Should You Secure .com AND .net for Your Domain?
28th of May 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Should You Secure .com AND .net for Your Domain?

“how important is it to buy both the .net and .com of the same domain name?” Over on Twitter TragicDog asked me this question domains. Different bloggers will have different approaches to this one but my personal preference these days is to secure the .com version first and then to ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Have You Ever Written Paid Posts On Your Blog
27th of May 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Have You Ever Written Paid Posts On Your Blog

It’s been a few years since services like PayPerPost (and others) controversially came onto the scene and gave bloggers the option to be paid for writing posts about products, companies or services. So I thought it’d be interesting to see how many bloggers have done paid posts (and how many ...more
General
9 Tips to Help You Find More RSS Subscribers for Your Blog
27th of May 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

9 Tips to Help You Find More RSS Subscribers for Your Blog

Finding RSS Subscribers is something that many bloggers spend a lot of time thinking about – so in this video I thought I’d put together a few thoughts on how to grow your subscriber numbers. See the full sized version of this video here at YouTube. PS: in the post ...more
RSS
How to Lose Readers [And Not Get Depressed]
26th of May 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Lose Readers [And Not Get Depressed]

Much has been written on the topic of how to get readers to visit your blog and how to make your blog sticky so that they stick around once they’ve arrived – but I’ve not seen too many written about how to lose readers. Image by Lst1984 It might seem ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
ProBlogger Book Available for Kindle
25th of May 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

ProBlogger Book Available for Kindle

One of the most common requests that I’ve had since launching the ProBlogger Book is from people wanting to buy a copy for their Kindle. Until recently this wasn’t an option but in the last couple of months Amazon made it available for Kindle. For those waiting for it – ...more
ProBlogger Site News
How to Become more Popular (and Grow your Income) by Making your Topic Stupidly Easy
25th of May 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Become more Popular (and Grow your Income) by Making your Topic Stupidly Easy

This guest post is by Johnny B Truant from Learn to Be Your Own V.A. and The Economy Isn’t Happening. Back in early April, partially at the suggestion of Naomi Dunford of IttyBiz, I wrote a free e-book intended to make launching a standalone blog easy, fast, and cheap. It ...more
Other Income Streams
Banishing Spammers and Trolls With .htaccess Files
24th of May 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Banishing Spammers and Trolls With .htaccess Files

In a guest post, Neil Matthews of WPDude.com writes about how comment spammers and trolls can be banished from your site by blocking their IP address using the .htaccess file. Are you plagued by spammers and trolls inside of the comments section of your blog? If you are, I want ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
15 Ways to Rework Your Next Blog Post Title
23rd of May 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

15 Ways to Rework Your Next Blog Post Title

This post is task #32 (a bonus one) in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge. Your task today is to rework the title of the next post that you write OK – so you need to have a post written before you can do this one but ...more
Featured Posts
Has the Economy Impacted Blogger Job Listings?
22nd of May 2009 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Has the Economy Impacted Blogger Job Listings?

In August 2006 I realized that I was regularly getting two types of email requests: Companies looking to hire bloggers Bloggers looking to be hired by companies As a result I decided to start a Job Board for Bloggers. The concept was simple. Those looking to hire bloggers could place ...more
Blogging for Dollars