Darren Rowse

Teach me how to do something. Entertain me. Stimulate me to think. Tell me a story. Present me with some interesting research results. Make me laugh. Review a product or service to help me make a decision. Tell me why and how something applies to me. Show me a case ...more

Earlier this week Google’s “head of web spam”—Matt Cutts—posted on his blog that they’re implementing a change in their algorithm that impacts those that publish content from elsewhere on the Web. The changes are all about ranking the original sources of content higher than those who scrape/republish/copy it. This has ...more

This week, I’ve been reading The King of Madison Avenue—an interesting biography of ad man David Ogilvy (aff). I’ve always been fascinated with Ogilvy and see a lot in what he’s done as relevant to bloggers. So here’s some of his more famous quotes, with a few thoughts on how ...more

It’s that time of the month when I take a look over where income has come from in my own business over the preceding month—this time, December. Let me start with the trending chart (click to enlarge it) that tracks earnings in the total and separate income streams for the ...more

“I will be a producer, not a consumer.” Late last year a friend shared this resolution on Facebook. It caught my attention as being a great resolution that I think every entrepreneurial blogger could do well to have. Have you ever been paralyzed by consumption? As I write this post, ...more

I recently had a conversation with a friend who has just started out with making money from blogging. He had been struggling to get over the initial hump of getting things going and wanted to pick my brain on the “secrets” of how to do it. Of course I struggled ...more

Are you looking for more traffic for your blog? If you answer yes – you’re not alone. In fact you’re in the vast majority of bloggers. I ran a survey of a segment of ProBlogger readers recently and a ‘lack of traffic’ was identified as the #1 challenge that bloggers ...more

Update: The 50% discount on this ends Thursday 20 January! If you’re looking to take your blogging up a notch in 2011 with some great training then you’ll want to check out Blogging Success Summit 2011. This is a completely online/virtual event and it is currently 50% off (a limited ...more

“Darren, do you have any tips for creating more content for my blog? I have grown my blog to become reasonably successful but as it grows find myself with more and more requests and questions from readers that take me away from writing content. What should I do?”—William Hi William ...more