Darren Rowse

If you’re an Aussie, have a blog, and are looking to improve it, check out the ProBlogger Training Day that we’re holding in Melbourne on 21 October this year. Tickets have just been released in the last hour for the event, and they’re selling fast (as I write this over ...more

If you’re ever stuck for ideas to write about on your blog, here’s a little discipline that I’ve gotten myself into over the years that helps me a lot. It’s all about capturing those moments when you get sidetracked while writing blog posts. Make getting sidetracked work for you I ...more

This post is the third in a series examining misconceptions and myths about blogging that many new (and some experienced) bloggers have about blogging. We’ve already discussed the misconceptions that blogging takes super-human effort (or is easy!) and that you must post every day on your blog. Today’s misconception is ...more

This post continues our Misconceptions New Bloggers Have series and looks at one of the most common questions I’m asked about when speaking about blogging—posting frequency. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard prebloggers dismiss the idea of blogging because they don’t have the time or discipline ...more

Today I’m excited to give ProBlogger readers advance notice of a special training day in Melbourne for bloggers—the second ever ProBlogger Training day. I’ll share the details below (you can express your interest in attending or sponsoring below, too), but first let me fill you in on the backstory. In ...more

Over the last three years as an online publisher, my business has undergone a complete transformation in its approach. Whereas I previously slapped some code from a couple of ad networks into my blogs’ templates and relied upon people clicking those ads to generate income, I’ve increasingly focused my energy ...more

I was recently asked who my blogging competitors were. I struggled to find an answer to that—not because there’s nobody else blogging in my niches, and not because I’m not aware of other bloggers in my niches, but because I don’t really worry much about them. There are three main ...more

Over the last week, a couple of pretty amazing things have happened: We had a baby! Google announced its new baby, Google+ (G+, Google+). If you have a Google account, you can now sign into it here. Okay, so #1 took the cake in terms of exciting news in our ...more

This post is the first in our series on Misconceptions New Bloggers Have. It contains this post, plus these: You MUST Post Every Day on Your Blog At a recent conference, I presented on the topic of making money from blogging. At the end of the session, I hung around ...more