment. As you can see the past month has been particularly good in terms of inbound links with a number of larger sites linking up as ...more

One way that I’ve experimented with to build community and loyalty among readers on my blogs is to offer readers a free regular newsletter. I’ve found that since started using newsletters that it’s added a new dimension of community to my blogs. Newsletter days have higher traffic for starters and ...more

Search Engine Optimization is something that makes many blogger’s heads spin – I know this because every time I write an SEO article I get comments from bloggers telling me that its too big a topic and that they’d rather just write ‘quality content’. Whilst I’ll never argue that quality ...more