Darren Rowse

At a conference this year, I presented some tips on affiliate marketing in one of the sessions I ran on monetizing blogs. One of the most powerful affiliate marketing concepts—one that can make or break an affiliate campaign—is summed up in this slide: The key is to find the overlap ...more

One of my favorite times of the week on Twitter is on Monday mornings, my time (Sunday night for many of you), when Twitter comes alive with #blogchat. #blogchat is a hashtag on Twitter that ties together hundreds of bloggers all talking about a particular aspect of blogging for an ...more

Are you convinced you need to start a blog, but you’re overwhelmed by the setup process? If this describes you and you’d like a little hand-holding in setting up your own blog, I’ve been secretly working with Chris Garrett on a free resource that’s designed just for you. It’s called: ...more

More and more I’m noticing bloggers asking for advice on how to be more productive. We’re operating in a space where we need to produce great content consistently, but where we’re also being bombarded with input and having demands made upon our time. I’ve grappled with this myself over the ...more

Image by Iguana Jo. Overheard in Vegas at BlogWorld Expo: “I just started a blog and I’m excited to see where it will lead me.” Have you ever said something like that? When I started out, it was certainly something I remember telling a friend. Nobody really knew where the ...more

Last week at a conference I had conversations with many bloggers about their blogging. It was interesting to see some of the themes that emerged as bloggers shared their challenges, problems and fears. One of the recurring conversations that I had revolved around bloggers’ fear of being seen as sell-outs ...more

Last week I recorded this short interview with Phil Dobbie from BNET. We covered a range of topics. including keeping your blog fresh, standing out in the crowd, maintaining your voice, sustaining your blog over the long haul, using controversy and a lot more. For a 13 minute interview we ...more

Since April this year I’ve been putting together income reports for my own business to try to give readers a sense of how bloggers make money blogging from a variety of sources. It’s been a couple of months since I gave an update, so today I’m going to cover both ...more

The second edition of the ProBlogger book (hard cover) came out earlier this year and enjoyed some great reviews (you can read what was new in the second edition here). It also came out in a Kindle version at the same time, but in the last few months another version ...more