Darren Rowse

I was chatting to a soon-to-be-blogger this morning about ProBlogging and he asked me how long he’d have to blog before he could earn a reasonable amount from it. It’s a common question that is usually on the lips of new bloggers exploring the world of ProBlogging. Of course there ...more

Business Week features a collection of blogs this week that are blogging on the topic of personal finance at Blogging For Dollars. Congratulations to a number of those sites (around half of them) that are featured who are regular readers and contributers here at ProBlogger.net. The full list of those ...more

Robert’s latest Corporate Blog Tip (#10) is simple but well worth taking note of: ‘If the only way people know you is through your blog you’ll be seen as a pretty one-dimensional person. Blogging does have lots of advantages: lots of people can get to know you with a minimal ...more

Yahoo! did an interesting dig around their Buzz Index and looked at the top 20 blogs at Technorati and how they rank with each other in terms of which blogs receive the most visitors via search. The findings showed that the lead blog on Technorati (Boing Boing) was actually 14th ...more

John Hesch has posted his last post at Blogging Pro – one of my daily reads. Whilst I’m confident it’s in good hands the new owner Jacob Gower it is a little sad to see John go as he’s become a part of my daily rhythm. All the best John ...more

A journalist yesterday asked me if anyone had ever asked to syndicate any of my blogs in any other form of media (newspapers or magazines). I answered that I’ve had a few requests from online media outlets to syndicate some of what I write (which I have allowed in some ...more

I’ve recently been considering moving my last remaining Movable Type blogs over to WordPress 1.5 – however I think I might hold off a little and see what MT 3.2 turns out like. They are in ‘talk it up’ mode at the moment at Six Apart but I have to ...more

Paul wrote a week or so ago about his decision to scale back his blogs to those which are most profitable in a post titled One site or one hundred sites?: ‘a couple of weeks ago I sat down and made a spreadsheet of all my sites and where my ...more

As I mentioned in my ‘I’m home’ post – I was fortunately to catch up with two talented ProBloggers whilst I was in London – Ashley Norris and Katie Lee from Shiny Media. Ashley and I have been emailing for sometime now as Shiny have been a blogging enterprise that ...more