CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Sometimes Blogging is Like Watching Grass Grow
19th of December 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Sometimes Blogging is Like Watching Grass Grow

Click To Play play_blip_movie_553468(); As we continue to settle into our new house, a new routine and new surrounds in our suburb I’m being constantly inspired by the lessons I see around me and how they apply to blogging. In today’s video I want to talk about Grass (Turf that ...more
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How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer – Great New Resource
17th of December 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer – Great New Resource

I’ve just spent the last couple of hours devouring How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer – a brand new resource by Cyan and Collis Ta’eed from the wonderful Freelance Switch blog. I’ve been an avid reader of the blog since it started and when I met Collis recently at Melbourne ...more
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15th of December 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Starting a New Blog? Start With a Mind Map

Update: I’ve brainstormed 180 Blog Ideas for you! Yesterday we covered how to use mind mapping to come up with topics to post about. As I was writing that post I was reminded of a very similar process that I went through when planning my last new blog – Digital ...more
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Google Release Zeitgeist 2007 Report
14th of December 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Google Release Zeitgeist 2007 Report

One of the things that I enjoy about this time of year is that the search engines release reports on what the most searched for words were during the past 12 months. Google just released their Google Zeitgeist 2007 Report (Yahoo did their one last week). At Google the fastest ...more
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How Dial Up Made Me a More Productive Blogger
13th of December 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How Dial Up Made Me a More Productive Blogger

This week I’ve been without a permanent broadband connection – but I’ve become a more productive blogger. While I wait for my ISP to transfer my broadband connection from our old home to our new one I’ve been relying upon a mobile broadband connection (with limited monthly bandwidth) and dialup ...more
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Where’s the Content? – Positioning Ads on Your Blog
10th of December 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Where’s the Content? – Positioning Ads on Your Blog

Here’s a quick tip on ad placement that I’d like to pass onto bloggers – particularly those experimenting with AdSense. Ensure that your content can be seen above the fold. That is – ensure it’s above the fold if you want readers to keep coming back to your blog. One ...more
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7 Unhealthy Eating Habits of Unproductive Bloggers
8th of December 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

7 Unhealthy Eating Habits of Unproductive Bloggers

The following post on Unhealthy Eating Habits of Unproductive Bloggers is from Lea Woodward who will be contributing a monthly post here at Problogger on Healthy Blogging. You can read more about Lea below. You’ve just got up, put the coffee on and are sitting bleary-eyed in front of your ...more
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Reflections on Video Streaming
6th of December 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Reflections on Video Streaming

Yesterday I ran my second impromptu video streaming chat session with readers of this blog. Both times that I’ve done it I’ve come away from the experience feeling that is a very worthwhile thing to do – something that has added to both my own blogging but also hopefully to ...more
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Free Sample from Blog Mastermind
5th of December 2007 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Free Sample from Blog Mastermind

Yaro from Blog Mastermind Blog Mentoring program has just released a sample lesson from the program for free. The topic – Marketing Through Conversations and it’s lesson 11 in a series that is up to lesson 27. The lesson has some good tips – and like all of Yaro’s lessons ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips