Darren Rowse

Last week we looked at some of the benefits and costs of building community on a blog – today I’d like to move onto some of the ‘how to’ by examining the stages of building community that I went through on Digital Photography School. Build a CULTURE of Community – ...more

Do you ever feel – as you blog – like you’re talking to an empty room? Day after day you publish posts only to have them greeted by…. If that is how you feel – then you’re not alone. In fact one of the most common questions that I hear ...more

Recently, I’ve been exploring five strategies that I’d employ to promote my blog if I were starting all over again. I said earlier in the series that I’m assuming ‘great content’ is being added to the hypothetical new blog that we’re promoting. However when it comes to blogging not all ...more

This month we’ve been looking at five different methods that I’d use to find readership if I were starting a new blog. So far we’ve explored guest posting, advertising and networking – but today I want to turn our attention to the dynamic area of social media. Social media sites ...more

Have you ever considered advertising your blog? Today I want to explore this idea as part of my series of posts on how I’d promote my blog if I was starting from scratch. Most blog promotion tips that I see given are about growing your blog’s readership quite organically (something ...more

This is the second of five ways that I’d promote a new blog to new readers if i was starting out again. Today I want to turn our attention to Networking as a great way to promote a blog. If I were starting out in blogging today knowing what I ...more

This week I’m introducing the first of five ways that I’d promote a new blog to new readers if i was starting out again. Perhaps one of the most powerful ways of exposing your writing to a new group of people is to put some of your best content on ...more

It’s the start of a brand new year, and chances are that at some point you made some New Year’s resolutions. As a blogger, you may have set yourself some goals (SMART goals are something I recommend) such as: “I want to double my traffic.” “I want to create an ...more

  I originally wrote this review process for bloggers who had started a blog through our Start a Blog Course however this is the same process that I go through EVERY YEAR for my own blogs and I’m sure it will help you too!   Firstly … congratulations on making ...more