Darren Rowse

The make money online segment of the blogosphere has had its fair share of dubious characters selling their wares over the last few years. However one guy that has consistently produced both valuable and helpful content as well as being a true gentleman and ethical business person is Dave Navaro. ...more

Lately I’ve been chatting to a number of bloggers whose blogs have dropped off the radar. I’d been disappointed (as a reader) that they’d stopped blogging and I’d secretly been thinking of it as a “failure” of sorts….

Imagine if you had the power to move your readers to take action on the invitations that you gave them in your blog posts! How powerful would that be? Lately I’ve heard a number of radio advertisements that have opened with lines similar to the one above — inviting those ...more

This is a graphic that I shared on Twitter late last week that illustrates, in part, why I use email newsletters on my photography blog. The graphic was taken 12 hours after I sent my weekly newsletter and shows the traffic (visitor numbers) to a single post. The initial spike ...more

Update: this competition has now ended. Winners are announced below. Do you want to win a pass to Blog World Expo this year? I have two – just for ProBlogger readers that the team at BWE have kindly offered. One even comes with a voucher to go towards your flights ...more

Blog World Expo (aff) is approaching and I’m getting really excited about heading to Vegas for the third year running to do some teaching, meet some amazing bloggers, and learn from some of the best in the business. Last week, while on a Ustream Live Chat, I was bombarded with ...more

One of the popular premium plugins that I know many ProBlogger readers use is Scribe. This plugin (for WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal) is designed to help your posts rank well in search engines—without compromising the quality of your posts. Developed by the team at CopyBlogger, Scribe has gone through a ...more

This week we published a moving story on ProBlogger from Naomi Dunford from IttyBiz. When Naomi sent me the post a few days before we published it I immediately knew that it was going to be one that would do well and it was. 100+ comments within 4 hours of ...more

I’m really excited today to announce that I’ve just hired Georgina Laidlaw to help with content development and strategy here at ProBlogger. Her official title is Content Manager. The backstory Over the last year, I’ve become increasingly aware that I need to begin to expand my team to cope with ...more