Darren Rowse

One of the elements that can really lift a blog is to include images in your posts. The benefits of having great images on your blog are many, and include: drawing RSS readers into your blog: a great image will stand out in your feed and make them take notice ...more

We all make mistakes, but making mistakes in the media can be costly—especially to your authority! …Or can it? We all know readers appreciate honesty. And our first story this week is all about that. Saving face online Last week, I got my regular flippa.com newsletter … and another a ...more

We’ve talked about the issues of blog comments before on Problogger.net, but never from a point of view of profit-making. But as I was looking at the stats on dPS last week, I found that this short, helpful opinion post from 2010 was still attracting a steady stream of readers—and ...more

It’s time for another ProBlogger webinar, and as part of my 10 days of celebrating my 10 years of blogging, I thought in this next webinar that I’d do some reflecting upon the big things that I wish I’d known when I started blogging. Register to attend here. The last ...more

Today is my tenth anniversary of starting blogging and to celebrate I’m offering all ProBlogger ebooks at just $10 each—that’s a 50-90% saving on their normal price. 10 Years of Blogging Ten years ago when I hit Publish on my first blog post, I could never imagined how that moment ...more

The last few weeks have turned up some interesting new finds in the world of blogging. I’ve covered some of the more innovative ones here—let us know what cool ideas you’ve spotted in the comments. …and then she called me “Cupcake” I’m not in the target audience for Molly Maher’s ...more

Each week, my Content manager Georgina turns away around 20 or so posts for publication at ProBlogger. She tells me that maybe 5-10% of those are of a publishable standard, but they just don’t fit our audience or purpose. The rest aren’t pro-level pieces. Forget for a moment that these ...more

This week on #blogchat on Twitter, we discussed the use of images in blog posts, and I thought that some of the advice we covered there might be useful for you too. So here are my top tips for using images in your blog posts. 1. Use an image per ...more

One of the posts I’m featuring in the carousel on Digital Photography School at the moment is the Best of dPS. If you haven’t compiled a best-of list of your most-loved posts yet, you should. It’s very sharable: Take your best posts, make them into one post, and you can ...more