10 Remarkable (and Free) WordPress Themes
19th of January 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

10 Remarkable (and Free) WordPress Themes

The following post on great free WordPress Templates was written by Reese Spykerman from Design by Reese. A search for free WordPress themes yields thousands of results, some dull or cluttered, some utilitarian, and many inspiring and beautiful. Numerous other well-designed WordPress themes are available to you, but these are ...more
Blog Design
The Day Feedburner Stats Went Crazy
18th of January 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

The Day Feedburner Stats Went Crazy

Lots of bloggers are jumping around with excitement today at the rise of the Feedburner counters. ProBlogger leapt from around 39,000 subscribers a few days back to 41,000 yesterday and 100,000 today. Alas – it’s a bug and it seems that a lot of bloggers are seeing their stats are ...more
Pro Blogging News
Openads announce free hosted ad server
18th of January 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Openads announce free hosted ad server

Openads yesterday made a fairly significant announcement that I’m sure will interest many bloggers who are looking for a tool to manage the ads on their blog Actually they announced two things – the first is that they got some serious funding and the second that they’re launching a new ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Aweber – a First Impression Review
18th of January 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Aweber – a First Impression Review

In this post I give a first impression review of Aweber. Building a newsletter list has been a central part of my blogging business over the last few years. While my blogs are the primary tool that I use to communicate with readers – I find that having a newsletter ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
How to Create Social Media’s Favorite Type of Blog Post
18th of January 2008 Skellie 0 Comments

How to Create Social Media’s Favorite Type of Blog Post

In my time as a blogger I’ve been lucky enough to have two posts I’ve written hit the front page of Digg. The first one was a resource list of 110+ resources for creative minds. The most amazing thing about the experience was that the post itself required only one ...more
Writing Content
How to Make Your Blog Posts Stand Out From the Rest – Lessons from the MacBook Air
18th of January 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Make Your Blog Posts Stand Out From the Rest – Lessons from the MacBook Air

Have you heard that Apple released a new laptop called the MacBook Air yesterday? If you haven’t – you are not reading the same blogs that I am. The news is everywhere at the moment with thousands of bloggers ‘breaking’ the news. Here’s how Technorati has tracked the mentions of ...more
Writing Content
Do You Tailor Your Affiliate Program Messages?
17th of January 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Do You Tailor Your Affiliate Program Messages?

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had 109 emails through the contact form on my two main blogs that all start with exactly the same words: “I represent a company that specializes in a new form of Internet advertising that guarantees that you will get a 100% conversion rate ...more
Affiliate Programs
14 Essential Mac OS X Applications for Bloggers
17th of January 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

14 Essential Mac OS X Applications for Bloggers

A number of blogging friends have recently made the switch from using PCs to using Macs as their primary blogging machines. Each time that one of them makes the move I tend to get an email or call a day or two later asking for advice on different applications to ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
Help a Blogger in Need
16th of January 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Help a Blogger in Need

Regular ProBlogger readers might be familiar with the comments of RT Cunningham. Richar is a regular around many blogs in this niche and blogs at Untiwisted Vortex. Unfortunately his wife has been quite unwell and he’s facing something of an uphill battle at the moment to get through the next ...more
Pro Blogging News