Darren Rowse

Josh, a reader of this ProBlogger just emailed the following question: ‘Hi Darren, I’ve just discovered ProBlogger after seeing your link on another page and I’m really impressed that people are making a living from their blogs. I’d like to be a pro blogger too and was wondering if you ...more

One of the good blogs that I’ve started reading a bit more of lately is Search engine optimization and Online marketing, a group blog written about Affiliate programs, B2B Marketing, Business Blogging, SEO and more. They write an article today that might be helpful to bloggers wanting to explore developing ...more

One of the very first investigations that I ever did on blogging was into the idea of ‘length of stay’ on blogs. It was 18 months ago that I began to dig into the topic and got a bit of attention with the following post. I thought I’d repost what ...more

Ever wondered how much people earn using Google Adsense? Can I recommend you head over to the forums at Webmaster World and check out a thread by the name of Adsense – How much do you earn? It’s worth noting that no one that shares their figures say they are ...more

Sifry continues his State of The Blogosphere series of posts and looks at volume of posting. ‘On average, Technorati is tracking about 500,000 posts per day, which is about 5.8 posts per second. In October 2004, we were seeing about 400,000 posts per day.’

Marketing Sherpa has an article with 7 Practical Tactics to Turn Your Blog Into a Sales Machine that might be useful to business bloggers wanting to increase the effectiveness of their blog to drive sales. ‘Call us cynics. Blogs may be hip and trendy, but they don’t do diddly-squat for ...more

A few of your have emailed to ask where this week’s ProBlogger interview is. Good question friends – and one I’m asking to. Hopefully some of those who I’ve sent questions to will get something back to me shortly and we’ll keep learning from the Pros! Til then you’ll have ...more

Debbie Weil over at Marketing Profs writes a good article on Seven Tips for Blogging Your Way to a New Job. She writes quite an extensive aricle – but her main points are: 1. Start with a topic you’re passionate about 2. Concentrate on shorter, more frequent entries in your ...more

It looks like Yahoo! is getting further into the Blogging Business with their new venture to be released later this monty – Yahoo 360 – a service that combines a number of functions including blogging and social networking. Here’s how its explained at Yahoo News. ‘Yahoo Inc. is preparing to ...more